Information Fall-Out Buckminster Fuller's World Game
ISBN: PB: 9783037785539, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2023
240 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 150 illus.
Initially proposed for the US Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Buckminster Fuller's World Game was played for the first time in 1969 in New York. Over the next decade the World Game evolved and expanded. Across its different manifestations the World...
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MAD Architects Harbin Opera House
ISBN: HB: 9783791378121, Prestel Publishing, September 2023
240 pp., 29x24 cm, colour illus.
A cultural center for the future rises out of the landscape of northeastern China. Inspired by nature and imbued in local identity, culture and art, the Harbin Opera House is an outstanding example of architecture's ability to engage, transform, and...
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Shaping Roman Landscape Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Decoration in Early Imperial Italy
ISBN: HB: 9781606068489, Getty Publications, August 2023
224 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 78 colour illus., 8 black&white illus., 24 maps
Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatises, its qualities were praised and sought out in everyday life, and contemporary perceptions of the natu...
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Untimely Moderns How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past
ISBN: HB: 9780300263954, Yale University Press, July 2023
216 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour illus., 95 black&white illus.
A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture. Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary conversation about the meaning of time a...
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Lauren Halsey The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588397492, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2023
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 40 colour illus.
Lauren Halsey's diverse artistic influences, including Afrofuturism, ancient Egyptian iconography, and the architecture and community in her native Los Angeles, feature prominently in her latest site-specific installation. In her 2023 site-specific...
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About Architecture An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings
ISBN: HB: 9780300263442, Yale University Press, May 2023
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 154 colour and black&white illus.
"About Architecture" is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our lives – from how our towns and cities are organ...
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Atlas of the Senseable City
ISBN: HB: 9780300247510, Yale University Press, April 2023
240 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 101 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
A fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives. What have smart technologies taught us about cities? What lessons can we learn from today's urbanites to make bett...
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£27,00
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Yorkshire: The North Riding Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300259032, Yale University Press, April 2023
904 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 133 colour illus., 82 black&white illus.
Providing unrivalled coverage of the area, this volume offers a fully revised and updated guide to the North Riding of Yorkshire. From the fells on the Westmorland border, through the unspoilt wild beauty of Swaledale and Wensleydale to the highest c...
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Building with Wood The New Timber Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783791389240, Prestel Publishing, April 2023
240 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 plans
Learn how cutting-edge innovations using one of civilization's oldest construction materials are reshaping the built environment in sustainable and beautiful ways. Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate buil...
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Le Corbusier Album Punjab, 1951
ISBN: PB: 9783037787069, Lars Muller Publishers, April 2023
196 pp., 31.5x23.5 cm, 30 illus.
This reprint of the notebook Album Punjab Simla. Chandigarh, Mars 1951 kept by Le Corbusier from his two-week visit in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos a...
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