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Re-centring the city :global mutations of socialist modernity
What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? R…
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- 9781787354111
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- xix, 292 p. ill;
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- 307.116 REC J
Self-build homes :social discourse, experiences and directions
Self-Build Homes connects the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on self-build with commentary from leading international figures in the self-build and wider housing sector. Through their focus on community, dwelling, home and identity, the chapters explore the various meanings of self-build housing, encouraging new directions for discussions about self-building and calling for the recogniti…
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- 9781911576877
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- xiii, 332 p. ill;
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- 338.47690809411 SEL M
Architecture and development :Israeli construction in Sub-Saharan Africa and …
comPosing these notes during the coviD- 19 pandemic deepens my appreciation of the intellectual community that sustains prolonged efforts such as writing a book—and renders them worthwhile. From its beginning as a seminar paper, Architecture and Development has owed its formation at every step to an always converging and diverging circle of friends and family, mentors and colle…
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- 9781478091820
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- ix, 337p.; ill.
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- 720.95694 ARC l
New Islamic urbanism :the architecture of public and private space in Jeddah,…
Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture and urban planning has emerged. Characterised by an emphasis on privacy, expressed through high enclosures, gates, blinds, and tinted windows, ‘New…
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- 9781787356429
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- xvii, 239 p. ill;
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- 720.9538 NEW S
The covert life of hospital architecture
The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies ways that planned-for and latent functions of hospital spaces work jointly to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors. By advancing space synt…
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- 9781800080881
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- xxi, 187 p. ill;
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- 725.51 COV J
Experiments with body agent architecture. The 586-year-old Spiritello in Il R…
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with n…
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- 9781800081703
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- xxix, 262 p. ill;
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- 720.103 EXP A
Architecture and fire :a psychoanalytic approach to conservation
Architecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire. Stamatis Zografos expands on the general agreement among many theorists that the primitive hut was erected around fire – locating fire as the first memory of architecture, at the very beginning of architectural evolution. Follo…
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- 9781787353701
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- xiv, 210p.; ill.
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- 720.288 ARC z
Resisting postmodern architecture :critical regionalism before globalisation
Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are …
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- 9781800081338
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- xxiii, 394 p. ill;
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- 724.6 RES S
Architecture as a way of seeing and learning :the built environment as an add…
At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask.…
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- 9781800080119
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- xvii, 189 p. ill;
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- 720.10309676 ARC N
Post-war architecture between Italy and the UK :exchanges and transcultural i…
Italy and the UK experienced a radical re-organisation of urban space following the devastation of many towns and cities in the Second World War. The need to rebuild led to an intellectual and cultural exchange between a wave of talented architects, urbanists and architectural historians in the two countries. Post-war Architecture Between Italy and the UK studies this exchange, exploring how th…
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- 9781800080836
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- xi, 277 p. ill;
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- 724.6 POS L
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