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  • The Public Space of Social Media

    Connected Cultures of the Network Society

    Series series Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
    Social media is restructuring urban practices–through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation. This book is the first to consider how practices contained within social media are situated within a larger genealogy of public space, including theories of communal identity, civitas and democracy, the fete, and self-expression. Through empirical ... Read more

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  • Abstract Space

    Beneath the Media Surface

    This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today.Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from ... Read more

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    An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms

    by Tom Porter ...
    Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Read more

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  • Lefebvre for Architects

    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    While the work of Henri Lefebvre has become better known in the English-speaking world since the 1991 translation of his 1974 masterpiece, The Production of Space, his influence on the actual production of architecture and the city has been less pronounced. Although now widely read in schools of architecture, planning and urban design, Lefebvre’s message for practice remains elusive; inevitably so ... Read more

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  • Curating Architecture and the City

    Series series Critiques
    Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’.Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, the chapters cover a broad methodological ... Read more

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  • Adaptive Architecture

    Changing Parameters and Practice

    The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have altered the playing field for architecture from the design of single purpose structures to ... Read more

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  • Architecture and Movement

    the Dynamic Experience of Buildings and Landscapes

    The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. User experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice. Architecture and Movement tackles this complex subject for the first time, providing the wide range of perspectives needed to tackle ... Read more

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  • Narrative Architecture

    A Designer's Story

    Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and designing, to give you an original view on our postmodern era and architectural culture. Authors Sylvain De Bleeckere and Sebastiaan Gerards outline the ideas of thinkers, such as Edmund Husserl, Paul Ricoeur, Emmanuel Levinas, and Peter Sloterdijk, and ... Read more

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  • The Internet of Things: The Critical IOT Players

    The Internet of Things, #2

    by Patrick Allen ...
    Series Book 2 - The Internet of Things
    Want to uncover the mystery of the Internet of Things? Do you want to feel like you have an insiders knowledge of the IOT? Then you want to read this book.With Internet of Things Volume II – you'll get a clear understanding about the building blocks used to make the Internet of Things. You'll learn about some of the electronic clothing and wearables. You'll also discover some of the companies that ... Read more

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  • Architecture, Participation and Society

    Edited by Paul Jenkins, Leslie Forsyth ...
    How can architects best increase their engagement with building users and wider society to provide better architecture?Since the mid 1990s government policy has promoted the idea of greater social participation in the production and management of the built environment but there has been limited direction to the practising architect.Reviewing international cases and past experiences to analyze what ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Architecture and Participation

    Bringing together leading international practitioners and theorists in the field, ranging from the 1960s pioneers of participation to some of the major contemporary figures in the field, Architecture and Participation opens up the social and political aspects of our built environment, and the way that the eventual users may shape it. Divided into three sections, looking at the politics, histories ... Read more

    $84.99 USD