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  • Merging City & Nature (Spanish Edition)

    10 Challenges to Fight Climate Change

    by Batlleiroig ...
    After 40 years of professional experience developed in three areas of work —City-Territory, Landscape-Public Space and Building—, Batlle i Roig acquires a new commitment and positions itself in the face of the climate emergency, generating a sustainability matrix through which to contextualize your urban projects and urban strategies. At Batlleiroig we have been talking about Landscape and Nature ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture

    by John Lobell ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Flourishing from 1951 to 1965, the Philadelphia School was an architectural golden age that saw a unique convergence of city, practice, and education, all in renewal. And it was a bringing together of architecture, city and regional planning, and landscape architecture education under the leadership of Dean G. Holmes Perkins.During that time at the architecture school at the University of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • L'architettura di Luigi Carlo Daneri

    Una vicenda razionalistica italiana

    In questo volume è indagata la figura e l’opera di uno dei Maestri dell’architettura razionalista italiana, attivo e coerente protagonista di una stagione storica tra le più critiche che il nostro Paese ha vissuto nel corso del Novecento. La figura di Daneri spicca nel panorama italiano non solo per la sua adesione senza riserve, né ripensamenti, al razionalismo, ma per aver operato in un unico ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $15.99 USD

  • A colloquio con Franco Purini

    by AA. VV. ...
    Successo è un termine di difficile definizione, legato com'è a fattori spesso aleatori e a ragioni spesso esterne a esperienze disciplinari. Questa collana, dedicata allo specifico mondo dell'architettura, cerca le possibili ragioni di alcuni percorsi di “successo” attraverso le testimonianze-confessioni in forma di dialogo con alcuni dei protagonisti del dibattito contemporaneo sull'architettura ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Nicola Maria Pietrocola

    Architetto e teorico nel mezzogiorno preunitario

    Antico/Futuro collana diretta da Claudio Varagnoli L’architetto di cui si parla in questo libro è Nicola Maria Pietrocola, vissuto tra la fine del XVIII e la prima metà del XIX secolo, e con un’attività progettuale di lungo corso, sigillata negli ultimi anni della sua vita da un piccolo trattato sull’arte di costruire, pubblicato postumo a Napoli nel 1869 e rimasto unico nel suo genere, perlomeno ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another, as articulated with reference to the work of Jørn Utzon. It introduces critical contemporary perspectives of the design thinking and career of this renowned Danish architect, internationally recognised for his competition-winning, iconic design for the Sydney Opera ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • John Vassos

    Industrial Design for Modern Life

    What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Vassos emigrated from Greece and arrived in the United States in 1918. His career spans ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • L'Architetto in Italia. Quale futuro

    by Lucia Strona ...
    Fare l’architetto oggi è un’ardua sfida piuttosto che una professione, per cui gli obiettivi principali di ricerca, innovazione, etica e utilità sociale sono sostituiti da problematiche, ostacoli, luoghi comuni, deliri burocratici e normativi, che azzerano le velleità di noi architetti, soprattutto dei più giovani. La nostra figura è attualmente degradata a ruoli marginali, rispetto a quella dei ... Read more

    $8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Architecture of Brazil

    1900-1990

    by Hugo Segawa ...
    Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different understandings of modernity, evident in the chapter topics of this book. Accordingly, the author does not give overall preference to particular architects nor works, with the exception of a few specific works and architects, including Warchavchik ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Alchemy of Architecture: Memories and Insights from Ken Tate

    This is celebrated architect Ken Tate's creative memoir about his life.Beginning with his days growing up in Columbus, Mississippi where he was surrounded by beautiful Greek Revival houses, the book journeys through Ken's upbringing as a creative adolescent to his early days at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta where he started his architectural collegiate career. There Ken struggled to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golconde

    The Introduction of Modernism in India

    Golconde is an astonishing architectural accomplishment. With technical finesse and extraordinary craft, it offers a living testament to the original modernist credo - architecture as the manifest union of technology, aesthetics, and social reform. Here exists an undiluted view of a wholly triumphant tropical Modernism, built during the tumultuous years of the second world war.If ever there was a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Naive Intention

    Introduced by an essay about the vague contradiction between intentionality and chance, necessity and accident, reason and futility, authorship and anonymity, the book presents a selection of images that inform Pezo von Ellrichshausen’s cross production between art, architecture and academia. Each page contains a single picture and a brief caption describing it.Beyond a comprehensive depiction of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Frank Lloyd Wright

    The Architecture of Defiance

    Series series Architecture of Wales
    The story of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona. Throughout his long career, Wright strongly resisted the suggestion that his accomplishments owed anything to earthly influences. As much as he wanted his achievements to be recognised, he ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antoni Gaudí

    by Jeremy Roe ...
    Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926), Architekt und Künstler aus Barcelona, nimmt einen bedeutenden Platz in der Geschichte der spanischen Gegenwartskunst ein. Sein Umgang mit Farbe, die Verwendung verschiedener Materialien und die Einführung von Bewegung in seine Konstruktionen sind Innovationen auf dem Gebiet der Architektur. Antoni Gaudí hat in seinen Notizbüchern viele seiner Überlegungen zu seiner Kunst ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recordando a Coderch

    by Pati Núñez ...
    Series series Testimonia
    José Antonio Coderch es el gran olvidado de la arquitectura española, pese a que su obra, a la cabeza de la modernidad, dejó impronta en ciudades como Madrid o Barcelona.Este libro es una aproximación a su figura a partir de las personas que lo conocieron; un relato coral que configura un archivo vivo de su legado y arroja luz sobre su compleja personalidad mediante entrevistas con personajes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ernesto Nathan Rogers

    The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture
    Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative firm (Banfi Belgiojoso Peressutti Rogers, or BBPR), the editorship of publications such as Domus and Casabella, and his teaching at the Politecnico in Milan, Rogers ensured a lasting influence on the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Beauty's Rigor

    Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi

    by Thomas Leslie ...
    Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Pier Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came directly out of his economical, manual construction processes. The results were buildings that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Martin's Scribbles

    Sort of a Memoir

    by Martin Holub ...
    What do Prague, London, New York and Tehran have in common? Award-winning architect Martin Holub has lived, designed buildings and enriched lives in all these places. Martin’s Scribbles is a travel memoir, meets architect biography, meets lifetime reflection. Readers are taken on a playful romp through the latter twentieth-century to the present, as seen through the eyes of Holub – from a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Unidentified Flying Object for Contemporary Architecture

    UFO’s Experiments Between Political Activism and Artistic Avant-garde

    The first monographic publication focused on the Florentine UFO group (1968-1978), that conducts a historical analysis of its work, reveals its close relationship with the contemporary artistic, literary and architectural avant-garde and, finally, investigates its legacy for the contemporary project.The contemporary context is defined by a unique conjuncture. On one hand, we witness the revival of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Defining Contemporary Professionalism

    For Architects in Practice and Education

    Edited by Alan Jones, Rob Hyde ...
    This book is a series of curated essays by high-profile architecture and design leaders and educators on the topic of professionalism. The book first sets out the current agenda - defining professionalism for the architecture sector - before moving on to focus on delivering the increased professional skills curriculum content within architecture schools as set by the RIBA. With an introduction and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Climax Change!

    How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency

    by Pedro Gadanho ...
    Climax Change! represents the much-needed overview of how climate change and the current environmental emergency will affect the practice of architecture, both in terms of its design philosophy and rising opportunities to innovate and radically transform the current tenet of architecture’s aesthetic, ethical and professional drives.Climax Change! offers an overview of how the current environmental ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Soupergreen!

    by Doug Jackson ...
    SOUPERgreen! features projects and essays that offer a long overdue critique of the current approach to “green” architecture and, in turn, demonstrate a more appropriate way for architects to address the challenges posed by the environmental crisis. In sharp contrast to contemporary examples of “green” or “sustainable” architecture—which primarily rely upon the invisible agency of unremarkable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Architetture di Carlo Rainaldi

    nel quarto centenario della nascita

    A distanza di un cinquantennio dall'ultima monografia dedicata a Girolamo e Carlo Rainaldi, in occasione del quarto centenario della nascita di Carlo (4 maggio 2011), si dà corso alla pubblicazione di ulteriori studi archivistico- documentari e approfondimenti sulle opere di architettura a lui ascrivibili e si propone una revisione critica volta a valorizzare positivamente gli aspetti molteplici ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Roma em dois dias

    by Tangoitalia ...
    Você pode passar uma vida inteira em Roma e, ainda assim, não saber tudo sobre a cidade eterna. Você pode obter um bom entendimento visitando por uma semana ou mais, mas se tiver apenas 48 horas, você deve estar disposto a experimentar o máximo possível de Roma.Você pode contar com um operador turístico para colocá-lo em um grupo como ovelha, ou você pode pagar pelo nariz de uma visita guiada ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus