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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his(...)
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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his(...)
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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August 2005, Berlin
August 2005, Berlin
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Kisho Kurokawa : metabolism and symbiosis
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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his work. Covered here are less-familiar early designs and current undertakings of astounding proportions, like Zhengdong New District in China, a planned city of 15,000 people.
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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his work. Covered here are less-familiar early designs and current undertakings of astounding proportions, like Zhengdong New District in China, a planned city of 15,000 people.
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August 2005, Berlin
August 2005, Berlin
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Architecture Monographs
Architecture Monographs
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Post-Modernism revisited
Post-Modernism revisited
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This book, accompanying an exhibition at the Deutsches Architektur Museum, is an attempt to define post-modernism in terms of what architecture is capable of achieving and what it must achieve. While the exhibition primarily shows buildings that are outstanding for their exceptionally high quality, the theoretical part of the catalogue provides a mouthpiece for critical(...)
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This book, accompanying an exhibition at the Deutsches Architektur Museum, is an attempt to define post-modernism in terms of what architecture is capable of achieving and what it must achieve. While the exhibition primarily shows buildings that are outstanding for their exceptionally high quality, the theoretical part of the catalogue provides a mouthpiece for critical(...)
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Post-modernism
Post-modernism
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October 2004, Frankfurt
October 2004, Frankfurt
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Post-Modernism revisited
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This book, accompanying an exhibition at the Deutsches Architektur Museum, is an attempt to define post-modernism in terms of what architecture is capable of achieving and what it must achieve. While the exhibition primarily shows buildings that are outstanding for their exceptionally high quality, the theoretical part of the catalogue provides a mouthpiece for critical voices. Both opponents and advocates of post-modernist theory and practice are given a forum to air their views: architects, architectural theorists, arts critics, and academics.
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This book, accompanying an exhibition at the Deutsches Architektur Museum, is an attempt to define post-modernism in terms of what architecture is capable of achieving and what it must achieve. While the exhibition primarily shows buildings that are outstanding for their exceptionally high quality, the theoretical part of the catalogue provides a mouthpiece for critical voices. Both opponents and advocates of post-modernist theory and practice are given a forum to air their views: architects, architectural theorists, arts critics, and academics.
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October 2004, Frankfurt
October 2004, Frankfurt
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Post-modernism
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This book traces Wallace Cunningham’s development from his youth in the architecturally rich city of Buffalo through his apprenticeship at Taliesen, where he absorbed Frank Lloyd Wright’s theory of organic architecture, to his current practice in San Diego. Eighteen case studies of his projects, both built and unbuilt, illustrate how the architect opens his structures to(...)
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This book traces Wallace Cunningham’s development from his youth in the architecturally rich city of Buffalo through his apprenticeship at Taliesen, where he absorbed Frank Lloyd Wright’s theory of organic architecture, to his current practice in San Diego. Eighteen case studies of his projects, both built and unbuilt, illustrate how the architect opens his structures to(...)
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Architecture Monographs
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January 1900, New Haven
January 1900, New Haven
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Materializing the immaterial : the architecture of Wallace Cunningham
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This book traces Wallace Cunningham’s development from his youth in the architecturally rich city of Buffalo through his apprenticeship at Taliesen, where he absorbed Frank Lloyd Wright’s theory of organic architecture, to his current practice in San Diego. Eighteen case studies of his projects, both built and unbuilt, illustrate how the architect opens his structures to sky, landscape, and views, and how he uses light to define and animate space. The book also includes a comprehensive record of Cunningham's works, publications, and exhibits.
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This book traces Wallace Cunningham’s development from his youth in the architecturally rich city of Buffalo through his apprenticeship at Taliesen, where he absorbed Frank Lloyd Wright’s theory of organic architecture, to his current practice in San Diego. Eighteen case studies of his projects, both built and unbuilt, illustrate how the architect opens his structures to sky, landscape, and views, and how he uses light to define and animate space. The book also includes a comprehensive record of Cunningham's works, publications, and exhibits.
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January 1900, New Haven
January 1900, New Haven
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Architecture Monographs
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xi, 418 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, plans (some color) ; 28 cm
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xi, 418 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, plans (some color) ; 28 cm
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Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 1980., ©1980
Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 1980., ©1980
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Gardens of illusion : the genius of André Le Nostre / by F. Hamilton Hazlehurst ; with plans, and elevation drawings by Philetus H. Holt, III.
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Gardens of illusion : the genius of André Le Nostre / by F. Hamilton Hazlehurst ; with plans, and elevation drawings by Philetus H. Holt, III.
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xi, 418 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, plans (some color) ; 28 cm
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Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 1980., ©1980
Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 1980., ©1980
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118 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
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118 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
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Millerton, New York : Aperture, [1981], [New York, New York ] : Harper & Row Publishers, ©1981
Millerton, New York : Aperture, [1981], [New York, New York ] : Harper & Row Publishers, ©1981
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American frontiers : the photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867-1874 / Joel Snyder.
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118 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm
American frontiers : the photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1867-1874 / Joel Snyder.
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Millerton, New York : Aperture, [1981], [New York, New York ] : Harper & Row Publishers, ©1981
Millerton, New York : Aperture, [1981], [New York, New York ] : Harper & Row Publishers, ©1981
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8 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps, portrait, charts (tables), plates ; 26 cm
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8 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps, portrait, charts (tables), plates ; 26 cm
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Oxford University, London, Great Britain : Clarendon Press, 1954-1984., ©1954-1984
Oxford University, London, Great Britain : Clarendon Press, 1954-1984., ©1954-1984
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A history of technology / edited by Charles Singer [and others].
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8 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps, portrait, charts (tables), plates ; 26 cm
A history of technology / edited by Charles Singer [and others].
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Oxford University, London, Great Britain : Clarendon Press, 1954-1984., ©1954-1984
Oxford University, London, Great Britain : Clarendon Press, 1954-1984., ©1954-1984
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The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (17521818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also promoted his profession(...)
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The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (17521818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also promoted his profession(...)
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Landscape Architecture, Monographs
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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October 1999, New Haven
October 1999, New Haven
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Humphry Repton : landscape gardening and the geography of Georgian England
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The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (17521818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also promoted his profession in extensive writings about the theory and practice of landscape gardening. This book examines Repton's career and work in the context of the changing human geography of his time. Fully illustrated with many previously unpublished pictures, the book charts Repton's vision of England, how his style changed and persisted over time and from place to place, how he influenced his profession, and how he fashioned a social identity for himself. Stephen Daniels frames Repton's life and work in terms of five domains: the road, the county, the picturesque landscape, the aristocratic estate, and the urban periphery. Focusing on the way these domains shaped Repton's career and how he in turn attempted to shape them, Daniels examines in depth more than twenty representative commissions that delineate Repton's social and spatial theory of landscape. The author casts new light not only on the work of Humphry Repton but also on the role of landscape itself in English culture and society.
Humphry Repton : landscape gardening and the geography of Georgian England
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The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (17521818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also promoted his profession in extensive writings about the theory and practice of landscape gardening. This book examines Repton's career and work in the context of the changing human geography of his time. Fully illustrated with many previously unpublished pictures, the book charts Repton's vision of England, how his style changed and persisted over time and from place to place, how he influenced his profession, and how he fashioned a social identity for himself. Stephen Daniels frames Repton's life and work in terms of five domains: the road, the county, the picturesque landscape, the aristocratic estate, and the urban periphery. Focusing on the way these domains shaped Repton's career and how he in turn attempted to shape them, Daniels examines in depth more than twenty representative commissions that delineate Repton's social and spatial theory of landscape. The author casts new light not only on the work of Humphry Repton but also on the role of landscape itself in English culture and society.
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October 1999, New Haven
October 1999, New Haven
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Landscape Architecture, Monographs
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in(...)
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in(...)
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January 1900, Rotterdam
January 1900, Rotterdam
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The urban condition : space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. "The Urban Condition" seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. The Ghent Urban Studies Team responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.
The urban condition : space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. "The Urban Condition" seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. The Ghent Urban Studies Team responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.
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January 1900, Rotterdam
January 1900, Rotterdam
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"Fuel" is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises--most produced long before "climate change" was in circulation--"Fuel" argues for a distinction between energy (a system of power) and fuel (a substance, which can be thought of as(...)
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"Fuel" is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises--most produced long before "climate change" was in circulation--"Fuel" argues for a distinction between energy (a system of power) and fuel (a substance, which can be thought of as(...)
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Fuel : a speculative dictionary
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"Fuel" is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises--most produced long before "climate change" was in circulation--"Fuel" argues for a distinction between energy (a system of power) and fuel (a substance, which can be thought of as "potentiality") as it endeavors to undo the dream that we can simply switch to renewables and all will be golden. From "Air" to "Zyklon B," entries in this unusual "dictionary" include Algae, Clathrates, Dilithium, Fleece, Goats, Theology, Whale Oil, and many, many more. The tone of the entries ranges as widely as the topics: from historical anecdotes (the Ford Fiesta "boozemobile") to eccentric readings of the classics of "energy lit" ( Germinal and Oil! ); from literary observations (a high octane Odyssey ?) to excursions into literary theory. The dictionary draws from an eccentric canon, including works by Jules Verne, George Eliot's Silas Marner , Paolo Bacigalupi's Windup Girl , and the Tom Cruise vehicle Oblivion , among others. A message from this ambitious project is that energy can be understood as a heterogeneous set of self-mystifying systems or machines that block access to thought as they fascinate us. Fuels emerge as more primal elements that the audience can grasp at various points along the way to consumption/combustion. This dictionary can help scramble our thinking about fuel--not in order to demonize energy and not in order to create a new hierarchy in which certain renewables take over from fossil fuels but instead to open up potential ways of interacting with real and imaginary substances, by wrenching them out of narrative and placing them into an idiosyncratic dictionary to be applied by readers into new narratives.
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"Fuel" is an idiosyncratic, speculative dictionary of fuels, real and imagined, historical and futuristic, hopeless and utopian. Drawing on literature, film, and scientific treatises--most produced long before "climate change" was in circulation--"Fuel" argues for a distinction between energy (a system of power) and fuel (a substance, which can be thought of as "potentiality") as it endeavors to undo the dream that we can simply switch to renewables and all will be golden. From "Air" to "Zyklon B," entries in this unusual "dictionary" include Algae, Clathrates, Dilithium, Fleece, Goats, Theology, Whale Oil, and many, many more. The tone of the entries ranges as widely as the topics: from historical anecdotes (the Ford Fiesta "boozemobile") to eccentric readings of the classics of "energy lit" ( Germinal and Oil! ); from literary observations (a high octane Odyssey ?) to excursions into literary theory. The dictionary draws from an eccentric canon, including works by Jules Verne, George Eliot's Silas Marner , Paolo Bacigalupi's Windup Girl , and the Tom Cruise vehicle Oblivion , among others. A message from this ambitious project is that energy can be understood as a heterogeneous set of self-mystifying systems or machines that block access to thought as they fascinate us. Fuels emerge as more primal elements that the audience can grasp at various points along the way to consumption/combustion. This dictionary can help scramble our thinking about fuel--not in order to demonize energy and not in order to create a new hierarchy in which certain renewables take over from fossil fuels but instead to open up potential ways of interacting with real and imaginary substances, by wrenching them out of narrative and placing them into an idiosyncratic dictionary to be applied by readers into new narratives.
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November 2016
November 2016
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously(...)
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Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously(...)
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February 2012
February 2012
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The future of architecture since 1889
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Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously neglected but significant architects, this book also reflects Cohen's deep knowledge of architecture across the globe, and in places such Eastern Europe and colonial Africa and South America that have rarely been included in histories of this period.
The future of architecture since 1889
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Jean-Louis Cohen, one of today's most distinguished architectural historians and critics, gives an authoritative and compelling account of the twentieth century, tracing an arc from industrialization through computerization, and linking architecture to developments in art, technology, urbanism and critical theory. Encompassing both well-known masters and previously neglected but significant architects, this book also reflects Cohen's deep knowledge of architecture across the globe, and in places such Eastern Europe and colonial Africa and South America that have rarely been included in histories of this period.
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