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 in Context: Designing in the Middle East / Hassan Radoine
Provides a foundation for understanding the critical context of architecture and design in this region. It does this by: presenting ...
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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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Art Intervention in the City / Hadas Ophrat
This book focuses on the phenomenon of art intervention—an expression of local initiatives by artists, collectives, and ...
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Barcelona : urban architecture and community since 2010 / Sandra Hofmeister, Heide Wessely
Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising ...
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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux : architecture and Utopia in the era of the French Revolution / Anthony Vidler, Claude Nicolas Ledoux
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his ...
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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 ...
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Street-Level Architecture : The Past, Present and Future of Interactive Frontages / Conrad Kickert, Hans Karssenberg
Provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions ...
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The City on Display : Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons / Joel Robinson
Reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two ...
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The Poetics of Arabian Suqs : A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present / Jasmine Shahin
Investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ...
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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History / Duanfang Lu
Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge report on recent developments in architectural production and research. Divided ...
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Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf : Obsolescence and Opportunities / Roberto Fabbri, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi
Offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabian Peninsula. Focusing ...
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