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Architecture

Charas The Improbable Dome Builders

Fuller Buckminster

ISBN: PB: 9781945711053, DAP, Pioneer Works Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 150 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves "...

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History of Art

Architecture

Drawing after Architecture Renaissance Architectural Drawings and their Reception

Yerkes Carolyn

ISBN: PB: 9788831726740, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2018
288 pp., 24.9x20.3 cm, 185 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers that question in a fresh investigation into the status of architectu...

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Architecture

Positions on Emancipation Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics

Hertweck Florian

ISBN: PB: 9783037785515, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2018
264 pp., 20x14 cm, 48 illus.

During the last decades architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong positions. A form of neoliberal indifference has become endemic, something that can be attributed to the fact that modernism has lost its claim to be both emancip...

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Architecture

Masterworks of Architectural Drawing from the Albertina Museum

Benedik Christian

ISBN: HB: 9783791357218, Prestel Publishing, January 2018
328 pp., 29x25 cm, 187 colour illus.

Since the medium began, artists have used architectural drawings to document the urban and rural past and to envision the future. Covering a period that runs from the 16th-century to today, this collection of 140 architectural drawings presents a pan...

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Architecture

Archaeology & Paleontology

Atlantikwall as Military Archaeological Landscape

Bassanelli Michela, Postiglione Gennaro

ISBN: PB: 9788862422635, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2017
188 pp., 22x17.1 cm, illustrations throughout

Not unlike so many other vestiges of war that have infiltrated our cities and landscapes, WWII bunkers and fortifications appear unwilling to be absorbed or erased. The signs of armed conflict that make up the 'Conflict archaeological landscape' cut...

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Landscape Architecture

Landscape of Faith Interventions Along the Mexican Pilgrimage Route

Bilbao Tatiana

ISBN: PB: 9783037784990, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2017
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 202 illus.

"Landscape of Faith" is a documentation of the way architecture can increase the identity of a pilgrimage route and add layers of meaning that reach far beyond the religious. The book presents sculptural and infrastructural interventions – in constan...

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Architecture

Augmented City A Paradigm Shift

Carta Maurizio

ISBN: PB: 9788899854201, Bookport, ListLab, November 2017
220 pp., 16.5x12.2 cm, colour illus.

The perfect city is a vibrant organism of data and information, sensors and actuators, actions and reactions, generated by users and environment both. Ten thousand years ago the city was invented as an aide for evolving communities. It bought togethe...

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Architecture

Not twins, but one tower split in two

Perrault Dominique

ISBN: HB: 9783954762095, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, November 2017
156 pp., 33x26.5 cm, 56 colour illus., language: English / German

Dominique Perrault (born 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand, lives and works in Paris) is one of France's star architects. He became internationally known through the construction of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, which was completed in 1995. I...

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Architecture

Facies Urban Architectures

Gulinello Francesco

ISBN: PB: 9788899854287, Bookport, ListLab, November 2017
192 pp., 21x15 cm, colour illus.

"Facies" refers to the ability of architecture to enable, by means of its outward appearance, interaction between the space occupied by the building and the setting within which it is found. Architecture, Gio Ponti argues, is made to be looked at, b...

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Design

Architecture

Handbook of Tyranny

Deutinger Theo

ISBN: HB: 9783037785348, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2017
160 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 987 illus.

"Handbook of Tyranny" portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of la...

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