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Architecture and surrealism
Architecture and surrealism
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''Architecture and Surrealism'' opens with an introduction on the precursors of Surrealism in the Baroque and Rococo periods, moving into the twentieth century through the Symbolists and Dadaists. The four main chapters present the interplay between architecture and Surrealism through the key concepts of the body, the interior space, the house, alternative realities, and(...)
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''Architecture and Surrealism'' opens with an introduction on the precursors of Surrealism in the Baroque and Rococo periods, moving into the twentieth century through the Symbolists and Dadaists. The four main chapters present the interplay between architecture and Surrealism through the key concepts of the body, the interior space, the house, alternative realities, and(...)
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Architecture and surrealism
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''Architecture and Surrealism'' opens with an introduction on the precursors of Surrealism in the Baroque and Rococo periods, moving into the twentieth century through the Symbolists and Dadaists. The four main chapters present the interplay between architecture and Surrealism through the key concepts of the body, the interior space, the house, alternative realities, and the environment. In an era of wearable technology and big data, the fascinating possibilities for new worlds, new buildings, and new spaces are creating the most exciting futures for contemporary architects.
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''Architecture and Surrealism'' opens with an introduction on the precursors of Surrealism in the Baroque and Rococo periods, moving into the twentieth century through the Symbolists and Dadaists. The four main chapters present the interplay between architecture and Surrealism through the key concepts of the body, the interior space, the house, alternative realities, and the environment. In an era of wearable technology and big data, the fascinating possibilities for new worlds, new buildings, and new spaces are creating the most exciting futures for contemporary architects.
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June 2016
June 2016
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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100 years, 100 buildings
100 years, 100 buildings
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This unique building-per-year survey of a century of great architecture offers an introduction to the best existing structures built each year from 1916 to 2015 around the globe - and a must-see list for architecture. The founder of the blog ''A Daily Dose of Architecture'', John Hill, is obsessed with his subject and determined to expose his fellow citizens to the(...)
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This unique building-per-year survey of a century of great architecture offers an introduction to the best existing structures built each year from 1916 to 2015 around the globe - and a must-see list for architecture. The founder of the blog ''A Daily Dose of Architecture'', John Hill, is obsessed with his subject and determined to expose his fellow citizens to the(...)
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100 years, 100 buildings
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This unique building-per-year survey of a century of great architecture offers an introduction to the best existing structures built each year from 1916 to 2015 around the globe - and a must-see list for architecture. The founder of the blog ''A Daily Dose of Architecture'', John Hill, is obsessed with his subject and determined to expose his fellow citizens to the glorious structures that shape our environment. Hill presents his selection of the most significant building to be built each year from 1916 to 2015.
100 years, 100 buildings
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This unique building-per-year survey of a century of great architecture offers an introduction to the best existing structures built each year from 1916 to 2015 around the globe - and a must-see list for architecture. The founder of the blog ''A Daily Dose of Architecture'', John Hill, is obsessed with his subject and determined to expose his fellow citizens to the glorious structures that shape our environment. Hill presents his selection of the most significant building to be built each year from 1916 to 2015.
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October 2016
October 2016
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Contemporary Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
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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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journals and magazines
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Issue 134 offers a sensitive interpretation of contemporary architecture, viewing materials as mediators between the built environment, the human body, and the surrounding landscape. The dossier, preceded by a text of Manuel Bouzas on the importance of fieldwork in architecture, brings together six projects that use natural materials – stone, earth, wood, bamboo, straw,(...)
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Issue 134 offers a sensitive interpretation of contemporary architecture, viewing materials as mediators between the built environment, the human body, and the surrounding landscape. The dossier, preceded by a text of Manuel Bouzas on the importance of fieldwork in architecture, brings together six projects that use natural materials – stone, earth, wood, bamboo, straw,(...)
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AV Proyectos 134: Natural construction
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Issue 134 offers a sensitive interpretation of contemporary architecture, viewing materials as mediators between the built environment, the human body, and the surrounding landscape. The dossier, preceded by a text of Manuel Bouzas on the importance of fieldwork in architecture, brings together six projects that use natural materials – stone, earth, wood, bamboo, straw, and fabric – applied without artifice, in a journey ranging from the density of the dwellings by Josep Ferrando or Tuckey Design to the lightness of the temporary structures by Marina Tabassum or Mentrestant.
AV Proyectos 134: Natural construction
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Issue 134 offers a sensitive interpretation of contemporary architecture, viewing materials as mediators between the built environment, the human body, and the surrounding landscape. The dossier, preceded by a text of Manuel Bouzas on the importance of fieldwork in architecture, brings together six projects that use natural materials – stone, earth, wood, bamboo, straw, and fabric – applied without artifice, in a journey ranging from the density of the dwellings by Josep Ferrando or Tuckey Design to the lightness of the temporary structures by Marina Tabassum or Mentrestant.
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journals and magazines
journals and magazines
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April 2026
April 2026
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Magazines
Magazines
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For many people, the name Porto Marghera conjures up images of pollution and the damage done by industry to the environment. Partly in disuse, Porto Marghera is a fascinating industrial area which up to now has been inaccessible to the general public. Fifteen Italian photographers were invited to take part in the project to record the very unusual urban(...)
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For many people, the name Porto Marghera conjures up images of pollution and the damage done by industry to the environment. Partly in disuse, Porto Marghera is a fascinating industrial area which up to now has been inaccessible to the general public. Fifteen Italian photographers were invited to take part in the project to record the very unusual urban(...)
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Theory of Photography
Theory of Photography
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June 1997, Milan
June 1997, Milan
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Venezia Marghera : photography and transformations in the contemporary city
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For many people, the name Porto Marghera conjures up images of pollution and the damage done by industry to the environment. Partly in disuse, Porto Marghera is a fascinating industrial area which up to now has been inaccessible to the general public. Fifteen Italian photographers were invited to take part in the project to record the very unusual urban landscape of Porto Marghera, a decisive area for the future of Venice which is on the threshold of profound changes. With an introduction by Phyllis Lambert.
Venezia Marghera : photography and transformations in the contemporary city
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For many people, the name Porto Marghera conjures up images of pollution and the damage done by industry to the environment. Partly in disuse, Porto Marghera is a fascinating industrial area which up to now has been inaccessible to the general public. Fifteen Italian photographers were invited to take part in the project to record the very unusual urban landscape of Porto Marghera, a decisive area for the future of Venice which is on the threshold of profound changes. With an introduction by Phyllis Lambert.
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June 1997, Milan
June 1997, Milan
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Theory of Photography
Theory of Photography
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism(...)
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism(...)
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CriticAll!: (Un)professional everyday design criticism
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism as well. How can we activate more people to become actively aware of and critical towards their designed environments?
CriticAll!: (Un)professional everyday design criticism
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From Google reviews to YouTube tutorials, and from online service desks to real-life ‘may I speak to the manager’ requests - we are all critics of our designed environment. It seems therefore strange, if not outrageous, that design criticism is a practice considered to be a haute-for-few instead of a low-for-all. Design belongs to all of us and, therefore, its criticism as well. How can we activate more people to become actively aware of and critical towards their designed environments?
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September 2021
September 2021
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Design Theory
Design Theory
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journals and magazines
journals and magazines
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''The Edit'' is an active retelling of the built environment. This issue is about revisiting the archives and drafting new records. What truths and tools can we use to understand and overcome the monolithic, heteronormative, Eurocentric coding that structure our lives? Through words, drawings, posters, and booklets, explore the conditions of possibility that await us(...)
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''The Edit'' is an active retelling of the built environment. This issue is about revisiting the archives and drafting new records. What truths and tools can we use to understand and overcome the monolithic, heteronormative, Eurocentric coding that structure our lives? Through words, drawings, posters, and booklets, explore the conditions of possibility that await us(...)
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Site, series 1 vol. 2 : The edit
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''The Edit'' is an active retelling of the built environment. This issue is about revisiting the archives and drafting new records. What truths and tools can we use to understand and overcome the monolithic, heteronormative, Eurocentric coding that structure our lives? Through words, drawings, posters, and booklets, explore the conditions of possibility that await us when we encounter, resist, reimagine, and rewrite the script. Learn about soil as a record-keeper, sci-fi dystopias, embroidering queer visibility, social design for an aging population, and more.
Site, series 1 vol. 2 : The edit
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''The Edit'' is an active retelling of the built environment. This issue is about revisiting the archives and drafting new records. What truths and tools can we use to understand and overcome the monolithic, heteronormative, Eurocentric coding that structure our lives? Through words, drawings, posters, and booklets, explore the conditions of possibility that await us when we encounter, resist, reimagine, and rewrite the script. Learn about soil as a record-keeper, sci-fi dystopias, embroidering queer visibility, social design for an aging population, and more.
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journals and magazines
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August 2022
August 2022
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Magazines
Magazines
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Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’. Examining the influential role of architectural exhibitions, the contributors also(...)
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Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’. Examining the influential role of architectural exhibitions, the contributors also(...)
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Curating architecture and the city
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Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’. Examining the influential role of architectural exhibitions, the contributors also look at curatorship as an emerging attitude towards the investigation and interpretation of the city. International in scope,this collection investigates curation, architecture and the city across the world, opening up new possibilities for exploring the urban fabric.
Curating architecture and the city
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Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’. Examining the influential role of architectural exhibitions, the contributors also look at curatorship as an emerging attitude towards the investigation and interpretation of the city. International in scope,this collection investigates curation, architecture and the city across the world, opening up new possibilities for exploring the urban fabric.
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July 2009
July 2009
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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This book tells a regional story that the whole world should hear. The needs of the emerging world (in particular the Asian continent) are leaving a carbon footprint that is rapidly expanding to match the pace of the U.S. and Europe. It is manifested in a dramatically transformed built and natural environment that poses unprecedented challenges. The emerging world is a(...)
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This book tells a regional story that the whole world should hear. The needs of the emerging world (in particular the Asian continent) are leaving a carbon footprint that is rapidly expanding to match the pace of the U.S. and Europe. It is manifested in a dramatically transformed built and natural environment that poses unprecedented challenges. The emerging world is a(...)
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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December 2009
December 2009
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Edaw: Asia beyong growth, urbanization in the world's fastest-changing continent
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This book tells a regional story that the whole world should hear. The needs of the emerging world (in particular the Asian continent) are leaving a carbon footprint that is rapidly expanding to match the pace of the U.S. and Europe. It is manifested in a dramatically transformed built and natural environment that poses unprecedented challenges. The emerging world is a testing ground for radical urban-design proposals, several of which are reviewed in this timely publication which is divided into two sections, "Growth" and "Beyond."
Edaw: Asia beyong growth, urbanization in the world's fastest-changing continent
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This book tells a regional story that the whole world should hear. The needs of the emerging world (in particular the Asian continent) are leaving a carbon footprint that is rapidly expanding to match the pace of the U.S. and Europe. It is manifested in a dramatically transformed built and natural environment that poses unprecedented challenges. The emerging world is a testing ground for radical urban-design proposals, several of which are reviewed in this timely publication which is divided into two sections, "Growth" and "Beyond."
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December 2009
December 2009
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Contemporary Asian Architecture
Contemporary Asian Architecture
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This is a book about how information shapes the city : its sensory experience, its infrastructures anmd its placesé Urban data have become an integral part of public space, its discourses and controversies. Data generated either from the top-down by Open Government and Smart City initiatives, or from the bottom-up through citizen-led initiatives and civic protests. The(...)
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This is a book about how information shapes the city : its sensory experience, its infrastructures anmd its placesé Urban data have become an integral part of public space, its discourses and controversies. Data generated either from the top-down by Open Government and Smart City initiatives, or from the bottom-up through citizen-led initiatives and civic protests. The(...)
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Inscribing a square : urban data as public space
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This is a book about how information shapes the city : its sensory experience, its infrastructures anmd its placesé Urban data have become an integral part of public space, its discourses and controversies. Data generated either from the top-down by Open Government and Smart City initiatives, or from the bottom-up through citizen-led initiatives and civic protests. The book demonstrates how different groups work with urban information to make sens of their environment and how they employ this information to change the city.
Inscribing a square : urban data as public space
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This is a book about how information shapes the city : its sensory experience, its infrastructures anmd its placesé Urban data have become an integral part of public space, its discourses and controversies. Data generated either from the top-down by Open Government and Smart City initiatives, or from the bottom-up through citizen-led initiatives and civic protests. The book demonstrates how different groups work with urban information to make sens of their environment and how they employ this information to change the city.
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June 2012
June 2012
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
