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The Other Architect
The Other Architect
For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)
28 October 2015 to 10 April 2016
The Other Architect
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For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical. From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different(...)
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[S.l.] : REAL, 2020.
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[S.l.] : REAL, 2020.
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102 pages [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
[Koln] : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, [1972]
Kommunen in der Neuen Welt, 1740-1971 / Liselotte und O.M. Ungers.
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102 pages [16] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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[Koln] : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, [1972]
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pages xii, 487 & 1 map and 2 tables [illustrations] folio
Københaven, Busck, 1941.
København, 1840-1940. Det Københavnske bysamfund og kommunens økonomi. Udg. af Københavns Borgerrepraesentation.
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pages xii, 487 & 1 map and 2 tables [illustrations] folio
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Københaven, Busck, 1941.
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413 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, music ; 31 cm.
Montréal, Québec, Canada : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig : Spector Books, [2015], ©2015
The other architect : another way of building architecture / edited by Giovanna Borasi.
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413 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, music ; 31 cm.
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Montréal, Québec, Canada : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig : Spector Books, [2015], ©2015
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Nothing about how we live today is sustainable. Therefore, a profound paradigm shift is imminent (indeed is already underway). To paraphrase Marx and Engels, all that is solid has melted into air, all that was sacred has been profaned, and humanity is compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of life, our relations with each other and this planet. First(...)
Architectural Theory
August 2022
Kommunen in der neuen welt: Utopian communes in the new world 1740-1972
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Nothing about how we live today is sustainable. Therefore, a profound paradigm shift is imminent (indeed is already underway). To paraphrase Marx and Engels, all that is solid has melted into air, all that was sacred has been profaned, and humanity is compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of life, our relations with each other and this planet. First published nearly fifty years ago, this text handles its subject matter with precision and brevity; it is an excellent introduction to the fantastical reality of utopian life in the "New World".
Architectural Theory