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A Companion to Contemporary Drawing / Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Dana Arnold

Textbook on the power, condition, and expanse of contemporary fine art drawing. his textbook: Demonstrates ways contemporary ...

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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 ...

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A Short Dictionary of Furniture : Containing Over 2,600 Entries That Include Terms and Names Used in Britain and the USA / John Gloag

Contains 2,612 entries and over 1,000 illustrations, reproduced from contemporary sources and from drawings by Ronald Escott, ...

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An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History / Joclyn M. Oats

Provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture ...

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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 ...

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Architectonics and Parametric Thinking : Computational Modeling for Beginning Design / Frank Jacobus, Angie Carpenter, Rachel Smith Loerts

Architectonics and Parametric Thinking begins by clearly positioning the potentials of parametric design through a series ...

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Architectural Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors / Charalampos Politakis

Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such ...

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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 ...

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Architecture Beyond the Cupola: Inventions and Designs of Dante Bini / Alberto Pugnale, Alberto Bologna

This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction ...

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Architecture and Collective Life / Penny Lewis, Lorens Holm, Sandra Costa Santos

Addresses the changing nature of public life alongside an analysis of changes in the architectural profession. Contains thought-provoking ...

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Architecture and the Housing Question / Can Bilsel, Juliana Maxim

Examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing political projects ...

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Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime

The book is divided into seven chapters, which in turn analyze the interconnections between the novel and architecture in ...

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Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe : Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space / J.R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge, Pieter Martens, R.L.M. Morris

Draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, ...

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Architectures of Refusal / Jill Stoner, Ozayr Saloojee

Reveals how designers, practitioners, scholars and architects are participating in dismantling the major canons of Western ...

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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 ...

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Building Children's Worlds : The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks / Torsten Schmiedeknecht, Jill Rudd, Emma Hayward

Children are the future architects, clients and users of our buildings. The kinds of architectural worlds they are exposed ...

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Building Meaning : An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History / Tamara Metz

Introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. This book ...

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Cranbrook Architecture: A Legacy of Latitude / Gretchen Wilkins

The renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, Michigan, has been described as the epicentre of American Modernism. ...

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Doors : History, Repair and Conservation / Michael Tutton, James W.P. Campbell

Guides you through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are ...

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Drawing Imagining Building : Embodiment in Architectural Design Practices / Paul Emmons

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked ...

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