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The availability of microdata has increased rapidly over the last decades, and standard statistical and econometric software ...

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

This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings ...

From Ancient Egypt, where architects were members of the ruling class, tied into the running of the empire, to the 21st century ...

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

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

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

It begins with the earliest styles of the ancient civilizations – Egypt, Greece and Rome – before travelling through ...

Examines the evolution of terra cotta and prepares architects and builders to make new, creative uses of the timeless material. ...

From ancient and classical masterpieces to contemporary, cutting-edge buildings, architecture has defined our world throughout ...

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

In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brings the history of art to life for a new generation of students. It is global in scope, inclusive in its coverage, and ...

This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...

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