Experience Design
A Participatory Manifesto
ISBN: PB: 9780300269475,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
228 pp., 17,8x17,8 cm, 109 black&white illus.
228 pp., 17,8x17,8 cm, 109 black&white illus.
An engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product design, gaming, exhibition design, and performance.
What does it mean to design experien...
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£25.00
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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
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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£55.00
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Lauren Halsey
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588397492,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2023
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 40 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 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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£7.95
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America's Frozen Neighborhoods
The Abuse of Zoning
ISBN: HB: 9780300249880,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 9 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 9 black&white illus.
This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoning.
In this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most c...
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£30.00
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Bittersweet Heritage
Slavery, Architecture and the British Landscape
ISBN: HB: 9781787386969,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2022
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 75 colour illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 75 colour illus.
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A revealing history of how slavery-derived wealth transformed Britain's natural and architectural landscapes.
The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic...
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English Garden Eccentrics
Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries
ISBN: HB: 9781913107260,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
400 pp., 24,1x16,5 cm, 198 colour and black&white illus.
400 pp., 24,1x16,5 cm, 198 colour and black&white illus.
A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens.
In his new book, "English Garden Eccentrics", renowned landscape architect and historian Todd Longstaffe-Gowan reveals a series of obscure and eccentric Engl...
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Custom Made
Sense and Method in the Design of Architecture, City and Landscape
When something is custom-made, it is designed according to the needs of the customer. This is even if, in the design disciplines, the customer is a manifold concept and not necessarily a material one. The society, the place, the lifestyle, the city,...
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£34.00
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Sustainable Future
ISBN: HB: 9783791359960,
Prestel Publishing,
January 2022
280 pp., 28,0x22,0 cm, 300 colour illus.
280 pp., 28,0x22,0 cm, 300 colour illus.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) has been rehabilitating existing parks and creating new ones for more than 20 years in the Muslim world, but also in the West. Discover how these brilliantly designed green spaces have helped improve the lives of...
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£50.00
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Solid, Fluid, Biotic
Changing Alpine Landscapes
ISBN: HB: 9783037786772,
Lars Muller Publishers,
November 2021
208 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 240 illus.
208 pp., 24,0x16,5 cm, 240 illus.
The Alpine region is characterized by a great diversity in all spatial dimensions and qualities. This circumstance is not to be read primarily as the result of adfirst of all as an expression of the alpine topography, determined ministrative drawing...
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£22.00
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Hector Zamora: Lattice Detour
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396891,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
January 2021
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 50 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 50 colour illus.
Mexican artist Hector Zamora (b. 1974) engages with public spaces and the manmade environment, using his work to draw attention to architecture's connections to community and social structure. This compact volume presents images and analyses of Zamor...
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