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New Directions in Contemporary Architecture
Rem Koolhaas has defined architecture as a chaotic adventure. Nothing could be more true than that of the last two decades. Never has architecture been so unbridled and so extraordinary: the architectural cast has never been so wide and their works so diverse. What though if you are new to the subject? How is it possible to make sense of this seemingly unruly architectural landscape? There are so many different types of architecture, so many designers with such varying and even contradictory approaches. This book is a much needed navigation guide for anyone interested in modern architecture. Organised chronologically, it enables you to find your way through one of the most prolific periods o...
The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods
'The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods' explores different ways of understanding the city. The social city approach proceeds from the ground-up, it focuses on human interactions shaped by economic and environmental processes. The built city method looks through a top-down lens, examining policy and planning for buildings and infrastructure, including utilities and energy networks. This volume is different from other city anthologies in that it explores them through their differences, by presenting each chapter in one of the two categories. While there is invariably an overlap between the two areas, they are distinct positions. In doing so the book identifies how, despite ...
Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Fresh arguments for traditional architecture and urbanism; Bess dissects the questionable intellectual assumptions of contemporary architecture. How modern societies find physical expression in contemporary suburban sprawl by considering the role of both the natural law tradition and communal religion in providing intellectual and spiritual depth to contemporary attempts to build new-and revive existing-traditional towns and cities.
Body, Memory, and Architecture
Traces the significance of the human body in architecture from its early place as the divine organizing principle to its present near elimination
History Workshop
"A journal of socialist and feminist historians" (varies)
Resisting Postmodern Architecture
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 integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots...
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