Criticism
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Rewriting Architecture: 10+1 Actions for an Adaptive Architecture
$39.50 Read moreContemporary thinkers from Hito Steyerl to Atelier Bow-Wow explore how architecture can adapt to–rather than replace–the existing built environment
This volume considers existing urban contexts as an
- Author: Alkemade, Floris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 949209570X
- Language: English
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Socializing Architecture: Top-Down / Bottom-Up
$54.95 Add to cartWith a focus on deepening inequality across this world, this richly illustrated monograph of social practice in architecture shows how to catalyze productive change in the world’s border regions.
Situ- Author: Cruz, Teddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545187
- Language: English
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Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building
$26.95 Read moreThe Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being
Leading architec- Author: De Graaf, Reinier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1839761911
- Language: English
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Rage in Harlem: June Jordan and Architecture
$18.00 Read morePennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.
In- Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents
- Author: Saval, Nikil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 3956796292
- Language: English
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
$24.95 Read moreTokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains intimate and adaptive. Com-pared to Western metropolises like New York or Paris, however, few outside… [more below]
- Author: Almazán, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1951541324
- Language: English
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Toward an Architecture
$24.95 Read morePublished in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier urges readers to cease th… [more below]
- Series: Getty Research Institute
- Author: Le Corbusier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0892368225
- Language: English
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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
$32.95 Add to cartLearning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their erec… [more below]
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 1977
- ISBN10: 026272006X
- Language: English
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Designing-Women’s Lives: Transforming Place and Self
$29.95 Read moreDesigning Women’s Lives calls for a place-making revolution based on women’s culturally nurtured “feeling” sensibility.
Women too often have had to repress that sensibility in order to become designer… [more below]- Author: Israel, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081111
- Language: English
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Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition
$24.95 Add to cartA new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues
Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built
- Author: Comaroff, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1517914841
- Language: English
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The Ten Books on Architecture: Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and engineer flourishing in the first century B.C., was the author of the oldest and most influential work on architecture in existence. For hundreds of year… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture #1
- Author: Vitruvius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 1960
- ISBN10: 0486206459
- Language: English
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Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks
$22.95 Add to cartA manifesto calling for a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than- Author: Cruz, Teddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0262544539
- Language: English
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Architectures of Spatial Justice
$34.95 Read moreA field-defining work that demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities.
As state violence, the pand- Author: Cuff, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0262545217
- Language: English
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How Architecture Works
$25.99 Add to cartAn essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing.- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534829
- Language: English
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
$35.00 Read moreSince its publication – Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas’s celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the variety of human behavior
At the
- Author: Koolhaas, Rem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1885254008
- Language: English
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Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
$35.00 Add to cartFirst 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 archite
- Series: Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 02, 2002
- ISBN10: 0870702823
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access
$24.95 Add to cartA radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access,- Author: Gissen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1517912504
- Language: English
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A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
$19.00 Add to cart“A glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace.” —Chicago Tribune
A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and- Author: Pollan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0143114743
- Language: English
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Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: Fully Revised 6th Edition
$45.00 Add to cartThe map may not be the territory, and the word may not be the thing, but this guide is as close as it gets.
Since its first publication by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1965, this seminal va
- Author: Winter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 9, 2018
- ISBN10: 1626400555
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Happiness
$23.00 Add to cartThe Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our location… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: de Botton, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0307277240
- Language: English
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Why Architecture Matters
$20.00 Add to cartA classic work on the joy of experiencing architecture, with a new afterword reflecting on architecture’s place in the contemporary moment
“Architecture begins to matter,” writes Paul Goldberger, “wh- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Goldberger, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267398
- Language: English
