Theory of architecture Books

Book SynopsisUnprecedented in scope, this fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the rediscovery of Classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists and architects of late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy that led to the cultural peak characterized as the High Renaissance.Table of ContentsDefinitions Context Part 1: Seminal Italians 1.1 Inception 1.2. Roman Revival 1.3. Vignola and his Contemporaries in the Orbit of Rome 1.4. The Ducal Architects of Florence 1.5. Sansovino, Sanmicheli and their Venetian Inheritance 1.6. Palladio 1.7. Alessi and his Colleagues in Lombardy 1.8. Rome at the Turn of a New Era Part 2: Seminal French 2.1. From Misunderstanding to Mannerism under François I 2.2. Mannerism versus Classicism under the Late Valois 2.3. Classicism versus Baroque under the Early Bourbons Part 3: Orbit of Empire 3.1. Seminal Netherlanders 3.2. Eclectic Germans and their Eastern Neighbours 3.3. Netherlandish Revival Part 4: Across the Channel 4.1. Elizabethan and Jacobean Eclecticsm 4.2. Inception of Palladianism Part 5: Beyond the Pyrenees 5.1. Iberia at the Turn of the Renaissance Century 5.2. Advent of Classicism in Portugal and estilo chão 5.3. Spain in Transition: Caroline Renaissance; Philippine Mannerism 5.4. Ascendancy of Madrid and the Spanish estilo desornamentado 5.5. Portugal during the Habsburg Interregnum 5.6.The Spanish Americas Glossary Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisOnce Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of Dream of the Red Mansion', Journey to the West ', The Water Margin', and Romance of the Three Kingdoms', and are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain diverse voices and philosophical perspectives on history as well as satires that have defined past developments of Chinese societies, politics and the built environment. Comics is an unorthodox but extraordinary medium for architectural speculations. The eccentric characteristics of comic-inspired drawings in this book enrich the processes of conception and conceptualisation of design their fragmented yet sequential nature proves versatile in the imagination of spatial experiences, enabling the complex stories of place, brief and building to materialise. At thTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Domesticity. Dream of the Green Chamber. 2. Consumerism. Journey to the North West. 3. Democracy. The Margin of Water. 4. Adaptability. Romance of All Kingdoms. Project + Reproduction Credits. Index.

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Book SynopsisOnce Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness. The chapters are ingenious reimaginations of Dream of the Red Mansion', Journey to the West ', The Water Margin', and Romance of the Three Kingdoms', and are conceived as specific themes of Chinese identity: domesticity, consumerism, democracy and adaptability. These four seminal pre-modern fictions contain diverse voices and philosophical perspectives on history as well as satires that have defined past developments of Chinese societies, politics and the built environment. Comics is an unorthodox but extraordinary medium for architectural speculations. The eccentric characteristics of comic-inspired drawings in this book enrich the processes of conception and conceptualisation of design their fragmented yet sequential nature proves versatile in the imagination of spatial experiences, enabling the complex stories of place, brief and building to materialise. At thTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Domesticity. Dream of the Green Chamber. 2. Consumerism. Journey to the North West. 3. Democracy. The Margin of Water. 4. Adaptability. Romance of All Kingdoms. Project + Reproduction Credits. Index.

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Book SynopsisSpace: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance? What tools do they use to theorize the political work space does on and beyond the stage? How can students use these tools to unpack the workings of space and place in the performances they see, the plays they study, and the experiences they have outside their classrooms?Theory for Theatre Studies: Space provides a comprehensive introduction to the spatial turn' in modern theatre and performance theory, exploring topics as diverse as embodied space, environmental performance politics and urban performance studies. The book is written in accessible prose and features in-depth case studies of Platform's audio walk And While London Burns, Katie Mitchell's Fraülein JulieTrade ReviewTheory for Theatre Studies investigates a wide range of methodologies to corroborate longstanding discourse surrounding space, place, and performance. Solga uses this volume to examine how new understandings of theatrical and performance events can evolve from varying approaches to and in theatrical spaces. A self-proclaimed modern feminist, Solga is also author of Theatre and Feminism (2016) and Violence against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts (2009). From speculative queries to in-depth case studies, the present title offers insight into historical dramatic theories and unpacks 20th-century theater trends. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *Lucid and compelling ... [Provides] an engaging and accessible synthesis of spatial theories that will make this book an essential addition to undergraduate curricula ... A valuable and timely contribution to research on performance space. * New Theatre Quarterly *Kim Solga’s Theory for Theatre Studies: Space offers new considerations of foundational twentieth-century cultural materialism and boldly takes on vital new discourses. In so doing, Solga reinserts the stakes and dynamizes the discussion of spatiality in twenty-first-century theatre and performance studies. -- Scott Magelssen, University of Washington School of Drama, USASolga’s engaging synthesis of key spatial theories opens up provocative possibilities for better understanding space in and of the theatre. Vivid examples anchor her well-contextualised ideas on texts, venues, scenic design and politics. -- Professor Joanne Tompkins, The University of Queensland, AustraliaA fluid and rigorous field-guide to an important and stimulating area of study: this book covers a great deal of territory, offers a lively and accessible account of a complex theme, and synthesises theory, theatre and analysis with wit, confidence and clarity. -- Sophie Nield, Royal Holloway, University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Preface Introduction: Making Room for Space at the Theatre Locate Yourself The Way Ahead Section One: Methodologies and Approaches The Back Story: The Spaces of Classical Dramatic Theory Contemporary Lens #1: Theatre and the Production of Social Space Contemporary Lens #2: Genre and “Topographic” Space Contemporary Lens #3: The Heterotopic Stage Section Two: Extended Case Studies Case Study #1: ‘And While London Burns’ Case Study #2: ‘Fräulein Julie’ Case Study #3: ‘The Shipment’ Section Three: Towards a Decolonized Stage Locating Settler Colonialism Seeing Like a Settler “A Concert and a Conversation”: ‘Kiinalik – These Sharp Tools’ Notes Further reading Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized the profession, and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion, oppression, and domination rather than expression, aspiration, and inspiration. This book is not for conformistsBlack, White, or other. As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy, Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifestothe voice of the underrepresented, marginalized, and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop, it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip-hop''s cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas.Examining the present and the future of Hip-Hop ArchiTrade ReviewThe book hip-hop architecture deserves—and the one our era of reckoning demands. * Metropolis *This compelling book simultaneously challenges an inherent elitism (and whiteness) in contemporary architectural theory and practice, and embraces and expands the scholarly vocabulary of the canon. * Library Journal *Hip-Hop Architecture is a call for building design to be instated as the fifth pillar of this cultural movement, joining dance, drama, fine arts and music… As idiosyncratic, challenging and genre-redefining as Hip-hop’s other cultural manifestations, Cooke’s book argues for a new approach to urban design that better expresses the Black and African American experience. * Wallpaper* *Cooke's book reminds us how what has been built to date is the result of the application of political, social and cultural ideas and principles that have intentionally excluded certain sections of the population. Architecture is the manifesto of this exclusion and, over time, becomes testimony of the errors of a society that should no longer belong to us. So the author starts from hip-hop to get to the maximum systems, because hip-hop is a culture that binds people, unites them in community, through music, sounds, dances. Its pages describe and reflect the values of a culture linked by sound and words. * Elle Décor Italia *Well-researched, engaging and fresh ... [Cooke] strips the paternalizing aspects off, which often pervade the treatises emanating from the ivory towers of academia. * Scene Point Blank *Hip-Hop Architecture is a meditation on architecture’s intersection with one of the most influential contemporary cultural movements—hip-hop. Cooke’s deft textual and visual riffs merge hip-hop’s sonic and performative modalities—remix, breakdance, graffiti—with traditions and practices that inform black spatiality and design. * Mabel O. Wilson, Columbia University, USA *Cooke’s Hip-Hop Architecture is presented at exactly the time we need a new way to think about form, space, surface, construction, renovation, cities, activism, and the power of a cultural moment that has reshaped the planet. But don’t call this book timely—call it brave, urgent, phresh, and a book that reflects a perspective that the discipline of architecture has needed for a long time. * Ronald Rael, University of California-Berkeley, USA *Hip-Hop Architecture makes the most compelling argument to date for an emerging movement in architecture defined by modalities of practice—deejaying, emceeing, breakdancing, and graffiti writing—rather than by reference to the Western architecture canon. * Michael Speaks, Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture *As the creative world begins to face its racist legacy, Cooke’s book reflects on the ways in which spaces are created to exclude or include, and the potential of Hip-Hop Architecture to create buildings, spaces, and urban environments that are more inclusive and empowering to the underrepresented and marginalized. * Design Miami *Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD Building Blocks - Michael Eric Dyson ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Shout Outs, Big Ups, and Thank Yous VOLUME I: Ready or Not: An Introduction to Hip-Hop Architecture VOLUME II: Step into A World: Perspectives and Narratives from the History and Theory of Hip-Hop Architecture VOLUME III: As I Manifest: Contemporary Speculations on Hip-Hop Architectural Education and Practice VOLUME IV: Flipping to the B-Sides: Tangents to and Projections from Hip-Hop Architecture APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisRooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: ''Resisting Sexist Cities'', ''Designing Feminist Cities'', and ''Prioritizing Safer Cities'', Kalms examines barriers to women''s public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies and actions to overcome them.Addressing significant themes such as violence against women and gender-sensitive design, She City not only provides direction for practitioners but also inspires confidence to pursue new paths towards women-centered urban environments. This book is an essential resource for architects, urban designers, planners and the plethora of built environment specialists committed to building cities that truly meet the diverse needs of women and girls.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Women in Cities: An Introduction 2. Don't Stand So Close to Me: Sexist Street Harassment and Women's 'Safety Work' 3. Fake Happy: Hypersexual Cities and Women's Inequity 4. Missing Women: Smart Women in the Data Gap 5. Girls to the Front: Mainstreaming Women's Needs 6. Not Neutral: Designing Cities for Women 7. Expanding Expertise: Women's Safety Audits 8. Train Wreck: Public Transport and Women's Safety 9. Eyes on the Street: Women and Urban Crime Prevention 10. On the Edge of the Night: Women and the Nighttime Economy 11. Run the World: Co-design in a Feminist Framework References Index

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Book SynopsisJane Anderson is the field chair for BA Architecture and Interior Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has worked in Germany and the UK and her built works include a low-energy headquarters building for a software company and a variety of educational building types such as a music school, sports hall and nursery.Trade ReviewThe book is any excellent reference for students throughout the course. I would certainly recommend the book for the subject. * Deepika Shetty, Manipal School of Architecture and Planning, India *Extremely relevant - an excellent overview to assist students' understanding of the design process. A fascinating insight into how other schools and architectural practices learn/teach/develop/assist etc. Excellent layout and design - all very clear with useful case studies and relevant projects. * Ric Frankland, University of Salford, UK *Very useful book; interesting for students to learn about and to get a better understanding of different design processes which can assist by the development of their own preference for studio design. * Rob de Maat, University of Malawi, Malawi *We use most of AVA's Architecture series - I have found them invaluable. * Gill Swan, UCLAN, UK *Basic Architecture 03: Architectural Design is truly exceptional and has motivated me to want to see the others in the series. The text is exceptional in both content and quality. The series is worthy of serious consideration for any basic architecture program. * Robert Hodge, Howard County Public School System, US *Table of ContentsIntroduction The design studio: Emergence of the design studio; The Bauhaus: preliminary course; Architectural education; Architectural Association: student pavilions; Design studio projects Zaha Hadid: MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts Chapter summary The design process: Problem solving; NL Architects: Prisma housing; Developing a concept Klein Dytham architecture: Billboard Building; Finding a process; SHoP Architects PC: 290 Mulberry Chapter summary The design project: Clients, users and brief; Site, context and place; Initial ideas; Development and detail; Construction and occupation Conclusion Further resources Index and picture credits Acknowledgements Working with ethics

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Book SynopsisTheories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of home as haven'. While, arguably, some social conditions might suggest this is the case, Domesticity Under Siege exposes a different world, one in which the boundaries of nurturing domesticity collide with both outside and inside agents.Whether these agents are external military forces, psychological trauma or familial violence, they re-position meta-narratives of domesticity, not through identity politics or specialized subgroup experience, but relative to the actions of the world around an inhabited domain. That is, when home is constituted as a private realm, a place where individuals or groups can reside in safety and comfort', it is argued as a Table of ContentsIntroduction, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University, Australia), Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION ONE: Microbes, Animals and Insects 1. Miasmatical Fears, Annmarie Adams (McGill University, Canada) 2. Domesticity and Fear: Insects and Creepy Crawlies, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) SECTION TWO: Human Agents – Burrowing, Hoarding, Concealing, Undermining 3. The Domestic Screen, Terry Meade (University of Brighton, UK) 4. Hoarding Disorder, Schwitters’ Merzbau and its Conflict with Domesticity, Judit Pusztaszeri (University of Brighton, UK) SECTION THREE: Wars and Disasters as Agents 5. Under Siege: The Wartime Home in British Art of the London Blitz, Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia) 6. Searching for (a) Home in the Rubble: The Heimkehrer-Flâneur in Wolfgang Staudte’s Die Mörder sind unter uns, Kai-Uwe Werbeck (University of North Carolina, USA) SECTION FOUR: Hauntings, Eeriness and the Uncanny 7. I Have Ended up Like the House, Pretending to be Myself: Uncanny Heritage House Museums, Hannah Lewi (University of Melbourne, Australia) 8. Suburban Horror Story, James F. Kerestes (Ball State University, USA)

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Book SynopsisKenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of, amongst other works, Modern Architecture: A Critical History (1980: 4th edition, 2007; 5th edition in preparation), Modern Architecture in the World of Art series (5th edition, 2020), Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction (1995), Labor, Work and Architecture (2002), A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form (2015) and The Other Modernism (2016: in Italian).Miodrag Mitrašinovic is Professor of Urbanism and Architecture, and Co-Chair of Parsons Graduate Urban Programs, at Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA. He is the co-editor of Public Space Reader (2020), Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion: Contemporary Urban Practices and Design Strategies of the Greater Bay Area (forthcoming 2021), 'Cooperative Cities' (Journal of Design Strategies

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Book SynopsisLouise Purbrick is Tutor in Design History, Royal College of Arts, UK.Trade ReviewIn this brilliant study of a place known to most only as an icon, Purbrick asks who and what made the H Blocks? As she shows, these processes are ongoing, long after the prison’s closure. Deeply sensitive to the challenge of writing about the trauma of others, she fills the site with bodies and things, politics and feelings. * David Crowley, Head of the School of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Ireland *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Building the Blocks 2. Living in the Cells 3. The Global Witness and the Hunger Strike 4. Women Visitors: Waiting to Understand Prison Architecture 5. Erasure: The Last Murals and Final Performance of Long Kesh/Maze 6. On eBay: Who Owns the Keys of the H Blocks? Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisItalian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist ambiguity. This book critically examines this enduring phenomenon, exploring the privileged position of Italian architects, architecture, and cities in the architectural culture of the past century.Questioning the deep-rooted myth of Italy within architectural history, the book presents case studies of Italy's powerful yet problematic position in 20th-century architectural ideologies, at a time when established Eurocentric narratives are rightly being challenged. It reconciles the privileged position of Italian architecture and design with the imperative to write history across a more global, diverse, heterogenous cultural geography. Twenty chapters from distinguished international scholars cover subjects and architects ranging from AlbeTrade ReviewThis elegant collection challenges familiar ideas of how Italian sites and histories shaped 20th-century design theory worldwide. Inaugurating a set of provocative new questions, it stands to generate innovative architectural and scholarly debates for years to come. * Mia Fuller, University of California Berkeley, USA *At once origin of the Western conceptualization of architecture as a discipline and institution, home to buildings that have become hypercanonized, and arena of historiographical debates, Italy is an undeniable presence in architectural consciousness, whether it is embraced or rejected. From a variety of perspectives the essays in this volume enrich and complicate our understanding of Italy’s position in global architectural culture. Together they amount to a critical examination of ‘architecture’s vision of itself’ over the long 20th century. * Maarten Delbeke, ETH Zürich, Switzerland *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. INTRODUCTION: IMPRINTS AND TRACKS, Denise R. Costanzo & Andrew Leach (Penn State University, USA) and Andrew Leach (University of Sydney, Australia) 2. THE ARCHITECT AS INTELLECTUAL, Jean-Louis Cohen (New York University, USA) 3. ITALIAN AFTERTHOUGHTS: TRANSCODING VENICENESS FROM WITHOUT, Giorgia Aquilar (University Institute of Architecture, Venice, Italy) 4. ITALY AS A METHODOLOGICAL TESTING GROUND FOR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, Raul Martinez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) 5. FUNCTIONALISM AND ITS ITALIAN ENTANGLEMENTS, Ute Poerschke (Penn State University, USA) 6. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE AS REBIRTH AND RETURN, Caspar Pearson (University of Essex, UK) 7. FROM RENAISSANCE PRECISION TO COMPUTATIONAL UNCERTAINTY, Frank Bauer (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany) 8. THE HUMAN BODY AS A SPACE OF DIPLOMACY: STUDI SULLE PROPORZIONI AT THE IX MILAN TRIENNALE IN 1951, Federica Vannucchi (Pratt Institute, USA) 9. MODELS AND METHODS OF ARCHITECTURE AND CLIMATE, Daniel A. Barber (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 10. “SLOW DOWN YOUR KUNSTWOLLEN, YOUNG MAN” OR, WHAT A PRACTICE IN BUILDING DECONSTRUCTION LEARNED FROM TUSCAN ARISTOTELIANISM, Lionel Devlieger (University of Ghent, Belgium) 11. ROBERT VENTURI AND NAPLES: THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SOUTH, Rosa Sessa (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) 12. GIO PONTI’S CLOUD OF AFFINITIES, Maristella Casciato (Getty Research Institute, USA) 13. MARKING, FRAMING, AND MEASURING IN VITTORIO GREGOTTI’S IL TERRITORIO DELL’ARCHITETTURA, Chris French (University of Edinburgh, UK) 14. ALDO ROSSI, GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, AND THE ENIGMA OF TRADITION, Diane Ghirardo (University of Southern California, USA) 15. FURNISHING FASCIST ITALY, Ignacio G. Galán (Barnard College, USA) 16. THE INTERNATIONAL CALL: ITALIAN DESIGN, CULTURE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS AT THE 1972 MoMA EXHIBITION AND BEYOND, Silvia Micheli (University of Queensland, Australia) and Lorenzo Ciccarelli (University of Florence, Italy) 17. APPROPRIATING ALDO ROSSI: THE DISPLACED AFTERLIFE OF L’ARCHITETTURA DELLA CITTÀ IN CHINA, Dijia Chen (University of Virginia, USA) 18. FROM THE UNIVERSAL TO THE PARTICULAR: ROBIN BOYD AND THE POSITIONING OF ITALY IN POST-WAR ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM, Philip Goad (University of Melbourne, Australia) 19. UNEXPECTED PEDAGOGIES: HENRY HORNBOSTEL IN ITALY, 1893, Francesca Torello (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 20. ITALIAN ROOTS IN LATIN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos (Goethe University, Germany) Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects and designers began rethinking how to design cities and adapt their practice so that we might continue to live together in the future. Architecture after COVID is the first book to explore the pandemic's transformative impacts upon the architectural profession. It raises new questions about the intertwined natures of architectural production, science, society, and spatial practice questions which had lain latent in the profession for years, but which the COVID pandemic brought to the fore. The book explores how the pandemic modified the spatial conventions of everyday life in the city, and looks in detail at how it has transformed building typologies. It also shows how the continuing risk of pandemics leads us to rethink the social dimension of architecture and urban design; andTrade ReviewYaneva’s book is an ethnography of architectural innovation, an investigation of how spatial designers and designs respond and work in a moment of crisis. For this important field – an architectural design of disasters – Yaneva’s new book contributes with a great and interesting case, as well as with important theoretical and methodological insights. I hope it will inspire others both in spirit, approach and in choice of subject, because this is a field that is in urgent need of further explorations. * Journal of Urban Design *With piercing attention to the swirling “now” of architects, the things they make, and how they make them, Albena Yaneva creatively takes the pandemic as a lens that reveals new dimensions of space, global cities, and architectural practices from around the world. Starting with the moment Covid-19 became part of daily life, the book is both a mirror into our recent transformations, and a cultural touchstone for future readers who wonder how we humans together with our virus redefine our shared lives. * Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles, USA *A fascinating account of professional and collective life during the pandemic, reminding us of the extraordinary spatial and working conditions that we all experienced in those strange times. The book shows the lessons learnt by practitioners, and asks important questions as to how architectural practice can and should develop and adapt post-pandemic. * Jeremy Till, Professor of Architecture, University of the Arts London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction The return of Dr Rieux Responses to the pandemic ‘Distant’ as a new form of knowledge Architecture after Covid Chapter 1: A ‘parasite’ in the city Occupying space Architecture and illness Virus, lab, city The laboratorization of space Chapter 2: The laboratorization of urban space Deserted cities, empty buildings Counting bodies Spacing, distancing Contactless lives Sanitizing, face covering The new ‘modulor’ Pandemic pictograms De-centring the disease The power of entrapment Urban metamorphosis: the new technologies of containment and visibility Chapter 3: Pandemic variations of design practice Routines: the ‘magic’ of the office space Slowing down: the return to the verbal, the written and the sketch Stepping aside and speeding up: technological developments New compositions: re-connecting with the ‘others’ New variants of practice Conclusion: Architectural research extended to things Historicity and virus New reflexivity, new methods Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. Matthijs van Oostrum currently works with UN-Habitat, Nairobi. Tanzil Shafique is Lecturer in Urban Design at the University of Sheffield. Ishita Chatterjee is Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Art and Architecture, O.P. Jindal Global University. Elek Pafka is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Melbourne.The authors are all associated with InfUr- the Informal Urbanism Research Hub at the University of Melbourne.Trade ReviewThe Atlas demonstrates the indispensable value that is generated by investigating the spatial logic of informal settlement, as this exposes factors often overlooked in broad-brush statistics and geospatial analysis based on artificial intelligence. Focusing on fifty-one sites, the Atlas offers a nuanced spatial analysis at different scale levels and reveals the processes and outcomes of self-organized urban design. In doing so, it offers learnings for context-sensitive policies for affordable housing and neighbourhood infrastructure in rapidly growing cities. * Raf Tuts, Director, Global Solutions Division, UN-Habitat *We know very little about most of the informal settlements that house over a billion urban dwellers. This book advances and deepens our understanding of these settlements‘ development and expansion over time in all their diversity and complexity. * David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development *This is a vital empirical consolidation of the heterogeneous ways urban settlements are being composed and governed. The "informal" is always extending itself across new terrain and vernaculars; something always being worked and worked on in incessant processes of becoming unsettled and resettled. * AbdouMaliq Simone, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield *Table of ContentsList of figures List of authors Acknowledgements Part A INTRODUCTION: Informal Settlement as a Verb Part B METHOD: Mapping Informal Assemblages Part C SETTLEMENT Part D MORPHOGENESIS: The Spatial Logic of Self-Organized Urban Design Part E REFERENCES Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisMartino Stierli is Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, USA. He was previously SNSF Professor for the History of Architecture & Art at the Art History Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland.Mechtild Widrich is Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA. She was previously Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at the Department for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.Trade ReviewMarking out a knowingly complex field of contemporary scholarship on 'participation' in art and architecture, this volume is testament not only to the multiple valences of the term - artistic, social, political, civic, urban, economic, and more - and the distinct contexts in which participatory acts and forms of agency have appeared or been strategically mobilized, but also of the term’s rich and ongoing potential as a critical and artistic lens. Inviting us to continue to 'think' through participation, it will be a welcome addition to contemporary debates on the ethical and political dimensions of art and architecture. * Felicity D Scott, Associate Professor of Architecture and Director of the Program in Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices in Architecture, Columbia University, USA *Intervening in vibrant debates on participation in the public sphere, Participation in Art and Architecture ranges widely over continents and cases: Sarajevo under siege, Sao Paulo between moving bodies and opened urbanism, the Acropolis and architectural erotics, Google Street View, Cairo, Mexico, and various European and American heterotopias. Tactics are examined in exhilarating historical detail, as theatrical and performative possession converts the spaces of the state into sites of contestation, and as design from the bottom up, immaterial labor, and theaters of memory are mobilized by users on the ground. This provocative collection hybridizes the disciplinary concerns of art and architecture, enriching them both. * Caroline A. Jones, Professor of Art History, History Theory & Criticism of Architecture & Art Program, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Whose Participation? Introductory Remarks - Martino Stierli and Mechtild Widrich Part I: Agency 1. The Infrastructure of Participation: Cultural Centres in Postwar Europe - Kenny Cupers 2. Occupied Sites: Tlatelolco and Metropol Parasol - Ana María León 3. Aesthetics and Politics of Participation in 1960s Brazil: From Hélio Oiticica’s ‘Parangolés’ to the Paulista School of Architecture - Martino Stierli 4. Putting on the Map: Suzanne Lacy’s International Dinner Party - Elke Krasny 5. Exhibitions in Damaged and Destroyed Architectural Objects in Besieged Sarajevo: Spaces of Gathering and Socialization - Asja Mandic 6. City of Revolution: On the Politics of Participation and Municipal Management in Cairo - Mohamed Elshahed 7. Disobedient Objects - Gavin Grindon Part II: Display 8. Between Theatre and Agora: Thoughts on Exhibition, Drama and Participation - Werner Hanak-Lettner 9. 1912 – Hellerau as Spielraum - Lutz Robbers 10. Participatory Aesthetics: Alexander Dorner’s Reorganization of the Provinzialmuseum Hannover (1923–1926) - Sandra Löschke 11. ‘The Ultimate Erotic Act’: On the Performative in Architecture - Mechtild Widrich 12. Echo-Logy: Working with Allan Kaprow - Philip Ursprung 13. Documentary (Non-)Interventions: Mediated Presence in Public Space and its Artistic Reflection - Katja Kwastek Author Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisThe renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (19202017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years. Scully charted an unlikely course from postwar modernism to postmodernism and New Urbanism, overturning outdated beliefs and changing the face of the built environment as he went. A teacher for more than 60 years and a figure of immense importance in the field, he was central to an expansive network of associations, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, and Robert Venturi to Robert Stern, Harold Bloom, and Norman Mailer. Scully's extensive body of work, with its range spanning centuries and civilizations, coalesced around the core beliefs that architecture shapes and iTrade ReviewA carefully researched biography written with sympathy and style by A. Krista Sykes, allow[ing] all of us to witness the impact of a teacher upon the lives of his students. * Architectural Record *Krista Sykes’s carefully-researched book on Vincent Scully beautifully captures his unparalleled ability to ignite the imagination of his students with his eloquence, passion for architecture, and concern with social justice that made his lectures electrifying and his writings a call to action. * Esther da Costa Meyer, Professor Emerita of Architectural History, Princeton University, USA and Visiting Professor at Yale University, USA *The story of an era, Vincent Scully’s biography illuminates our understanding of the state of architecture and cities today. Beloved professor and public intellectual, he was dedicated to initiating the public into the sometime arcane world of architecture and architects. He exerted an unprecedented influence as a historian on the turn of events of his own time, with expansive knowledge and empathy for his subjects, and the conviction that past and present are one. * Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Professor of Architecture, University of Miami, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Dogs and Books (1920–1940) 2. Then and Since (1940–1946) 3. Marinated in Modernism (1946–1949) 4. Laying the Foundations (1947–1950) 5. A Uniquely American Development (1948–1955) 6. Side by Side in Panorama (1947–1962) 7. Rewriting Modern Architecture (1955–1962) 8. Death of the Street (late 1950s–1964) 9. Complexity and Contradiction (1964–1967) 10. Activism and Accommodation (1967–early 1970s) 11. A Great Shift Towards Realism (late 1960s–early 1970s) 12. The Historian’s Revenge (1964 –mid-1970s) 13. What Seas, What Shores (late 1970s–1991) 14. New Urbanism, New Horizons (1980s–2000s) 15. We Can’t Say It’s a Career Cut Short (1991 – 2017) 16. Legacy Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.Written by an Iraqi architect who has lived through the trauma of several wars, 10 years of UN-imposed sanctions, an invasion, and the subsequent violence, this book captures a broad spectrum of spatial responses to trauma and presents a fresh perspective on how ordinary Iraqis create refuge across the spaces of the home, the urban environment, and border geographies.In the face of spatial wounding and the many injustices suffered by the Iraqi people, there has also been a wealth of refuge-making practices that showcase their creative and imaginative design and adaptability to change and trauma over time. Rupturing Architecture employs methods such as creative deep mapping, memory work, storytelling, interviews, and case studies of architectural responses to the geogr

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, design thinking has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended in order to think outside the box. This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by analogical thinkingan agile way of reasoning in which think the unknown through the familiar. The book is organized into four case studies: the first reviews analogical models that have been at the heart of design thinking representations from the 1960s to the present day; the second investigates the staying power of biological analogies; the third explores the paradoxical imaginary of analogous cities as a means of integrating contemporary architecture with heritage contexts; while the fourth unpacks the critical and theoretical potential of linguistic metaphors and visTrade ReviewAnalogical Thinking in Architecture is careful and timely study of analogy as a powerful tool for connecting design and theory in the built environment. Covering large grounds of theory and practice, Jean-Pierre Chupin makes a compelling argument about the potential of analogical thinking to renew the epistemological horizons of architectural theory and to contribute to a better understanding of contemporary design practice. Eloquently written and filled with insightful examples, it is a must-read for every architecture student, design educator and practitioner. * Albena Yaneva, University of Manchester, UK *One of the foremost specialists of analogy, this fundamental dimension of architectural thinking, gives us an expanded English version of his seminal contribution to the study of a topic of interest both to theorists and practitioners. Indeed, analogy is key to the understanding of architectural creativity. * Antoine Picon, Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA *In four chapters, Jean-Pierre Chupin takes us on an intellectual and sensory journey, reviewing key moments in Western architectural theory and history and illuminating modes of thought that remain little explored in the discipline. Chupin argues persuasively that analogical thinking, in all its intellectual and poetic manifestations, needs to be further explored given the powerful capabilities it has always brought to the field. Building on the disciplinary and transdisciplinary strengths of architecture itself and across disciplines, Chupin foregrounds the specific modes of knowledge production in creative fields and offers this book as a first milestone on the road to "opening up a field of research that favors the creation of an architectural theory of projects understood as analog worlds.” Analogical Thinking in Architecture is a must-read for scholars and practitioners alike. * Dieter Dietz, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland *Table of ContentsList of Analogical Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Analogy Beyond Resemblance A Spectrum of Definitions A Canonical Example A Paucity of Theories for a Plethora of Facts Design Process, Repertories, Cities and Theories 1 Reflecting on Design Thinking The Design Process as an Object of Research Cybernetic and Methodological Analogues Analogy as Creative Technique Toward a Cognitive Approach to Design The Rise of Design Thinking 2 The Cyclical Case of Biological Analogies The Intertwined Fates of Architecture and Biology Peter Collins and the Biological Analogy Philip Steadman and the Evolutionary Design of Artefacts George Hersey and the Biological Roots of Architecture Analogical Reasoning and the Burden of Proof Life Cycles of Biological Analogies 3 In the Labyrinth of Analogous Cities The Città Analoga as a Visual Enigma The Critical Misfortune of a Hypothesis Climbing the Analogical Mountain Back to Square One with Aldo Rossi 4 From Linguistic Metaphors to Critical Analogies Classical Regimes of Resemblance Post-modern Metaphors of the Column Critiques of Linguistic Analogy Colin Rowe’s Method of Analogical Pairing Conclusion: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment The Analogical World of the Project Analogy as Inclusive Device Snakes and Ladders Digital Analogues and Artificial Imagination Cognitive Leaps are the Order of Things Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLaurene Vaughan is Professor of Design and Communication at RMIT University, Australia, where she is also Dean, School of Design. She is the editor of Practice-Based Design Research (Bloomsbury, 2017), Designing Cultures of Care (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Using PhDs for Design Practice (forthcoming with Bloomsbury, 2023).Trade ReviewDesigners owe a duty of care to clients and society. This book challenges accepted, defensive understandings in this deeply selfish world, to encourage designers to conceive of all design as being a practice of care, with numerous examples of proactive ways of doing so. * Katharine Heron MBE, Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction, Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia) 2. Design as a Practice of Care, Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia) 3. Out(fit)ting the City: Care and Contribution in Post-industrial Newcastle, Australia, Cathy Smith (University of New South Wales, Australia) and SueAnne Ware (University of Newcastle, Australia) 4. Picture Education Today: Data Visualization as a Practice of Critique and Care, Brad Haylock (RMIT University, USA) 5. What Do We Want?: Designing Cultures of Care in Conditions of Precarity, Shana Agid (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) 6. Patient-centered Care and the Design of a Psychiatric Care Facility, Sarah Pink and Shanti Sumartojo (Monash University, Australia) and Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia) 7. Tinkering in Cities: Aging and Careful Technology Design for Participation in Urban Infrastructures, Rachel Clarke (Northumbria University, UK) 8. Magic and Dementia: Designing Culture to Empathize with Dementia, Niels Hendriks (LUCA School of Arts, Belgium), Yanki Lee (Design School Kolding, Denmark) and Albert Tsang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) 9. Cities of Homefullness: A Proposition, Neal Haslem, Keely Macarow and Guy Johnson (RMIT University, Australia) and Marcus Knutagård (Lund University, Sweden) 10. Learning from Parramatta Girls Home: Tactics and Practices for Strategic Design in the Margins, Lily Hibberd (University of New South Wales, Australia) 11. Nurturing Forth: Designing Careful Futures in a Small Arctic City, Angeliki Dimaki-Adolfsen (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Janike Kampevold Larsen and Andrew Morrison (Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway) and Maria Bertheussen Skrydstrup (Våranger Museum., Norway) 12. The Artwork that Remembers: Designing a Methodology for Community-based Urban Design, Charles Anderson, Chuan Khoo, Jordan Lacey and Ross McLeod (RMIT University, Australia) 13. Seeking Empathy in Conscious Cities, Claire McAndrew (UCL, UK) and Itai Palti (Hume, Israel) 14. Concerning Relations in the City: Designing Relational Services in Sharing Economies, Cameron Tonkinwise (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 15. Layers of Care: Co-Designing a City Laboratory of Intercultural Dialogue, Noel Waite (RMIT University, Australia) 16. Performing a Practice of Care: A Dialogue, Mick Douglas and Laurene Vaughan (RMIT University, Australia)

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Book SynopsisStavros Stavrides is an architect, activist and associate professor at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, where he teaches courses on social housing design, as well as a postgraduate course on the social meaning and significations of metropolitan experience. His publications on spatial theory include The Symbolic Relation to Space (1990); Advertising and the Meaning of Space (1996); The Texture of Things (with E. Cotsou, 1996); From the City-Screen to the City-Stage (2002, National Book Award); Suspended Spaces of Alterity (2010); and Towards the City of Thresholds (2010).Trade ReviewHow shall we understand the pulse and power of commoning, the subtle force that is constantly shaping the spaces and experiences of modern cities? Stavros Stavrides provides a rich, erudite exploration of this neglected topic and the potential for human emancipation. * David Bollier, author of Think Like a Commoner *A fascinating and path-breaking book, which can inspire activists and theoreticians alike. It enriches the academic bibliography of geography, planning, sociology, cultural studies, social anthropology, political science and more disciplines focusing on the contemporary city.' * City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action *Stavrides escapes the Eurocentrism that often predominates in the literature on the urban commons … The book will appeal not only to scholars across many disciplines, but also to activists who seek to engage with the significance of urban space for their political action.' * Urban Studies *The Foreword hails Common Space as "the first theoretical book of its kind, the first book to problematise space as commons". And this is precisely where the value of Stavrides’ contribution is found. * 3AM Magazine *Common Space is the first of its kind … an in-depth journey into the concept of common space … relevant to students, academics and practitioners alike. * Environment and Urbanization *Stavrides was one of the first to open my eyes to the importance of the urban commons. His writings are exciting, a valuable reference for urban activists around the world. He is right: the city is the place where we can and should truly reinvent the commons. * Lieven De Cauter, co-editor of Art and Activism in the Age of Globalization *Stavros Stavrides has written a cutting-edge book on the commons and the city. A must read that inspires and challenges conventional thinking. Add it to your toolbox for the reinvention of the city through commoning. * Massimo De Angelis, author of Omnia Sunt Communia and The Beginning of History *Stavrides provides a wonderful guide to how we can make urban space common. He draws from the history of social housing and the successes of contemporary protest movements to formulate an exciting political project. * Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire; Multitude; and Commonwealth *The word from Athens is this: the commons is open not exclusionary; it perforates the walls of sovereignty, discipline, security, and their phantasmagoria. From Oaxaca to Nairobi, the ancient assemblies of the egalitarian agora of old rise again. Listen to the word from Athens! * Peter Linebaugh, author of The Magna Carta Manifesto *An exceptionally thoughtful study of the process and procedures of commoning, investigating the major ways by which common spaces are created in the contemporary world … [a] remarkable and immensely rewarding text.' * Political Geography *A much-needed breath of fresh air. This is a book for all those interested in moving beyond the politics of enclosure, fear and individualism to a politics of hope, possibility and social inclusion in the contemporary city. * Sophie Watson, The Open University *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction Part I: Commoning Space 1. An Urban Archipelago of Enclosures 2. Expanding Commoning: In, Against and Beyond Capitalism? Part II: Inhabited Common Spaces 3. Shared Heterotopias: Learning From the History of a Social Housing Complex in Athens 4. Housing and Urban Commoning 5. Metropolitan Streets as Contested Spaces 6. Occupied Squares, Societies in Movement Part III: Envisaged common spaces 7. Practices of Defacement: Thresholds to Rediscovered Commons 8. Thought-images and Representations of the City as Commons 9. Representations of Space and Representations of Emancipation Conclusion: Reinventing the City through Commoning

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Book SynopsisChristian Parreno is Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador. He is the author of Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience (Bloomsbury, 2021).

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Book SynopsisSince its sudden and dramatic formation upon winning the competition to design Paisley Civic Centre in 1963, Hutchison, Locke and Monk (HLM Architects) has consistently served and adapted to the changing requirements of Britain's welfare state, and has instinctively dedicated its professional services to community architecture.Conceived from the perspective of founding partner Tony Monk, this book reveals the inside story of how the partnership has grown over 50 years to become a leading UK national practice. It sets out the early influences and progressive design philosophy of HLM Architects and analyses how they developed their design ethos from late-modern through contextual post-modern architectural styles by the early 1980s, and then matured into producing its own contemporary designs, explaining why these changes took place over that period. As well as reflecting the transformations in the social and political landscapes and in aesthetic approaches, it also ineviTable of ContentsForeword Sir George Young. Introduction Edward Denison. Prelude Tony Monk. 1. Civic Tony Monk. 2. Healthcare Leslie Welch. 3. Residential and Mixed Use Tony Monk. 4. Defence Christopher Liddle. 5. Custodial Christopher Liddle. 6. Education Caroline Buckingham. The Next Generation and the Future Christopher Liddle. Current HLM Board 2017. Project Lists. Awards. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisOutlandia is an off-grid artists' fieldstation, a treehouse imagined by artists London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson) and designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects, situated in Glen Nevis, opposite Ben Nevis. It is performative architecture that immerses its occupants in a particular environment, provoking creative interaction between artists and the land. This book explores the relationship between place and forms of thought and creative activity, relating Outlandia and the artists there to the tradition of generative thinking and making structures that have included Goethe's Gartenhaus in Weimar, Henry Thoreau''s cabin at Walden Pond and Dylan Thomas's writing shack in Laugharne. Based on a series of residencies and radio broadcasts produced by London Fieldworks in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm, the Remote Performances project enabled twenty invited artists to consider and engage in transmissions, sound performances and dialogues on their artmaking strategies immersedTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Jo Joelson; A survey of the terrain, Francis McKee; Kelpies, banshees and pibrochs heard in these parts, Geoff Sample; Like like, Michael Pederson; Selections from The Hut Book, Alec Finlay; From a train, Goodiepal; The sound of Lochaber, London Fieldworks and Mark Vernon; Geo graphy, Tracey Warr; There's a monster in the nest-box, Clair Chinnery; In search of silence, Lisa O'Brien; Composing with place, Kirsteen Davidson Kelly; A sense of distance, Lee Patterson; Notes for a video, Benedict Drew; The contemporary remote, Bruce Gilchrist; Second sketch for ascent and descent, Ed Baxter; Euphonium at sea, Sarah Kenchington; Notes after a week of wandering, Bram Thomas Arnold; Echo. Genius loci, Ruth Barker; Into Outlandia, Johny Brown; High-lands, Tony White; Endnotes on remoteness, Clair Chinnery, Lisa O'Brien and Bram Thomas Arnold; Further resources; Index.

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Book SynopsisStephen Kite is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK. His previous publications include Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture (2012), Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye (2009), and An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson (2005, co-authored with Sarah Menin).Trade ReviewA meticulously researched, sensitive and intellectually stimulating enquiry into architecture’s darker side. * The Burlington Magazine *Shadow-Makers is a thoroughly enjoyable read, a dense, evocative, and insightful reminder of qualities essential to the physical and intellectual enjoyment of architecture. -- Elizabeth Musgrave * Architectural Theory Review *Providing an important exploration on how shadows have been used for a variety of purposes (religious, psychological, spatial), Kite looks at architecture from the Baroque, through 19th-century Gothic revival, to early and late modernity … This book abounds with black-and-white illustrations supporting and highlighting the nuances of Kite's ideas. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *Kite gathers an interesting ensemble of architects and architectonic works ... [he] creates a rich picture of the subject, almost like a mosaic. * Arkkitehti *Kite’s is a searching mind – genuinely curious, fascinated and enthusiastic; attuned to the allegorical values of tectonics ... [Shadow-Makers is] a network of ideas drawn from politics, aesthetics, philosophy and cultural history, but always pivoting on the central narrative of architectonics wrought from darkness, shadow and shade. * Fabrications *Table of Contents1. Shadow Beginnings 2. Primordial Shadows 3. ‘The art of Shaddowes’: the Baroque of Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh 4. Shadows of the Sublime 5. Gothick ‘Gloomth’ 6. John Ruskin and Shadows of Power 7. Shadow Carpets 8. Shadows of the Unconscious: the Venice of Adrian Stokes and Aldo Rossi 9. Louis Kahn and the ‘Treasury of Shadows’ 10. Shadow Futures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of philosophical texts, Andrej Radman brings together a collection of 11 of his essays, published over the last decade, to show that when a society manipulates its matter it is not a reflection of culture; it is culture.Trade Review"Andrej Radman is one of the most insightful and interesting architectural theorists now at work. He is refreshingly meticulous in his treatment of architectural theory and Continental philosophy, and this collection of Radman's most important essays on theory from the past few years, is a significant and very welcome contribution to the domain of architectural theory." -Andrew Ballantyne, Newcastle University

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Book SynopsisIn an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating consequences of unequal access to sanitation in cities across the globe. At this critical moment in global public health, Colin McFarlane makes the urgent case for Sanitation for All.The book outlines the worldwide sanitation crisis and offers a vision for a renewed, equitable investment in sanitation that democratises and socialises the modern city. Adopting Henri Lefebvre's concept of 'the right to the city', it uses the notion of 'citylife' to reframe the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of democratic right to public life and health. In doing so, the book shows that sanitation is an urbanizing force whose importance extends beyond hygiene to the very foundation of urban social life.Trade ReviewIn this brilliant book bristling with ideas and evidence from around the Global South, Colin McFarlane maps the world's sanitation crisis as well as a way out of it through a manifesto of rights to the city that connects up vernacular strategies of making infrastructure, a public right to wellbeing, and city efforts to improve systems. The book is full of hope and possibility without ever losing sight of the sanitation catastrophe we face.' -- Ash Amin, Emeritus 1931 Chair of Geography, Cambridge UniversityInteresting, insightful, sometimes surprising, beautifully written, challenges us to look at sanitation (and lack of it) in new ways. -- David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)In this immensely well written and accessible book, Colin McFarlane draws on over two decades of his research on sanitation, setting out his argument as to why access to toilets is fundamental not only to reducing poverty and inequality but also to what he refers to as citylife, or the right to a liveable urban life. His superb command of his subject starts with the fleshy, messy feminist understanding of sanitation as a bodily act and of the millions of people living through the crisis of sanitation, at the centre of which lies the social reproductive labour of women and girls. From people he moves comprehensively across sanitation's material infrastructures (the 'things' of sanitation) and lives (the urban ecologies of human and non-human animals and microbes and the politics of the body), to protest (human waste is political!) and allocation (who gets what sanitation resources, where). It is this networked view of sanitation, as far more than a simple technical or policy issue, that underpins the democratic right to citylife. This is a brilliantly incisive book, setting a global agenda for all of us who care about cities, poverty and inequality. For those urban researchers and activists for whom the urban sanitation crisis is not yet on that agenda it will be after reading this book. -- Linda Peake, Director, The City Institute, York University, TorontoMarks the culmination of his path-breaking research on the global sanitation crisis. Waste and the City is both a sober assessment of the scale of the challenge and also an affirmation of multiple social and political possibilities to create better urban worlds. -- Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of CambridgeWith both a conceptually wide-ranging lens and empirical precision, Colin McFarlane show how and why sanitation lies at the heart of contemporary urban inequalities, injustices, and ecologies. Drawing on cases from both rich and poor countries alike, this book makes clear that how societies understand, address, or ignore such daily necessities as sewage and the provision of toilets says a lot about whose lives matter. Beyond highlighting the unspoken gender and class biases in the provision of sanitation, the focus on new environmental and infrastructural urgencies set in motion by climate change makes this book particularly timely. -- Diane E. Davis, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Book SynopsisThe past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'. Yet long-standing concepts such as 'authenticity' in heritage are undermined and trivialised by gatekeepers such as UNESCO. At the same, time, opposition to this manipulation is being undermined by cultural ideas that prioritise memory and impressions over history and facts. In Monumental Lies, Robert Bevan argues that monuments, architecture and cities are material evidence of history. They are the physical trace of past events, of previous ways of thinking and of politics, economics and values that percolate through to today. When our cities are reshaped as fantasies about the past, when monuments tell lies about who deserves honour or are destroyed and the struggle for justice forgotten, the historical record is being manipulated. When decisions are based on misinformed assumptions about how the built environment influences our behaviour or we are told, falsely, that certain architectural styles are alien to our cities, or when space pretends to be public but is private, or that physical separation is natural, we are being manipulated. There is a growing threat to the material evidence of the truth about history. We are in serious trouble if we can no longer trust the tangible world around us to tell us the truth. Monumental Lies explores the threats to our understanding of the built environment and how it impacts on our lives, as well as offers solutions to how to combat the ideological manipulations.Chosen as one of the best Architecture and Design books of 2022 by The Financial TimesTrade ReviewThis useful book connects a number of apparently disparate stories about statues and monuments and considers the various ironies of their representation and significance, past and present. A recommended read. -- Professor Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandRobert Bevan's passionate, timely polemic is a much-needed antidote to all the horror stories about 'woke' protesters tearing down monuments. The true threat to our built-up environment, he argues, comes not from the Left, but from governments who employ all the powers of the state to re-write history in their image. It is at times a truly terrifying read. -- Keith Lowe, author of Prisoners of HistoryWide ranging and rigorous, readable and profound, this superb book argues that if we can no longer trust the tangible world around us to tell the truth, then we are in trouble. Bevan offer us solutions arguing that we need to look at ways we can layer our monuments and our city that turns sites of honour into sites of shame, that change the meaning of the past without losing altogether the vital evidence of that past from the public realm. -- Liza Fior, MUF Architecture/ArtThis close reading of the city is a potent response to the culture wars because it deals in precisely the historical honesty that culture warriors have no stomach for. Righteous but always nuanced, Bevan is the perfect guide to the way urban iconography distorts history and entrenches power. -- Justin McGuirk, Senior Curator, Design MuseumA book that makes you sit up ... powerful -- Charlotte Mullins * Country Life *From statues of slave traders to pictures of medieval town centres offered as evidence of "cultural superiority", architecture and public art are everywhere in a coarsened discourse. Robert Bevan...navigates the territory delicately and brilliantly -- Edwin Heathcote * Financial Times, Best Books of 2022 *One of the most compelling progressive voices in the heritage world ... Using his nuanced knowledge of architectural history, he is attempting to unpick some of the myths and straight lies deployed when architecture is weaponised. -- Eddie Blake * Tribune *Bevan astutely argues that those who manipulate our cultural past are shaping our future, making the case that historic buildings have become battlegrounds for right-wing and nationalist political arguments. * The Art Newspaper, Top Books of 2022 *Knowledgeable and thought-provoking -- Daniel Trilling * Apollo *Topical, thought-provoking, knowledgeable about the uses and abuses of culture wars. -- Rowan Moore, Observer architecture criticMonumental Lies could hardly be better timed ... Bevan's book is the result of many years' research and contemplation, and is thorough, extensive and provocative ... brilliant -- Emma Dent Coad * Building Design *A book on cultural patrimony and historical architecture from Bevan's perspective is necessary ... searching and wide-ranging -- Ben Luke * The Art Newspaper *Blistering ... [a] hugely rewarding book that provides a considered and unexpected commentary on the built environment amid the culture wars -- Tristram Hunt * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating and very wide-ranging ... rich in detailed discussions of both the artistic and architectural issues and political contexts of many different problems across the contemporary world. -- Dominic Alexander * Counterfire *Powerful ... a must-read book for everyone interested in the questions of heritage representation, diversity and the city, and the way to move forward after painful and violent pasts. -- Ammar Azzouz * Urban Studies *Monumental Lies is a highly absorbing and deserving read, and recommended for anyone with an interest in what the built environment says - or avoids saying - about history. -- Richard Crappsley * Urban Design Journal *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 - KILLERS ON EVERY CORNER CHAPTER 2 STYLE WARS /CULTURE WARS CHAPTER 3THE ANTI-COSMOPOLITAN CHAPTER 4: AUTHENTICITY: THE MATERIAL TRUTH CHAPTER 5 THE MILITARY-HERITAGE COMPLEX CHAPTER 6 THE EVIDENCE OF HISTORY CHAPTER 7: WHITE LIES, MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND WELL-MEANING MYTHS CHAPTER 8: SUBVERSIVE TRANSFORMATION CHAPTER 9: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? 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Book SynopsisNature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can also inspire the design of architecture. Bionics is a fascinating border area between pure research and practical application: biologists, chemists, physicists, mineralogists, and paleontologists meet up with material scientists, engineers, and architects and transfer their knowledge to architecture and construction. Using numerous practical examples, this richly illustrated introduction traces the process from the understanding of how something functions, to abstraction—for example in computer models—and the construction of initial prototypes, through to fully functional manufacture and production.

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Book Synopsis Fire safety is an important part of building design. It consists of measures to prevent fires from starting, to facilitate the rescue of individuals in a burning building, and to help firefighters contain a blaze.　 Both statutory provisions and building codes lay down strict fire safety regulations for commercial and residential construction. The main task for architects when it comes to fire safety is to apply the principles and methods of fire prevention at the outset of the design process.The book explains the general concepts and fundamental issues of fire safety in building design beyond the particulars of local building regulations.

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Book SynopsisDas reich bebilderte Buch untersucht die Präsentation von Dingen und Ideen durch szenografische Raumgestaltung. Sein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt in der Darstellung ihrer historischen Entwicklung, die durch thematische Exkurse ergänzt wird: Von Musentempeln der Antike über Schatzkammern und Sammlungen bis hin zu bekannten Gestaltern, Universal Design und Science Center werden räumliche Vermittlungsstrategien anschaulich dargestellt und erläutert. Die historische Chronologie wirkt dabei als ordnende Systematik, die vergessene, jedoch inspirierende Praktiken sichtbar macht, seien sie anonymer oder künstlerischer Natur. Der Leser kann so etwa über die Erfindung von Vitrinen nachlesen oder Arbeitsweisen großer Ausstellungsmacher wie Rudofsky und Szeemann oder zeitgenössischer Büros wie Brückner und Merz kennenlernen.

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Book SynopsisIm Jahr 2030 werden weltweit 2,5 Milliarden Frauen in Städten leben und arbeiten. Traditionell war die Arbeit am Lebenskonzept Polis in ihrer Beauftragung, Planung und Ausführung jedoch männlich dominiert. Frauen Bauen Stadt porträtiert 18 Städtebauerinnen aus aller Welt und wirft einen anderen Blick auf die künftige Stadt: Internationale Autorinnen aus den Bereichen Architektur, Stadtplanung, Kunst, Architekturtheorie und -vermittlung gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Stadtplanung in Theorie und Praxis aus weiblicher Perspektive darstellt. Und sie diskutieren, inwiefern die Zukunft auf die Wünsche und Bedürfnisse von Frauen zugeschnitten sein wird und welche Rolle Gestalterinnen, Architektinnen und Stadtplanerinnen spielen werden.

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Book SynopsisTwo millennia of wood architecture There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound building material. Wooden architecture conveys for today’s world the breadth of knowledge held in Western and Eastern cultures about the creative use of this unique material. The typical technique of building with wood, joinery, requires that elements are connected only by the skillful interlocking of the constructive parts. In this book, the history of wooden architecture is described in detail using hundreds of examples from Japan, China and Europe. From a holistic understanding, a picture emerges that is informative for architects, and designers, reopens an almost lost world to builders, and will enthrall laypeople.Table of ContentsInhalt Einleitung zur dritten Auflage Das Material Die Verwendung Typologie und Funktionen der Holzverbindungen Holzverbindungen und ihre Entwicklung Holzverbindungen als Ausdruck ästhetischer Wertvorstellungen Holzkonstruktionen in China

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Book Synopsis50 years Learning from Las Vegas From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown’s advocacy for "messy vitality" has transformed the way we look at the urban landscape. Unconventional, eloquent, and with a profound sociopolitical message, Scott Brown is one of our era’s most influential thinkers on architecture and urbanism. The anthology Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes – marking the 50th anniversary of the seminal treatise Learning from Las Vegas – paints a portrait of Scott Brown as seen through the eyes of leading architectural historians and practitioners. It features new scholarship on　her education on three continents, her multidisciplinary teaching, and her use of urban patterns and forces as tools for architectural design – a practice documented in a new comment by Scott Brown, noting that sometimes "1+1>2." With contributions by Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Sylvia Lavin, Stanislaus von Moos, Jacques Herzog, Robin Middleton, and Denise Scott Brown, among others A comprehensive portrait of one of contemporary architecture’s most significant personalities

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Book SynopsisPortrait of Studio Hani Rashid Building on the previous volume Re: Futures (2017), Re: Action presents a selection of innovative designs by Studio Hani Rashid at the University of Applied Arts Vienna’s Institute of Architecture. The selected projects address architectural strategies for ensuring vitality in cities and ecosystems as well as sustainable urban growth. In his studio, Hani Rashid, co-founder of the visionary New York firm Asymptote Architecture, focuses on architecture that responds to current and future ecological changes. Bringing together projects, texts, and conversations, the book highlights creative ways in which architecture can contribute to the development of a sustainable, progressive, and livable urban future. Innovative experimental architectural designs for vibrant cities and ecosystems Explores how architecture can respond to ecological changes With contributions by Hani Rashid, Anab Jain, Greg Lynn, Timothy Morton, Claudia Pasquero, and others

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Book SynopsisMaterials: An overview This book presents a clear overview of the most important design materials, their production, properties, composition, and use. It also presents a concise outline of cleaning agents and dyes, and the basics of organic and inorganic chemistry. Materials are the starting point for every design process, whether in architecture, art, or crafts. Ancient artifacts show that people have always manipulated materials to derive practical and/or aesthetic benefits from them. The scientific interest in the properties of materials did not begin until the dawn of the industrial age in the early nineteenth century. With this book we finally have a solidly grounded textbook on the fundamentals of materials science. Everything you always wanted or needed to know about dyes, plastics, textiles, metals An overview of materials, their production, properties, and composition, and practical applications Understandable, thorough, clearly arranged, this is a reference book for students, pupils, professionals, and anyone interested in materials science

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Book SynopsisFranziska Wittmann researches at the Chair of Gion A. Caminada on approaches to natural physical laws and physiological factors in architecture. Instead of focusing on the creation of physical constellations through architecture, her work investigates the effects of these conditions on people. The publication presents collected physiological effects in a way that makes them applicable, with the aim of enhancing architecture. The collection presents physiological phenomena, architectural parallels and prominent examples in architectural history. Text in German.

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