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  • The Social Logic of Space

    by Bill Hillier, Julienne Hanson ...
    The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is developed on the basis of a new way of describing and analysing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns. The methods are explained so that anyone interested in how towns or buildings are structured and how they work can make use of them. The book also presents a ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

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  • Mysteries of the Mall

    And Other Essays

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    A deep exploration of modern life that examines our cities, public places, and homes.Following How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski casts a seasoned critical eye over the modern scene with Mysteries of the Mall. His subject is nothing less than the broad setting of our metropolitan world.In thirty-five discerning essays, Rybczynski ranges over subjects as varied as shopping malls, Central ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces

    by Tonino Griffero ...
    Originally published in Italian in 2010, this book is the first to address the theory of atmospheres in a thorough and systematic way. It examines the role of atmospheres in daily life, and defines their main characteristics. Outlining the typical phenomenological situations in which we experience atmospheres, it assesses their impact on contemporary aesthetics. It puts forward a philosophical ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Architecture

    The Subject is Matter

    Edited by Jonathan Hill ...
    The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassesses the object at its centre: the building. Architectural matter is not always physical or building fabric. It is whatever architecture is made of, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Mediators

    Aesthetics, Politics, and the City

    by Reinhold Martin ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture of finance written into urban policy, regimes of enumeration that remix city and country, fictional ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

    by Amir H. Ameri ...
    Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural imperatives which have seen to the formation of these institutions, the development of their architecture, and their transformation over time. The relationship between culture and architecture is often ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Time Frames

    Conservation Policies for Twentieth-Century Architectural Heritage

    Edited by Ugo Carughi, Massimo Visone ...
    Time Frames provides a reconnaissance on the conservation rules and current protection policies of more than 100 countries, with particular attention to the emerging nations and twentieth-century architecture. The contributions illustrate the critical issues related to architectural listings, with a brief history of national approaches, a linkography and a short bibliography. The book also ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics

    Social and Cultural Tectonics in the 21st Century

    by Graham Cairns ...
    Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences, including Noam Chomsky, Peggy Deamer, Robert A.M. Stern, Daniel Libeskind and Kenneth Frampton. Each chapter explores the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Tao of Architecture

    by Amos Ih Tiao Chang ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea, developing the parallel with the aid of architectural drawings and Chinese paintings. Now with a new foreword by David Wang, this book reveals the vitality of intangible, or negative, elements. Chang ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism

    Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture

    by Camillo Boano ...
    Series series Design and the Built Environment
    The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben’s politics, which can affect change in current architectural and design discourses. The book investigates the possibility of an inoperative architecture, as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Aesthetics beyond the Arts

    New and Recent Essays

    by Arnold Berleant ...
    Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Network Nature

    The Place of Nature in the Digital Age

    by Richard Coyne ...
    How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is easy to task nature as the cure, with technology as the ailment.In Network Nature, Richard Coyne challenges the definitions of both the natural and the artificial that support this time-worn narrative ... Read more

    $38.89 USD