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Cover of The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings
by Marc Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

The founder of Architizer.com and practicing architect draws on his unique position at the crossroads of architecture and social media to highlight 100 important buildings that embody the future of architecture. We’re asking more of architecture than ever before; the response will define...
Cover of Toward A Minor Architecture
by Jill Stoner
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012

A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built. Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's...
Cover of Architecture for a Free Subjectivity

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity

Deleuze and Guattari at the Horizon of the Real

by Simone Brott
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them. For Deleuze and his Lacanian collaborator Félix Guattari, subjectivity...
Cover of Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe. In recent years scholars have begun to investigate the ways in which architecture plays a part in the construction...
Cover of I/T Architecture in Action
by Richard J. Reese
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008

This book is for business professionals interested in learning techniques for managing change in technology driven companies. It focuses on bridging business and I/T strategies through the Enterprise Architecture function. Unlike many books about I/T, it is not about building things. Rather, it is...
Cover of Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health
by Stephen Verderber
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012

Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally. It has been a dominant mid-to-late twentieth century growth pattern in developed countries and in the twenty-first century has shown widespread signs of proliferation in India, China, and other...
Cover of Do It Yourself - Towards self-construction in architecture
by Carlos Bartesaghi Koc
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, National University of San Augustin (-), course: Architecture & Urban Design, language: English, abstract: Many people believe that architecture is used inappropriately to obtain fame, richness and prestige with...
Cover of Prison Architecture
by Leslie Fairweather, Sean McConville
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013

Current and future prison designs are examined in this book, within the government's prison building programme, and the confines of current penal philosophies and legislation. America has led the way in prison design, with two main types of architecture predominating: radial layouts (outside cells...
Cover of Basics Landscape Architecture 01: Urban Design
by Tim Waterman, Mr Ed Wall
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

Basics Landscape Architecture 01: Urban Design seeks to define and describe the role played by landscape architecture in urban design, an interdisciplinary practice that is concerned with defining the form of human settlements. It provides a brief history and definition of urban design and...
Cover of The Architecture of Home in Cairo

The Architecture of Home in Cairo

Socio-Spatial Practice of the Hawari's Everyday Life

by Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD. Until early in the C20th, they made up the primary urban divisions of the city and were residential in nature. Contemporary hawari, by contrast, are...
Cover of A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture
by Elie G. Haddad, David Rifkind
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in...
Cover of Systemic Architecture

Systemic Architecture

Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City

by Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design...
Cover of Architecture and Globalisation in the Persian Gulf Region
by Nasser Golzari
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016

This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on the eastern Iranian shoreline as in Arabic countries on the western side. By inviting a range of architects and scholars to write about historical and contemporary...
Cover of Demystifying Doha

Demystifying Doha

On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City

by Ashraf M. Salama, Florian Wiedmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016

Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In...
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