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272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
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Stockholm : Axl Books, 2009.
Stockholm : Axl Books, 2009.
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The visible and the invisible : color contrast phenomena in space / Gertrud Olsson ; [translated by Brian Manning Delaney, with Peter Hogan and Lars Lundgren].
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272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
The visible and the invisible : color contrast phenomena in space / Gertrud Olsson ; [translated by Brian Manning Delaney, with Peter Hogan and Lars Lundgren].
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Stockholm : Axl Books, 2009.
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xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
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Behind the postmodern facade : architectural change in late twentieth-century America / Magali Sarfatti Larson.
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xviii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Behind the postmodern facade : architectural change in late twentieth-century America / Magali Sarfatti Larson.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
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The society of the spectacle
The society of the spectacle
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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, ''The society of the spectacle'' has since acquired a cult status. The ''Das Kapital'' of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication(...)
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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, ''The society of the spectacle'' has since acquired a cult status. The ''Das Kapital'' of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication(...)
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The society of the spectacle
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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, ''The society of the spectacle'' has since acquired a cult status. The ''Das Kapital'' of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life.
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First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, ''The society of the spectacle'' has since acquired a cult status. The ''Das Kapital'' of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life.
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May 2021
May 2021
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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''A User's Manual to Claire Fontaine'' explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine's experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory,(...)
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''A User's Manual to Claire Fontaine'' explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine's experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory,(...)
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A user's manual to Claire Fontaine
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''A User's Manual to Claire Fontaine'' explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine's experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory, this book delineates a series of theoretical techniques and procedures at the core of the artist's work, among them defunctionalization, Institutional Critique, human strike, tactile mimesis, desubjectivation, détournement, magic materialism, and feminist materialism.
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''A User's Manual to Claire Fontaine'' explores the work of the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine through the lens of her theoretical and political innovations, both inside and outside the context of contemporary art. Theorizing the ways in which Claire Fontaine's experimental approach can illuminate a more haptic, embodied practice of critical theory, this book delineates a series of theoretical techniques and procedures at the core of the artist's work, among them defunctionalization, Institutional Critique, human strike, tactile mimesis, desubjectivation, détournement, magic materialism, and feminist materialism.
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May 2024
May 2024
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Art Theory
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built(...)
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built(...)
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Repairing the American metropolis : common place revisited
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
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"Repairing the American metropolis" is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's "Common place: toward neighborhood and regional design", first published in 1997. This book presents new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and new urbanism. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
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May 2002, Seattle / London
May 2002, Seattle / London
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and a literal force in architecture. She approaches her subject from philosophical, theoretical, practical, and historical points of view, finding many places of convergence between architecture and(...)
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In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and a literal force in architecture. She approaches her subject from philosophical, theoretical, practical, and historical points of view, finding many places of convergence between architecture and(...)
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Architecture and the burdens of linearity
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In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and a literal force in architecture. She approaches her subject from philosophical, theoretical, practical, and historical points of view, finding many places of convergence between architecture and other fields. She considers maps, architectural plans, the laws of geometry, systems of architectural knowledge, and mythologies of architectural origin in works of Le Corbusier, Vitruvius, Alberti, Tafuri, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, Shakespeare, Lacan, Deleuze, Rilke, and Stendhal.
Architecture and the burdens of linearity
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In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, Catherine Ingraham investigates the line as both a conceptual and a literal force in architecture. She approaches her subject from philosophical, theoretical, practical, and historical points of view, finding many places of convergence between architecture and other fields. She considers maps, architectural plans, the laws of geometry, systems of architectural knowledge, and mythologies of architectural origin in works of Le Corbusier, Vitruvius, Alberti, Tafuri, Derrida, Lévi-Strauss, Shakespeare, Lacan, Deleuze, Rilke, and Stendhal.
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April 1998, New Haven
April 1998, New Haven
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Communism for kids
Communism for kids
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents(...)
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents(...)
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Communism for kids
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a children’s story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.
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Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism. Offering relief for many who have been numbed by Marxist exegesis and given headaches by the earnest pompousness of socialist politics, it presents political theory in the simple terms of a children’s story, accompanied by illustrations of lovable little revolutionaries experiencing their political awakening.
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March 2017
March 2017
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Critical Theory
Critical Theory
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Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural(...)
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Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural(...)
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Architecture, ethics and globalization
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Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural academy in providing an education in ethical judgement. Including transcripts of responses and discussions among its contributors, a broad interdisciplinary set of perspectives are debated and often controversial points of view are put forward.
Architecture, ethics and globalization
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Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural academy in providing an education in ethical judgement. Including transcripts of responses and discussions among its contributors, a broad interdisciplinary set of perspectives are debated and often controversial points of view are put forward.
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July 2009
July 2009
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Architecture and beauty
Architecture and beauty
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop,(...)
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop,(...)
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Architecture and beauty
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop, Peter Cook, Odile Decq, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Mark Goulthorpe, Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, Greg Lynn, Tom Mayne, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gaetano Pesce, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf Prix and Lebbeus Woods.
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Architecture and Beauty provides an insight into the minds of 20 of today's most progressive architects, each from a radically different position and each displaying a distinctive aesthetic. Based on a series of interviews, the book raises poignant issues regarding the notion of 'beauty' within contemporary cultural theory. featuring interviews with Will Alsop, Peter Cook, Odile Decq, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, Mark Goulthorpe, Kolatan/MacDonald Studio, Greg Lynn, Tom Mayne, Juhani Pallasmaa, Gaetano Pesce, Eric Owen Moss, Wolf Prix and Lebbeus Woods.
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June 2010
June 2010
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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$79.95
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The CMT platform is leadby Michelle Howard;who used the platform to explore the Research Observe Make (ROM) teaching studies. The ROM publication documents this program of studies and also forms the basis for future development. It comprises, assembled in one volume, five complementary books, which can also be read individually. After an introduction and an exposé on(...)
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The CMT platform is leadby Michelle Howard;who used the platform to explore the Research Observe Make (ROM) teaching studies. The ROM publication documents this program of studies and also forms the basis for future development. It comprises, assembled in one volume, five complementary books, which can also be read individually. After an introduction and an exposé on(...)
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Research, observe, make: an alternative manual for architectural education
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The CMT platform is leadby Michelle Howard;who used the platform to explore the Research Observe Make (ROM) teaching studies. The ROM publication documents this program of studies and also forms the basis for future development. It comprises, assembled in one volume, five complementary books, which can also be read individually. After an introduction and an exposé on theory, the "elemental", "spatial" and "material" projects are introduced. The last book documents workshops, lectures and experiments. An inspiring compendium with numerous expert contributions and creative student projects.
Research, observe, make: an alternative manual for architectural education
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The CMT platform is leadby Michelle Howard;who used the platform to explore the Research Observe Make (ROM) teaching studies. The ROM publication documents this program of studies and also forms the basis for future development. It comprises, assembled in one volume, five complementary books, which can also be read individually. After an introduction and an exposé on theory, the "elemental", "spatial" and "material" projects are introduced. The last book documents workshops, lectures and experiments. An inspiring compendium with numerous expert contributions and creative student projects.
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September 2015
September 2015
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
