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Learning from Las Vegas, rev edit
Learning from Las Vegas - The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, rev. edition. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban...
The World as an architectural project
The World as an Architectural Project. Architects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others.
The City as a Project - new updated edition
The City as a Project - new updated edition. What if the city can be seen differently than as a sort of self-organising chaos? Shaped not only by material forces, but also by cultural and didactic visions, the city may instead result from political intention in the form of architectural projects.
Built Unbuilt - by Julen de Smedt and Julien Lanoo
Built Unbuilt - by Julen de Smedt and Julien Lanoo. The book revisits 16 years of Julien De Smedt’s work from the inception of the architectural practice PLOT with Bjarke Ingels in 2001 to the work of JDSA and the founding of the design studio Makers With Agendas with William Ravn in 2013.
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures - Landscape as Art and Urbanisme 2nd revised edition
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures - Landscape as Art and Urbanisme. One of the most important landscape architects in the history of the field. The lectures paint a picture of Burle Marx not just as a gardener, artist and botanist, but as a landscape architect whose ambition was to bring radical change to cities and society. Incl. af dozen of lectures, most of...
Handbook of Urban Mobilities
Handbook of Urban Mobilities. This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and ‘the urban’ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe and analyse the world of urban mobilities.
Design with Nature Now
Design with Nature Now. Named a best book of 2019! Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg's seminal book, which set a forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems.
Anupama Kundoo - The Architect's Studio
Anupama Kundoo - The Architect's Studio. About the works of the much appraised Indian architect. This publication explores how traditional Indian building customs, crafts and materials are integrated into her studio's remarkable projects.
The Welfare City in Transition - A Compilation of Texts and Images 1923-2020
The Welfare City in Transition - A Compilation of Texts and Images 1923-2020. Through a compilation of texts and images from different voices and decades the book presents key challenges and perspectives of the past, present and future of the Danish welfare city. It provides a critical map for reflection and action when tackling the urban issues of our...
Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies
Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning, of relevance to all those with an interest in cities and urban areas. Useful for students, social scientists and policy makers
The Architecture of Bathing - Body, Landscape, Art
The Architecture of Bathing - Body, Landscape, Art. A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape.