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A Language of Contemporary Architecture : An Index of Topology and Typology / Rafael Luna, Dongwoo Yim

Provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary ...

Aalto in Detail : A Catalogue of Components / Céline Dietziker, Lukas Gruntz, David Haney

Celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result ...

Alvar Aalto Houses / Jari Jetsonen, Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen, Markku Lahti

Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed nearly one hundred single-family houses. Aalto, who is also ...

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities : A Critical History of Archaeology in 19th and 20th Century Greece / Sofia Voutsaki, Paul Cartledge

Sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century ...

Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects

This book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies ...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices : Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century / Marianna Charitonidou

Explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees ...

Architecture and the Modern Hospital : Nosokomeion to Hygeia / Julie Willis, Philip Goad, Cameron Logan

Explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other ...

Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design / Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Sabine T. Kriebel

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and ...

Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism : Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt / Sibel Bozdoğan, Panayiota Pyla, Petros Phokaides

offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming ...

Diagrid structures : systems, connections, details / Terri Meyer Boake

Diagrids are load-bearing structures made of steel diagonal grids. They were first used in the great buildings of the turn ...

EigenArchitecture / Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann

A path out of the technological and economical excesses in contemporary architecture:A book on research and education in ...

Graeme Mann & Patricia Capua Mann / Bruno Marchand

The Lausanne architects Mann & Capua Mann have been active since 1991. Their structures are compelling thanks to the variety ...

Real Photo Postcards

Real Photo Postcards is a collection of the most outlandish and idiosyncratic, beautiful and even occasionally bizarre images ...

Reminiscences of a Statistician : The Company I Kept

This relatively nontechnical book is the first account of the history of statistics from the Fisher revolution to the computer ...

Small, Medium, Large, Extra-large / Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture ...

Stufish - Entertainment Architecture (Architectural Design) / Ray Winkler, Neil Spiller

Looks at the work of STUFISH Entertainment Architects. Founded by the late Mark Fisher, the legendary British architect known ...

Taste : a cultural history of the home interior 1800 to the present day / Drew Plunkett

Offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the ...

Zaha Hadid - Basic Art / Philip Jodidio

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some ...

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