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Performalism: Between Form, Function and Performance in Contemporary Architecture
By Yasha Grobman, Eran Neuman
Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer "liberated? architecture from the tyranny of the...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-58361-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou: Supercrit #3
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
The SuperCrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and explores how they have influenced the way we think and design today. Featuring groundbreaking examples, these books bring together description and debate from archival sources, original press...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-45786-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Fiction, Image, Tone: The Metropolis and the Realisation of Architecture
By Raymond Quek
This is the first book to address architecture and her wider relations in art. Though many scholarly works have examined these ideas, not one study has brought together architecture and its wider representation in literary fiction, cinema, painting, the graphic novel and music, until now....
April 2011 | 978-0-415-49293-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette: Supercrit #4
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
The SuperCrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and explores how they have influenced the way we think and design today. Featuring groundbreaking examples, these books bring together description and debate from archival sources, original press...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-45788-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Computer Aided Design Guide for Architecture, Engineering and Construction
By Ghassan Aouad, Angela Lee, Song Wu
Recent years have seen major changes in the approach to computer aided design (CAD) in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) sector. CAD is increasingly becoming a standard design tool, facilitating lower development costs and a reduced design cycle. Not only does it allow a...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-49507-3 | Paperback (Spon Press)
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The Religious Imagination in Modern and Contemporary Architecture: a reader
Edited by Renata Hejduk, Jim Williamson
This anthology collects, substaniates, and demonstrates the importance of the religious imagination within Western modern and contemporary architecture. The essays written expressly for the anthology take a critical look at the relationship between religion and architecture in the twentieth...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-78081-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Spatial Agency: Other ways of Doing Architecture
By Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, Nishat Awan
The book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-57193-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities
By Esther Charlesworth, Rob Adams
Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned authors. Each practical case study has...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-57248-4 | Paperback (Routledge)