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Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou: Supercrit #3
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
Supercrit 3 Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou addresses the Centre Pompidou which set the tone for the subsequent and distinguished line of Grands Projects that were commissioned and built in Paris during the 1980s and 1990s. Highly illustrated this innovative text is an invaluable...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-45786-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette: Supercrit #4
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
Supercrit #4 Bernard Tschumi: Parc de la Villette addresses the Parc de la Villette, a groundbreaking public space with art installations. Supported by an extensive illustrated section this innovative text is an invaluable resource for any architect student and an inspiring record of this...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-45788-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow-Food for the Architect's Imagination
By Marco Frascari
This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture. The text identifies the inauguration of architectural theory within the craftsmanship of...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-77926-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
By Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, Nishat Awan
The book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-57193-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Derrida for Architects
By Richard Coyne
Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-59179-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture
By William Taylor, Michael Levine
This book describes and accounts for new opportunities for ethical reflection in architecture and adjacent design practices. Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, it explores the possibilities for ethical speculation across their disciplines and...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-58972-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation: The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture
By Tahl Kaminer
Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-57824-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis
By Letizia Modena
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-88038-1 | Hardback (Routledge)