Architecture Books
The University of Chicago Press Automatic Architecture Motivating Form after
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving away from the traditional reliance on an individual architect's knowledge and instincts and toward the use of external tools and processes that were considered objective, logical, or natural. Automatic architecture was born. The quixotic attempts to formulate such design processes extended modernist principles and tried to draw architecture closer to mathematics and the sciences. By focusing on design methods, and by examining evidence at a range of scales from institutions to individual buildings Automatic Architecture offers an alternative to narratives of this period that have presented postmodernism as a question of style, as the methods and techniques traced here have been more deeply
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The University of Chicago Press NonDesign
Book SynopsisAnthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period, expressed as a critique of central design and a support of spontaneous order. Non-Design illuminates the unexpected philosophical common ground between enemies of state support, most prominently the economist Friedrich Hayek, and numerous notable postwar architects and urbanists like Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Reyner Banham, and Jane Jacobs. These thinkers espoused a distinctive concept of non-design,characterized by a rejection of conscious design and an embrace of various phenomenon that emerge without intention or deliberate human guidance. This diffuse and complex body of theories discarded many of the cultural presuppositions of the time, shunning the traditions of modern design in favor of the wisdom, freedom, and self-organizing capacity of the market. Fontenot reveals the litTrade Review"Detailed and fascinating . . . An excellent book. The writing is scholarly, yet readable and engaging, and Fontenot’s skillful use of quotations from contemporary periodicals, such as Architectural Review, Architectural Design, and New Society, brings the critique of modernism to life." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Fontenot, who teaches architecture at Woodbury University, wrote a fascinating book arguing that economic thinking can influence architecture and design, and it did. . . . Even the reader who disagrees the most vehemently with Fontenot could learn a lot from a book which provides the reader with such an impressive amount of information." * History of Economic Ideas *“Fontenot’s stunningly erudite and deeply researched book is a landmark contribution to the study of the built environment and establishes him as one of the field's most perspicacious intellectual historians. Its explication of myriad connections among economic thinkers and the disciplines of architecture and urbanism transforms previous understandings and will doubtless foster renewed and refined discussions of monopolies in the twenty-first century. Non-Design is an uncommonly bracing, audacious, and provocative work of historical scholarship.” * Edward Dimendberg, University of California, Irvine *“In his thoroughly researched tome, Fontenot shapes an innovative vision of postwar architecture. Considering the critical discourse and the practical responses that have challenged the dominion of central planning and functional design, he weaves together well-chosen British and North American episodes marking the emergence of a deliberate denigration of modern design.” * Jean-Louis Cohen, New York University Institute of Fine Arts *“Rich in ideas, edifying in its connecting lines, Fontenot’s survey of mid-twentieth-century (non)planning theory is a masterful compendium of urban discussions holding significant relevance today.” * Harry Francis Mallgrave, Illinois Institute of Technology *"Recommended. Urban design and city planning receive limited attention in discussions of modern architecture despite their undeniable importance to architectural design in the urban environment. Fontenot aims to elevate these topics within the larger discussion by examining the important social theories and trends that have influenced urban design and planning since WW II. Fontenot explores the critical reactions in mid-twentieth century urban design discourse to earlier Utopian, socialist-inspired urban planning and design theories familiar to students of twentieth-century architecture. But he broadens the topic by proposing intellectual connections between the proponents of what was known as “non-design” in urban architecture and the theories of market-driven decisions in organized human activities described by Friedrich Hayek. . . These and other comparisons between market-driven and urban design theories should generate considerable discussion." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Planned Order versus Spontaneous Order Chapter 2. New Brutalism and the Critique of Socialism: Non-Design and the New Visual Order Chapter 3. The Borax Debates: From Modern Design to Non-Design Chapter 4. Spontaneous City: Jane Jacobs and the Critique of Planned Order Chapter 5. Chaos or Control: Non-Design and the American City Chapter 6. The Indeterminate City Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Building Globalization Transnational
Book SynopsisFrom the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. This title scrutinizes the phenomenon of transnational architecture and its profound effect on the development of urban space.
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University of Chicago Press What Gardens Mean
Book SynopsisAre gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy, history of art, culture and garden examples to explore the magical lure of gardens. The text plays special attention to the landscape gardens of 18th-century England.
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University of Chicago Press The Chicago Auditorium Building Adler and
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The University of Chicago Press Carson Pirie Scott Louis Sullivan and the
Book SynopsisLong recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. This study traces the origins of the building's design and analyzes its role in commercial, urban, and architectural history.Trade Review"Siry's book is not about a store per se. Rather, it is a vehicle for examining how one man's ideas at once expressed and informed defining aspects of material life in his immediate milieu and beyond.... Carson Pirie Scott transcends the confines of ordinary case studies to become a formidable work of cultural history." (Journal of American History)"
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The University of Chicago Press Chicagos North Michigan Avenue Planning and
Book SynopsisSince its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential Gold Coast north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspir
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University of Chicago Press The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion Revised edition
Book SynopsisPresenting a range of Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, this title features a description of each building that details the history of its design, construction, and ownership. Organized chronologically, it includes nearly 1,000 photographs, elevations, historical images, and floor plans that show changes in Wright's preliminary plans.Trade Review"William Allin Storrer has produced the first true and complete catalogue raisonne of Wright's work, and it is stunning.... Mr. Storrer has given us more than a story; he has written an epic. This book, more than any other, makes the remarkable length and breadth of Wright's career clear." - Paul Goldberger, New York Times Book Review "Storrer... knows more about Frank Lloyd Wright than anyone else, and he's produced the ultimate encyclopedia, with 965 photographs of 470 buildings and an insightful, fact-filled text." - Robert Campbell, Boston Globe"
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University of Illinois Press SynergiCity
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHistoric Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation, 2013. A Choice Outstanding Title, 2013. "Instead of handing over neighborhoods to city hall or private developers, this book shows that the solution to many cities' plights lies within them. Empowering residents to take control of and build on community assets, engaging them in community-based organizations that can spearhead revitalization and build real quality of place, yields real results. To the extent that they adopt a holistic approach to planning and build on a city's intrinsic strengths, they can accomplish miracles."--from the foreword by Richard Florida"This timely and approachable collection provides meaningful case studies and a wealth of topics for discussion in urban studies and redevelopment. Professionals and students in urban planning, government, and urban development will find this volume greatly interesting."--Robert M. Lau, associate editor of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Journal "Contains valuable insight."--Shepherd Express "The book oozes with optimism for a bucolic yet historically gritty future for these postindustrial, medium-sized Midwestern cities. The book is a neat and clear attempt to pull some wildly popular ideas together under one roof and apply them to a rather understudies subject: medium-sized postindustrial Midwestern cities. Along with scores of beautiful images, the book succeeds in that mission and is a pleasure to recommend."--The Geographical Review
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MIT Press Ltd Designing Media
Book SynopsisConnections and clashes between new and old media, as told by interviewees ranging from the founder of Twitter to the publisher of the New York Times.Mainstream media, often known simply as MSM, have not yet disappeared in a digital takeover of the media landscape. But the long-dominant MSM—television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books—have had to respond to emergent digital media. Newspapers have interactive Web sites; television broadcasts over the Internet; books are published in both electronic and print editions. In Designing Media, design guru Bill Moggridge examines connections and conflicts between old and new media, describing how the MSM have changed and how new patterns of media consumption are emerging. The book features interviews with thirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass communication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to the founder of Twitter. We learn about innovations in
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MIT Press Ltd Maintenance Architecture The MIT Press
Book SynopsisAn inventive examination of a crucial but neglected aspect of architecture, by an architect writing to architects.Maintenance plays a crucial role in the production and endurance of architecture, yet architects for the most part treat maintenance with indifference. The discipline of architecture values the image of the new over the lived-in, the photogenic empty and stark building over a messy and labored one. But the fact is: homes need to be cleaned and buildings and cities need to be maintained, and architecture no matter its form cannot escape from such realities. In Maintenance Architecture, Hilary Sample offers an inventive examination of the architectural significance of maintenance through a series of short texts and images about specific buildings, materials, and projects. Although architects have seldom choose to represent maintenance—imagining their work only from conception to realization—artists have long explored subjects of endurance and perm
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MIT Press Ltd The Largest Art A Measured Manifesto for a Plural
Book SynopsisWhy urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitionersUrban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In The Largest Art, Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. In a “declaration of independence” for urban design, Ryan describes urban design as the largest of the building arts, with qualities of its own.Ryan distinguishes urban design from its sister arts by its pluralism: plural scale, ranging from an alleyway to a region; plural time, because it is deeply enmeshed in both history and the present; plural property, with many owners; plural agents, with many makers; and
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MIT Press Ltd Pretense Design Surface Over Substance Design
Book SynopsisHow some design appears to be something that it is not—by beautifying, amusing, substituting, or deceiving.Pretense design pretends to be something that it is not. Pretense design includes all kinds of designed objects: a pair of glasses that looks like a fashion accessory rather than a medical necessity, a hotel in Las Vegas that simulates a Venetian ambience complete with canals and gondolas, boiler plates that look like steel but are vinyl. In this book, Danish designer Per Mollerup defines and describes a ubiquitous design category that until now has not had a name: designed objects with an intentional discrepancy between surface and substance, between appearance and reality. Pretense design, he shows us, is a type of material rhetoric; it is a way for physical objects to speak persuasively, most often to benefit users but sometimes to deceive them.After explaining the means and the meanings of pretense design, Mollerup describes four pretense design applicat
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MIT Press Ltd Model City Pyongyang Mit Press
Book SynopsisA photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's “model” utopia.The story of Pyongyang is unique even in the annals of model cities and modernist utopias. Entirely rebuilt after the Korean War, North Korea's capital city was planned and fully implemented to embody a single ideological vision. This extraordinary, richly illustrated book takes readers on a photographic journey through the architecture of North Korea's “model” utopia.Built as an ideological guide for its citizens, Pyongyang displays a unique architectural cohesion and narrative. From the city's large-scale monumental axes to its symbolic sports halls and experimental housing, Model City offers offers comprehensive visual access to Pyongyang's restricted buildings. The architecture of Pyongyang exists within a culture that favors construction and renewal over historical preservation, and in recent years many buildings have been redeveloped to remove interior features
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MIT Press Ltd Notes from Another Los Angeles Gregory Ain and
Book SynopsisThe first book to focus on California architect Gregory Ain’s housing projects, which featured open kitchens, movable walls, and other design innovations.The Southern California architect Gregory Ain (1908–1988) collaborated with some of the most important figures of midcentury design, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames, and yet remains relatively unknown. Perhaps one reason for this anonymity is that although he designed private homes for wealthy liberals, Ain was more interested in finding ways to produce high-quality, low-cost houses in well-designed neighborhood settings for working-class families. This is the first book to examine the innovative housing projects that synthesized Ain’s architectural and political ideals.The book is arranged through a quartet of “notes”—both textual and visual—akin to a police or surveillance file (which is no accident, given that among these notes i
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MIT Press Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy
Book SynopsisAn idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, accompanied by the author’s own witty illustrations.In Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy, architect Peter Wilson offers a Grand Tour of Grand Tours, providing an idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, illustrated by his own witty watercolors and sketches. Wilson chronicles the reasons that people throughout history have traveled to Italy—ranging from “To Be the Subject of an Equestrian Painting by Uccello in Florence Cathedral” to “To Rebuild Herculaneum in Malibu” (the desire of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in the 1970s)—while giving readers a deeper understanding of Italy’s architectural habitat and cultural mythology. In Wilson’s narratives and anecdotes, place names function as talismans; the events may not tally with recorded history, or with the exact topographies of actual places. Wilson o
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MIT Press Ltd Richard Riemerschmids Extraordinary Living Things
Book SynopsisHow Richard Riemerschmid’s designs of everyday—but “extraordinary”—objects recalibrate our understanding of modernism.At the beginning of the twentieth century, German artist Richard Riemerschmid (1868–1957) was known as a symbolist painter and, by the advent of World War I, had become an important modern architect. This, however, the first English-language book on Riemerschmid, celebrates his understudied legacy as a designer of everyday objects—furniture, tableware, clothing—that were imbued with an extraordinary sense of vitality and even personality. Freyja Hartzell makes a case for the importance of Riemerschmid's designed objects in the development of modern design—and for the power of everyday things to change the way we live our lives, understand history, and design our future. Hartzell offers for the first time an interpretive history of Riemerschmid's design practice embedded in a fresh examination of modern
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MIT Press Ltd All the Kings Horses Vitruvius in an Age of
Book SynopsisHow the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture—and justified their right to rule.In Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture, Indra Kagis McEwen argued that Vitruvius’s first-century BC treatise De architectura was informed by imperial ideology, giving architecture a role in the imperial Roman project of world rule. In her sequel, All the King’s Horses, McEwen focuses on the early Renaissance reception of Vitruvius’s thought beginning with Petrarch—a political reception preoccupied with legitimating existing power structures. During this “age of princes” various signori took over Italian towns and cities, displacing independent communes and their avowed ideal of the common good. In turn, architects, taking up Vitruvius’s mantle, designed for these princes with the intent of making their power manifest—and celebrating “the
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MIT Press Ltd DetroitMoscowDetroit
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MIT Press Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern tells the captivating story of Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black woman architect, artist, and educator born into the Jim Crow South, whose bold choices in both life and architecture expand our understanding of the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, while revealing the importance of architecture as a force in Black middle-class identity. Through her charismatic protagonist, Jacqueline Taylor derives new insights into the experiences of Black women at the forefront of culture in early twentieth-century America, caught between expectation and ambition, responsibility and desire. Central to Taylor’s argument is that Meredith’s response to modern architecture and art, like those of other Black cultura
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MIT Press Ltd Machine a Amuser
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MIT Press Ltd Programs and Manifestoes on 20thCentury
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MIT Press Design To Live Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp
Book SynopsisThe power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan.This book shows how, even in the most difficult conditions--forced displacement, trauma, and struggle--design can help create a life worth living. Design to Live documents designs, inventions, and artworks created by Syrian refugees living in the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. Through these ingenious and creative innovations--including the vertical garden, an arrangement necessitated by regulations that forbid planting in the ground; a front hall, fashioned to protect privacy; a baby swing made from recycled desks; and a chess set carved from a broomstick--refugees defy the material scarcity, unforgiving desert climate, and cultural isolation of the camp. Written in close collaboration with the residents of the camp, with text in both English and Arabic, Design to Live, reflects two perspectives on the camp: peo
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MIT Press Ltd The Lord Of The Absurd
Book SynopsisThe imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings and models, told through reminiscences, stories, conversations, letters, and monologues.Even when an architectural drawing does not show any human figures, we can imagine many different characters just off the page: architects, artists, onlookers, clients, builders, developers, philanthropists—working, observing, admiring, arguing. In Stories from Architecture, Philippa Lewis captures some of these personalities through reminiscences, anecdotes, conversations, letters, and monologues that collectively offer the imagined histories of twenty-five architectural drawings. Some of these untold stories are factual, like Frank Lloyd Wright’s correspondence with a Wisconsin librarian regarding her $5,000 dream home, or letters written by the English architect John Nash to his irascible aristocratic client. Others recount a fictional, if credible, scenario by placing these drawings&
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MIT Press Ltd Form and Flow
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MIT Press Ltd Sandfuture
Book SynopsisAn account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written.Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure o
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MIT Press Ltd Perspecta 54
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MIT Press Ltd Zickzack
Book SynopsisZigzagging through six locations on the edges of the German-speaking world, exploring them through politics, architecture, literature, film, art, music, food, and history.“Zickzack” is the German word for “zigzag”: hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. Zickzack is William Firebrace’s zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates locations on defined and undefined borders, where cultures, languages, and histories mix. In his nonlinear wandering, he touches on ethnicity, topography, history, film, literature, myth, languages, and gastronomy. These locales are not the famous cities of Berlin, Vienna, and Zurich, but areas that straddle countries, geographies, and influences. Two are within Germany itself, one lies on
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MIT Press Tokyoids The Robotic Face of Architecture
Book SynopsisA photographic survey of the robotic face of Tokyo buildings and an argument that robot aesthetics plays a central role in architectural history.In Tokyoids, architect François Blanciak surveys the robotic faces omnipresent in Tokyo buildings, offering an architectural taxonomy based not on the usual variables—size, material, historical style—but on the observable expressions of buildings. Are the eyes (windows) twinkling, the mouth (door) laughing? Is that balcony a howl of distress? Investigating robot aesthetics through his photographs of fifty buildings, Blanciak argues that the robot face originated in architecture—before the birth of robotics—and has played a central role in architectural history. Blanciak first puts the robot face into historical perspective, examining the importance of the face in architectural theory and demonstrating that the construction of architecture’s emblematic portraits trigge
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MIT Press Ltd Spatializing Justice
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MIT Press Ltd Perspecta 55 Futures Index
Book SynopsisA collection that explores how architecture ought to negotiate the future, when the future is anything but certain.Architecture is fundamentally a practice of predicting the future. In designing spaces that will endure for decades, architects must reconcile their visions of future living with predicted economic, political, and environmental futures. Thus, whereas utopian architects of the past each sought to impose a singular future through visionary architectural form, architects of today must reconcile between the multiple futures projected by hired specialists, live modeling software, climate change prognoses, and financial markets. Perspecta 55 aims to undertake this much-needed analysis of contrasting techniques of prediction, investigating architecture’s relationship to these conflicting visions of the future. Perspecta gathers together contributions from the fields of finance, climate, security, and computation to unearth the parti
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MIT Press Overgrown Practices between Landscape
Book SynopsisA call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden.Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson.As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and
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MIT Press Barbarian Architecture
Book SynopsisA richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen’s classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.An important critic of modern culture, American economist Thorstein Veblen is best known for the concept of “conspicuous consumption,” the ostentatious and wasteful display of goods in the service of social status—a term he coined in his 1899 classic The Theory of the Leisure Class. In the field of architectural history, scholars have employed Veblen in support of a wide range of arguments about modern architecture, but never has he attracted a comprehensive and critical treatment from the viewpoint of architectural history. In Barbarian Architecture, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury corrects this omission by reexamining Veblen’s famous book as an original theory of modernity and situating it in a particular place and time—Chicago in the 1890s
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MIT Press Ltd Perspecta 56
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MIT Press Ltd The Details of Modern Architecture Volume 1 v. 1
Book SynopsisHow did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront. The Details of Modern Architecture, the first comprehensive analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in the development of architecture, provides not one answer but many.The more than 500 illustrations are a major contribution in their own right. Providing a valuable collective resource, they present the details of notable architectural works drawn in similar styles and formats, allowing comparisons between works of different scales, periods, and styles.Covering the period 1890-1932, Ford focuses on various recognized masters, explaining the detailing and construction techniques that distort, camouflage, or enhance a building. He looks at the source of each architect's ideas, the translation of those ideas into practice, and the success or failure of the te
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MIT Press The Situationist City The MIT Press
Book SynopsisSimon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the Situationist International left behind. From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world. The movement's broadside attack on establishment institutions and values left its mark upon the libertarian left, the counterculture, the revolutionary events of 1968, and more recent phenomena from punk to postmodernism. But over time it tended to obscure Situationism's own founding principles. In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of Situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the modern city.According to the Situationists, the benign professionalism of architecture and design had led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to
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University of Washington Press Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brian McLaren . . . has produced a magnificent and scholarly work to add to the growing number of books on colonial architecture. . . . This book is written in clear and elegant prose and is well illustrated with architectural drawings, old photographs, and reproductions of tourist brochures, posters, and postcards . . . the University of Washington Press should be commended for the superior design and reproduction of images in McLaren's fine book." * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya confronts us with a rich and fascinating story on the indeterminate relation between architecture and tourism in colonial Libya. The outstanding text is larded with an intriguing selection of images that stem from popular literature, tourist ephemera ranging from guidebooks to brochures and postcards, as well as architectural archives. The result is captivating." * Journal of Design History *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Incorporation of Libya into Metropolitan Italy 2. Colonial Tourism and the Experience of Modernity 3. The Indigenous Politics of Italian Colonialism 4. Tourism and the Framing of Indigenous Culture 5. Toward a Modern Colonial Architecture 6. In Search of a Regionalist Expression Conclusion Notes Bibliography Figure Credits Index
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University of Washington Press Suyama
Book SynopsisIntroduces the man and his work, discussing relevant aspects of Suyama's life, the influences that have shaped his beliefs, and, in layman's terminology, twenty of his built and unbuilt projects that illuminate the development of his remarkable art and craftTrade Review"Smartly written and beautifully packaged . . . . Hildebrand eloquently illuminates the way Suyama's houses are puzzles that yield up their subtleties and secrets." -- Michael Upchurch * Seattle Times *"The images do a remarkable job communicating the design integral to Suyama's work, at the same time the presentation of lifestyles liberates and inspires. Most pleasing about the book is the sense of harmony and balance shared by each page." * BUILD *"His life and work are the subject of a gorgeous new book by Grant Hildebrand . . . Suyama: a Complex Serenity reveals via full color photographs of regional projects Suyama's trademark blend of Japanese minimalism and a Northwest emphasis on bringing the outdoors inside. Determined to eliminate 'visual noise,' Suyama designs structures simultaneously still and thrilling. How lucky we are to have such an artist bringing manmade beauty to our natural spaces." * Seattle Magazine *
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WW Norton & Co Fear and Clothing Unbuckling American Style
Book SynopsisAs the former New York Times Critical Shopper, and voted one of Fashionista's 50 Most Influential People in New York Fashion, Cintra Wilson knows something about clothes. And in Fear and Clothing, she imparts her no-holds-barred, totally outrageous, astute, and hilarious wisdom to the reader.Trade Review"On this hilarious and insightful road trip across the country's fashion landscape, Cintra Wilson undresses America with eagle-eyed flair, showing who we are and how each of us could be much more awesome." -- Trevor Paglen"While I may know as much about fashion as the average farm animal, I am in awe of Cintra Wilson's savage, untamed, and deeply learned writing on the subject. Clotheshorses are advised not to attempt reading her book while consuming beverages, since the resulting explosions of laughter may ruin their outfits." -- Luc Sante"All you need to know about Cintra Wilson's new book is CINTRA WILSON WROTE A NEW BOOK. And you get to read it. I envy the gorgeous, razor-blade garden you're about to picnic in." -- Patton Oswalt
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WW Norton & Co Infrastructure A Guide to the Industrial
Book SynopsisWith a chapter reflecting on recent disasters, Infrastructure is a compelling explorer's guide to the world we've made for ourselves.Trade Review"Beautifully illustrated, continually informative, it richly deserves to become this season's unlikely bestseller." -- Alain de Botton - The Independent"Why do you want to know about standpipes and manholes? Take a look, and you will." -- Erica Wagner - The Times"One of the most magical books I’ve chanced upon…" -- Alain de Botton - The Observer"When seen through the discriminating lens of author and photographer Brian Hayes, man-made objects appear as exquisite and natural as organic ones." -- Wired
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WW Norton & Co Wild Horse Country
Book SynopsisThe “insightful [and] even-handed” (Outside) story of a heroic animal whose existence is in danger.Trade Review"Wide-ranging [and] scrupulously reported." -- Pia Catton - Weekly Standard"Colorful, well-researched and well-reasoned." -- Bruce Jacobs - Shelf Awareness"A gripping, myth-busting biography of the mustang." -- Dan Egan, author of The Death and Life of the Great Lakes"A gimlet-eyed look at the place of the wild horse in the landscape of the American West.… Of a piece with Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert." -- Kirkus Reviews
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W. W. Norton & Company The Last Job The Bad Grandpas and the Hatton
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WW Norton & Co Women in the Picture What Culture Does with
Book SynopsisArt historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.Trade Review"Women in the Picture mounts a sensitive and probing critique of the motifs, the preordained poses and affectations of the female figure in art. If feminism aspires to render itself obsolete, McCormack’s project too yearns for a future when critiquing such postures...will no longer be necessary." -- Jasmine Sanders, New York Times Book Review"A passionate, serious, yet often entertaining introduction to issues that will be with us for the foreseeable future, their historic context and their implications for women." -- Cathryn Keller, Washington Post"McCormack moves seamlessly between feminism's academic and popular iterations…Women in the Picture gave me new ways to think about feminist art and feminist art history…[E]legant, precise, inviting." -- Kimberly Lann - Women's Art Journal"[An] illuminating look at how women's bodies have been depicted in the arts…This eye-opening work will leave readers with plenty to ponder." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)"A timely, succinct, aesthetic inquiry into debates about sexuality, objectification, and representation." -- Kirkus Reviews"On this grand tour of western visual culture, you couldn’t ask for a better guide." -- Bridget Quinn, author of Broad Strokes"Catherine McCormack succeeds in the nearly impossible task of discussing both the representation of women throughout the history of art as well as how women artists have challenged these male-centric images." -- Kathy Battista, author of New York New Wave"The art book we’ve all been waiting for." -- Helen Gørrill, author of Women Can’t Paint"I’m glad this book was written because it felt like the scales were falling from my eyes as I read it." -- Jan Patience - Herald
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WW Norton & Co The Story of Art Without Men
Book SynopsisInstant New York Times bestseller One of Vanity Fair's Favorite Books to Gift • One of PureWow's 42 Books to Gift This Year • One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2023 The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.Trade Review"Excellent, authoritative, exuberant, and elegantly written." -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, on Twitter"What Hessel achieves here is extraordinary . . . She covers a wide range of mediums (from silhouette papercutting to body art) and themes (including postcolonial narratives and queer pride). And though she keeps the focus on the women, she includes a few choice slurs by men as evidence of what these artists were—and are—up against . . . This [is a] spellbinding book." -- Margot Mifflin - Los Angeles Times"[The Story of Art Without Men] should become a founding text in the history of art by women . . . Inspiring and indispensable." -- Bidisha Mamta - Guardian"Sweeping . . . Part revisionist history, part coffee-table book, part collective portrait, part archival treasure hunt." -- Tiana Reid - New York Times"A revelation and an important first step towards redressing the balance of an art world in which women have been sidelined." -- Katy Thompsett - Refinery29"Katy Hessel presents art as you’ve never seen it before, with women in the spotlight—and without a Leonardo in sight." -- Rachel Campbell-Johnston - Times (London)"There’s still some way to go until the gender imbalance is totally redressed, but The Story of Art Without Men, which describes how women achieved artistic excellence against colossal odds, has firmly cracked open the canon." -- Chloë Ashby - Spectator"The Story of Art Without Men is an extraordinary achievement that will have a disruptive cultural legacy and help determine the landscape for years to come." -- Helena Lee - Harper’s Bazaar"It’s a radical premise, rewriting history and upending the dominance men have held over so much of our culture. ([Hessel] includes sections on queer artists and artists of color, too.) Reading the book, I felt almost giddy as I reached each art-historical moment without the usual suspects mentioned." -- Grace Edquist - Vogue"After reading The Story of Art Without Men, educators may aspire to redesign their art history surveys and syllabi—and trade some Picassos for Gegos." -- Nageen Shaikh - Hyperallergic"An indispensable primer on the history of art, with an exclusive focus on women . . . A constructive, revelatory project . . . [and] an overdue upending of art historical discourse." -- Kirkus (starred review)"I’d urge you to pick up [this] book, which is an extraordinary eye-opener, and very readable . . . We badly need books like Hessel’s." -- Hattie Crisell - Evening Standard"This book has blown my mind. Really passionately recommend." -- India Knight - Sunday Times"Hessel’s clear love for the history of art shines. She . . . embarks on nuanced, poetic visual descriptions with reverence and excitement, as if discovering her subjects for the first time. . . . The Story of Art Without Men is an invitation to constantly rethink art history and continue to fill in the gaps." -- Annabel Keenan - Artillery
£35.14
Random House USA Inc Edge of Order
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Simplified Design of Concrete Structures 8e
Book SynopsisFor over sixty years, the primary source for design of concrete structures--now revised and updated Simplified Design of Concrete Structures, Eighth Edition covers all the latest, commonly used concrete systems, practices, and research in the field, reinforced with examples of practical designs and general building structural systems.Trade Review"Updated to reflect current building codes, design practices, and industry standards, this accessible text for students of building design covers today's most commonly used concrete structures. Concise descriptions of the design of various structural elements are accompanied by illustrative examples and problems to be solved by the reader." (Book News, February 2008)Table of ContentsPreface to the Eighth Edition xi Preface to the First Edition xv Introduction 1 1 Structural Use of Concrete 10 1.1 Concrete as a Structural Material 10 1.2 Common Forms of Concrete Structures 11 1.3 Primary Situations for Investigation and Design 13 1.4 Materials and Nature of Structural Concrete 14 1.5 Significant Properties of Concrete 18 1.6 Reinforcement 22 1.7 Prestressed Concrete 26 1.8 Design of Concrete Mixes 30 1.9 Special Concretes 31 2 Considerations for Production of Concrete 33 2.1 General Concerns for Concrete 33 2.2 Concerns for Structural Concrete 34 2.3 Sitecast Concrete 35 2.4 Design and Production Controls 38 2.5 Inspection and Testing 39 2.6 Installation of Reinforcement 41 2.7 Precast Concrete 42 2.8 Mixed Systems: Sitecast and Precast 47 2.9 Concrete Masonry 48 3 General Requirements for Reinforced Concrete Structures 50 3.1 Code and Industry Standards 50 3.2 Practical Considerations 51 3.3 Control of Cracking 55 3.4 General Requirements for Steel Reinforcement 56 4 Investigation and Design of Reinforced Concrete 59 4.1 Situations for Investigation and Design 59 4.2 Methods of Investigation and Design 61 4.3 The Stress Method 62 4.4 The Strength Method 62 4.5 Investigation of Columns and Beams 63 4.6 Investigation of Column and Beam Frames 72 4.7 Approximate Investigation of Indeterminate Structures 78 5 Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) 83 5.1 Limit States Versus Service Conditions 83 5.2 Loads for Design 84 5.3 Resistance Factors 85 5.4 Strength Design Processes 86 6 Reinforced Concrete Flexural Members 87 6.1 General Flexural Actions 87 6.2 Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams 88 6.3 Investigation and Design for Flexure 90 6.4 Beams in Sitecast Systems 101 6.5 T-Beams 104 6.6 Beams with Compression Reinforcement 110 6.7 Spanning Slabs 117 6.8 Deflection Control 122 7 Shear in Concrete Structures 125 7.1 General Concerns for Shear 125 7.2 Shear in Beams 126 7.3 Shear Reinforcement for Beams 127 7.4 Design for Beam Shear 133 8 Anchorage and Development of Reinforcement 142 8.1 Development of Stress in Tension Reinforcement 143 8.2 Hooks 146 8.3 Bar Development in Continuous Beams 148 8.4 Splices in Reinforcement 149 8.5 Development of Compressive Reinforcement 150 8.6 Developed Anchorage for Frame Continuity 153 9 Flat-Spanning Concrete Systems 154 9.1 Slab and Beam Systems 155 9.2 General Considerations for Beams 162 9.3 Other Flat-Spanning Systems 167 9.4 Design Aids 178 10 Concrete Columns 180 10.1 Effects of Compression Force 180 10.2 Reinforcement for Columns 182 10.3 Types of Columns 184 10.4 General Requirements for Columns 186 10.5 Combined Compression and Bending 187 10.6 Considerations for Column Shape 189 10.7 Columns in Sitecast Frames 191 10.8 Multistory Columns 192 10.9 Design Methods and Aids 194 10.10 Approximate Design of Tied Columns 195 10.11 Round Columns 202 10.12 Special Concerns for Concrete Columns 204 10.13 Vertical Concrete Compression Elements 205 10.14 Concrete Masonry Columns and Piers 208 11 Column and Beam Frames 210 11.1 Two-Dimensional Frames 211 11.2 Three-Dimensional Frames 212 11.3 Mixed Frame and Wall Systems 214 11.4 Special Problems of Concrete Framed Bents 217 12 Concrete Walls 221 12.1 Sitecast Walls: General Concerns 221 12.2 Concrete Bearing Walls 223 12.3 Concrete Basement Walls 226 12.4 Concrete Shear Walls 230 12.5 Precast Concrete Walls 230 12.6 Concrete Masonry Walls 231 13 Foundations 233 13.1 General Concerns for Foundations 234 13.2 Soil Conditions Related to Foundation Design 235 13.3 Foundation Design: Criteria and Process 237 13.4 Shallow Bearing Foundations 238 13.5 Wall Footings 240 13.6 Column Footings 249 13.7 Special Column Footings 258 13.8 Pedestals 259 13.9 Foundation Walls and Grade Beams 266 13.10 Deep Foundations 270 14 Miscellaneous Concrete Structures 277 14.1 Paving Slabs 277 14.2 Framed Floors on Grade 280 14.3 Cantilever Retaining Walls 281 14.4 Abutments 291 15 General Considerations for Building Structures 296 15.1 Choice of Building Construction 296 15.2 Structural Design Standards 297 15.3 Loads for Structural Design 298 15.4 Dead Loads 298 15.5 Building Code Requirements for Structures 301 15.6 Live Loads 303 15.7 Lateral Loads (Wind and Earthquake) 306 15.8 Load Combinations 310 15.9 Determination of Design Loads 310 15.10 Structural Planning 312 15.11 Building Systems Integration 313 15.12 Economics 313 16 Building Structures: Design Examples 316 16.1 Building One: General Considerations 317 16.2 Building One: Support and Site Structures 317 16.3 Building Two: General Considerations 326 16.4 Building Two: Design for Gravity Loads 326 16.5 Building Two: Design for Lateral Loads 329 16.6 Building Two: Alternative Structure 340 16.7 Building Three: Alternative Structure One 341 16.8 Building Three: Alternative Structure Two 344 16.9 Building Three: Alternative Structure Three 348 16.10 Building Four: General Considerations 349 16.11 Building Four: Concrete and Masonry Structure 353 16.12 Building Four: Design for Lateral Loads 359 16.13 Building Four: All-Concrete Structure 361 16.14 Building Five: General Considerations 364 16.15 Building Five: Masonry and Frame Structure 368 16.16 Building Five: The Concrete Structure 374 16.17 Building Five: Alternative Floor Structure 398 Glossary 401 Study Aids 405 Terms 405 Questions 408 Answers to Questions 411 Answers to Exercise Problems 415 References 419 Index 421
£94.00
John Wiley & Sons Inc Residential Design for Aging In Place
Book SynopsisThe aging population is interested in being able to stay in their homes as they age. Interior designers, architects, and homebuilders are increasingly being asked by clients to design homes or retrofit existing homes to allow for adaptation over time.Trade Review"Residential Design for Aging in Place by Drue Lawlor and Michael Thomas is a comprehensive book written by two seasoned interior designers to show that universal design is good design. The book is well organized so readers can pinpoint a specific topic to learn about; however, I found myself so drawn into the information that I read the book cover to cover! The uniqueness of this book is the thorough research that Lawlor and Thomas conducted. They focus on designing homes that people can live in safely and independently throughout their lifetimes. With extensive footnotes throughout the book, readers will be guided to other documents on the subject." (marvingblog.com, July 6, 2010) "Michael Thomas is an expert when it comes to designing and remodeling homes suited to aging in place. The book, co-authored with California designer Drue Lawlor, has been well-received among builders, architects, and interior designers." (Palm Beach Post, 7/27/09) "...is a new, definitive guide to the design of residential interiors for clients that are aging in place. Interior designers, architects, and home builders will find this book a "go-to" reference guide." (chicagoarchitecturetoday.com, January 2009) "is a book for kitchen and bath professionals looking to better understand the design needs of an aging population. Incorporating design concepts and principles with discussion of design concepts and principles with discussion of design solutions and product options, this guide to designing homes explains how to meet the needs of clients who intend to age in place with style." (Kitchen and Bath Design, November 2008) "...is a textbook for interior designers detailing design concepts and principles that can help design/build professionals execute projects that will allow homeowners to live independently in their homes longer. Case Studies clearly translate the authors' key topics into effective design solutions and address exterior and interior room accessibility, working with aging specialists as well as laws, codes, and regulations." (CustomHomeOnline.com, 10/16/08)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Growing Up and Getting Wiser xi Chapter 1 Designs for Independence 1 Chapter 2 The American Senior Tsunami 11 Chapter 3 Laws, Codes, and Regulations 21 Chapter 4 Assessing the Aging Process 31 Chapter 5 Exterior Freedoms 41 Chapter 6 Creating Living Spaces 59 Chapter 7 Creating Private Places 81 Chapter 8 Designing the Kitchen 103 Chapter 9 Designing the Bathroom 127 Chapter 10 The Rest of the House 151 Chapter 11 Design Beyond Age 177 Appendix A Building Professional Alliances 191 Appendix B From Civil Rights to Universal Design and Beyond 197 Appendix C Products and Vendors 201 Appendix D Common Diseases and Disabilities 227 Index 231
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