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The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture
In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a...
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Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture and the Future of Urban Space
Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure...
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Voiture Minimum: Le Corbusier and the Automobile
Le Corbusier, who famously called a house "a machine for living," was fascinated -even obsessed - by another kind of machine, the automobile. His...
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Event-Cities 4. Concept-Form
Event-Cities 4 is the latest in the Event-Cities series from Bernard Tschumi, documenting recent built and theoretical projects in the context of...
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics after Modernism
Shortlisted for the 2008 RIBA Sir Nikolaus Pevsner International Book Award for Architecture. In Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Felicity Scott...
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Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avante-Garde
While it is widely recognised that the advanced architecture of the 1970s left a legacy of experimentation and theoretical speculation as intense...
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Spaces speak, are you listening?: Experiencing aural architecture
We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house...
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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
For more than half the nation's history, vast mental hospitals were a prominent feature of the American landscape. From the mid 19th century to the...
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Drawing for Architecture
Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and...
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Design Meets Disability
Eyeglasses have been transformed from medical necessity to fashion accessory. This revolution has come about through embracing the design culture...
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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space
What is a camp? In August 2005, television news showed viewers an estimated 20,000 Katrina evacuees camped out in the Superdome, Cindy Sheehan...
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Le Corbusier and the Occult
When Charles-douard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris, he also carefully reinvented the first thirty years of his life by...
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Becoming Bucky Fuller
Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his...
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The Grid Book
Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by Mondrian and a piece of...
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Architecture Depends
Architecture depends - on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this...
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Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building
Design on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building tells the story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in...
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The Possibility of (an) Architecture...: Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects
Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book...
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Urban Machinery
Urban Machinery investigates the technological dimension of modern European cities, vividly describing the most dramatic changes in the urban...
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Journey to the East
Journey to the East is the legendary travel diary that the24 year old Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey...
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Architecture or Techno-utopia: Politics after Modernism
This is the first history of twentieth-century America's architecture that puts architecture and its institutions into a dialogue with the "...
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