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Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories - Imperial Legacies, Architecture, And Modernity

by Mrinalini Rajagopalan

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 Provides a comprehensive and diachronic investigation of the ways in which architecture and urban space mediate the intersections of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity. This book questions certain established dichotomies such as that of the imperial center and the colonized periphery; the colonial past and the postcolonial present; and, more.
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Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories - Imperial Legacies, Architecture, And Modernity

by Mrinalini Rajagopalan

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 Provides a comprehensive and diachronic investigation of the ways in which architecture and urban space mediate the intersections of colonialism, nationalism, and modernity. This book questions certain established dichotomies such as that of the imperial center and the colonized periphery; the colonial past and the postcolonial present; and, more.
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French Encounters With The American Counterculture 1960-1980

by Caroline Maniaque-Benton

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 It is normally asserted that French architects looked to North America for technical lessons in the development of modern architecture in the 1960s but that the French cultural environment was generally hostile to American ideas. This book includes interviews with French architects who visited the United States in the 1960s and1970s and then assume
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Architecture And Science-Fiction Film - Philip K. Dick And The Spectacle Of Home

by David T. Fortin

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 The enduring paradoxes of the home are often brought to light in science-fiction (SF) writing and film. However, while crossovers between architecture and SF have proliferated, the home is often overshadowed by the spectacle of 'otherness'. By examining the home from the estranging perspective of SF, and in particular, the films based on Phillip K.
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Symbolic Houses In Judaism - How Objects And Metaphors Construct Hybrid Places Of Belonging

by Mimi Levy Lipis

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 This investigation of Jewish spatial practices explores two groups of house symbols: ritual objects that are based on the iconology of the house, and metaphors that use the term in an ascriptive manner. The connections between architecture and gender, cultural, and Jewish studies, reveal insights into how space affects the production, maintenance a
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African Identity In Post-Apartheid Public Architecture - White Skin, Black Masks

by Jonathan Alfred Noble

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 Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretize' imaginative dialogues with African landscapes, craft and ind
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Le Corbusierâ€™S Practical Aesthetic Of The City - The Treatise Â€˜La Construction Des Villesâ€™ Of 1910/11

by Christoph Schnoor

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 Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced Le Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier.
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Hybrid Modernity - The Public Park In Late 20th Century China

by Mary Padua

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 This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.
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Architecture As Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa'S Modernist Project For Brazil - Lucio Costa'S Modernist Project For Brazil

by Gaia Piccarolo

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 Architecture as Civil Commitment analyzes the many ways in which Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.
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Irish Housing Design 1950 Â€“ 1980 - Out Of The Ordinary

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 This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic.
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The Architecture Of Industry - Changing Paradigms In Industrial Building And Planning

by Mathew Aitchison

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 Through a series of case studies, this book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from the beginning of the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Drawing on research from the United States, Europe and Australia, this collection of essays highlights key moments in industrial architecture and plan
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On Surface And Place - Between Architecture, Textiles And Photography

by Peta Carlin

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 This book is a scholarly and poetic study on the nature of surfaces and addresses their significance in our understanding and experience of place.
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Reconstruction And The Synthesis Of The Arts In France, 1944â€“1962

by Nicola (Concordia University, Canada) Pezolet

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 In 1944 Le Corbusier predicted the coming of a redemptive synthesis of the arts. This book is a scholarly introduction in English to overlooked debates on modernism, abstraction and the synthesis of the arts in mid-twentieth century France.
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Corbusier'S Practical Aesthetic Of The City - The Treatise ‘La Construction Des Villes’ Of 1910/11

by Christoph Schnoor

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 Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced Le Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier.
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Corbusier'S Practical Aesthetic Of The City - The Treatise ‘La Construction Des Villes’ Of 1910/11

by Christoph Schnoor

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced Le Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier.
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Hybrid Modernity - The Public Park In Late 20th Century China

by Mary Padua

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.
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Hybrid Modernity - The Public Park In Late 20th Century China

by Mary Padua

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.
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Irish Housing Design 1950 - 1980 - Out Of The Ordinary

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 This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic.
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Irish Housing Design 1950 - 1980 - Out Of The Ordinary

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic.
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Architecture As Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa'S Modernist Project For Brazil

by Gaia Piccarolo

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Architecture as Civil Commitment analyzes the many ways in which Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.
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Architecture As Civil Commitment: Lucio Costa'S Modernist Project For Brazil

by Gaia Piccarolo

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Architecture as Civil Commitment analyzes the many ways in which Costa shaped the discourse of Brazilian modern architecture, tracing the roots, developments, and counter-marches of a singular form of engagement that programmatically chose to act by cultural means rather than by political ones.
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Provisional Cities - Cautionary Tales For The Anthropocene

by Renata (University Of Sheffield, Uk) Tyszczuk

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 The book explores the dynamic, changing and contradictory relationship between architecture and the global environmental crisis and looks at how to re-position architectural and urban practice in relation to wider intellectual, environmental, political and cultural shifts.
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Irish Housing Design 1950 Â€“ 1980 - Out Of The Ordinary

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 This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic.
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Architecture, Death And Nationhood - Monumental Cemeteries Of Nineteenth-Century Italy

by Hannah (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany) Malone

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 As the first survey of Italyâ€™s monumental cemeteries, the book explores the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture is formed by political forces.
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