Criticism
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Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future
$39.95 Read moreA rich exploration of the extraordinary life and work of celebrated architect Yasmeen Lari, winner of the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
After more than three decades as a renowned global architect, Yasm- Author: Fitz, Angelika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546094
- Language: English
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The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History
$49.95 Read moreDiana S. Waite is president of Mount Ida Press in Albany, New York. She is the author of Ornamental Ironwork: Two Centuries of Craftsmanship in Albany and Troy, New York and editor of Architects in Al… [more below]
- Series: Rensselaer County Historical Society
- Author: Waite, Diana S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1438474733
- Language: English
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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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Girls on Film: Lessons from a Life of Watching Women in Movies (Filmmaking, Life Lessons, Film Analysis) (Birthday Gift for Her)
$16.95 Read moreFilm reporter Alicia Malone brings a collection of personal essays looking at the representation and impact of women on film. In addition to personal anecdotes and analysis, this book weaves in interv… [more below]
- Author: Malone, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642506567
- 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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The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970
$50.00 Read moreA revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness
“[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement of- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300238894
- Language: English
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Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World
$44.95 Read moreSharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo.
The book questions how “artifice” and the “social world” can be mutually and constructively integ
- Author: Mostafavi, Mohsen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400601
- Language: English
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Photography: The Definitive Visual History
$50.00 Add to cartThis lavish coffee-table book traces the history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of 21st-century digital photography.
Photography celebrates the most iconic- Series: DK Definitive Cultural Histories
- Author: Ang, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0744060095
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Read moreThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
$23.00 Add to cartRethinking the intimate relationship between humans and design, from primitive tools and ornamentation to the constant buzz of modern social media
The question “are we human?” is both urgent and ancien
- Author: Colomina, Beatriz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2017
- ISBN10: 303778511X
- Language: English
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On the Suffering of the World
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Suffering of the World is a collection of the later aphoristic writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, known for their incisive, aphoristic style and dark, pessimistic view of human existence.
Edited- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 191346203X
- Language: English
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Brutalist Paris: Post-War Brutalist Architecture in Paris and Environs
$32.00 Read moreBrutalist Paris is the first thoroughly researched English-language book about Brutalist architecture in and around Paris. Drawing on over five years of research, interviews and photography conducted … [more below]
- Series: Blue Crow Media Architecture Maps
- Author: Wilson, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 191201873X
- Language: English
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A Kinder Voice: Releasing Your Inner Critics with Mindfulness Slogans
$17.95 Read moreCombining thought-awareness, loving-kindness practice and mindfulness meditation, this simple, time-tested method can be used throughout the day to quiet your critical voices and ease the mind. Throug… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs-Stewart, Thérèse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1616496398
- Language: English
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
$18.00 Read moreThe New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism
- Author: Scott, A. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109979
- Language: English
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In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos
$49.95 Read more- Author: Sarkisova, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048272
- Language: English
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartContains three of Chesterton’s most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: February 13 1986
- ISBN10: 0898700795
- Language: English
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In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy
$19.95 Add to cart“Thacker’s discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating…”Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The world is increasing
- Series: Horror of Philosophy #01
- Author: Thacker, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 184694676X
- Language: English
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text–an influential academic journal of cultural studies–touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern p
- Author: Sokal, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0312204078
- Language: English
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Photowork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice
$29.95 Add to cartPhotoWork is a collection of interviews by forty photographers about their approach to making photographs and, more importantly, a sustained body of work. Curator and lecturer Sasha Wolf was inspired … [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1597114596
- Language: English
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Los Angeles Today: City of Dreams: Architecture and Design
$70.00 Add to cartThe time is right for a fresh look at this incomparable sunny city. Longtime Angeleno Tim Street-Porter chronicles today’s vibrant buildings, coastline, and gardens of this glamorous global metropolis… [more below]
- Author: Street-Porter, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0847867439
- Language: English
