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Architecture
The Subject is Matter
The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23546-4 (Routledge)
Architecturally Speaking
Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday
Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. Together these essays build to reflect not… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23544-0 (Routledge)
German Architecture for a Mass Audience
This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23654-6 (Routledge)
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Intersections
Architectural Histories and Critical Theories
Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23179-4 (Routledge)
Behind the Postcolonial
Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia
In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban… read more2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23615-7 (Routledge)
The Architecture of Oppression
The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy
This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22341-6 (Routledge)
Gender Space Architecture
An Interdisciplinary Introduction
This significant reader brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. Carefully structured… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17253-0 (Routledge)
Framing Places
Mediating Power in Built Form
Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of… read more1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-17368-1 (Routledge)
Rethinking Architecture
A Reader in Cultural Theory
Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century.Issues around the… read more
1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-12826-1 (Routledge)
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