books
$42.95
(available to order)
Summary:
“All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly understood in terms of curb cuts, automatic doors, Braille signs, and flexible kitchens, Universal Design purported to create(...)
Building access: universal design and the politics of disability
Actions:
Price:
$42.95
(available to order)
Summary:
“All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly understood in terms of curb cuts, automatic doors, Braille signs, and flexible kitchens, Universal Design purported to create a built environment for everyone, not only the average citizen. But who counts as “everyone,” Aimi Hamraie asks, and how can designers know? Blending technoscience studies and design history with critical disability, race, and feminist theories, Building Access interrogates the historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts for these questions, offering a groundbreaking critical history of Universal Design. Hamraie reveals that the twentieth-century shift from “design for the average” to “design for all” took place through liberal political, economic, and scientific structures concerned with defining the disabled user and designing in its name. Tracing the co-evolution of accessible design for disabled veterans, a radical disability maker movement, disability rights law, and strategies for diversifying the architecture profession, Hamraie shows that Universal Design was not just an approach to creating new products or spaces, but also a sustained, understated activist movement challenging dominant understandings of disability in architecture, medicine, and society.
books
November 2017
Architectural Theory
$27.50
(available to order)
Summary:
In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge were embroiled in the aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly(...)
Unlocking the church: the lost secrets of Victorian sacred space
Actions:
Price:
$27.50
(available to order)
Summary:
In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge were embroiled in the aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly changed the ways in which buildings were understood and experienced. No longer mere receptacles for worship, churches became active agents in their own rights, capable of conveying theological ideas and designed to shape people's emotions. These church buildings are now a challenge: their maintenance, repair or repurposing are pressing problems for parishes in age of declining attendance and dwindling funds. By understanding their past, unlocking the secrets of their space, there might be answers in how to deal with the legacy of the Victorians now and into the future.
Architectural Theory
$56.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Venetian artist Carlo Scarpa (1906?78) was one of the outstanding architects of the twentieth century, creating buildings for museums in Venice, Florence, and Verona, as well as many other major buildings. This book focuses on a work that shows that approach to unforgettable effect: a tomb for businessman Giuseppe Brion in Treviso. In designing the tomb, Scarpa had(...)
Carlo Scarpa: La Tomba brion San Vito D'Altivole
Actions:
Price:
$56.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Venetian artist Carlo Scarpa (1906?78) was one of the outstanding architects of the twentieth century, creating buildings for museums in Venice, Florence, and Verona, as well as many other major buildings. This book focuses on a work that shows that approach to unforgettable effect: a tomb for businessman Giuseppe Brion in Treviso. In designing the tomb, Scarpa had complete freedom, working across a vast space to fuse buildings of fair-faced concrete with the surrounding landscape to create a magnificent work the invites meditation. Munich photographer Klaus Kinold documented the remarkable tomb, and his carefully composed pictures, both black-and-white and subtly using color, depict an otherworldly place that translates our ideas of growth and decay in an expansively constructed symbolism.
Architecture Monographs
$54.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Every year, ETH Zurich publishes the best work in architectural design, technology, and visual design by students, teachers, and researchers in the university’s Department of Architecture. All the work gathered in the 2016 yearbook was produced during the previous school year, some of it through exchange programs with other universities in Europe.
Yearbook 2016: teaching and research
Actions:
Price:
$54.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Every year, ETH Zurich publishes the best work in architectural design, technology, and visual design by students, teachers, and researchers in the university’s Department of Architecture. All the work gathered in the 2016 yearbook was produced during the previous school year, some of it through exchange programs with other universities in Europe.
Contemporary Architecture
$58.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Neural Architects documents a unique collaboration between a leading architectural practice, Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd, and neuroscientists, which resulted in the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, a state of the art research laboratory and new architectural icon. In their work, Ian Ritchie and his architectural team swept away all preconceptions(...)
Ian Ritchie. Neural architects: the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre from idea to reality
Actions:
Price:
$58.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Neural Architects documents a unique collaboration between a leading architectural practice, Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd, and neuroscientists, which resulted in the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at University College London, a state of the art research laboratory and new architectural icon. In their work, Ian Ritchie and his architectural team swept away all preconceptions about how to design a laboratory. Instead, they visited neuroscientists around the world, gaining an intimate understanding of the way they use and construct the spaces around them. Through continuing dialogue, the design team imagined the new lab from the inside out and created adaptable, interconnected spaces to foster interactions between researchers from different disciplines.
Architecture Monographs
Lina Bo Bardi
$103.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This publication comprises a long-awaited selection of works by Lina Bo Bardi, a major figure in the modernisation and democratisation of Brazilian architecture. Among other content, it contains attractive photographs and rare, privately owned sketches, and offers a fascinating overview of Bo Bardis wide range of creations and visions. A discussion between Kazuyo Sejima(...)
Architecture Monographs
November 2017
Lina Bo Bardi
Actions:
Price:
$103.00
(available to order)
Summary:
This publication comprises a long-awaited selection of works by Lina Bo Bardi, a major figure in the modernisation and democratisation of Brazilian architecture. Among other content, it contains attractive photographs and rare, privately owned sketches, and offers a fascinating overview of Bo Bardis wide range of creations and visions. A discussion between Kazuyo Sejima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, two architects influenced by Bo Bardi, is also included.
Architecture Monographs
$19.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Avec sa silhouette iconique de Babel des Temps modernes, on croit toujours se « souvenir » du Monument à la IIIe Internationale (1919-1920) de V. Tatline (1885-1953). Pourtant, notre esprit ne retient souvent de la « Tour Tatline » que la sculpture tirée d'un musée imaginaire, alors qu'il s'agit d'abord du modèle réduit d'une « anti-Tour Eiffel » non réalisée. Bien plus(...)
La Tour Tatlin : monument à la IIIième internationale?
Actions:
Price:
$19.00
(available to order)
Summary:
Avec sa silhouette iconique de Babel des Temps modernes, on croit toujours se « souvenir » du Monument à la IIIe Internationale (1919-1920) de V. Tatline (1885-1953). Pourtant, notre esprit ne retient souvent de la « Tour Tatline » que la sculpture tirée d'un musée imaginaire, alors qu'il s'agit d'abord du modèle réduit d'une « anti-Tour Eiffel » non réalisée. Bien plus élevée que les 160 m du treillis fuselé de la Tour TSF (1920-1922) de l'ingénieur-architecte V. Choukhov (1853-1939), les 400 m de contreplongées constructivistes auraient dû incarner un monument socialiste et une œuvre d'art cosmopolite totale, tour à tour promenade cinématique, centre d'émission radio et haut-parleur d'amplification de la voix de Moscou : à la ville et au monde prolétarien.
Architectural Theory
Friederick Kiesler. Face-to-face with the avant-garde: essential essays on network and impact
$64.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Frederick Kiesler was a committed networker and communicated regularly with the whos who of the avant-garde. He was an important intermediary between the visionary ideas of the European Moderne movement and the up-and-coming New York art scene. About 20 contributions portray his colourful life and his multifaceted oeuvre in various contexts, and place Kiesler in a dialog(...)
Friederick Kiesler. Face-to-face with the avant-garde: essential essays on network and impact
Actions:
Price:
$64.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Frederick Kiesler was a committed networker and communicated regularly with the whos who of the avant-garde. He was an important intermediary between the visionary ideas of the European Moderne movement and the up-and-coming New York art scene. About 20 contributions portray his colourful life and his multifaceted oeuvre in various contexts, and place Kiesler in a dialog with the most important artists and architects of his time.
Architecture Monographs
$54.95
(available to order)
Summary:
How do we want to inhabit the spaces we live in? How can we build homes that match our ideals and meet the demands of a changing world? Where can we find ideas for the houses and cities of the future? During the 1960s and 1970s, visionary architecture in Europe began to raise these fundamental questions about the homes we inhabit. Journalist Niklas Maak has visited the(...)
Eurotopians: fragments of a different future
Actions:
Price:
$54.95
(available to order)
Summary:
How do we want to inhabit the spaces we live in? How can we build homes that match our ideals and meet the demands of a changing world? Where can we find ideas for the houses and cities of the future? During the 1960s and 1970s, visionary architecture in Europe began to raise these fundamental questions about the homes we inhabit. Journalist Niklas Maak has visited the buildings of this era—many of which are now in ruins—and curates here an “archaeology of the utopian,” founding ideas for future architectures in the buildings of the past. Featuring works by Antti Lovag, Yona Friedman, Claude Parent, Dante Bini, Cini Boeri, Hans-Walter Müller, Renée Gailhoustet, and Jean Renaudie, all impressively photographed by Johanna Diehl, this intelligent new volume explores inspiring revolutionary forms of living through the utopian architectures of the past.
Experimentale architecture
Alvar Aalto: architect
$82.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is universally recognized as one of the masters of Modernist architecture. While the remarkable buildings he designed have been much studied, the story of how a young architect from a village in western Finland achieved such international prominence is little known. This new biography of Aalto is the first to offer a comprehensive and objective(...)
Alvar Aalto: architect
Actions:
Price:
$82.95
(available to order)
Summary:
Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is universally recognized as one of the masters of Modernist architecture. While the remarkable buildings he designed have been much studied, the story of how a young architect from a village in western Finland achieved such international prominence is little known. This new biography of Aalto is the first to offer a comprehensive and objective survey of his life, from growing up in the Finnish provinces to finding global acclaim, and also covers all his projects, from early work in Jyväskylä in the 1920s to Finlandia Hall, completed in Helsinki in 1971.
Architecture Monographs