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''Eight Meditations on Architecture'' offers a rare and illuminating dialogue between two of Europe's most reflective architectural voices—Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Campo Baeza. Through a series of eight essays, the book examines eternal architectural themes—Beauty, Light, Time, Memory, Universality, Wisdom, Sacred, and Essentiality—revealing how enduring values shape(...)
Eight meditations on architecture: Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Campo Baeza
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''Eight Meditations on Architecture'' offers a rare and illuminating dialogue between two of Europe's most reflective architectural voices—Juhani Pallasmaa and Alberto Campo Baeza. Through a series of eight essays, the book examines eternal architectural themes—Beauty, Light, Time, Memory, Universality, Wisdom, Sacred, and Essentiality—revealing how enduring values shape the practice of building and the meaning of space. More than an academic treatise, this unique work underscores the necessity of cultural reflection and philosophical grounding in architectural practice. Written by architects whose writings are already essential reading in architectural education, these meditations offer a rigorous yet poetic inquiry into the discipline. Richly illustrated with contributions that interweave theory and personal insight, ''Eight Meditations on Architecture'' provides a space for reflection that is increasingly rare in contemporary discourse—one where theory and practice are not opposites but mutually reinforcing paths toward meaningful design.
Architectural Theory
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Over the last decade, various critical theories have had an enormous impact on different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to comprehensively survey this impact on architecture, providing 16 essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. Authors are from Europe and the United States.
Intersections : architectural histories and critical theories
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Over the last decade, various critical theories have had an enormous impact on different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to comprehensively survey this impact on architecture, providing 16 essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. Authors are from Europe and the United States.
Architectural Theory
Surrealism and architecture
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"Surrealism and architecture" examines a long overlooked topic : the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary(...)
Surrealism and architecture
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"Surrealism and architecture" examines a long overlooked topic : the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice. This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture and the place of surrealist thought in contemporary design methods and theories.
Architectural Theory
Water urbanisms
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Water urbanisms is the first volume in the Urbanism Fascicles Series. The series is envisioned as a platform for investigations into urbanism at the crossroads of theory and practice, history and new challenges, iconography and text; it aims to critically document worthwhile episodes of on-going research in the field of urbanism.
Urban Theory
October 2008, Amsterdam
Water urbanisms
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Water urbanisms is the first volume in the Urbanism Fascicles Series. The series is envisioned as a platform for investigations into urbanism at the crossroads of theory and practice, history and new challenges, iconography and text; it aims to critically document worthwhile episodes of on-going research in the field of urbanism.
Urban Theory
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Ornament and symbol in French romantic architecture : Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux / Ralph Ghoche.
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x, 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), plans ; 29 cm
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025], ©2025
Ornament and symbol in French romantic architecture : Simon-Claude Constant-Dufeux / Ralph Ghoche.
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025], ©2025
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From a nation torn : decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945-1962 / Hannah Feldman.
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xvi, 317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
From a nation torn : decolonizing art and representation in France, 1945-1962 / Hannah Feldman.
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xvi, 317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
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xvi, 731 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
From modernism to postmodernism : an anthology / [edited by] Lawrence E. Cahoone.
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xvi, 731 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
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Context Changes Everything.
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1 online resource.
[Place of publication not identified] : Social Discipline, 2024.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Social Discipline, 2024.
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255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2018], ©2018
Our voices : indigeneity and architecture / by Rebecca Kiddle, luugigyoo patrick stewart, and Kevin O'Brien.
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255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2018], ©2018
DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
DNA #6: Carrier bag fiction
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” presents a feminist story of technology centering on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. Here, new writings and images respond to her narrative practice of worldmaking through gathering and holding.
Art Theory