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  • Rethinking Technology

    A Reader in Architectural Theory

    Edited by William W. Braham, Jonathan A. Hale ...
    This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology.The book contains over fifty carefully selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. This mapping out of a century of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Modern Color/Modern Architecture

    Amédée Ozenfant and the Genealogy of Color in Modern Architecture

    by William W. Braham ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002. This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. A key figure in that history is Amédée Ozenfant, painter, critic and friend of Le Corbusier, who in the first half of this century founded a school in London where he conducted experiments and wrote about color in architecture. Those experiments have been reconstructed for the book, which also includes ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Architecture and Systems Ecology

    Thermodynamic Principles of Environmental Building Design, in three parts

    by William W. Braham ...
    Modern buildings are both wasteful machines that can be made more efficient and instruments of the massive, metropolitan system engendered by the power of high-quality fuels. A comprehensive method of environmental design must reconcile the techniques of efficient building design with the radical urban and economic reorganization that we face. Over the coming century, we will be challenged to ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • The Shock of the New

    The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

    by Robert Hughes ...
    A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Modern Architecture

    by Alan Colquhoun ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding new light on their roles as acknowledged masters. Alan Colquhoun explores the evolution of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Style and Civilization

    Realism

    by Linda Nochlin ...
    Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American, German and Italian Realists. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Space Within

    Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture

    by Robert McCarter ...
    The architect Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture was not what a building ‘looks like’ on the day it opens, but what it ‘is like’ to live in thirty years later. In this book Robert McCarter presents a persuasive defence of why and how interior spatial experience is the necessary starting point for design, and why the quality of that experience is the only appropriate means ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Meanings of Abstract Art

    Between Nature and Theory

    Edited by Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalisation

    Edited by Steve Edwards, Paul Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Theatre and Performance Design

    A Reader in Scenography

    by Jane Collins, Andrew Nisbet ...
    Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices.Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are brought together in one volume to examine the principle forces that inform understanding of theatre and performance design ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance

    Art as Experiment

    by Herbert Molderings ...
    Translated by John Brogden ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard Stoppages (1913-1914), a work that uses chance as an artistic medium, we see how far Duchamp subverted scientism ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    by Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Series series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thrown onto a wall was ... Read more

    $20.49 USD