Information Fall-Out
Buckminster Fuller's World Game
ISBN: PB: 9783037785539,
Lars Muller Publishers,
December 2025
240 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 150 illus.
240 pp., 24,0x16,5 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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30.00 GBP
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Architecture of Loneliness
Reflections on Displacement and Welcoming
ISBN: PB: 9789493246355,
Idea Books,
May 2025
240 pp., 17,0x24,0 cm, black&white illus., language: English
240 pp., 17,0x24,0 cm, black&white illus., language: English
Whereas solitude is a chosen condition that refrains from social relations, loneliness suffers from the lack of these. Edited by Mieke Bal, this book presents three essays exploring a side of loneliness strongly connected to an encounter with the oth...
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25.00 EUR
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Form and Fortification
The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780300272048,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
256 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 134 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.
256 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 134 colour illus., 41 black&white illus.
A revelatory exploration of a crucial Renaissance art form – military architecture – and its unexpected connections with contemporary aesthetic, cultural, and technological innovations.
Urban fortifications were the most colossal artistic achieveme...
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60.00 GBP
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Slow Wood
Greener Building from Local Forests
ISBN: HB: 9780300273472,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 black&white illus.
A counterintuitive proposal for healing the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of local wood in home building.
American homes are typically made of lumber and plywood delivered by a global system of ruthles...
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25.00 GBP
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75 Architects for a Sustainable World
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791393070,
Prestel Publishing,
December 2024
272 pp., 28,5x22,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
272 pp., 28,5x22,0 cm, 250 colour illus.
Filled with striking photography as well as design inspiration and hope for a better tomorrow, this beautifully designed volume profiles the work of a global selection of visionary architects who are reimagining our built world for the future.
Drive...
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40.00 GBP
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Ancient Roman Villas
The Essential Sourcebook
ISBN: PB: 9781606069370,
Getty Publications,
December 2024
424 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 30 colour illus.
424 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 30 colour illus.
While the term villa is generic today, its meaning extended across the entirety of ancient Roman life: villas supplied food, oil, and wine to towns and cities and produced raw materials for craft industries and building construction. Villas were also...
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50.00 GBP
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Franklin D. Israel
A Life in Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9781606069264,
Getty Publications,
December 2024
296 pp., 25,4x24,1 cm, 151 colour and 100 black&white illus.
296 pp., 25,4x24,1 cm, 151 colour and 100 black&white illus.
Acclaimed Los Angeles architect Franklin D. Israel's (1945-1996) innovative residential projects and office interiors made him one of the most talked-about designers of his generation. In this vivid narrative, architectural historian Todd Gannon draw...
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Critical Spatial Practice 13
Pre/Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9783956792847,
Idea Books,
December 2024
124 pp., 11,0x15,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
124 pp., 11,0x15,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
Can there ever be a world before architecture? Is there an arche – meaning origin, beginning, or authority – that precedes the appearance of architectonics? This book argues that such pre-architectural state became a central object of investigation b...
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15.00 EUR
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Concrete Alliance
Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France
ISBN: HB: 9780300259346,
Yale University Press,
November 2024
288 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 62 colour illus., 88 black&white illus.
288 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 62 colour illus., 88 black&white illus.
The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France.
The massive reshaping of French cities that took place between 1958 and 1981 is commonly regarded as a unique episode in which moderni...
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Building an Affordable House
Second Edition
For sale in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan only!
While building trends may change, one thing does not: the need to build q...
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32.99 GBP
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