Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The edifice complex The edifice complex Deyan Sudjic An analysis of the role played by the rich and powerful in architecture argues that architecture is an expression of authority rather than art, with examples from buildings commissioned by such figur… OL15822460W
Team 10 Team 10 Annie Pedret "Between 1947 and 1959 a post-war generation of modern architects laid a series of challenges and critiques of the methods of modern architecture and town planning to the founding members of CIAM (Co… OL16548019W
Gadamer for architects Gadamer for architects Paul Kidder "Providing a concise and accessible introduction to the work of the twentieth century's celebrated German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer, this book focuses on the aspects of Gadamer's philosophy tha… OL16700325W
Event-cities 3 Event-cities 3 Bernard Tschumi 637 p. : 23 cm OL1727575W
Man between earth and sky Man between earth and sky Louis O. Roberts "This book embodies one person's life of creativity and the pursuit of a vision -- in this case an architectural vision. Years of teaching have allowed the author to observe that we all have the powe… OL18573085W
Gnostic architecture Gnostic architecture Eric Owen Moss 1 v. (various pagings) : 30 cm OL1972263W
Thinking about architecture Thinking about architecture Colin Davies Annotation OL20895784W
Nurturing dreams Nurturing dreams Fumihiko Maki "Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architectur… OL2626350W
Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture Karl Kropf,Charles Jencks "Charles Jencks was the first to demonstrate that Modern architecture in the 1960s and 1970s had undergone a profound mutation into three major approaches - Post-Modernism, Late Modernism and New Mod… OL27974280W
The ethical architect The ethical architect Tom Spector "What makes a good building or a good architect? Are there limits to an architect's ethical or legal responsibilities in a building process where architecture plays an increasingly smaller role? Is p… OL4296974W
Modern Architectural Theory Modern Architectural Theory Harry Mallgrave Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this syn… OL8326925W
Artificial Light Artificial Light Keith Mitnick "In Artificial Light: A Narrative Inquiry into the Nature of Abstraction, Immediacy, and other Architectural Fictions, Keith Mitnick - himself an architect and teacher - presents a startlingly vivid … OL8909508W
Le Corbusier and the tragic view of architecture Le Corbusier and the tragic view of architecture Charles Jencks 198 pages : 23 cm OL903089W