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Vernacular Architecture of West Africa
By Jean-Paul Bourdier, Trinh T. Minh-ha
The living environments of hundreds of African ethnic groups offer a variety of ideas and construction practices which contradict the over-played image of primitive huts that have come to represent rural Africa. Each house or group of houses is conceived not only to shelter the family but also to...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-58543-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Future Office
Edited by Christopher Grech, David Walters
Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger architectural and urban design models. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current urban design and identifies potential new...
2007 | 978-0-415-38591-6 | Paperback (Taylor & Francis)
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On Altering Architecture
By Fred Scott
Bringing together interior design and architectural theory, this exciting text looks at the common practices of building alteration, reconsidering established ideas and methods, to initiate the creation of a theory of the interior or interventional design. Fred Scott examines in-depth case studies...
2007 | 978-0-415-31752-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Cafes and Bars: The Architecture of Public Display
Edited by Christoph Grafe, Franziska Bollerey
The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and...
2007 | 978-0-415-36328-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces: The Architecture of Seduction
Edited by David Vernet, Leontine de Wit
Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing...
2007 | 978-0-415-36322-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity
By Charles Rice
Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the...
2006 | 978-0-415-38468-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Designing Liners: A History of Interior Design Afloat
By Anne Wealleans
This in-depth history of the interior design of ocean liners surveys the transient history of interior design in relation to the development of passenger shipping, from commissioning by the line owners, methods and sources for the original creation of designs through to its construction, use and...
2006 | 978-0-415-37468-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Modern Period Room: The Construction of the Exhibited Interior 1870–1950
Edited by Penny Sparke, Brenda Martin, Trevor Keeble
With contributors drawn from a broad range of disciplines, The Modern Period Room brings together a carefully selected collection of essays to consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstructions from a variety of different viewpoints. Contributions from leading design...
2006 | 978-0-415-37470-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture
By Louise Pelletier
What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of...
2006 | 978-0-415-39471-0 | Paperback (Routledge)