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'Soft City' is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites — separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources — to(...)
Soft city: building density for everyday life
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'Soft City' is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites — separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources — to support a soft city approach?
Architecture in global socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
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In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. “Architecture in Global Socialism “ shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos,(...)
Architecture in global socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War
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In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East in order to bring modernization to the developing world. “Architecture in Global Socialism “ shows how their collaboration reshaped five cities in the Global South: Accra, Lagos, Baghdad, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait City.
Architectural Theory
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Mirrors of memory seeks to understand how various kinds of photographs--of sculptures; archaeological sites in Greece, Rome, and Egypt; medical conditions; ethnographic scenes--fed into Freud's thinking as he elaborated the concepts of psychoanalysis. Illustrated with reproductions of the photos from Freud's voluminous collection, Bergstein argues that studying the(...)
Mirrors of memory: Freud, photography, and the history of art
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Mirrors of memory seeks to understand how various kinds of photographs--of sculptures; archaeological sites in Greece, Rome, and Egypt; medical conditions; ethnographic scenes--fed into Freud's thinking as he elaborated the concepts of psychoanalysis. Illustrated with reproductions of the photos from Freud's voluminous collection, Bergstein argues that studying the man and his photographs uncovers a key to the origins of psychoanalysis.
Theory of Photography
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This publication thoroughly evaluates the photography that emerged during Germany’s geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With illustrated and researched analyses of photographic projects from East and West Germany, including exhibitions, photo-essays, private archives, and photo-books, Common Ground constructs a comparative perspective, examining how(...)
Common ground : German photographic cultures across the Iron Curtain
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This publication thoroughly evaluates the photography that emerged during Germany’s geopolitical division from the 1950s to the 1980s. With illustrated and researched analyses of photographic projects from East and West Germany, including exhibitions, photo-essays, private archives, and photo-books, Common Ground constructs a comparative perspective, examining how sequence, seriality, and repetition were mobilized to produce forms of solidarity and political agency.
Photography monographs
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The book's selection of work reveals what makes Scandinavian design so exceptional. The included examples show how the grains of different woods, the clarity of colored glass, the cheery colors of fabrics and patterns, and the overall quality of craftsmanship contribute to creating simple, inviting, and very comfortable living spaces. Northern Delights offers inspiration(...)
Northern delights: scandinavian homes, interiors and design
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The book's selection of work reveals what makes Scandinavian design so exceptional. The included examples show how the grains of different woods, the clarity of colored glass, the cheery colors of fabrics and patterns, and the overall quality of craftsmanship contribute to creating simple, inviting, and very comfortable living spaces. Northern Delights offers inspiration to designers, architects, and individuals in equal measure.
Residential Architecture
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Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the "habitats", "natural milieus", "places" or "shelters" that construct architectural ecologies are composed of(...)
Relational architectural ecologies : architecture, nature and subjectivity
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Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection responds to the need to extend architectural thinking about ecology beyond current design literatures. This book shows how the "habitats", "natural milieus", "places" or "shelters" that construct architectural ecologies are composed of complex and dynamic material, spatial, social, political, economic and ecological concerns.
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Bauhaus issue 5 : tropics
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After 80 years, it’s back : BAUHAUS — the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s magazine! Everything from the Bauhaus world: essays, interviews and more. In this issue: How did the tropics act as an ideal of modernism? An international roster of writers explores aspects of the tropics, from nudity to pre-Colombian textiles to a cultural history of the bungalow as a global(...)
Bauhaus issue 5 : tropics
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After 80 years, it’s back : BAUHAUS — the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s magazine! Everything from the Bauhaus world: essays, interviews and more. In this issue: How did the tropics act as an ideal of modernism? An international roster of writers explores aspects of the tropics, from nudity to pre-Colombian textiles to a cultural history of the bungalow as a global architectural archetype.
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Urban street design guide
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The NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. This design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than(...)
Urban street design guide
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The NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. This design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic.
Urban Theory
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Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of boundaries produces new forms of architecture, education, built environments, and praxis. Based on material from the 10th International Conference of the AHRA, this volume presents contributions from academics, practicing(...)
Transgression: towards an expanded field of architecture
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Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of boundaries produces new forms of architecture, education, built environments, and praxis. Based on material from the 10th International Conference of the AHRA, this volume presents contributions from academics, practicing architects and artists/activists from around the world to provide perspectives on emerging and transgressive architecture.
Architectural Theory
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Following on from the two previous issues which tackled various representations of power in architecture, this third number goes a step further and demonstrates how power is using architecture not just simply to express itself, but to organise itself. The central thesis reflected in this timely and wide-ranging collection of articles and images is that power structures(...)
Volume 7 : architecture of power, part 3
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Following on from the two previous issues which tackled various representations of power in architecture, this third number goes a step further and demonstrates how power is using architecture not just simply to express itself, but to organise itself. The central thesis reflected in this timely and wide-ranging collection of articles and images is that power structures and power relations think architecturally in order to be successful.
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