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Ancient Cities
The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome
Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and…
read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-12182-8 (Routledge)
Actions of Architecture
Architects and Creative Users
Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29043-2 (Routledge)
Public and Private Spaces of the City
The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25629-2 (Routledge)
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Architecture and Nature
Creating the American Landscape
Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award!
The word 'nature' comes from natura, Latin for birth - as do the words nation, native and innate.…
read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28359-5 (Routledge)
This is Not Architecture
Media Constructions
This is Not Architecture assembles architectural writers of different kinds - historians, theorists, journalists, computer game designers, technologists, film-makers and architects - to discuss the… read more2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23180-0 (Routledge)
The Hieroglyphics of Space
Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis
'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19892-9 (Routledge)
The Urban Lifeworld
Formation Perception Representation
Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23177-0 (Routledge)
The Words Between the Spaces
Buildings and Language
Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14346-2 (Routledge)
Embodied Utopias
Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis
Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24814-3 (Routledge)
What is Architecture?
Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25627-8 (Routledge)
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