The Global Architect

Firms, Fame and Urban Form

By Donald McNeill

The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological...

Published August 5th 2008 by Routledge.

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Rem Koolhaas / OMA

By Roberto Gargiani

In this book, the projects, buildings and theories of Koolhaas, as well as the other members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are examined in...

Published July 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Possibility of (an) Architecture

Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects

By Mark Goulthorpe

Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound...

Published July 10th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Evolution of Designs

Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

By Philip Steadman

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings....

Published May 28th 2008 by Routledge.

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Islam

From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul

By Christopher Tadgell

This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its...

Published April 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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Art of the Brooklyn Bridge

A Visual History

By Richard Haw

The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact...

Published February 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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Postcolonial African Cities

Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

Edited by Fassil Demissie

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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Visualizing the City

Edited by Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with...

Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

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Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt

Supercrit #1

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas

Supercrit #2

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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