The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, Hardcover - Amale Andraos

DescriptionMoving beyond reductive notions of identity, myths of authenticity, fetishized traditionalism, or the constructed opposition of traditio...

Technology and the cityPublisher: Hatje CantzIllustration(s): 80 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 15...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

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DescriptionA change is taking place all across the country and especially on the West Coast, a shift led by the younger generations. People who in ...

No city in the United States is a synonymous with unbridled growth and land speculation as the sprawling Texas city of Houston. The book offers a v...

Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and ...

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural ...

This book explains both the origin and evolution of Miralles' system of representation, from his time as a student at the Barcelona School of Archi...

Reducere. It comes as little surprise that Hollywood films have traditionally stereotyped Arab Americans, but how are Arab Americans portrayed in Arab films,...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

Contributor(s): Author: Rem KoolhaasAuthor: Denise Scott BrownAuthor: Yoshiharu TsukamotoSince the beginning of the century, the field of architect...

Something good about the smart city: a human-centered account of why the future of electricity is local.Resilience now matters most, and most resil...

Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge...

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive through increasing diversity in the profession and enhanced c...

Reducere. Chicago's architecture has been called the most important in the United States by the American Institute of Architects, and perhaps no other type o...

DescriptionArchitecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging. ​Yet the technical status and nature of that imaging must be ...

DescriptionThe objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material--they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies ...

Argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural prac...

Architecture is a constant presence in the study of human interaction--acting as both the ground on which human social behavior is performed and a ...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urba...

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since citie...

Contributor(s): Editor: MonocleWe push past the colourful chaos and Frida Kahlo merchandise to find the city's tastiest tacos and the retailers bre...

Published in conjunction with the third iteration of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, ...and other such stories extends the exhibition's core que...

Reducere. A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwa...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): S CartaNumber of pages: 672Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 243 x 170 x 40Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Publisher: Hoxton Mini PressAuthor(s): Taran WilkhuNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 262 x 26Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous--this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, expe...

Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management ideologies, and historical narr...

Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Fr...

DescriptionNew York City Brick by Brick is the ultimate exploration of the architecture and history of New York City through the creative medium of...

Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architectu...