Criticism
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Gropius
$20.00 Add to cartWalter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable influence on our aesthetic environment, championing a
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lupfer &. Paul Sigel, Gilbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 3836544342
- Language: English
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Concrete Approximations: In Pursuit of Absolute Space
$35.00 Read moreConcrete is ubiquitous but contentious: culturally, environmentally, and often politically. Yet, the architecture it produces across fields of practices remains pertinent to the architectural discipli… [more below]
- Author: Ottevaere, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1957183535
- Language: English
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Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
$21.99 Add to cartA brief examination of the theory and practice of Renaissance architecture that draws attention to the values underlying this style
- Author: Wittkower, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0393005992
- Language: English
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Johnston Marklee
$29.95 Read moreSource Books in Architecture No. 15: Johnston Marklee includes conversations with the architects and documentation of a range of built and unbuilt works.
As the Baumer Visiting Professors at The Ohio … [more below]- Series: Source Books in Architecture
- Author: Wilke, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 195718325X
- Language: English
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I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now
$75.00 Read moreA critical and celebratory counternarrative to what we know of Japanese photography today.
I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical preced- Author: Vermare, Pauline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1597115533
- Language: English
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Building Culture: Sixteen Architects on How Museums Are Shaping the Future of Art, Architecture, and Public Space
$35.00 Add to cartAn insider’s look at art museums and how they shape the ways we view art, through the eyes of the architects who design them.
Architects and art lovers everywhere will enjoy this remarkable collectio
- Author: Rose, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1797223682
- Language: English
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Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive
$31.95 Add to cartSince their breakthrough hit “Creep” in 1993, Radiohead has continued to make waves throughout popular and political culture with its views about the Bush presidency (its 2003 album was titled Hail to… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture & Philosophy #38
- Author: Forbes, Brandon W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0812696646
- Language: English
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Paul and the Meaning of Scripture
$54.67 Add to cartOne exciting area of study is Paul’s use of the Old Testament. The apostle routinely appeals to Scripture to support his arguments and to persuade his readers. One gets the impression that Paul has a … [more below]
- Author: Halsted, Matthew L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1666707694
- Language: English
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Gift of the Grotesque
$21.00 Add to cart“No other book of the Bible is quite so R-rated. No other book is quite so ugly or grotesque. Judges offers its reader not a roster of angelic saints, but an astonishing tempest of brutality, feces, s… [more below]
- Author: Stulac, Daniel J. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 166673215X
- Language: English
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Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph
$24.95 Add to cartAt turns humorous and absurd, heartfelt and searching, Photo No-Nos is for photographers of all levels wishing to avoid easy metaphors and to sharpen their visual communication skills.
Photographers- Author: Fulford, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1597114995
- 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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Environmental Activism by Design
$35.00 Read moreEnvironmental Activism by Design, a monograph by architects and educators Coleman Coker and Sarah Gamble, challenges designers to actively engage the environmental crisis through their work, while art… [more below]
- Author: Coker, Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081790
- 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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The Cannibal’s Cookbook: Mining Myths of Cyclopean Constructions
$24.95 Add to cartThe Cannibal’s Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for th… [more below]
- Author: Clifford, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 195154143X
- Language: English
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Ministering Through Spiritual Gifts: Use Your Strengths to Serve Others
$12.99 Add to cartWhat are your gifts? How are you using your abilities to grow God’s kingdom?
In Ministering Through Spiritual Gifts, you will find how to pinpoint your God-given strengths by exploring the seven gifts
- Series: Charles F. Stanley Bible Study
- Author: Stanley, Charles F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0310105668
- Language: English
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Lost Cincinnati
$31.99 Add to cartCincinnati earned its nickname of “Queen City of the West” with a wealth of fine theaters and hotels, a burgeoning brewery district and the birth of professional baseball. Though many of these treasur… [more below]
- Author: Suess, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1540210669
- 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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Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design
$80.00 Add to cartCarlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa’s birth, all… [more below]
- Author: Beltramini, Guido
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 0847829111
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition
$10.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to l… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0451149165
- Language: English
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Against Method
$24.95 Read morePaul Feyerabend’s globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowle… [more below]
- Author: Feyerabend, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 11 2010
- ISBN10: 1844674428
- Language: English
