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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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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Democracy and Urban Form
ISBN: PB: 9781915609472,
Idea Books,
August 2024
200 pp., 11,0x18,0 cm, language: English
200 pp., 11,0x18,0 cm, language: English
If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? "Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been le...
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19.00 EUR
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Future Typologies
Reassembling Architecture in the Anthropocene
ISBN: PB: 9783944074511,
Idea Books,
July 2024
256 pp., 23,0x30,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
256 pp., 23,0x30,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
Since the emergence of science, typology has played an important role as an ordering system for the production of knowledge and as a tool for shaping reality. Against the backdrop of the Anthropocene, Future Typologies explores how architectural type...
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33.15 EUR
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Researching Otherwise
Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies
ISBN: PB: 9783856764678,
Idea Books,
June 2024
270 pp., 16,0x22,0 cm, colour illus., language: English
270 pp., 16,0x22,0 cm, colour illus., language: English
How can landscape and urban studies more effectively engage in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness and affect, and pluriversal worlds? "Researching Otherwise" presents sensory, collaborative, and restitutive methodological tools for crafting new...
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33.60 EUR
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Architecture of Commonality
Grounds for Hope
ISBN: HB: 9783966800266,
Idea Books,
May 2024
288 pp., 17,0x24,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
288 pp., 17,0x24,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
"Architecture of Commonality: Grounds for Hope" is an edited collection of essays that expands on the role of museums and cultural institutions in Palestine and the Arab world. The book is guided by reflections on the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, P...
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47.25 EUR
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Cities Under Pressure
A Design Strategy for Urban Reconstruction
ISBN: HB: 9783966800235,
Idea Books,
May 2024
224 pp., 17,0x24,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
224 pp., 17,0x24,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
Historical evolutions and processes of cultural and economic globalisation have brought out relevant and frightening risks on a global scale: from urbicide and violence to climate change and increase in natural disasters and the enormous widening of...
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47.25 EUR
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Urbanistic Projects
The Next Generational Paths: A European Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9788822921338,
Idea Books,
May 2024
120 pp., 14,0x21,0 cm, black&white illus., language: English
120 pp., 14,0x21,0 cm, black&white illus., language: English
The book is an investigation of the multilayered field of urbanism practices in the European context. A series of seminars implemented a dialogue between a Scholar and a Practitioner from seven Europan territories (Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherl...
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25.20 EUR
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Green Dip
Covering City with a Forest
ISBN: PB: 9789462087941,
Idea Books,
May 2024
352 pp., 15,0x21,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
352 pp., 15,0x21,0 cm, colour and black&white illus., language: English
"The Green Dip" offers ways to reintroduce nature into our cities, by critically examining architectural strategies and green solutions. The research group The Why Factory (Delft University of Technology) has produced a series of visualizations of va...
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29.95 EUR
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Arab Modern
Architecture and the Project of Independence
ISBN: PB: 9783856764661,
Idea Books,
April 2024
270 pp., 15,0x23,0 cm, colour illus., language: English
270 pp., 15,0x23,0 cm, colour illus., language: English
Despite growing calls for global architectural histories, the historiography of modern architecture remains depicted predominantly by Western figures, narratives, and experiences. This publication takes a different approach by uncovering previously o...
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33.60 EUR
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