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The edifice complex
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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… |
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Team 10
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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… |
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Gadamer for architects
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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… |
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Event-cities 3
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Bernard Tschumi |
637 p. : 23 cm |
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Man between earth and sky
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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… |
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Gnostic architecture
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Eric Owen Moss |
1 v. (various pagings) : 30 cm |
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Thinking about architecture
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Colin Davies |
Annotation |
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Nurturing dreams
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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… |
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Theories and manifestoes of contemporary architecture
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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… |
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The ethical architect
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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… |
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Modern Architectural Theory
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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… |
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Artificial Light
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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 … |
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Le Corbusier and the tragic view of architecture
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Charles Jencks |
198 pages : 23 cm |
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