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Transparency
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Introduction by Werner Oechslin, commentary by Bernhard Hoesli. New expanded edition of this classic text first published in 1964.
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Introduction by Werner Oechslin, commentary by Bernhard Hoesli. New expanded edition of this classic text first published in 1964.
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April 1997, Basel
Architectural Theory
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Actes du colloque de Vassivière-en-Limousin.
Le jardin, art et lieu de mémoire
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Actes du colloque de Vassivière-en-Limousin.
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January 1900, Besançon
Landscape Theory
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Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering(...)
Space, time, and perversion : essays on the politics of bodies
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Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transforms understandings of space and time, knowledge and desire. Grosz moves toward a radical consideration of bodies and their relationship to transgression and perversity.
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September 1995, New York
Architectural Theory
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Situationist city
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From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western World. In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of Situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the(...)
Situationist city
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From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western World. In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of Situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the modern city. Also available in pb.
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January 1998, Cambridge, Mass.
Urban Theory
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"The architectural uncanny" presents a series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. The essays are at once historical(...)
Architectural Theory
April 1994, Cambridge (MA), London
The architectural uncanny : essays in the modern unhomely
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"The architectural uncanny" presents a series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. The essays are at once historical and theoretical, opening up the complex and difficult relationships between politics, social thought, and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness and the idealism of the neo-avant-garde have never seemed so far apart.
Architectural Theory
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Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new(...)
The architecture of the well-tempered environment, second edition
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Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.
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Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer
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Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously(...)
Modernism and the posthumanist subject : the architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer
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Drawing both on the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer and on more recent poststructuralist thought, Hays creates an entirely new method of reading architectural production. Challenging much of the traditional wisdom about modernism and the avant-garde, Hays argues that a rigorously articulated 'posthumanist' position was actually developed in the modernist architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer. He reinterprets their buildings, projects, and writings as constructions of this new category of subjectivity.
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May 1995, Cambridge, Mass.
Architectural Theory
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The complex legacy of this most notable period is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor. Peter S. Reed details the rise of modern architecture during the war—housing designs that used the latest ideas in prefabricated construction methods, lightweight materials, innovative technologies, and a corporate and institutional aesthetic that helped(...)
World War II and the American dream
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The complex legacy of this most notable period is discussed from a different perspective by each contributor. Peter S. Reed details the rise of modern architecture during the war—housing designs that used the latest ideas in prefabricated construction methods, lightweight materials, innovative technologies, and a corporate and institutional aesthetic that helped popularize modernism as the appropriate image of American industrial might and corporate success. Robert Friedel documents the development of new materials, especially plastics, and discusses techniques for employing traditional materials in novel ways. Margaret Crawford explores the struggle of women and blacks for public housing. Finally, Michael Sorkin, architect and writer, explores the migration of certain values and aesthetics from the necessities of war to the choices of peace. Among these are images of speed, camouflage, ruin, totalization, and flight.
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April 1995
Architectural Theory
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La France est confrontée à une nouvelle phase de la modernité urbaine. Celle-ci se construit autour de centres commerciaux périphériques, de cinémas multiplexes, de quasi-ghettos pour les plus pauvres et pour les plus riches, de suburbanisation proliférante, d'automobiles et d'autoroutes urbaines, etc. Ces développements apportent leur lot de questions(...)
La République contre la ville : essai sur l'avenir de la France urbaine
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La France est confrontée à une nouvelle phase de la modernité urbaine. Celle-ci se construit autour de centres commerciaux périphériques, de cinémas multiplexes, de quasi-ghettos pour les plus pauvres et pour les plus riches, de suburbanisation proliférante, d'automobiles et d'autoroutes urbaines, etc. Ces développements apportent leur lot de questions auxquelles Ascher s'efforce de répondre dans ce livre passionnant et engagé.
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April 1998, Paris
Urban Theory
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Focusing on examples in London and New York, this book examines the forces that created the property boom of the eighties and the bust of the nineties. It investigates the mentalities of the real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials who first poured enormous resourced into physical redevelopment only to see the market collapse.
The city builders : property, politics, and planning in London and New York
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Focusing on examples in London and New York, this book examines the forces that created the property boom of the eighties and the bust of the nineties. It investigates the mentalities of the real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials who first poured enormous resourced into physical redevelopment only to see the market collapse.
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January 1994, Oxford
Urban Theory