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  • Legare Street Press Kaiser Friedrichs I Barbarossa Palast in der Burg zu Gelnhausen zweite Auflage

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  • MCU  The Reign of Marvel Studios

    Liveright MCU The Reign of Marvel Studios

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  • EMERGENCY

    STAR BOOK SALES EMERGENCY

    Book SynopsisChildrens Surgery Hospital. The book tells the story of how the Center of Excellence in Pediatric Surgery was born. Renzo Piano tells how the approach to sustainability was also used in the design choices, by applying the same construction principles of the traditional houses but in an innovative way. The structure was in fact built by excavating earth and build the load-bearing walls in raw earth with the ancient pis technique. The hospital also has a system of approximately 2,500 photovoltaic panels on the roof, which will meet part of the energy needs. As in the other Emergency s hospitals, there is also a garden with

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  • Case Studies in Parametric Design

    Taylor & Francis Ltd Case Studies in Parametric Design

    Book SynopsisCase Studies in Parametric Design is a guide to scripting digital models for architects, designers, and builders. The use of parametric design in architecture has afforded the realization of incredible built work; modelling software can resolve complex geometry and aid in the development of stunning creations. Methods for creating the digital models to achieve these results, however, can be perplexing. Learning curves are steep, and benefits garnered from adapting existing workflows to incorporate new tools may appear trivial. This book describes programming techniques for a variety of buildings and provides novices an understanding of language and processes, challenges intermediate users with rigor and intentionality, and offers proficient practitioners objectives beyond novel form-making. The case studies consist of six mass topologies and six facade topologies; each includes sample topology models and scripts, descriptions of steps for generating customizable paraTrade Review“Case Studies in Parametric Design provides a welcoming entry point for architecture students and professionals interested in learning visual scripting. Collins presents clear diagrams, straightforward text, and accessible terminology to describe the timeless logics of geometric relationships in architecture.” Shelby Elizabeth Doyle, AIA, LEED AP, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University, USA“At a critical time while we are experiencing a paradigm shift in design practice, Case Studies in Parametric Design highlights the importance of metric-based solutions, preparing designers for a more performative future.”Arash Soleimani, Ph.D., Chair, Design Computation and Applied Computer Science – Media Arts Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Woodbury University, USATable of Contents1. Extrude 2. Loft 3. Stack 4. Carve 5. Nest 6. Trim 7. Quad 8. Diamond 9. Tessellate 10. Attractor 11. Irregular 12. Layer

    £35.99

  • LEGARE STREET PR The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci Volume 1

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    £22.75

  • Spector Books Contemporary Feminist Spatial Practices

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    £23.80

  • Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of

    University of Minnesota Press Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of

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    Book SynopsisExamines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings, and cities. Alongside this material growth, image-making practices embedded within the fields of art and architecture have proven to be fertile, mobile, and capacious. Images of accumulation help open up the climate to cultural inquiry and political mobilization and have formed a cultural infrastructure focused on the relationships between humans, other species, and their environments.The essays in Accumulation address this cultural infrastructure and the methodological challenges of its analysis. They offer a response to the relative invisibility of the climate now seen as material manifestations of social behavior. Contributors outline opportunities and ambitions of visual scholarship as a means to encounter the challenges emergent in the current moment: how can climate become visible, culturally and politically? Knowledge of climatic instability can change collective behavior and offer other trajectories, counteraccumulations that draw the present into a different, more livable, future.Contributors: Emily Apter, New York U; Hans Baumann; Amanda Boeztkes, U of Guelph; Dominic Boyer, Rice U; Lindsay Bremner, U of Westminster; Nerea Calvillo, U of Warwick; Beth Cullen, U of Westminster; T. J. Demos, U of California, Santa Cruz; Jeff Diamanti, U of Amsterdam; Jennifer Ferng, U of Sydney; Jennifer Gabrys, U of Cambridge; Ian Gray, U of California, Los Angeles; Gökçe Günel, Rice U; Orit Halpern, Concordia U; Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford U; Cymene Howe, Rice U; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser U; Robin Kelsey, Harvard U; Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris; Hannah le Roux, U of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Nashin Mahtani; Kiel Moe, McGill U; Karen Pinkus, Cornell U; Stephanie Wakefield, Life U; McKenzie Wark, The New School; Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary U of London.

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  • Pairs 02

    Harvard University Press Pairs 02

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    Book SynopsisPairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) dedicated to conversations about design that are down to earth and unguarded. Each issue is conceptualized by an editorial team—including GSD students—that proposes guests and objects to be in dialogue with one another. Pairs is non-thematic, meant instead for provisional thoughts and ideas in progress. Each issue seeks to organize diverse threads and concerns that are perceived to be relevant to our moment. Thus, Pairs creates a space for understanding and a greater degree of exchange, both between the design disciplines and with a larger public.Pairs 02 features conversations with Emmanuel Admassu, Rashid bin Shabib, Irma Boom, Gareth Doherty, David Foster, David Hartt, Sara Hendren, Jane Hutton, Sharon Johnston, Zachary Mollica, Lyndon Neri, Malkit Shoshan, Jorge Silvetti, John R. Stilgoe, Paola Sturla, Sumayya Vally, Terry Tempest Williams, and Kathryn Yusoff. Contributors include the editors and Emma Lewis, Elisa Ngan, and Maxwell Smith-Holmes.

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  • Solid, Fluid, Biotic: Changing Alpine Landscapes

    Lars Muller Publishers Solid, Fluid, Biotic: Changing Alpine Landscapes

    Book SynopsisThe Alpine region is characterized by a great diversity in all spatial dimensions and qualities. This circumstance is not to be read primarily as the result of administrative drawing of borders, but first of all as an expression of the alpine topography, determined at the same time by intensive cultivation by humankind. However, the assumption that this configuration, seen against a background of massive rocks and steep ridges, is a steady formation would be misleading. For the Alps are not a stable structure, but a dynamic and sensitive organism. Here, boundaries are ceaselessly overcome and continuously shifted. This goes hand in hand with a change in perception and is conditioned by natural dynamics, transforming cultural practices and the bridging of topographical obstacles, whereby the Alps are not only opened up internally, but at the same time integrated into an overall European context. Thus, over a long period of time, a space was created in which the most diverse things came together and were interwoven with the local. However, this principle of interaction is increasingly giving way to a one-sided claim from the outside. At the same time, the nature and manner of human access have themselves taken on geological dimensions. In the context of the 17th Venice architecture biennial, contributions by Vogt Landscape Architects and the Chair of Günther Vogt at ETH Zurich, Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies illuminate individual manifestations of this dynamic landscape with a view to hydrological, biological and geological aspects. Moving Borders documents the contributions at the Biennale and complements them with scientific essays, artistic works and comprehensive photographs taken during fi eld trips to the Alps.

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  • Study Guide for The Codes Guidebook for Interiors

    John Wiley & Sons Inc Study Guide for The Codes Guidebook for Interiors

    Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction VII Section 1: Key Terms By Chapter 1 Chapter 1 About the Codes 1 Chapter 2 Accessibility 1 Chapter 3 Occupancy Classifications and Loads 2 Chapter 4 Construction Types and Building Sizes 2 Chapter 5 Means of Egress 3 Chapter 6 Fire and Smoke Resistant Assemblies 3 Chapter 7 Fire Protection Systems 4 Chapter 8 Plumbing and Mechanical Requirements 5 Chapter 9 Electrical and Communication Requirements 5 Chapter 10 Finish and Furniture Selection 6 Chapter 11 Code Officials and the Code Process 7 Section 2: Short-Answer Questions 9 Chapter 1 About the Codes 9 Chapter 2 Accessibility 12 Chapter 3 Occupancy Classifications and Loads 16 Chapter 4 Construction Types and Building Sizes 22 Chapter 5 Means of Egress 25 Chapter 6 Fire and Smoke Resistant Assemblies 32 Chapter 7 Fire Protection Systems 38 Chapter 8 Plumbing and Mechanical Requirements 41 Chapter 9 Electrical and Communication Requirements 47 Chapter 10 Finish and Furniture Selection 51 Chapter 11 Code Officials and the Code Process 58 Section 3: Study Problems 63 Chapter 1 About the Codes 63 Chapter 2 Accessibility 65 Chapter 3 Occupancy Classifications and Loads 66 Chapter 4 Construction Types and Building Sizes 74 Chapter 5 Means of Egress 76 Chapter 6 Fire and Smoke Resistant Assemblies 82 Chapter 7 Fire Protection Systems 85 Chapter 8 Plumbing and Mechanical Requirements 88 Chapter 9 Electrical and Communication Requirements 94 Chapter 10 Finish and Furniture Selection 96 Chapter 11 Code Officials and the Code Process 100 Section 4: Answers To Short-Answer Questions 101 Chapter 1 About the Codes 101 Chapter 2 Accessibility 103 Chapter 3 Occupancy Classifications and Loads 105 Chapter 4 Construction Types and Building Sizes 109 Chapter 5 Means of Egress 110 Chapter 6 Fire and Smoke Resistant Assemblies 113 Chapter 7 Fire Protection Systems 116 Chapter 8 Plumbing and Mechanical Requirements 118 Chapter 9 Electrical and Communication Requirements 121 Chapter 10 Finish and Furniture Selection 124 Chapter 11 Code Officials and the Code Process 127 Section 5: Answers To Study Problems 131 Chapter 1 About the Codes 131 Chapter 2 Accessibility 132 Chapter 3 Occupancy Classifications and Loads 133 Chapter 4 Construction Types and Building Sizes 139 Chapter 5 Means of Egress 141 Chapter 6 Fire and Smoke Resistant Assemblies 147 Chapter 7 Fire Protection Systems 150 Chapter 8 Plumbing and Mechanical Requirements 151 Chapter 9 Electrical and Communication Requirements 154 Chapter 10 Finish and Furniture Selection 155 Chapter 11 Code Officials and the Code Process 158 Appendix A Code Tables 159 Appendix B Full-Size Checklists 181 Notes 201

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  • Intellect Books Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global

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    Book SynopsisIncludes 36 chapters that deploy interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the mutual relationship between pandemics and the built environment. The chapters share the story of a pandemic in a particular city or region from five continents, and are organized in four sections to convey the mechanisms of change that affect vulnerabilities and responses to epidemic illnesses: 'Urban Governance', 'Urban Life', 'Urban Infrastructure' and 'Urban Design and Planning'. Two prominent scholars from the disciplines of public health and medical anthropology provide a prologue and epilogue: Sandro Galea writes on 'Pandemics and urban health', and Richard J. Jackson on 'Urbanism and architecture in the post-COVID era'. The contributors to this new study are historians, public health experts, art and architectural historians, sociologists, anthropologists, doctors and nurses. In researching their contributions, all have spoken to an audience that includes the public, practitioners and academic readers; the resultant case studies reveal a diverse range of urban interventions that are connected to the impact of epidemics on society and urban life, as well as the conceptualization of and response to disease. Epidemic illnesses – not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena – are as old as cities themselves. The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How can epidemics help us understand urban environments? How might insights from the outbreak and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding of the current world? With these questions in mind, this book gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines to present case studies from across the globe, each demonstrating how cities in particular are not just the primary place of exposure and quarantine, but also the site and instrument of intervention. This book seeks to explore the profound and complex ways that architecture and landscape design were impacted by historical epidemics around the world, from North America to Africa and Australia, and to convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership. The chapters analyse the development of urban infrastructure, institutions and spaces in western and eastern societies in response to historical pandemics. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and their responses, exploit and amplify social inequality in the urban contexts and communities they impact.Trade Review'This is a brilliantly conceived, ground breaking collection that provides deep insight into the challenges that COVID poses to our world today. By focusing on the physical environment, these studies of past pandemics demonstrate how critical it is to tend to both neglected infrastructure and vulnerable communities. Epidemic Urbanism is an inspiring example of interdisciplinary collaboration across diverse times and places and the contributions it brings to the work of global public health.' Nancy Tomes, Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University, USA -- Nancy Tomes“Epidemic Urbanism recounts the fascinating history of cities and plagues to shed light on present and future challenges. For hundreds of years, cities have played a central role in the spread, inequality, and containment of epidemics and pandemics. Why would COVID-19 be any different? Public health strategy is most effective when based on data, aligned with communities, and informed by the triumphs and failures of the past. This book is essential reading for the work of preparing for our next great infectious disease challenge.” Joshua M. Sharfstein, Professor and Vice Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA -- Joshua Sharfstein“As sports stadia and conference centres have transformed themselves into impromptu healthcare facilities and makeshift morgues, Epidemic Urbanism could not be timelier. Ranging from Agra in the 1610s to Sao Paulo in the 1970s, its studies of particular, historical outbreaks add up to a global account of how disease has affected cities and cities have affected disease. Drawing from specialists across a range of disciplines, Gharipour and DeClercq’s urgent collection draws from the past to point the way to the future. As Governments exhort and promise to ‘Build Back Better’, Epidemic Urbanism tellingly reminds us how such policies need to be informed by historical understanding and based around shared equity.” Ross MacFarlane, Research Development Specialist, The Wellcome Collection, UK -- Ross MacFarlane“The dynamic interplay of contagious illness and the built environment is a long and global story, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Epidemic Urbanism is an epic collection amplifying this theme, beautifully conceived and organized in a clear, orderly format (context-case study-conclusion). Its main intention is to inspire action, anticipating future historical studies and pandemics. Instructive examples take us around the world to see how illnesses have been managed and mis-managed by city dwellers.” Annmarie Adams, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Canada -- Annmarie AdamsTable of ContentsPreface – Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq Prologue: Pandemics and urban health – Sandro Galea PART 1: URBAN GOVERNANCE: POLITICS AND MANAGEMENT 1. Plague in Sibiu and the first quarantine plan in Central Europe, 1510 – Katalin Szende and Ottó Gecser 2. Mughal governance, mobility, and responses to the plague in Agra, India, 1618–19 – Mehreen Chida-Razvi 3. Urban governance, economic intervention, and the plague in Bristol, England, 1665–66 – Andrew Wells 4. Smallpox and the specter of Mexican citizenship, 1826 – Farren Yero 5. Complacency, confusion, and the mismanagement of cholera in York, England, 1832 – Ann-Marie Akehurst 6. Cholera, the Roman aqueduct, and urban renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860–1914 – Sofia Greaves 7. The contested governance of border railways and the plague of Northeast China, 1910–11 – Yongming Chen and Yishen Chen 8. Print, politics, and the smallpox epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902–3 – Allen Shotwell 9. Colonialism, racism, and the government response to bubonic plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895–1910 – Catherine Odari PART 2: URBAN LIFE: CULTURE AND SOCIETY 10. Women, social solidarities, and the plague in 17th-century Newcastle, England – Rachel Clamp 11. The Jewish ghetto as a space of quarantine in Prague, 1713 – Joshua Teplitsky 12. Hygiene and urban life in the 'District of Death' in 19th-century Istanbul – Fezanur Karaağaçlıoğlu 13. Religious rituals and cholera in the shrine cities of 19th-century Iran – Fuchsia Hart 14. Social life, illness, and the marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th century to the present – George Osei and Shobana Shankar 15. The city as field hospital and the influenza epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918–19 – Louisa Iarocci 16. Rural migrants, smallpox, and civic surgery in 20th-century Baghdad, Iraq – Huma Gupta 17. House, social Life, and smallpox in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1963 – Susan Heydon 18. Meningitis, shared environments, and inequality in São Paulo, Brazil, 1971–75 – Daniela Sandler PART 3: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE: PERMANENCE AND CHANGE 19. Epidemics and the royal control of public health in Lisbon, Portugal, 1480–95 – Danielle Abdon 20. The Guadalquivir River and plague in Seville, Spain, in the 16th century – Kristy Wilson Bowers 21. Social inequity and hospital infrastructure in the City of Puebla, Mexico, 1737 – Juan Luis Burke 22. Colonial infrastructure, ecology, and epidemics in Dhaka, 1858–1947 – Mohammad Hossain 23. South American health conventions, social stratification, and the Ilha Grande Lazaretto in Brazil, 1886 – Niuxa Dias Drago, Ana Paula Polizzo, and Fernando Delgado 24. Plague, displacement, and ecological disruption in Bombay, India, 1896 – Emily Webster 25. French urbanism, Vietnamese resistance, and the plague in Hanoi, Vietnam, 1885–1910 – Michael Vann 26. Building a community on Leprosy Island in the Philippines, 1898–1941 – Mary Anne Alabanza Akers 27. Shifting health paradigms and infrastructure in Australia in the 20th century – Karen Daws and Julie Willis PART 4: URBAN DESIGN AND PLANNING: INTERVENTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS 28. Urban design, social epidemiology, and the bubonic plague of Palermo, Italy, 1575–76 – Carlo Trombino 29. Cholera and housing reform in Victorian London, England, 1850–1900 – Irina Davidovici 30. Public health, urban development, and cholera in Tokyo, Japan, 1877–95 – Susan L. Burns 31. The Hong Kong plague and public parks in the British settlements of Shanghai and Tianjin, China, 1894 – Yichi Zhang 32. Rebuilding the British Seamen’s Hospital at Smyrna in the wake of smallpox and cholera epidemics, 1892 – Işılay Tiarnagh Sheridan Gün and Erdem Erten 33. Spatial change and the cholera epidemic in Manila, the Philippines, 1902–4 – Ian Morley 34. Plague, housing, and battles over segregation in colonial Dakar, Senegal, 1914 – Gregory Valdespino 35. Urban transformation and public health policies in post-influenza Lagos, Nigeria, 1918 – Timothy Oluseyi Odeyale 36. Urban landscape transformations and the malaria control scheme in Mauritius, 1948–51 – Nicole de Lalouvière Epilogue: Post-COVID urbanism and architecture – Richard J. Jackson Glossary Bibliography Authors’ biographies Index

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  • Living by the Ocean: Contemporary Houses by the

    Phaidon Press Ltd Living by the Ocean: Contemporary Houses by the

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    Book SynopsisAn exhilarating collection of today’s most remarkable homes built in awe-inspiring coastal locations around the worldWhite-sand beaches, jaw-droppingly sheer cliff faces, and secret coves are just some of the stunning sites of the architect-designed contemporary houses featured in this celebration of incredible residences that exist in harmony with the extraordinary power of the ocean. With such unique residences as light-houses, homes built into rocky clifftops, and even rooms that are totally underwater, this inspirational collection includes spectacular homes across the globe including prime examples in countries across 6 continents, from Australia, Canada, Chile, Fiji, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, to the UK and USA. In glorious color with dazzling images throughout, this book brings together the finest examples of residential coastal architecture from 47 of the world’s most revered architects, such as Elemental, Ryue Nishizawa, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, and Fearon Hay as well as a host of lesser-known creative studios. Each home featured is showcased by glorious exterior and interior photography, and each shares a profound connection to the raw and thrilling beauty of the sea and the shore line around it.

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  • One Day in Life: A concert project in

    Hirmer Verlag One Day in Life: A concert project in

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    Book SynopsisDaniel Libeskind likes to re-define spaces and to disrupt thought patterns – and at the same time he cherishes a great love of music. Reason enough for the Alte Oper Frankfurt to invite the architect and town planner to think freely about the performance of music and concerts. The result is a concert project which will make the entire city echo with the sounds of music for an entire weekend. 24 hours, 18 locations in Frankfurt, 18 dimensions of human life – presented in 75 concerts. In line with the slogan “One Day in Life” the American architect Daniel Libeskind designed a large-scale project for the Alte Oper Frankfurt which ignores the rules of normal concert performances. It will permit an intensified experience of music and space in which sounds are transported to places that were hardly predestined to serve as venues: Indian raga in an operating theatre, Mozart’s Requiem in a tram depot and Handel’s Water Music in a swimming pool. The present volume documents the stations and impressions of an intensive concert weekend.

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  • Seeing Zumthor: Reflections on Architecture and

    Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Seeing Zumthor: Reflections on Architecture and

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    Book SynopsisHans Danuser is among the foremost contemporary Swiss photographic artists. He has gained particular recognition for his art projects in collaboration with architects and for his architectural photography. His work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions and is represented in public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. His photographs of buildings by the celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor ignited a lively debate on buildings, images and history when they were first shown twenty years ago and have since made their way around the world in magazines and books.They were the result of a carte blanche Zumthor had offered to Danuser: an artist's radically subjective look at the work of another artist representing a different discipline. "Seeing Zumthor - Images by Hans Danuser" presents a selection of Danuser's Zumthor-pictures. An accompanying essay investigates the effect of Danuser's work on the photographic depiction of architecture, and in a discussion Hans Danuser explains the idea and concept behind his images of Zumthor's buildings.

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    £34.00

  • Taylor & Francis Gridconnected Solar Electric Systems

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    £33.99

  • Inspiration: Contemporary Design Methods in

    BIS Publishers B.V. Inspiration: Contemporary Design Methods in

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    Book SynopsisDesign methodology in architecture and design has changed significantly over the last ten years, taking on major significance. More than ever, graphic attributes are used in contemporary architecture. A number of these new design methods and applications emerged through the use of digital media, leading to a paradigm shift in the way we design. BIS Publishers has already showcased these new design methods in a series of small books on form experiments in architecture and design, such as Folding Architecture and Supersurfaces (Vyzoviti) and Modular Structures (Agkatidis), but no comprehensive book on the topic had been published until now. Inspiration: Contemporary Design Methods in Architecture is a comprehensive compilation of work samples and ideas on design and gestalt, illustrations and graphic configurations, textures and structures, as well as form and spatial development. This book features more than 800 examples of abstract compositions that relate to architectural design methods and principles. These methodologies find their ground in the work of contemporary architectural design practice, while still being highly applicable to other related creative fields. Inspiration showcases hundreds of examples, models, sketches, and renderings of abstract architectural design applications. In addition to this substantial body of visual work, the book also documents and details the generative process and production of these design creations.

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  • Purbeck Stone

    The Dovecote Press Purbeck Stone

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  • Spector Books Making Futures

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  • Architecture in Dialogue: Aga Khan Award for

    ArchiTangle GmbH Architecture in Dialogue: Aga Khan Award for

    Book SynopsisAga Khan Award for Architecture 2019 The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is one of the most prestigious and renowned awards for architecture worldwide. Since 1980 the Award has been given every three years to projects that combine social and ecological aspects and translate them into innovative and exemplary design. The Award seeks to identify and encourage building concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of societies across the world, in which Muslims have a significant presence. This publication presents the shortlist of the 2017–2019 award cycle. From a group of almost 400, 20 projects have been shortlisted by the Master Jury and evaluated by an expert group of technical reviewers. Some of these projects have been honoured with the Aga Khan Award. In addition to detailed descriptions of all projects, this book gathers a series of personal statements from the members of the Steering Committee and the Award’s Master Jury on key issues that were crucial in the discussions for the final selection and assignment of the award recipients. Assembled together, this book presents a selection of the outstanding examples of sustainable and socially relevant architecture in the world today and opens up fundamental perspectives for the planning of the future.

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  • Upscaling Earth: Material, Process, Catalyst

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  • Architecture on Common Ground: Positions and

    Lars Muller Publishers Architecture on Common Ground: Positions and

    Book SynopsisHow we deal with land has far-reaching implications for architecture and urban development. The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in the privatization of urban land and in speculation. Many European cities that today find themselves under extreme development pressure have virtually no land left to build on. In view of the acute housing shortage, the question of who owns the land is therefore more relevant than ever: To what extent are we able to treat the land as a common good and guard it from the excesses of capitalism? After a number of specialist journals have already addressed the land property issue, this book aims to dig deeper by providing a historical overview spanning an arc from Henry George to the present day. Interviews with stakeholders in global models provide insights into the current handling of the land issue. The book presents outstanding projects based on either a legal or spatial distribution of land and thus makes a valuable contribution to the current discussion on sustainable land policy.

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  • Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy

    Monacelli Press Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy

    5 in stock

    Book SynopsisFor everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy. Louis I. Kahn is one of the most influential and poetic architects of the twentieth century, a figure whose appeal extends beyond the realm of specialists. In this book, noted Kahn expert John Lobell explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details come together to manifest an overall philosophy. Kahn's work clearly conveys a kind of "transcendent rootedness" - a rootedness in the fundamentals of architecture that also asks soaring questions about our experience of light and space, and even how we fit into the world. In Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy, John Lobell seeks to reveal how Kahn's buildings speak to grand humanistic concerns. Through examinations of five of Kahn's great buildings - the Richards Medical Research Building in Philadelphia; the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla; the Phillips Exeter Academy Library in New Hampshire; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; and the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven - Lobell presents a clear but detailed look at how the way these buildings are put together presents Kahn's philosophy, including how Kahn wishes us to experience them. An architecture book that touches on topics that addresses the universal human interests of consciousness and creativity, Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy helps us understand our place and the nature of well-being in the built environment.Trade Review“In this long overdue exploration of the ethical principles and philosophical themes grounding the work of Louis Kahn, Lobell lucidly presents the way Kahn’s buildings begin with essential insights into the nature of things, and then reveals how these are transformed into material experiences for the inhabitants. The book’s central theme is Kahn’s belief that because our lives quite literally take place in architecture, buildings must be made in such a way as to enrich, ennoble and give meaning to our experiences. Kahn believed that the most appropriate inspirations for design come from beginnings, and for those seeking a better understanding of Kahn's thinking, this book is an inspiring place to start.” - Robert McCarter, architect, author, and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis “John Lobell's book Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy adds effectively to the Kahn legacy, and its clear order might even be said to echo the order of Kahn's buildings. I particularly appreciate the detailed analysis of materials, details, and structure.” - David G. De Long, University of Pennsylvania “[A] welcome and characterful look at one of the towering talents of our time.” - Interior Design “Serve[s] as a useful guide for any interested in appreciating more thoroughly this influential artist.” —The New Criterion “...illuminating. . . . [P]erfect for students of architecture, who should find Kahn a refreshing antidote to the formal excesses of the 21st century.” - A Daily Dose of Architecture

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    £29.71

  • Duddingston: its story in 50 objects

    Rucksack Readers Duddingston: its story in 50 objects

    Book SynopsisDuddingston is less than two miles from central Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Yet it has its own identity, and in 2019 it celebrates 60 years of its own conservation society. It has several outstanding grade-A Listed Buildings, including 12th century Duddingston Kirk and 18th century Duddingston House, and a raft of human stories about its residents. Duddingston is also home to Scotland’s oldest pub the Sheep Heid, Dr Neils 'secret garden' and Edinburgh’s oldest railway, the Innocent. Visitors can enjoy the wildlife of Duddingston Loch and its backdrop Arthur’s Seat, an extinct volcano. This book shows you how easily it can be explored on foot and by public transport. With over 180 photographs, a self-guided walking tour map and concise, readable text, this short book will reveal hidden secrets of a part of Edinburgh known to few.

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  • Design as FutureMaking

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Design as FutureMaking

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    Book SynopsisSusan Yelavich is an associate professor and director of the MA Design Studies program in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons The New School for Design, USA.Barbara Adams is a PhD candidate in sociology at the New School for Social Research and teaches in several other divisions of the New School in New York City, including Parsons The New School for Design and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.Trade ReviewIn reading this book I thought that future-making is not building: it is weaving. Intertwining these essays, Susan Yelavich and Barbara Adams have been very skillful weavers. And, therefore, very effective future-makers. -- Ezio Manzini, Professor of Design at the Politecnico di Milano, ItalyA probing investigation of the design of design, this heroically optimistic book looks beyond mere things to their imbrication by the social, the political, and the ecological. Revealing layers of informality, resistance, and unpredictability in form-making, these essays whiz across borders in search of both the insubordination of objects and of the ways our relationships with them can make happy changes in the world we inhabit and invent together. -- Michael Sorkin, The City College of New York, USAThe future has never felt more uncertain, but Design as Future-Making truly captures the role that design can and will play in moving us forward. It is the right book for this moment. -- Fred Dust, IDEO, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword, Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA Introduction: Design as Future-Making, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Section I. Crafting Capacities Introduction, Barbara Adams, The New School for Social Research, USA Thinking Differently about Life: Design, Biomedicine and "Negative Capability", Elio Caccavale, Glasgow School of Art, UK and Tom Shakespeare, University of East Anglia Medical School, UK Unmapping, Sean Donahue, Research-Centered Design, USA Fashion Hacking, Otto von Busch, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Digital Crafting and the Challenge to Material Practices, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark Petrified Curtains, Animate Architextiles, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Section II. Shifting Geographies Introduction, Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Urban Ecologies: Quatre systèmes de conception pour la fabrication de “la Cité”, William Morrish, Parsons The New School of Design, USA Architecture of Informality, Ivan Kucina, University of Belgrade, Serbia The Trans/Local Geography of Olympic Dissent: Activism, Design, Affect, Jilly Traganou, Parsons The New School for Design, USA and Grace Vetrocq Tuttle, communication design specialist, USA Garments as Agents of Change: Lucia Cuba, Hazel Clark, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Returning Duchamp’s Urinal to the Bathroom? On the Reconnection of Artistic Experimentation, Social Responsibility and Institutional Transformation, Teddy Cruz, University of California, San Diego, USA Sze Tsung Leong and Susan Yelavich Interview, Sze Tsung Leong, artist, USA Section III. Up-ending Systems Introduction, Barbara Adams, The New School for Social Research, USA Designing Time, Anna Barbara, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy Reasons to Be Cheerful, 1, 2, 3 … (Or Why the Artificial May Yet Save Us), Clive Dilnot, Parsons The New School for Design, USA Design Away, Cameron Tonkinwise, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Pace Layers, Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, editor and critic, USA Forms of Space and Time, Anna Barbara, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war”: Systemic Complexity and the Irregularities of Scale, Jamer Hunt, Parsons The New School, USA Afterword: Tim Marshall, The New School, USA Endnotes Bibliography Contributor Biographies

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    John Wiley & Sons Inc Inseminations

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    Book SynopsisA collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland's most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines for decades. In this compilation of excerpts of his writing, readers can discover his key concepts and thoughts in one easily accessible, comprehensive volume. Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thoughtis a delightful collection of thoughtful ideas and compositions that float between academic essay and philosophical reflection. Wide in scope, it offers entries covering: atmospheres; biophilic beauty; embodied understanding; imperfection; light and shadow; newness and nowness; nostalgia; phenomenoloTable of ContentsPreface xxi Inseminations A 1 An Artwork is… 1 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought - Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 1 Aestheticization 1 The Existential Wisdom: Fusion of Architectural and Mental Space (2008) 1 Amplifiers of Emotions 3 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 3 Animal Architecture 3 Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 9 Anonymity 10 Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and Architecture (2011) 10 Architectural Courtesy 11 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11 Architecture and Being 11 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 12 Architecture and Biology 12 Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 12 Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 14 Architecture as Experience 14 Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 14 Architecture as Impure Discipline 16 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 16 Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 17 Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 17 Architecture is Constructed Mental Space 18 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 18 Art as Representation and Reality 19 Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 19 Architecture, Reality and Self 20 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 21 Art vs Science I 21 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 21 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: - Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 21 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 22 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 22 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 23 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 23 Art vs Science II 23 Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 23 Artists as Phenomenologists and Neurologists 25 Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 66–68 25 Artists vs Architects 28 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 28 Atmospheres in Architecture 28 Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception in Existential Experience (2011) 28 Atmospheric Intelligence 31 Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 31 Atmospheres in the Arts 32 Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 32 Atmospheric Sense [The] 34 Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60–61 34 Inseminations B 37 Beauty 37 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 37 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 37 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 38 Beauty and Ethics 39 The Ethical Meaning of Beauty (2019) 39 Beauty and Time 43 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 43 Being in the World 44 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived space in Art and Architecture (2006) 44 Biophilic beauty 45 SPACE, PLACE AND ATMOSPHERE: peripheral perception and emotion in architectural experience (2012) 45 Books (and architecture) 46 LANDSCAPES OF ARCHITECTURE: architecture and the influence of other fields of inquiry (2003/2010) 47 Burial architecture 49 ARCHITECTURE AND SYMBOLIC LIFE: the mental meaning of time, memory and burial in architecture (2019) 49 Inseminations C 57 Cinema and Architecture 57 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 57 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 57 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58 Cinema and Painting 61 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 62 Collaboration 63 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 63 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression - Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 64 Collective Memories 64 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 64 Complexity of Simplicity [The] 65 The Complexity of Simplicity: The Inner Structure of the Artistic Image (2016) 65 Computer and Imagination 68 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 68 Computerised Hand [The] 69 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 95. 69 Condensing 73 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 73 Craftsmanship 73 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 52–53; 59–60; 63–65; and 66–69 73 Craftsmanship 73 Creative Imagination 76 Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 77 Creative Team Work? 78 Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 78 Inseminations D 81 Depthlessness 81 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 81 Design Process 81 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 107–109 81 Digital Universe 82 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 82 Drawing 83 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009. Drawing and the Self (paragraph title) 84 Drawing and Observation 84 The Tactility of Drawing 85 Drawing Without Eyes 86 Drawing and Body Imagery 86 Drawing by Hand 87 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 59 87 Inseminations E 89 Education 89 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 89 Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 89 Elementarism 90 Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 88–89 90 Embodied Existence 91 Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 91 Embodied Knowledge and Thought 92 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 92 Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 93 Embodied Memory 94 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 94 Embodied Understanding 95 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 95 Emotional Echo 97 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 97 Emotions 98 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 98 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 99 Emotions and Creative Thought 99 Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 99 Empathy 101 Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 101 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 101 Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60 102 Encountering Architecture 103 Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 103 Evocativeness 104 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 104 Exchange 104 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105 Existential Space I 105 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105 Existential Space II 106 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 106 Experience has a Multi-Sensory Essence 106 The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 106 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 107 The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 107 Eyes 108 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 108 Inseminations F 111 Fragile Architecture 111 Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Hapticity and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 327–331 111 Forgetting 114 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 143–145 114 Fragments 116 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 116 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 117 Fusion of the Self and the World 117 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 117 Inseminations G 119 Generosity 119 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 119 Inseminations H 123 Hapticity 123 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 123 Hearth 124 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 148 124 Homelessness 124 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 125 Horizons of Meaning 126 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 126 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 127 Humility 127 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 127 Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 333 128 Inseminations I 131 Ideal Client 131 Ideals 131 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 131 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 131 Identity 132 Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 132 The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 133 Imaginary 134 Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 89–90 134 Imperfection 135 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 135 Inseminations L 137 Language of Matter [The] 137 The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 137 Liberating Images vs Withering Images 138 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 138 Light 139 The Touch of Light: Materiality and Tactility of Illumination (2011) 140 Light and Shadow 140 Architectural Light 141 Contained Light, Liquified Light 142 Light and Colour 143 Black Light 143 Alienating Light 144 Limits 144 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 112–113 145 Limits and Immensity 146 Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 146 Lived Space 147 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 147 Inseminations M 151 Man 151 Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 151 Matter and Time 152 Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Matter and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 323–324 153 The Language of Matter 154 Material Imagination 155 Meaning 156 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 156 Memory 157 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 157 Metaphor 158 Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 158 Architecture and Image of Self 159 The Changing Metaphor 160 Microcosms 160 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 161 Modes of Thinking 161 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 161 Moving 162 Museums of Time 162 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 162 Myth 163 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 163 Inseminations N 165 Newness 165 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 165 Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 165 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 167 Nihilism 168 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168 Nomadism and Mobility 168 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168 Nostalgia 171 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 171 Nowness and Eternity 174 Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 174 Inseminations O 177 Odours in Architecture 177 The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 177 Optimism 177 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 177 Inseminations P 179 Painter, Architect and Surgeon 179 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 179 Painting and Architecture 180 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 180 Perfection and Error 181 Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 332–333 181 The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 182 Peripheral Vision 184 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 184 Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 184 Personality Cult 186 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 186 Phenomenology of Architecture 187 Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 90–92 187 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 188 Philosophy in the Flesh 190 Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 190 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 191 Physical and Mental Landscape 191 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 192 Playing with Forms 192 Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 87–88 192 Present Tense of Art 193 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 193 Inseminations R 195 Rationalising Architecture 195 Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 195 Realism and Idealization 197 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 197 Reality and Imagination 198 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 198 Reality vs Symbol 199 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 199 Reconciling 199 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 199 Relational Experiences 200 Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 200 Reverse Interpretation 201 Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 201 Roots and Biology 202 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 202 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 202 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 202 Ruins 203 The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 203 Inseminations S 205 Sacredness 205 Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 205 Senses I 207 Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 207 Senses II. How many senses do we have? 208 The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 208 Silence, Time and Solitude 210 Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 210 Smells 211 The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 211 Sound 212 Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 212 Experiencing Space Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 213 Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 213 Space and Imagination 214 Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 214 Space-Time 215 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 215 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 216 Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 216 Spatialized Memories 217 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 217 Speed 217 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 218 Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218 Speed and Time 218 The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 218 Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 220 Stairways of Cinema 221 Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 222 Sublime 223 Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 223 Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 224 Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 224 Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 225 Sustainability 225 The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 225 Sustainablity and Identity 226 Symbol 226 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 227 Synaesthesia 227 The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 228 The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228 Syncretic Imagination 230 Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 230 Inseminations T 233 Tactility and Materiality of Light 233 The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 233 Tasks of Architecture [The] 237 Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 237 Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 238 Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, 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Senses (2018) 250 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 251 Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 251 Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 252 Tradition 252 Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 253 Architecture and Identity as Evolutionary Processes 254 Tradition and Innovation 256 The Ground of Culture 257 Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 258 Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 259 Triad 259 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 145 259 Inseminations U 261 Uncertainty 261 Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 109–112 261 Unfocused Vision 263 Touching The World: Lived Space, Vision and 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