Architecture Books
Architectural Association Publications AA Files 76
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Hachette Livre - BNF Monographie de Notre-Dame de Chartres:
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£15.20
Hachette Livre - BNF Traité Des Constructions Rurales, Dans Lequel on
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£17.10
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain The Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain by Jean Nouvel
£36.00
Birkhauser The Drama of Space: Spatial Sequences and
Book SynopsisThe experience of architectural spaces is formed by the way they are staged. The Drama of Space examines the composition and articulation of architectural spaces in terms of spatial dramaturgy, as a repertoire of means and strategies for shaping spatial experience. This fundamental approach to architectural design is presented in four parts: Archetypal principles of spatial composition are traced from the study of three assembly buildings of the early modern period in Venice. Theatre, film, music, and theory provide background knowledge on dramaturgy. Detailed analyses of 18 international case studies offer new perspectives on contemporary architecture. The book ends with a systematic presentation of the dramaturgy of space, its parameters and tools, in architectural design.
£51.85
Birkhauser Gartenstädte von morgen: Ein Buch und seine
Book SynopsisEbenezer Howard veröffentlicht 1902 sein Werk Garden Cities of Tomorrow, seine Ideen haben maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, der Bewegung für einen modernen Städtebau Richtung und Ziel zu geben. Sechs Jahrzehnte nach Erscheinen der ersten Ausgabe ergänzte Julius Posener diesen Klassiker der Stadtplanungstheorie um die erstmals 1945 erschienen Essays von Lewis Mumford und Frederic J. Osborn zu einem Streitgespräch der späten sechziger Jahre über die Gestalt der Stadt. Die vorliegende Neuauflage spannt den Bogen ins 21. Jahrhundert und erweitert die Ausgabe von 1968 um ein Vorwort von Carl Fingerhuth.
£23.40
Birkhauser Encounters and Positions: Architecture in Japan
Book SynopsisNow as before, Japanese architecture is very popular in Europe and the western world. This publication provides an overview of its many design concepts and cross-references. Using design examples and interviews, the book presents thirteen current positions.The publication focuses on young architects who take up extremely independent positions within Japanese architecture, as well as on Pritzker Prize winners Toyo Ito and Fumihiko Maki. Six essays by European specialists on Japan provide supplementary insights into the aesthetics and space concepts of Japanese architecture, making cross-references to Japan’s architectural history, and explaining current lines of development. The book thus combines a self-reflective approach with an outsider’s analytical view.
£39.15
Birkhauser Architecture Design Data: Practice Competency
Book SynopsisA systemic transformation is underway in architectural design, engineering and construction. The discipline and profession of architecture is being reshaped in a moment where information, insight and predictions generated during the design process move into construction no longer essentially via drawings. Other, more profound digital techniques yield fundamentally different workflows, responsibilities and business models for architects. This book offers a comprehensive framework, detailed analysis and critical assessment of the challenges and opportunities inherent in those changes. The author sets out to provide direction for a new era in architectural creation that can be understood and managed by a profession which must become better equipped to direct its future.
£26.55
Birkhauser Basics Entwurfselement Pflanze
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£17.55
Birkhauser Inhabited Machines: Genealogy of an Architectural
Book SynopsisAround 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is vividly examined in separate chapters through synchronous comparison and with the help of examples. The emergence of corresponding metaphors, knowledge, and construction forms is traced over a period of about 70 years. The author focuses particularly on the operative dimension of architecture. Thus, the book provides a historical perspective on a key topic for the future of architecture. The book is aimed at readers interested in architecture, technology or the cultural history of building and living. The Exploring Architecture series makes architectural scholarship accessible, introduces the latest research methods, and covers a wide range of periods, regions, and topics.
£999.99
Birkhauser Home Smart Home: Wie wir wohnen wollen
Book SynopsisWelcome to the hybrid home, in which the bathroom has become a temple of wellness, the living room an online couch, and the kitchen a lounge. Everything appears tidy and chic, perfect for social media. In the Instagram Age, even micro-apartments are mutating into semi-public places. The German journalist Oliver Herwig has been studying the transformation of living spaces and dream interiors for years. In this book, he portrays a society in the throes of digital transformation. The lines between work, leisure and rest have been blurred, as our homes become temporary, multipurpose work, fun and multimedia spaces; the office has invaded the home, and the world of smart shopping is always just a word away thanks to Alexa. Nothing quite fits anymore, yet everything must have its place. Welcome to the hybrid home. Easy reading about the difficult transitions in our living spaces Smart and analytical, the book reveals the hidden desires that shape how we live Designed and illustrated by Studio für Gestaltung, Cologne Available in English and German
£21.00
Birkhauser The Painter Le Corbusier: Eileen Gray's Villa E
Book SynopsisIn 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house in Roquebrune-Cap-Mar- tin in southern France is an icon of modernism. In 1937, Le Corbusier discovered the place and the “Maison en Bord de Mer”. Inspired by the genius of the place and the light on the Côte d'Azur, he created a total of eight large-format wall paintings there in 1938 and 1939 onwards, some of which complement the building congenially, while others set counterpoints. In 1952, he built his Cabanon nearby and decorated it with murals as well. The book by the well-known architectural historian Tim Benton documents Le Corbusier's artwork at this special place, explores its controversies, and places it in his overall oeuvre. The fascinating photographs by Manuel Bougot capture the special atmosphere of the villa Le Corbusier's painting is lesser known but was formative for his lifelong preoccupation with polychromy After extensive renovation work until 2021, E 1027, as well as the Cabanon, is open to the public again
£34.65
Braun Publishing AG Fascination Mountain Living
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£31.96
Lars Muller Publishers Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of
Book SynopsisAs health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health looks at the complexity of today's health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions. Essays by Margaret Campbell, David Gissen, Carla C. Keirns, and Sarah Schrank deal with different aspects of the topic of health in the context of architecture such as: "An Architectural Theory of Pollution" and "Strange Bedfellows: Tuberculosis and Modern Architecture - How 'The Cure' Influenced Modernist Architecture and Design."
£36.00
Birkhauser Verlag AG Antarctic Resolution
Book SynopsisLearning from Antarcticaâs spirit of cooperation, âœAntarctic Resolutionâ aspires to launch a platform, an agency for change, where citizens can undertake a true Antarctic resolution and engage in a unanimous effort â independent of nation â to shape the future of the Antarctic and, in turn, of our planet.
£49.50
Lars Muller Publishers Cubism: Bauhausbucher 13
Book SynopsisAlthough he was never an official member of the Bauhaus, Albert Gleizes dedicated his influential essay on Cubism to the art school. In 1928, László Moholy-Nagy and Walter Gropius included this essay as volume 13 of the Bauhausbücher series. In addition to his own works, Gleizes shows works by Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso as reference examples, and places the Bauhaus and its series in an international context that impressively captures the interaction of the numerous art movements of the time.
£31.50
Lars Muller Publishers Maholy-nagy: From Material to Architecture:
Book SynopsisPublished in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagy’s teaching program at the Bauhaus. With its focus on the preliminary course and its training of finer sensory perception, this last title of the 14-volume series explains how students “develop towards practice from day to day.” The educational principle behind it, Jedermann ist begabt (everyone is talented), was central to teaching at the Bauhaus.
£38.25
Mdpi AG Life Cycle Assessment on Green Building
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Wood and Tree Fungi: Biology, Damage, Protection,
Book SynopsisThis book provides an up-to-date overview of the various wood and tree fungi that damage trees, lumber, and timber. Special focus is given to identification, prevention, and remediation techniques, and the book bridges the gap between research and application. It covers the fundamentals of cytology and morphology. There is a more practical section describing damage by viruses and bacteria on trees. The habitats of wood fungi are described as well as tree care. Important tree pathogens and wood decay fungi are characterized for prevention and identification. The final section focuses on the positive effects of wood-inhabiting microorganisms.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "The book (334 pages) is an updated revision of the German edition ‘Holdz-und Baumpilze’ from 1994. … The book is illustrated with 74 figures (12 coloured pictures) and 49 tables. … The book is of great interest to scientists, students, professionals working in wood protection, as well as foresters." (Benoit Marçais, Annals of Forest, Vol. 63 (2), 2007)Table of ContentsBiology.- Physiology.- Wood Cell Wall Degradation.- Damages by Viruses and Bacteria.- Wood Discoloration.- Wood Rot.- Habitat of Wood Fungi.- Positive Effects of Wood-Inhabiting Microorganisms.
£71.24
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Adaptability as Sustainable Design Strategies in
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£46.52
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Parametric Design Thinking
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£43.29
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Lifts and Escalators: A user manual
Book SynopsisThis book offers everyone who plans, builds or operates lifts and escalators a comprehensive overview of the important topics: starting with the standards and technical rules through to the history of technology. Planning, operation, maintenance and documentation of lifts and escalators are described. Numerous meaningful color illustrations complement the text. The book serves as a reference work for operators of lifts and escalators. The many examples, tips and advice from practice make it a helpful companion in daily work.Table of ContentsHistorical facts about lifts.- Standards and guidelines for lifts.- Structural engineering basics.- Lift types.- Well installation components.- Drives.- Electrical controls and control modes.- Car and panels.- Doors.- Overspeed governor.- Car frame and safety gear.- Suspension means.- Brakes.- Interaction of the lift components.- Remote alarm and rescue service.- Maintenance/quality measurement on lifts.- Lift systems during life time.- Traffic Calculation.- Accidents at lift systems.- Modernization of lift systems.- Planning of lift systems.- Building Management System.- Environmental Considerations.- Decommissioning of lift systems.- Historical facts about escalators.- Codes and standards for escalators.- Escalator components.- Escalator types and their mode of operation.- Documentation of escalators.- Escalator during lifetime.- Pictures of damage.- Maintenance of escalators.- Modernization of escalators.- Planning of escalators.- Traffic calculation of escalators.- Building Management System.- Avoiding accidents.- Decommissioning of escalators.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Provenance in Architecture
£30.40
Taschen Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979-Today. 2020
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LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Restructuring urban post-war living landscapes
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£62.29
Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh Der Cicerone
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£62.91
Edition Axel Menges Hozon: Architectual and Urban Conservation in
Book SynopsisText in English, German and Japanese. The architecture of Japan, both historic and contemporary, has attracted architects from all over the world since the early 60s. In search of the 'Japaneseness' of place (ma), space and architecture several dissertations have been written, especially about the Japanese house and rituals, Conservation, however, was largely neglected. Only recently, with the listing of Japanese sites as Unesco World Heritage in 1994 and the Nara conference on authenticity in 1995, has the Japanese approach to conservation emerged as an intriguing issue. The practice of dismantling and reconstructing complex timber structures represents an essentially Japanese approach. Moreover, the refined documentation and structural research prior to any intervention are much admired by the international conservation community. The articles for this publication were prepared in the context of a Japanese-German co-operative programme in architectural and urban conservation in 1996-98. For the first time ever a Western publication attempts to portray the Japanese practice of repair -- hozon -- of historic structures. Detailed photographic documentations demonstrate the beauty of timber structures that are otherwise concealed by roofs and walls. It also becomes evident that an architectural object is not an entity that is defined once and for all, but an object that allows for change. Documentations of ongoing projects, with emphasis on the Fudo-do on the sacred mountain of Koyasan, explain and justify various kinds of interventions that are aimed at structural reinforcement and disaster prevention.
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De Gruyter Bewohnte Natur: Living with Nature
Book SynopsisUmgeben von Natur zu wohnen, ist für viele ein Sehnsuchtsziel. Entsprechend verlangt die Wohnarchitektur für dieses Ziel höchste Sensibilität in der Planung. Mit sorgfältigen Konzepten müssen Architekten Fragen der Energie und der Materialien berücksichtigen und auf die Topographie des Baugrundstücks eingehen. Dieses Buch zeigt ausgewählte Häuser in arktischer Vegetation, am Fuße eines Vulkans auf den Azoren oder im Felsmassiv der Alpen.
£31.05
De Gruyter Grüne Fassaden
Book SynopsisKlimawandel, Extremwetterlagen, Rückgang der Artenvielfalt, CO2- und Feinstaubbelastung in den Städtenzwingen zum Handeln. Der gesellschaftliche Wandel hat bereits begonnen. Wie kann Architektur zu einem Paradigmenwechsel beitragen? Geht Architektur nicht nur rückbaubar und recyclingfähig, sondern auchgrün? Kann Architektur auch Ökosystem sein? Was ist blau-grüne Architektur?Architektinnen und Architekten sind gefragt, brachliegende Potenziale auszuschöpfen und die Pflanzen alsEntwurfsmittel zu entdecken. Sowohl bei der Entwicklung von Plätzen und Stadträumen, aber insbesondeream Gebäude selbst. Praxis »Grüne Fassaden« liefert Architektinnen und Architekten das nötige Fachwissen, um entsprechendkompetent mit der lebendigen Architektur an der Gebäudehülle umzugehen. Das Buch soll Lust machen auf grüne Architektur, ein Katalog gelungener Projektbeispiele zeigt im Detail, wie rund um den Globus Entwurfund praktische Umsetzung von Vertikalgrün im urbanen Raum gelingen kann.
£45.12
Arquine Welt II
Book SynopsisMexico City's latest and greatest residential buildings designed by the country's leading architectural firmsThis volume brings together 10 residential works built in Mexico City during the past five years by outstanding firms. Led by Welt, a real estate development team, each project follows the keys of housing: optimal location, accessibility and habitability.
£24.00
Arquine Conversations from South to South
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£18.00
Editorial Academica Espanola Análisis de la construcción de las arquerías de
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Forma Edizioni Paris On the Road Architecture Guides
Book SynopsisThe Paris guide is focused on describing the complexity of this European metropolis through its 20th and 21st century architecture.Following Haussmann's transformations, Paris, the most densely constructed city in Europe, expanded thanks to a flexibility based on a matrix able to absorb and integrate the directional courses of the architecture of the period. However, the complexity of the urban transformations and the changes in the Parisian architectural panorama did not erase the solid identity of the city's urban image. This book guides the reader through decades of Parisian architectural history beginning with the great names of the Modernist movement, Loos, Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. The second half of the 20th century is famous for the cultural vitality of the city reflected in the innovative architecture of the Centre George Pompidou designed by Piano and Rogers. The Pompidou Centre is both the symbol and result of the 1968 student revolution. The 1980s and 90s were
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Skira The Italian Legacy in the United Arab Emirates::
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£36.00
Set Margins' publications DISTRUST THE STORYTELLER
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£27.00
HarperCollins Publishers India Dynasties Of Devotion
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£9.81
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Jali: Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal
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£44.10
APE Route N16
Book SynopsisArt and architecture project alongside the N16 route. With projects by Tractor (Peter Aerts, Denis Dujardin, Honoré d'O, Lore Perneel, Luc Reuse, Frank Vande Veire, Hugo Vanneste, Dirk Zoete), Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Sarah & Charles, Office Kersten Geers en David Van Severen , Michaël Vanden Abeele, Uaps, Wesley Meuris, Architecten Robbrecht en Daem, Valérie Mannaerts, Philippe Vander Maren, Richard Venlet, Ann Veronica Janssens. Text contributions by Joeri de Bruyn, Maarten Van Acker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Isabelle Makay and Oscar Van den Boogaard. Photograpy by Geert Goiris and Kristien Daem. Initiated by the cities Bornem, Puurs, Willebroek and Mechelen in collaboration with VAi, vlaamsarchitectuurinstituut.
£12.82
Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Odyssey of a Street
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£25.49
Missouri Historical Society Press A. A. Fischer's St. Louis Streetscapes
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Transcript Verlag Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge:
Book Synopsis"Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge" is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attention to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research. Issue 4, "Essentials of Montage in Architecture", provides a comprehensive collection of theories, methods, and visions to highlight the relevance of montage for visual and spatial practices as well as for knowledge production in architecture.
£35.19
transcript Coproducing Urban Spaces
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Nieves Ordnung und Reinlichkeit
Book SynopsisPeter Fischli (1952) and David Weiss (19462012) began their 33-year collaboration in 1979. Resisting any specific style, medium, or material, their work explores the poetics of banality the sublimity of the objects and events constituting everyday life. Indebted to Dada, Surrealism, Pop Art, and Conceptual Art, their photographs, videos, slide projections, films, books, sculptures, and multimedia installations rely on keen observation and uncanny wit. Throughout the course of their partnership, Fischli and Weiss probed the idea of dualistic thinking. Perhaps because they were a team of two involved in constant dialogue and debate, they consistently interrogated Western culture's reliance on contraries. The artists embodied this approach in their alter egos, Rat and Bear, who, for all their differences (rats being ugly and ubiquitous while pandas are lovable and endangered), appear as equal partners in their various misadventures. The booklet Ordnungund Reinlichkeit (Order and Cleanliness, 1981)accompanied the Rat and Bear films and is crammed with charts and diagrams, each attempting to impose a crazed order on the world. The original booklet was a self produced booklet, comprising a set of 15 photocopies on sale following the first showing of The Least Resistance at a late-night screening in Zurich.
£18.05
Edition Taube AS THEN
Book SynopsisA new book by the legendary conceptual artist: an interaction of a grid and a line with words and photographs of walls with black holes and a small black square, a black hole in its own right, the whole interspersed with blank pages. Peter Downsbrough (b. 1940 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, US) is Brussel based sculptor, photographer and conceptual artist. He works with the connection between architecture, typography and linguistics.
£19.00
Mousse Publishing Palazzina. Ring Everywhere
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Island Syndicate Pieces of Jamaica
Book SynopsisTen years after the internationally acclaimed photo art collection-turned coffee table book Pieces of Jamaica, and in celebration of the island's 60th anniversary of independence, photographer David I. Muir is releasing a second volume. The award-winning photographer, along with photographer and fine artist Sean Henry, has set out to capture even more stunning images of Jamaica in 2022. The new edition, Pieces of Jamaica 60, will showcase the island beyond tourism, politics and individuals, depicting Jamaican culture not typically published or celebrated, creating a meaningful keepsake that inspires nostalgia and a patriotic spirit.The collection will feature photographs of locations, people, activities, attractions and more from the island that inspire nostalgia and a sense of home, made up of the photo art of David I. Muir, and the photos and fine artwork of Sean Henry. Pieces of Jamaica 60 will tell the story of Jamaica from the eyes of her sons and daughters, occasionally including images of old Jamaica, quotes about the island, the work itself or from popular prose, and large, immersive visuals of the most familiar Jamaican sights, as well as those the artists invite you to explore.
£95.99
MIT Press Ltd EventCities 5
Book SynopsisAn essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways. Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and unbuilt projects by renowned architect Bernard Tschumi. This volume expands on the theoretical preoccupations that have shaped Tschumi's work in practice and pedagogy. In this volume, Tschumi embarks on what he calls a poetics that addresses both the rational elaboration of work and the irrational eruption of inexplicable elements in architectural projects. How do chance, intuition, and analogy, among other elements, intersect with the logical play of concept, context, and program to generate innovative and informed design?Highlights of this volume include circular building projects, works with suspended gardens and floating rectangular masses, superposed structures created via surrealist tactics, an immense educational research complex in France that hovers between building and urban design, a museum in China made from intersecting conic shapes, and a project for a cultural center in Italy that is structured as an investigation into courtyards and facades. The book features nearly 30 projects developed over the last fifteen years and highlights Tschumi's longstanding interest not only in producing conceptual clarity, but in questioning architecture itself.
£28.80
Monacelli Press Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in
Book SynopsisA provocative examination of the connections between contemporary expression in architecture and traditional materials and forms. Architect, architectural historian, and preservationist Françoise Bollack presents eighteen projects that use traditional materials to build contemporary forms or use modern materials to build traditional forms, blurring the boundary between tradition and modernity in architecture. Bollack rejects the modernist taboo against imitation and precedent, tracing the history of adaptive and imitative design from the Renaissance to the Greek and Gothic revivals and to the nineteenth-century modular cast-iron facades that Philip Johnson considered "the basis for modern design." The book examines projects in the US, Europe, and Japan, encompassing a broad range of building types: residential, hospitality, commercial and retail, and cultural spaces. All share an intriguing, even radical, approach to reinterpreting traditional forms and materials. Humble thatch moves beyond the farmhouse roof to clad the walls of a Danish environmental center; a photographic image of a Parisian façade becomes a scrim on the façade of a new building; the ghost of an ancient Italian basilica is outlined in wire mesh. Among the featured architects are Kengo Kuma, architect of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic stadium; MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch firm; Lacaton & Vassal and Chartier/Corbasson in France; Skene Catling de la Peña in the UK; Morris Adjmi in the USA; Max Dudler in Germany; Dortre Mandrup in Denmark; and Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland.Trade Review“It’s a stunner that makes the case for reworking old forms in the modern vernacular. . . . Their buildings are beautiful – and they illustrate her thinking lucidly.” - Architects + Artisans “The French-trained Bollack has done considerable restoration work, but Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary is an attempt to redefine the meaning of contextual design. Rather than engaging in a century-old battle between modern and traditional – the angst of replica versus invention, Bollack suggests we discard an ‘outdated moral opprobrium.’” - New England Diary
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