Geostories Another Architecture for the Environment
ISBN: PB: 9781945150791, Actar, June 2022
232 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus.
How do we make sense of the Earth at a moment in which it is presented in crisis? Geostories is a manifesto on the environmental imagination that renders sensible the issues of climate change and through geographic fiction invites readers to relate t...
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£27,00
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Nature of Enclosure
ISBN: HB: 9781638409731, Actar, June 2022
298 pp., 23x16 cm, colour illus.
From Crystal Palace in 1851 to Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship Earth in 1969, nature became enclosed. Claimed to be a reaction of Norbert Wiener's cybernetics, Fuller's geodesic domes became symbols of American counterculture. Yet, from Fuller's descr...
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Post DomestiCity Re-thinking Urban Obsolescence
ISBN: HB: 9781638400226, Actar, June 2022
228 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour and black&white illus.
PostDomestiCity is an inquiry and speculative exercise into the conditions of obsolescence in the post-industrial city, from a contemporary perspective. Working with three paradigmatic cases that were conceived from industrial logics – the Packard pl...
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Supertight Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban
ISBN: HB: 9781638400066, Actar, June 2022
448 pp., 21x14 cm, colour illus.
The rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways of being densely urbanised. The by-product of this unprecedented metropolitan convergence will be the emergence o...
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Monsoon as Method Assembling Monsoonal Multiplicities
ISBN: HB: 9781948765787, Actar, May 2022
362 pp., 25.5x20 cm, colour illus.
The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a co-producer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert...
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Out of the Ordinary The Work of John Ronan Architects
ISBN: HB: 9781638409786, Actar, May 2022
360 pp., 23.5x17 cm, colour and black&white illus.
In previous decades, architectural production was constrained by the limits of technology; architects pushed on the boundaries imposed by technology and it gave them common purpose. Those limits are gone. Over the preceding two decades it has been de...
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Carlos Ferrater Projects 1979-2004
ISBN: HB: 9781638400219, Actar, May 2022
356 pp., 27.5x22 cm, colour and black&white illus.
Before setting up in 2006, along with Xavier Marti, Lucia Ferrater and Borja Ferrater, the Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), Carlos Ferrater developed an intense and prolonged professional career on his own since 1971, with his advanced proj...
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Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency
ISBN: HB: 9781948765671, Actar, May 2022
256 pp., 24.5x18.5 cm, colour illus.
"Climax Change!" offers an overview of how the current environmental emergency will impact the practice of architecture. At a crossroads in which the construction sector and built environment produce nearly 40% of greenhouse gases accountable for glo...
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Inventing Greenland Designing An Arctic Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781638409892, Actar, March 2022
160 pp., 21.5x15 cm, colour illus.
Through the lens of urbanization, Inventing Greenland provides a broad understanding of a unique island undergoing intense transformation while drawing attention to its historical and current challenges and emerging opportunities. Geared towards arch...
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MCHAP: The Americas 2 Territory & Expeditions
ISBN: PB: 9781638400141, Actar, March 2022
296 pp., 24x17 cm, colour illus.
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), directed by Dirk Denison from within the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), promotes an academic award that is given to the best architecture built in the American continent during a specific period....
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