 101 Things I learned in Architecture School This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, >>more
MIT
ISBN 9780262062664
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|  A Place in the Shade By Charles Correa. Charles Correa’s A Place in the Shade explores architectural and urban issues in India, from the house as a machine for dealing with the country’s often hostile climate to the metaphysical role of architecture as >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775734011
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Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 246 pgs / 1 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Abroad Edited by Luis Feduchi. In this publication, leading Spanish architects reflect on the state of Spanish contemporary architecture with special attention to the work--both academic and professional--of those teaching and practicing abroad. The first in a series, it combines >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591088
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Pbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 160 pgs / 180 color / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
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 Americanism: Dutch Architecture and the Transatlantic Model Edited by Hans Ibelings. Directly and indirectly, since the Second World War, a large part of the Dutch environment has been influenced by American architecture. This history of transatlantic influences on Dutch architecture, which includes the work of Richard >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056620424
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/02/1997 Active/In stock
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|  Amphibious Housing in the Netherlands Text by Anne Loes Nillesen, Jeroen Singelenberg. With its polders, dikes and waterways, the Netherlands boasts a unique tradition of architecture on/in proximity to water. Climate change and urban expansion have intensified the relevance of amphibious architecture for our times. This volume >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627805
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  An Atlas of Radical Cartography Edited by Lize Mogel, Alexis Bhagat. An Atlas of Radical Cartography makes an important contribution to a growing cultural movement that traverses the boundaries between art, cartography, geography and activism. It pairs writers with artists, architects, designers and collectives to >>more
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press
ISBN 9780979137723
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Boxed, 4.25 x 7.5 in. / 160 pgs / 10 maps / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons Text by Matteo Pasquinelli. During a time when pop stars become famous thanks to sex tapes that have been leaked online, it is clear that the Internet is not immune to the draw of the media. Yet art, academia >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626631
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Aragones A lavish volume on the stunning interiors and houses of contemporary Mexican architect Miguel Ángel Aragonés. This beautiful monograph is the first book in English on Miguel Ángel Aragonés, a prolific architect known for his >>more
Rizzoli Intl Pubns
ISBN 9780847839872
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|  Architecture Bulletin 02: Essays on the Designed Environment Edited by Olof van der Wal. Text by Timo de Rijk, Aaron Betsky, Hans Ibelings, Winy Maas. This second issue of NAi's biannual Architecture Bulletin comes in the form of a tribute to that institution's most recent director, Aaron Betsky, who left what the Architect's Newspaper calls "the world's largest museum devoted >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625566
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs / 28 color / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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 Architecture Bulletin 03: Essays on the Designed Environment Edited by Olof van der Wal. This edition of the Dutch architecture journal presents essays in word and image on the designed environments of today, yesterday and tomorrow. Its subjective arguments and personal reflections on the field's practice and discourse consider >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625917
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs / 28 color / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Architecture Bulletin 04 Edited by Anneke Abhelakh, Oene Dijk. Text by Ole Bouman. Published twice a year, the Netherlands Architecture Institute's house journal Architecture Bulletin presents essays (in word and image) on the built environment of today, yesterday and tomorrow-subjective arguments complemented by personal reflec >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626433
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Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 80 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Architecture for a Hybrid Landscape Edited with Introduction by Kathrine Rinne. Text by Jennifer Cambra, Erik Bloom, Charles Goodnight. The California Delta is the hub of the complicated water infrastructure that serves much of the state. The landscape is rife with tension--both historically and geologically--in the interplay between water and land, now heavily altered >>more
California College of the Arts
ISBN 9780975350799
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Hbk, 5.25 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 36 color / 10 b&w / 4 duotone.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/In stock
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 Architecture in the Netherlands Edited by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven, Anne Luijten. For nearly 25 years, Architecture in the Netherlands has provided an essential annual overview of the best in Dutch architecture. This year the editorial team selected 30 projects from over 400 submissions, including work by >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628062
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 184 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Architecture in the Netherlands: Yearbook 2006/07 Edited by Daan Bakker, Allard Jolles, Michelle Provoost, Cor Wagenaa. Home to established firms like Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture, MVRDV and West 8, as well as countless other up-and-coming architecture and design studios, Holland is known around the world for fostering the freshest >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625818
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Paperback, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Architecture of Consequence Text by Ole Bouman, Anneke Abhelakh, Martine Zoeteman, Mieke Dings. Architecture of Consequence began life as the Dutch presentation at the São Paolo Architecture Biennale in 2009. “Shape our country!” was the call that the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) made to its public over a >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627263
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 168 pgs / 128 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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 Architecture: A Woman’s Profession Edited by Tanja Kullack. In the western world, the number of women studying architecture now roughly equals that of men. As women increasingly come to the fore as practicing professionals, the question of how this shift will affect the >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590869
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 191 pgs / 100 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Architektur Rausch Edited by Thomas Arnold, Elke Kob, Paul Grundei and Claire Karsenty. The title is open to interpretation but it's clear that the subject of the future of architecture is intoxicating. The field is full of tensions--between regionalism and globalism, virtuality and reality, functionality and aestheticism. Architecture >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314458
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 152 color / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Arctic Perspective Cahier No. 1 Edited by Andreas Müller. This multinational collaboration focuses on the cultural and ecological significance of the polar regions, which have recently proved controversial as nations compete for use of the terrain. This volume recruits media artists to propose communications >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775726795
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 148 pgs / 16 color / 76 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Arctic Perspective Cahier No. 2 Edited by Michael Bravo, Nicola Triscott. The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a non-profit, international group of individuals and organizations focused on the global, cultural and ecological significance of the polar regions. In service of their mission to empower the people >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775726818
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 116 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Around Amsterdam's Waterfront Edited by Sabine Lebesque. Text by Maarten Kloos, Pito Dingemanse, Ronald Hooft, Harkolien Meinsma. The banks of the IJ river in Amsterdam are undergoing a spectacular transformation, and new buildings, construction sites and even works of art are everywhere to be seen. This volume tracks more than 200 projects. >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088486
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Pbk, 5 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Asmara: The Frozen City Edited by Jochen Visscher. Photographs by Stefan Boness. The Northeastern African nation of Eritrea spent much of the early twentieth century as a colony of Italy, and more recently shook off another invader, Ethiopia. Its capital city, which dates back more than 700 >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314618
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Hardcover, 6 x 6 in. / 96 pgs / 94 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Back to the City Edited by Steffen Lehmann. Text by Angela Philip, Stephen Garrett, Michael J. Ostwald. When empty city lots and abandoned buildings are reclaimed for creative architectural or artistic interventions, interesting things happen. These days, as the postindustrial city continues to morph, and often to atrophy, public space has become >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723299
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Hbk, 7.75 x 11.75 in. / 260 pgs / 350 col.
Pub Date: 04/01/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Bauhaus Dessau: Architecture-Design-Concept Text by Kirsten Baumann. Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Dessau was, from 1925 to 1932, the headquarters of the famous Bauhaus School of Design. After a dozen years of National Socialist use and then half a century's worth of restoration, it >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633112
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Flexi, 8 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 78 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Bold Visions: The Architecture of the Royal Ontario Museum Text by Kelvin Browne. "If architecture fails, if it is pedestrian and lacks imagination and power, it tells only one story, that of its own making: how it was built, detailed, financed. But a great building, like great literature >>more
Royal Ontario Museum
ISBN 9780888544575
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Hbk, 10.75 x 11 in. / 200 pgs / 100 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock
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 Bright City: Ma Yansong Interviewed by Jérôme Sans This volume is the second in a series of pocket-book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer Jérôme Sans. Here, Sans interviews Ma Yansong (born 1975), the founder of >>more
Blue Kingfisher
ISBN 9789881506405
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.25 in. / 96 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Brussels: A Manifesto Towards the Capital of Europe Edited by Joachim Deklerck, Martino Tattara, Veronique Patteeuw. Text by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Tronti, et al. The fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome is the fiftieth birthday of the "European project." Here an international team of 16 architects and urban planners associated with the important Dutch architecture >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625528
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Building Enschede: A City Re-Creates Itself Text by Ton Schaap. Photographs by Theo Baart. On May 13, 2000, a large swath of Enschede, an industrial city in the eastern Netherlands, was reduced to rubble by the explosion of a fireworks factory. More than 2000 homes were destroyed. What had >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625894
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Hardcover, 12 x 9.75 in. / 128 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2007 Active/In stock
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 Buildings That Last Essays by Huub Croes, Marcel Dewever, Michiel de Haas and Joost van Kasteren. Buildings that Last provides the layperson with a basis for participating in the discussion about sustainable housing. This book is not about bricks and adobe, nor about cladding with aluminum or glass, nor about the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056622084
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 176 pgs / 30 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Check In Check Out Text by Christian van t Hof, Floortje Daemen, Rinie van Est. In the public domain, ever-greater varieties of digital equipment surround us. Surveillance cameras ensure our safety, antennae and sensors track the speed of our cars, while electronic gates decide who is to be granted access >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628086
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Christian Helmle: White Elephants Essay by Konrad Tobler. In postcolonial Africa, “White Elephant” was the ironic moniker given to buildings erected with international money and never put to use. They remain as blights--eroding reminders of enormous waste. Europe has its own collection of >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633198
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Hardback, 10.5 x 8 in. / 128 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 Chromatophoric Architecture By M. Hank Haeusler. A "voxel" ("volumetric" + "pixel") is the three-dimensional equivalent of a pixel, and one of the most important developments in design technology. Where spatial designs were previously constrained by the physical attributes of construction materials, >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633969
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8 in. / 112 pgs / 56 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Citámbulos Mexico City Edited by Ana Álvarez, Fionn Petch, Christian von Wissel, Valentina Rojas Loa, Kristien Ring. Mexico City, one of the most populous and dense conurbations in the world, faces some of our most daunting contemporary architectural challenges. This unique, incisive volume invites readers on a journey through the everyday life >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633761
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Pbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Civil Art:Urban Space As Architectural Task This publication marks the commencement of the construction of the building known as "The Resident," architect Rob Krier's most recent design for the city of The Hague. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056620134
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 60 color / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/1996 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Comeback Cities Text by Nienke van Boom, Hans Mommaas. For centuries, certain cities in Europe were dominated by the textile industry—until the industry relocated to lower-wage countries, leaving these formerly prosperous cities languishing, their abandoned factories sitting unpurposed and untenanted. Com >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627072
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 256 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Contemporary Korean Architecture Edited by Sung Hong Kim, Peter Cachola Schmal. A megacity is a metropolitan area with a population of 10 million or more people--some definitions also include density in the equation, requiring more than 2,000 people per square kilometer. Seoul, Korea, more than qualifies: >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633372
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Hardback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Cordula Rau:Why Do Architects Wear Black? An industry manager who left his white-blue, silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black, mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a competition asked me one day: "Ms Rau, why >>more
Springer Vienna Architecture
ISBN 9783211791912
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 Cornelius Van Eesteren: The Idea Of The Functional City By Cornelius van Eesteren. Contributions by Vincent van Rossem. Dutch architect Cornelis van Eesteren's dream of the functional city was never realized, but his masterpiece of architectural prospecting is presented here in its entirety. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056620561
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Hardcover, 8.7 x 9.4 in. / 160 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/1998 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Creating Knowledge Edited by Lucia Grosse-Bächle, Hille von Seggern, Julia Werner. Creating Knowledge formulates an interdisciplinary position on urban design that recognizes the huge range of loaded issues we bring to the subject today. What are the ethical obligations of design, for example, amid the effects >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633488
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Cultural Emergency in Conflict and Disaster Edited by Georg Frerks, Berma Klein Goldewijk, Els van der Plas. “All that we're wrecking is stones” was Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's dismissal of the Taliban's destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan, the largest standing statues of Buddha in the world. The intention of the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628178
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 57 color / 84 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Culture, Nature Edited by Harald Lemke, Anke Haarmann. This volume documents a series of events that took place in the summer of 2008 as part of the Summer on the Elbinsel festival in Wihelmsburg, Austria, which boasted a diverse group of international artists, >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633938
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Slip, Pbk, 2 vols, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 392 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises Edited by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr. The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently, one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than 3,000,000,000 people--nearly half the world's population--do not have >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045252
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Paperback, 8 x 8 in. / 336 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 01/15/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Done. Book Edited by Wolfgang Scheppe. In his previous project Migropolis, Wolfgang Scheppe proposed Venice, Italy, as a prototype of the increasingly globalized city. Here, the German philosopher reexamines the city from another perspective. Done. Book is an "inquiry into the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727730
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 368 pgs / 14 color / 385 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Dot.City Edited by Torsten Blume and Gregor Langenbrink. Cell phones, automatic teller machines and the Internet have incontrovertibly become part of our daily lives, indistinguishable from other components of our habitual everyday activity. Life does not seem to have been fundamentally changed by >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314946
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Dwelling and Architecture Foreword by Rod Hackney. For the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, "Dwelling" ("Wohnen") was a crucial development of his fascination with "Being" ("Sein"), an ontological extension whose practice humankind had to learn and relearn. In his landmark essay "Building Dwelling >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590128
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 40 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Eastern Harbour District Amsterdam Edited by Ed Melet. Texts by Marlies Buurman, Bernard Hulsman, Hans Ibelings, Allard Jolles, Ton Schaap. Amsterdam's Eastern Harbor District consists of a number of artificial peninsulas constructed around 1900. When the once-flourishing port lost its function, the decision was made to turn the district into a prominent residential area. The >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625535
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Paperback, 9.75 x 12 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Ecological Living Edited by Dominique Gauzin-Müller. Text by Marie-Hélène Contal, Jean-Pierre Ménard, Rafael Magrou. The pioneers of ecological architecture today are necessarily researchers as much as architects, in any conventional sense of the term. Sustainability is the key criterion in this field, and ecologically sound solutions for the designs >>more
Actes Sud
ISBN 9782742783229
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Hbk, 8.25 x 9 in. / 412 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd Revised Edition Preface by Fritz Haeg. Text by Will Allen, Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Fritz Haeg, Michael Pollan, Eric W. Sanderson, Lesley Stern, et al. Since the first edition of Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn was published in 2008, interest in edible gardening has exploded across the United States and abroad. Even First Lady Michelle Obama is doing >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781935202127
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Pbk, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 86 color / 85 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Energizing Architecture Edited by Claudia Lühling. The harnessing of solar energy via photovoltaic (i.e. solar electrical) technology has become one of the world's highest priorities, as dwindling oil resources compel nations all over the world to reconsider their energy policies. Soon, >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633716
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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 Evasions of Power: On the Architecture of Adjustment The book Evasions of Power: On the Architecture of Adjustment (published by Slought) furthers ongoing discourse about human rights, geopolitical conflict, and territorial sovereignty, with contributions from an array of practitioners from fields i >>more
Slought foundation
ISBN SLOUGTH001
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|  Everyday Urbanism Edited by Rahul Mehrotra. Essays by Margaret Crawford and Michael Speaks. Foreword by George Baird. Introduction by Doug Kelbaugh. Everyday Urbanism is one of three books in the “Michigan Debates on Urbanism” series that also features New Urbanism and Post Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism >>more
University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
ISBN 9781891197345
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 46 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al. Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045788
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 Fast Forward Hot Spots Brain Cells Edited by Neil Leach and Xu Weiguo, Essays by Elizabeth Diller, Karl Chu, FOA, Asymptote, Yamaguchi and Gutierrez + Portefaix. Now more than ever, especially as it prepares itself to become a world stage for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is opening itself up to the influence of world architecture. This image-heavy catalogue from the first >>more
Map Book Publishers
ISBN 9789628604074
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Paperback, 8 x 10.25 in. / 168 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Fear & Space Essays by Benjamin Barber, Mark Pimlott, Moritz Küng and, Jacob Voorthuis. Introduction by Bert De Muynck. Be afraid... be very afraid! A natural disaster could strike at any time, right now someone is being kidnapped, and your morning cereal isn't as healthy as you think. Western society is being terrorized by >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624224
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Feelings Always Local Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder. Essays by Arjun Appadurai, Mike Davis, Alexander Galloway, Tijs Goldschmidt, Christopher Kelty, Karim Nader, Loretta Napoleoni, Gijs Van Oenen and Christa Sommerer. Interactive art organizes itself as an open system: it preserves its coherence by exchanging matter, energy, and information with the environment. In that manner, interactive art is art whose state of rest must be disturbed >>more
nai010 publishers/V2_Organization
ISBN 9789056624231
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Filmic Mapping Text by Fred Truniger. Filmic Mapping, the second volume in Jovis’ new LandScript series, examines forms of land measurement, primarily in documentary and essay films of the past ten years. Contributors from a variety of disciplines weigh in on >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868592115
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 224 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/In stock
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|  Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream Edited and with text by Barry Bergdoll, Reinhold Martin. Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. During the summer of 2011, five >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708275
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 188 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Form Defining Strategies Edited by Asterios Agkathidis, Markus Hudert, Gabi Schillig. Form Defining Strategies examines experimental design methodologies in architecture and their discussion in academic settings. Theoretical considerations are provided by a wide range of writers and theoreticians alongside numerous examples of conc >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803007469
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 126 pgs / 30 color / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Active/In stock
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 François Blanciak : Siteless:1001 building forms Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides >>more
MIT
ISBN 9780262026307
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|  Go South Edited by Matthias Schuster. Essays by Andreas Feldtkeller, Oliver Herwig and Brigitte Russ-Scherer. The thirteenth-century town of Tübingen, Germany, is best known for its university, which spawned both Hegel and Kepler. And now, something very progressive is going on in the southern sector of the city. A field >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803006479
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Paperback, 6.75 x 8.25 in. / 180 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Happy Edited by Cor Wagenaar. Essays by Aaron Betsky, Ronald Brouwer, Helma Hellinga, Michelle Provoost, Paolo Scrivano and Ed Taverne. Foreword by Kristin Feireiss. Happy: Cities and Public Happiness in Post-War Europe is the result of a fascinating search for expressions and representations of happiness in the European city during the second half of the twentieth century. Images of >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624088
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Flexibound, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Hella Jongerius: Misfit The only up-to-date monograph on the work of Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius. Written by three experts on product design; Louise Shouwenberg, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn. Includes over 300 photographs of Hella Jongerius' work, >>more
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ISBN 9780714859873
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|  Highrise Edited by Andres Janser. Texts by Karin Gimmi, Andres Janser, Andres Lepik, Clifford A. Pearson, Eric Schuldenfrei, Martino Stierli, Marisa Yiu. Did you know that around half of the world’s extant highrise structures were erected only within the past ten years? Highrise: Idea and Reality offers a comprehensive examination of the highrise phenomenon and its surprisingly >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775729932
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Pbk, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 168 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Home Delivery Edited by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen. Texts by Barry Bergdoll, Peter Christensen, Ken Tadashi Oshima, Rasmus Wærn. As the world’s population swells and the need for sustainable ways of living grows ever more urgent and obvious, prefabricated architecture has taken center stage. Even before our current predicaments, the mass-produced, factory-made home had >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707339
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Hardback, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 248 pgs / 175 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 Ideals In Concrete Edited by Mieke Dings. Essays by Jàrn Dwel, Wolfgang Kil, Gyàrgy Konrad, Bohadan Tscherkes and Anna Tilroe. Can there still be talk of a shared culture in the 'Family of Europe,' or are the East and West estranged? This question is the main theme of this beautifully designed book that provides, through >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624033
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 184 pgs / 75 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  In Transit Edited by Paul Meurs, Marc Verheijen. Contributions by Dolf Broekhuizen. Text by Florian Boer, Jannes Linders, Henk Oosterling, Arnold Reijndorp, Pieter Schrijnen. In today's city, mobility is not just a logistical or technocratic task but one of the key conditioning factors of urban development. With city users moving ever faster from place to place, the cityscape becomes >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056623012
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Paperback, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock
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|  In the Absence of Raimund Abraham Edited by Peter Noever, Wolf D. Prix. Text by Vito Acconci, Peter Cook. As a critic, stalwart nonconformist and champion of utopian architecture, Austrian architect Raimund Abraham (1933-2010) made one of the most significant contributions to contemporary architecture in 2002, with the construction of the Austrian Cultural F >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775729994
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 128 pgs / 164 color / DVD.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Information Exchange Edited by Raymond Gastil, Zoå Ryan. Contributions by Joan Ockman. Text by Diana Balmori, Jon Calame, Alexander Garvin, Angus Gavin, Arnold Hamilton, Hugh Hardy, Laurie Hawkinson, Nadim Karam, John King, Jack Money, Ferhad Mulabegovic, Justin O'Connor, Sherida Paulsen, Yoshiko Sato, Till Schneider, Lawrence Vale, James After the attacks on the World Trade Center, the question of how cities renew, rebuild, and remember has become ever more pertinent. By placing the event within a global, cultural, and historical context, and examining >>more
Van Alen Institute
ISBN 9780972553520
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 115 color 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Infrastructure as Architecture Edited by Scott Lloyd, Katrina Stoll. Infrastructure as Architecture features essays and projects on the unity of infrastructure and architecture by a range of influential architects and writers including Stan Allen, Bureau E.A.S.T., Stefano Casciani, Dana Cuff, Alexander D'Hooghe, Je >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590913
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Interrogating PoP in Architecture Edited by Daniela Konrad. Preface by Jürgen Mayer H. As architects devise ever more radical gestures with which to wow an increasingly architecture-literate public, the discipline itself has had to engage conceptions of "popular culture." This volume traces the discussions of a group of >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803006943
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Pbk, 6.75 x 7.75 in. / 170 pgs / 150 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock
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 Jiminez Lai: Citizens of No Place, An Architectural Graphic Novel Architecture has become an increasingly interdisciplinary profession, and the language with which architects envision and articulate their ideas has radically diversified in recent years. Architect Jimenez Lai has pioneered an unexpected and wholly uniqu >>more
PAP
ISBN 9781616890629
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|  Landraum Edited by Jörg Schröder, Kerstin Weigert. Rural space is something of a blank spot on the map of contemporary architecture. What spatial strategies characterize rural life and settlement? Led by Matthias Reichenbach-Klinke and his colleagues at the Chair of Planning and >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590227
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Hbk, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 352 pgs / illust. throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Landscape Vision Motion Edited by Christophe Girot, Fred Truniger. The first volume in a new series from Jovis on landscape architecture today, Landscape Vision Motion asks the question: what objectives can be achieved in the theoretical exchange between visual studies, digital media, film, space >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868592108
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/Awaiting stock
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 MAP Office: The Parrot's Tale Text by Gutierrez & Portefaix, Ai Weiwei. How should Hong Kong be represented? This question found an answer through Concrete Jungle/The Parrot's Tale, a large-scale installation by MAP Office (otherwise known as the Hong Kong-based French architecture team Gutierrez + Portefaix) for >>more
Map Book Publishers
ISBN 9789889839505
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Hardback, 10 x 7.5 in. / 100 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/03/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Main Entrance Foreword by Pierre Daix. Interview by Philippe Ungar. The Olympic Stadium in Montreal, the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris and the Officers Club in Abu Dhabi are just a few of Roger Taillibert's most iconic buildings. Here, Taillibert reminisces about his experiences, >>more
Éditions Dilecta
ISBN 9782916275789
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Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Mapping Hk Edited by Anna Koor. Essay by Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix. Foreword by Ackbar Abbas. Because of its singular history and geographic location, Hong Kong represents a unique synthesis of global city and local territory. The extreme character of its temporal and spatial conditions makes Hong Kong a moving platform >>more
Map Book Publishers
ISBN 9789628604012
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Paperback, 10.25 x 8 in. / 172 pgs / 150 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Active/In stock
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 Metropolis No. 3: Education Arguing for a radical approach to educational architecture—one in which education is embodied and enhanced by architecture—this volume proposes solutions towards the constructive development of inspiring educational buildings. >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590708
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Pbk, 9.5 x 10.25 in. / 296 pgs / 212 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Metropolis No. 5: Cosmopolis Text by Olaf Bartels, Dirk Meyhöfer, et al. Amid the worldwide networks of finance and trade, a new international urban society is also emerging: a cosmopolis. Metropolis 5 looks at the structures of “cosmopolis” communities, exploring how architecture and urban design can be >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590753
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Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Metropolis No.1: Reflection Text by Saskia Sassen et al. There's no getting around it anymore. We are in an age of globalization, and cities around the world are being challenged in brand new ways with no historical precedents to guide them. The highly anticipated >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633907
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8 in. / 250 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 Metropolis No.2: Resources Half of mankind lives in cities, and the tendency is on the increase. Urban people use the greater part of the world's energy and yet also produce the most pollutants--with far-reaching consequences for the world >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633914
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Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Metropolisarchitecture and Selected Essays By Ludwig Hilberseimer. Edited by Richard Anderson. Afterword by Pier Vittorio Aureli. In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) redefined architecture’s relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise city, where leisure, labor and circulation would be vertically integrated, both frightened his contemporarie >>more
GSAPP Books
ISBN 9781883584757
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 367 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 Active/In stock
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|  Michael Maltzan: No More Play Edited by Jessica Varner. Text by Iwan Baan, Catherine Opie, Sarah Whiting, Charles Waldheim, Matthew Coolidge, et al. In No More Play: Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond, American architect Michael Maltzan traces the transformations that have taken place in the city of Los Angeles since the early 1990s. Through >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728461
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 68 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Migropolis Edited by Wolfgang Scheppe. In winter 2006, under the stewardship of philosopher Wolfgang Scheppe, a collective of students from the IUAV University in Venice fanned out to subject their city to a forensic structural mapping. Out of this fieldwork, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724852
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Slip, Hbk, 2 vols, 7 x 10 in. / 1344 pgs / 2078 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Mixed Farming Edited by Liesbeth Melis. Essays by Frits Gierstberg, Gerrie Andela, Yttje Feddes, Maartje van den Heuvel, and Jan Douwe van der Ploeg. About 10,000 agricultural businesses in the Netherlands are closed every year. Where once there were grazing cows, now there are golfers playing the back nine or rows of campervans and tents--or even farm museums. Some >>more
nai010 publishers/SKOR
ISBN 9789056623807
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Paperback, 8.5 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Modernism In-Between Text by Wolfgang Thaler, Maroje Mrdulja, Vladimir Kulic. Socialist Yugoslavia was a country suspended between cultures, political systems and Cold War blocs, and as a result, in the early postwar years it produced a body of modernist architecture that defies easy classification and >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591477
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 180 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Active/In stock
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 Multiple City: Urban Concepts 1908-2008 Edited by Sophie Wolfrum, Winfried Nerdinger, Susanne Schaubeck. Multiple City details worldwide trends in urban development against the backdrop of the field's evolution over the past 100 years. As this volume demonstrates, though the discourse around urban development enjoys temporary popularity, development >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590012
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 344 pgs / 130 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  NL28 Olympic Fire Edited by Ole Bouman, Winny Maas. Text by Winny Maas, Ole Bouman et al. The Olympic Games, which will be held in Holland in 2028, constitute a mega-event on an almost unimaginable scale. Sport, the economy, city marketing, urban development and even regional and national development are fundamentally affected. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626280
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Networked Cultures Edited by Peter Moertenboeck, Helge Mooshammer. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, Networked Cultures is a collaborative venture between artists, architects and urbanists that investigates the cultural transformations underway in Europe by examining the potential and effect of networked spatia >>more
NAi Publisher
ISBN 9789056620592
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / illustrated throughout / DVD (PAL).
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 New Power Edited by Hans A. Grube. Berlin’s power stations are architectural marvels--but technical and economic progress has made many of them either obsolete or economically unviable. (Two prime examples include the Steglitz Power Station and the Scharnhorst Transformer Station, both de >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633273
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  New Urbanism Edited by Robert Fishman. Essays by, Peter Calthorpe and Lars Lerup. Foreword by George Baird. Introduction by Doug Kelbaugh. In this volume Peter Calthorpe, renowned West Coast town planner and author, presents the case for New Urbanism, a movement that has enjoyed meteoric success since he co-founded it in the early 1990s. More utopian >>more
University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
ISBN 9781891197352
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Not The Trailer Edited by Michelle Provoost, Mechthild Stuhlmacher. Text by Wilma Kempinga, Rien Korteknie, Annuska Pronkhorst, Felix Rottenberg. Many schools have to contend with the tension between an inflexible building and constantly changing requirements for use. With this in mind, WiMBY! (Welcome into My Backyard!, a Rotterdam-based organization for revitalizing post-war housing areas) >>more
Valiz/WiMBY!
ISBN 9789080818514
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 6.25 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Active/In stock
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 Notes on Local Architecture in Israel Text by Gilead Duvshani. What is local architecture? What are its characteristics in general, and in a country like Israel--with its relatively recent statehood, mixed cultures and long-standing conflicts--in particular? Architect Gilead Duvhsani lays out a crystallized worldvie >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803006899
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 268 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Open 13: The Rise of the Informal Media Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. With the rise of less formal, more personal media outlets like YouTube and blogs, the mass media is no longer our only public forum. This issue of the Dutch architectural journal Open investigates these new >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626044
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Open 14: Art as a Public Issue Edited by Liesbeth Melis, Jorinde Seijdel. As the world is increasingly aware, the visual arts are no longer confined by the semi-public space of the museum or the privacy of the studio. In recent decades we have seen a marked pressure >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624354
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Open House Essay by Florentine Sack. Foreword by Ingeborg Flagge. Take Rem Koolhaas's lauded new Seattle Public Library, and remove it from its context. Would it be as beautiful? Would it lose something of its meaning (not to mention the books off the shelves), if >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314434
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' City Metaphors juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865609465
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 116 pgs / 115 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis Text by Nader Vossoughian. The Austrian sociologist Otto Neurath was a seminal figure of twentieth-century modernist thought. Member of the Vienna Circle, founder of the Museum of Society and Economy, inventor of the famous Isotype pictorial system and champion >>more
NAi/D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9789056627980
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 89 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Peter Zumthor Therme Vals Therme Vals, the spa complex built in the Swiss Alps by celebrated architect Peter Zumthor, became an icon of contemporary architecture soon after its opening in 1996. Inspired by the spa’s majestic surroundings, Zumthor built >>more
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ISBN 9783858817044x
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|  Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader By Esther McCoy. Edited and with text by Susan Morgan. Esther McCoy (1904–1989) is one of the twentieth century’s foremost architecture historians, and one of the greatest chroniclers of the architecture of midcentury southern California. Her 1960 book Five California Architects has long been acknowle >>more
East of Borneo Books
ISBN 9780615528236
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 392 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Pier Vittorio Aureli: The Possibility Of An Absolute Architecture In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli uses the term absolute >>more
MIT
ISBN 9780262515795
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 Planet Of Visions / The 21St Century Essays by Helene Robert, Francois Schuiten. Introduction by Martin Roth. Photographs by Bitler & Bredt. A tremendous hit at Expo 2000 in Hanover, the two exhibits documented here offer the world both a backward glance at itself and a look forward. "Planet of Visions" brings the utopias of world history >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803006110
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Clothbound, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 180 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Active/In stock
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|  Planning Amsterdam Edited by Allard Jolles, Erik Klusman and Ben Teunissen. Since 1928, nine master plans have been created for the city of Amsterdam. The most recent, “Opting for Urbanity,” was completed in 2003 by the city's Physical Planning Department. In this span of 75 years, >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056623333
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 208 pgs / 20 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Post Urbanism Edited by Roy Strickland. Essays by Peter Eisenman, Barbara Littenberg Steven Peterson. Foreword by George Baird. Introduction by Doug Kelbaugh. This volume is one of three books in The Michigan Debates on Urbanism, a series that also features Everyday Urbanism and New Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, >>more
University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
ISBN 9781891197369
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Active/In stock
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 Power: Producing the Contemporary City Edited by Berlage Institute. Text by Saskia Sassen, Lieven de Cauter, Michiel Dehaene, John Urry, Lieven De Cauter. Never before have so many people lived in an urban environment: More than half the world's current population does, and that number is expected to rise to two-thirds by 2050. The contemporary city is the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625795
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 470 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Precisions: Architecture Between Sciences and the Arts Edited by Ákos Moravánszky, Ole W. Fischer. Architecture has always been an interdisciplinary vocation, requiring both scientific aptitude and aesthetic flair of its practitioners. But with the huge technological developments in architecture--in its materials, design and implementation--over the p >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633426
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 272 pgs /23 color / 110 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Radical Games Text by Lara Schrijver. Through three radical critiques of Modernist architecture, illustrated by the iconic--and very different--works of the Situationist International, Venturi Scott Brown and Archigram, Radical Games offers new perspectives on the architecture of the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626785
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 248 pgs / 60 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock
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 Re-Designing Nature Edited by Florian Matzner, Susanne Witzgall, Iris Meder. Zones in which nature can offset the tyranny of the built environment are an essential part of any satisfying urban experience, aesthetically and ecologically. (Re)Designing Nature presents innovative design concepts for enhancing the presence and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727990
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Pbk, 8.25 x 9.75 in. / 205 pgs / 204 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Re-Public Edited by Véronique Patteeuw. The up-and-coming Dutch firm ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles), founded in 2001 by Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman, is a think tank of two--tackling the landscape architect’s role in the contemporary city. Based in Rotterdam, >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626259
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Real Projects for Real People Text by Anne Nigten, Kristina Andersen, Matthew Fuller, Sam Nemeth, et al. The Patching Zone is a multidisciplinary design laboratory where students and professionals from various backgrounds discuss creative applications of technology to daily life. In Real Projects for Real People, lab initiator Anne Nigten takes stock >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627973
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 209 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Active/In stock
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 Redesigning Wounded Landscapes Our global thirst for energy and raw materials is increasing all the time. Year after year, humanity exhausts large quantities of mineral resources; the areas of the world in which we drill and dig for >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591422
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 196 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Reduce Reuse Recycle: Rethink Architecture Edited by Muck Petzet. The creative conversion and repurposing of existing structures is a defining feature of contemporary German architecture. Published for Germany’s pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale’s Architecture Exhibition, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle looks at this >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775734257
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Revisions Of Space: An Architectural Manual Essays by Dick van Gameren and Hans Ibelings. More felt than seen, space is a key quality of architecture that has eluded definition for centuries. People speak of how they feel in certain spaces, or how they move through them, yet those spaces >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624217
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 120 color / 164 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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 Robert Venturi: Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in A >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870702822
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Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 136 pgs / 35 reproductions.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Active/In stock
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|  Second Hand Spaces Edited by Michael Ziehl, Sarah Osswald, Oliver Hasemann, Daniel Schnier. In this volume, 27 urban planning experts highlight the backgrounds, users and effects of so-called “second hand spaces”--vacant sites which have been repurposed in areas undergoing urban change. The new functions of these spaces range >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591552
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 464 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Sensing Space Text by Nadin Heinich, Franziska Eidner. The incorporation of new technology into architecture continues to define our everyday lives, whether it be tiny sensors woven almost invisibly into materials, buildings which communicate with their surroundings via the facades, or "intelligent" houses >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633952
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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 Serve City Edited by Regina Sonnabend. Foreword by Omar Akbar. Conversation with Neil Leach, Anna Klingman and Wilfried Hackenbroich The new urban elite live a lifestyle that benefits from and heavily depends on the service economy, a development with potential consequences for architecture and urban planning. Serve City explores this latest challenge to the >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314915
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Seven Structual Engineers: The Felix Candela Lectures Edited by Guy Nordenson. Introduction by Terance Riley. Since 1997, the Structural Engineers Association of New York and The Museum of Modern Art, together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University, have hosted a lecture series in honor of the structural >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707032
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Paperback, 6 x 9.5 in. / 188 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/Not available
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|  Shanghai Kaleidoscope Text by Christopher Phillips. This oversize study of Shanghai's creative culture presents an adventurous mix of architectural models, digital simulations, designer fashion apparel, drawings, runway videos, paintings, photo-works and video installations by the city's leading contempor >>more
Royal Ontario Museum of Art
ISBN 9780888544605
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Hbk, 10 x 14 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock
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 Shrinking Cities: Volume 1 Edited by Philipp Oswalt. Essays by Regina Bittner, Robert Fishman, Dave Haslam, Wolfgang Kil, Walter Prigge, Klaus Ronneberger, Thomas J. Sugrue and Barbara Steiner. From Great Britain, Belgium, Finland and Italy to Russia, Kazakhstan and China, cities are shrinking--while urban-planning debates focus on the growth of the megalopolis, many of the world's existing population centers are watching their citizens >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775716826
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 736 pgs / 389 color / 114 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Shrinking Cities: Volume 2 Edited by Philipp Oswalt. Essays by Will Alsop, Ruedi Baur, Jàrg Dettmar, Wolfgang Engler, Robert Fishman, Susanne Hauser, Wolfgang Kil, Rem Koolhaas, William Neill and Wouter van Stiphout. Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. The new challenges they pose require new approaches, joining the "hard" tools of construction with the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775717113
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 736 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Signs of the City Edited by Rudolf Netzelmann, Peter Winkels, Stephan Horn. The modern city always exerts a semiotic bombardment: we are surrounded on all sides by a pictographic labyrinth, whether in notices, posters, graffiti or advertising. But with the use of digital cameras and GPS receivers, >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590142
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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 Small Scale, Big Change Introduction by Barry Bergdoll. Text by Andres Lepik. The role of the global architect in society is changing. Instead of waiting for commissions to come their way, architects are initiating and developing practical solutions in response to dramatically changing living conditions in many >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707841
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 140 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Smart City in Practice Edited by Lena Hatzelhoffer, Kathrin Humboldt, Michael Lobeck, Claus-Christian Wiegandt. Are “smart cities” the future of urban living? This book examines a five-year public-private partnership between the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom and the city of Friedrichshafen in southern Germany. The project aimed to extend >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591514
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Flexi, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Sweet & Salt Edited by Tracy Metz, Maartje van den Heuvel. Water management runs in the blood of the Dutch: draining the Netherlands and keeping it dry is a process they started centuries ago and continue to this day. In Sweet & Salt: Water and the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628482
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 296 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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 Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design Edited and text by Kimberli Meyer, Susan Morgan. Interview by Makoto Watanabe. Reyner Banham once said of the great architecture historian Esther McCoy (1904–1989) that “no-one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.” Esther McCoy first moved to Los >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869842653
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Thanks for the View, Mr. Mies Edited and with text by Danielle Aubert, Lana Cavar, Natasha Chandani | Placement. Lafayette Park, an affordable middle-class residential area in downtown Detroit, is home to the largest collection of buildings designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the world. Today, it is one of Detroit’s most >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781935202929
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  The Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia The architectural scale model has long had an essential role in the design process, creating a tangible, three-dimensional representation of the finished building, but it has not been explored as an artistic medium in its >>more
Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN 9783858813466
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 The Art of Recycling in Kenya By Annelise Della Rosa. Preface by Richard Leakey. Afterword by Gabriella M. Gilli. Shoes made from discarded rubber, a knife grinder made from a bicycle wheel, an organ made from water pipes, a lamp made from plastic bottle bottoms and a clock made from old flip-flops are a >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881586974
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 136 pgs / 142 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  The Berlage Survey of the Culture, Education, and Practice of Architecture and Urbanism Edited by Salomon Frausto. Text by Rob Docter, Alejandro Zarea-Polo, Wiel Arets, et al. Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Berlage Institute--the Netherlands' international training ground for architecture--this publication investigates how architectural models, insights and principles create a global architectural culture. With c >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627652
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  The Capsular Civilization Text by Lieven de Cauter. Particularly since September 11, the War on Terrorism and the war in Iraq, it has been almost impossible to dissociate architecture from its social context. Add to this the massive influence of capitalism on architecture, >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624071
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Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 208 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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 The Chinese City Artwork by Eduard Kogel. Text by Ulf Meyer. A study of the ongoing development of cities in China, and the response of both Chinese and European architects to the issues raised by such rapid growth. >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783931321246
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 35 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2000 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  The Critical Seventies Essay by Martien de Vletter. There is no period in the history of the Netherlands which excites such emotion, resistance, or aversion as the decade of the 1970s. Following in the wake of the democratization wave of 1968, some regard >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056623838
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 75 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  The Feeling of Things By Adam Caruso A principal of the London-based architecture firm Caruso St. John, "Gritty Brit" Adam Caruso has been writing intensively since the mid-1990s. His essays, published in The Architect's Journal, OASE, Blueprint and Tate, focus on architectura >>more
Poligrafa
ISBN 9788434311862
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Hardback, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 96 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/04/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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 The Functional City: CIAM and the Legacy of Van Eesteren Text by Kees Somer. Dutch architect and planner Cornelis van Eesteren served as president of CIAM, the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, from 1930 to 1947. His tenure there was steady and influential, but has been little studied, as the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625764
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 304 pgs / 100 color/ 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  The Other Cities What does the increasing vacancy rate of apartments in East Germany have to do with the price of tea in China? It marks a paradigm shift that will affect the future of the world's cities, >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314953
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  The Other Cities Edited by Elizabeth Kremer. When the public coffers are low, the burden for social policy and urban planning falls more to citizens, and community apathy or simply lack of involvement can have dire consequences. Addressing this globally crucial issue >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314984
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 160 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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 The Other Cities Edited by Regina Sonnabend. The International Building Exhibition (IBA), which works to build up practical urban-redevelopment knowledge, has its offices in the refurbished rooms of Walter Gropius's former building studio at the Bauhaus in Dessau. The Other Cities, the >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314991
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/01/2006 Active/In stock
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|  The Other Cities Edited by Regina Sonnabend and Rolf Stein. Ever increasingly, Western cities are affected by international competition for business and exurban competition for residential life. Some have fortified themselves by developing unmistakable profiles--brands and business communities based on specific e >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314823
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/In stock
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 The Post Socialist City Edited by Marina Dmitrieva, Alfrun Kliems. The socialist ideals of the early twentieth century argued for a radical overhaul of architectural philosophy, reasserting the value of public space and redefining all forms of creative endeavor towards the benefit of the collective. >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590180
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 30 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  The Power of Pro Bono Edited by John Cary and Public Architecture. Foreword by Majora Carter. Preface by John Peterson. A first-of-its-kind book, equally representing the voices of architects and their clients, The Power of Pro Bono presents 40 pro bono design projects across the country. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless >>more
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781935202189
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  The Sympathy of Things By Lars Spuybroek. In The Sympathy of Things, Lars Spuybroek argues that we must “undo” the twentieth century--the age in which the eighteenth-century ideal of the Sublime (the aspiration towards overwhelming awe) became a technological reality. Spuybroek returns >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628277
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock
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 The Universitas Project Conceived and Directed by Emilio Ambasz. Essays by Jean Baudrillard, Manuel Castells, Gillo Dorfles, Ronald Dworkin, Umberto Eco, Erich Jantsch, Suzanne Keller, Gyorgy Kepes, Richard L. Meier, Martin Pawley, Octavio Paz, et al. Foreword by Terrance Riley. In January of 1972, The Museum of Modern Art hosted "The Universitas Project," a two-day conference sponsored by the Museum's International Council and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The distinguished participants, from a >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700705
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 440 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/In stock
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|  The Vertical Village Edited and with text by Winny Mass. Interviews with Alfredo Brillemburg, Hubert Klumpner, Lieven De Cauter, Peter Trummer Addressing East Asia’s rapid urban transformation, The Vertical Village looks at radical alternatives to the familiar standardized block architecture that has eradicated low-rise, “lighter” varieties of architecture, such as the Hutong in Beijing, >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628444
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 528 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Theater at the Bauhaus Edited by Marie Neumllers and Burghard Duhm. While theater isn't as widely associated with the Bauhaus as some other genres, the theater workshop at the Bauhaus was a catalyst in Weimar and Dessau performing arts. Eventually, its ideas were adopted internationally, including >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314816
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 40 color and 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/In stock
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 Through a Clouded Glass: Mendelsohn, Wijdeveld and the Jewish Connection Text by Gilbert Herbert, Liliane Richter. This scholarly study of the relationship between the visionary German-Jewish and Dutch-Catholic Modernist architects Erich Mendelsohn and Hendrik Wijdeveld, respectively, is a moving and gripping narrative that will appeal to academics and laymen alike. >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803006967
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Pbk, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 200 pgs / 3 color / 87 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Towards a New Kind of Building By Kas Oosterhuis. Today's buildings are designed with digital tools and produced by digitally controlled methods. This construction technology now requires us to reevaluate our conception of the realization and the look of architecture, since these means enable >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627638
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Transit Spaces Edited by Regina Bittner, Wilfried Hackenbroich and Kai Vàckler. If we think of "transit areas" as airport lounges, train-station waiting rooms and subways--spaces always in temporary use, and inherently associated with flexibility and mobility--Transit Areas suggests that more and more cities now match that >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314809
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Paperback, 6.5 x 24 in. / 360 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Active/In stock
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 UN Urbanism Edited by Regina Bittner, Wilfried Hackenbroich, Kai Vöckler. Cities often become the key battlefields in modern warfare, resulting of course in human casualty, and also in the wholesale destruction of urban structures. Afterwards, when reconstruction commences, it appears that the process follows strikingly >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590876
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Umbauhaus Edited by Matthias Hollwich and Rainer Weisbach. Should the Director's House Gropius in Dessau, a masterpiece of Modernism, be rebuilt? Should an attempt be made to continue the traditions of Bauhaus? What role do modern principles play in today's architecture? What can >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314960
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Understanding Architecture Intended both as an introductory text for students and professionals in the field as well as an accessible read for the general public, Understanding Architecture addresses the basic principles of architecture. The volume is organized >>more
Phaidon
ISBN 9780714848099
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 Unreal Estates of China Edited by Gutierrez & Portefaix. The experimental Hong Kong-based architecture firm Map Office here presents a graphic novel starring a wide-ranging particle named Pixel--who brings us in, over and through contemporary China: to the ports, inside the factory walls, underneath >>more
Map Book Publishers
ISBN 9789628604005
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Pbk, 5.5 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 108 b&w / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Update! Edited by Annett Zinsmeister. Update! invites a range of essayists to reflect on the continued relevance of the Bauhaus 90 years after its founding in 1919. Despite its brief existence and revolving directorship, the Bauhaus remains one of the >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591026
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 16 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Urban China Work in Progress Edited by Brendan McGetrick. Work In Progress is a multidisciplinary publication that brings together a number of China's most influential contemporary writers, photographers and critics to assess the scope of Chinese culture and its recent, rapid industrialization. Culled fr >>more
Blue Kingfisher
ISBN 9789881803399
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Pbk, 10 x 12.5 in. / 208 pgs / 355 color / 114 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock
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 Urban Code 100 Lessons for Understanding the City Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers >>more
MIT
ISBN 9780262016414
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|  Urban Constellations Edited by Matthew Gandy. Today home to over half of the world's population, cities determine the shape of our culture and our politics, and generate new relationships between nature, technology and the human body. This collection brings together a >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591187
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 75 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Urban Ecology Edited by Kyong Park. Essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lebbeus Woods, Philipp Oswalt, Stefano Boeri, Michael Sorkins, Gutierrez + Portefaix, Jerry Herron, Sean Snyder, Marjetica Potrc, et al. Foreword by Stephen Vogel. Introduction by Peter Lang. Under the confluence of nomadic economics, technologies and industries--commonly known as “suburban sprawl”--the city of Detroit, segregated and isolated, constitutes one of the great monuments to decay by a Modernist city. It is perhaps the >>more
Map Book Publishers
ISBN 9789628604043
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Flexi, 9 x 7.25 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 09/02/2004 Active/In stock
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 Urban Future Manifestos Edited by Peter Noever, Kimberli Meyer. Text by Saskia Sassen, Zvi Hecker, Ai Weiwei. Urban Future Manifestos invites contributors from around the world to respond to the current and impending challenges facing the urban environment. Calling on planners, artists, architects, designers, activists and myriad other cultural practition >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727310
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 105 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Urban Living Edited by Dawud Diniawarie. Text by Jürgen Engel, Jo Franzke, Volkwin Marg, Peter Cachola Schmal, et al. Many metropolises are registering a renewed trend toward living in urban space but still have a surplus of available office space, while well-placed, appealing apartments are lacking. This book presents projects by well-known architects as >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633648
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 144 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Urban Planning and the Pursuit of Happiness Edited by Marc Schalenberg, Arnold Bartetzky. The ultimate goal of urban planning must always be utopian--to improve the lives of citizens, at work or at play. The course of history shows that notions of civic "happiness" as expressed in urban design >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590203
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 50 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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 Urban Politics Now Text by Slavoj Zizek, Edward Soja, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Neil Smith, Dieter Lesage. In Urban Politics Now, the Rotterdam-based “architect philosophers” Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels--otherwise known as The BAVO Bureau for Architectural Theory--issue a challenge to sociologists, social geographers, philosophers, urban planners >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626167
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Paperback, 5.75 x 9 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Urban Potentials Edited by Yolanta Bielanska, Torsten Birne et al. What is urbanity? How and where do we experience it, and in what ways does it condition our perceptions of the contemporary city? Does art play a major role? How about architecture, music or popular >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633815
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 328 pgs / 121 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas Text by Nicole Huber, Ralph Stern. Urbanizing the Mojave Desert: Las Vegas presents a hybrid landscape shaped and reshaped by practices of everyday urbanization. The images presented here do not project ideals of urban development or solve social and environmental problems. >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633501
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Hardback, 8.5 x 6 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock
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 Visionary Cities Edited and with text by Winy Maas and The Why Factory. Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on cit >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627256
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock
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|  WiMBY! Hoogvliet Edited by Michelle Provoost. Text by Felix Rottenberg. The suburban Dutch neighborhood of Hoogyliet, just outside Rotterdam, was designed after World War II along Modernist lines. Over the ensuing years, the district became more and more rundown and economically depressed. Then the WiMBY! >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625955
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Paperback, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 528 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  With/Without Edited and with text by Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver, Markus Miessen. As Dubai builds unprecedented realms of new luxury, other parts of the Middle East grapple with physical and symbolic histories. Relics come up against reinvention and revolution. And micromutations in Middle Eastern politics and economics >>more
Bidoun Books
ISBN 9789948034537
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Hardback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 266 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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