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xxiv, 343 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025., ©2025
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025., ©2025
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Assembly : matter, lineament, and aggregated systems in architectural production / edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith.
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xxiv, 343 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Assembly : matter, lineament, and aggregated systems in architectural production / edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025., ©2025
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The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural projects, their situation within the built environment, and their intellectual(...)
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The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural projects, their situation within the built environment, and their intellectual(...)
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Architecture's pretexts: spaces of translation
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The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural projects, their situation within the built environment, and their intellectual and formal situation/context as pretexts and design paradigms. Connections between diverse bodies of information will be cultivated along with the ability to posit consequential relationships for the production of architecture.
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The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture’s pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture. It introduces a selection of seminal modern and contemporary architectural projects, their situation within the built environment, and their intellectual and formal situation/context as pretexts and design paradigms. Connections between diverse bodies of information will be cultivated along with the ability to posit consequential relationships for the production of architecture.
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August 2013
August 2013
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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Open Humanities Press 2018
Open Humanities Press 2018
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Open Humanities Press 2018
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An illustrated exploration of our limitless fascination with doors, gates, and bridges. The word 'portal' comes from the Latin for 'gate', but it refers to any place of ingress and egress. According to architectural historian Philippa Lewis, a portal 'is generally an optimistic thing, both literally and metaphorically... The word encapsulates the idea of passing through,(...)
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An illustrated exploration of our limitless fascination with doors, gates, and bridges. The word 'portal' comes from the Latin for 'gate', but it refers to any place of ingress and egress. According to architectural historian Philippa Lewis, a portal 'is generally an optimistic thing, both literally and metaphorically... The word encapsulates the idea of passing through,(...)
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February 2018
February 2018
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Portals: gates, stiles, windows, bridges and other crossings
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An illustrated exploration of our limitless fascination with doors, gates, and bridges. The word 'portal' comes from the Latin for 'gate', but it refers to any place of ingress and egress. According to architectural historian Philippa Lewis, a portal 'is generally an optimistic thing, both literally and metaphorically... The word encapsulates the idea of passing through, to a new opportunity, to making progress or moving forward, to entering fresh new worlds.'
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An illustrated exploration of our limitless fascination with doors, gates, and bridges. The word 'portal' comes from the Latin for 'gate', but it refers to any place of ingress and egress. According to architectural historian Philippa Lewis, a portal 'is generally an optimistic thing, both literally and metaphorically... The word encapsulates the idea of passing through, to a new opportunity, to making progress or moving forward, to entering fresh new worlds.'
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February 2018
February 2018
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel(...)
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel(...)
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New York streetscapes : tales of Manhattan's significant buildings and landmarks
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph.
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Christopher Gray's tales of historic Gotham locales transport readers back in time for a stroll through the streets of old New York. The architectural historian, who writes the "Streetscapes" column in The New York Times, here gathers 190 of those columns. From the Bridge Cafe (New York's oldest surviving bar) on Water Street to the Revolutionary War-era Morris-Jumel Mansion in upper Manhattan, Gray turns the spotlight on both obscure and familiar landmarks, and each of his essays is illustrated with at least one period photograph.
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May 2003, New York
May 2003, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through(...)
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through(...)
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Brooklyn is : southeast of the island, travel notes
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable words the essence of a place and its people.
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In 1939, James Agee was assigned to write an article on Brooklyn for a special issue of Fortune on New York City. The draft was rejected for “creative differences,” and remained unpublished until it appeared in Esquire in 1968 under the title “Southeast of the Island : travel notes.” Crossing the borough from the brownstone heights over the Brooklyn Bridge out through backstreet neighborhoods like Flatbush, Midwood, and Sheepshead Bay that roll silently to the sea, Agee captured in 10,000 remarkable words the essence of a place and its people.
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October 2005, New York
October 2005, New York
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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Engineering the eternal city: infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in Rome
Engineering the eternal city: infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in Rome
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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the ''engineering pope'' Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, ''Engineering the Eternal City'' explores the processes and people(...)
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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the ''engineering pope'' Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, ''Engineering the Eternal City'' explores the processes and people(...)
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Engineering the eternal city: infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in Rome
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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the ''engineering pope'' Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, ''Engineering the Eternal City'' explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before.
Engineering the eternal city: infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in Rome
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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the ''engineering pope'' Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, ''Engineering the Eternal City'' explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before.
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November 2018
November 2018
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History until 1900, Italy
History until 1900, Italy
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Kosovo’s Mitrovica is a divided city. The bridge separating the Serb North and the Albanian South is one of the emblematic sites in the ongoing dispute over Kosovo. Beneath this layer of ethno-political division and post-conflict reconstruction, however, lies the fascinating heritage of the city's rapid industrial and urban development under the Socialist Yugoslav(...)
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Kosovo’s Mitrovica is a divided city. The bridge separating the Serb North and the Albanian South is one of the emblematic sites in the ongoing dispute over Kosovo. Beneath this layer of ethno-political division and post-conflict reconstruction, however, lies the fascinating heritage of the city's rapid industrial and urban development under the Socialist Yugoslav(...)
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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April 2019
April 2019
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Layers of time in the urban landscape: visions of socialist urbanism in Mitrovica
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Kosovo’s Mitrovica is a divided city. The bridge separating the Serb North and the Albanian South is one of the emblematic sites in the ongoing dispute over Kosovo. Beneath this layer of ethno-political division and post-conflict reconstruction, however, lies the fascinating heritage of the city's rapid industrial and urban development under the Socialist Yugoslav ideological premises. "Layers of Time in the Urban Landscape" is a cooperative endeavor at the intersection of photography and history, aiming to document the overlaps in the socialist and post-conflict transformations of the city of Mitrovica.
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Kosovo’s Mitrovica is a divided city. The bridge separating the Serb North and the Albanian South is one of the emblematic sites in the ongoing dispute over Kosovo. Beneath this layer of ethno-political division and post-conflict reconstruction, however, lies the fascinating heritage of the city's rapid industrial and urban development under the Socialist Yugoslav ideological premises. "Layers of Time in the Urban Landscape" is a cooperative endeavor at the intersection of photography and history, aiming to document the overlaps in the socialist and post-conflict transformations of the city of Mitrovica.
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April 2019
April 2019
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Architecture since 1900, Europe
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The Guide to Modern Architecture in Rotterdam provides a survey of the most important buildings and urban design schemes in that city, from the White House from the end of last century, the Van Nelle factory designed by Brinkman & Van(...)
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The Guide to Modern Architecture in Rotterdam provides a survey of the most important buildings and urban design schemes in that city, from the White House from the end of last century, the Van Nelle factory designed by Brinkman & Van(...)
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Guide to modern architecture in Rotterdam
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The Guide to Modern Architecture in Rotterdam provides a survey of the most important buildings and urban design schemes in that city, from the White House from the end of last century, the Van Nelle factory designed by Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, Café de Unie and the Kiefhoek by J.J.P. Oud, the Lijnbaan by Van den Broek & Bakema, urban redevelopment schemes, Piet Blom's pole dwellings, Rem Koolhaas's Kunsthal. Jo Coenen's Architecture Institute, Ben van Berkel's Erasmus Bridge, up to and including the latest developments at Kop van Zuid.
Guide to modern architecture in Rotterdam
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The Guide to Modern Architecture in Rotterdam provides a survey of the most important buildings and urban design schemes in that city, from the White House from the end of last century, the Van Nelle factory designed by Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, Café de Unie and the Kiefhoek by J.J.P. Oud, the Lijnbaan by Van den Broek & Bakema, urban redevelopment schemes, Piet Blom's pole dwellings, Rem Koolhaas's Kunsthal. Jo Coenen's Architecture Institute, Ben van Berkel's Erasmus Bridge, up to and including the latest developments at Kop van Zuid.
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September 1996, Rotterdam
September 1996, Rotterdam
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City Guides
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Named America's best architect by TIME magazine in 2001 "for buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye," Steven Holl is known for his experimental approach to architecture that is romantic, humanistic, and resplendently modern. 'Steven Holl Volume 1: 1975-1998' is the first in a two-part monograph on Steven Holl and features early projects such as the Bridge of(...)
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Named America's best architect by TIME magazine in 2001 "for buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye," Steven Holl is known for his experimental approach to architecture that is romantic, humanistic, and resplendently modern. 'Steven Holl Volume 1: 1975-1998' is the first in a two-part monograph on Steven Holl and features early projects such as the Bridge of(...)
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Steven Holl, volume 1: 1975-1988
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Named America's best architect by TIME magazine in 2001 "for buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye," Steven Holl is known for his experimental approach to architecture that is romantic, humanistic, and resplendently modern. 'Steven Holl Volume 1: 1975-1998' is the first in a two-part monograph on Steven Holl and features early projects such as the Bridge of Houses (1979-82), D.E. Shaw & Co. Offices (1991), and the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (1992-1998). With texts by Toyo Ito and Steven Holl.
Steven Holl, volume 1: 1975-1988
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Named America's best architect by TIME magazine in 2001 "for buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye," Steven Holl is known for his experimental approach to architecture that is romantic, humanistic, and resplendently modern. 'Steven Holl Volume 1: 1975-1998' is the first in a two-part monograph on Steven Holl and features early projects such as the Bridge of Houses (1979-82), D.E. Shaw & Co. Offices (1991), and the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (1992-1998). With texts by Toyo Ito and Steven Holl.
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June 2012
June 2012
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Architecture Monographs
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