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Obsolescence An Architectural History

Abramson Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226478050, ISBN: HB: 9780226313450, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 68 halftones

In our architectural pursuits, we often seem to be in search of something newer, grander, or more efficient – and this phenomenon is not novel. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New...

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Cultural Studies

Food Trucks Delights on Wheels

Martinez Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9788416500444, GMC Group, Monsa, March 2017
144 pp., 22x15 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! Food Trucks are something of an institution in American culture, and have been around for more than a century. These days there is a huge range of gastronomic treats available, dished up out of an incredible vari...

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Landscapes of Modern Architecture Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragan

Treib Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300208412, Yale University Press, February 2017
272 pp., 24.1x26.7 cm, 126 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.

An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects Modern architects are often condemned for a seeming disregard of site considerations suc...

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Architecture

Japanese Contemporary House Small Anthology of Floating Spaces

Sordelli Alice, Zanoni Elena

ISBN: PB: 9788862421591, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2017
144 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

Five essays about the contemporary Japanese house illustrated by a selection of designs by young architects. The domestic space becomes a symbol of the ability to adapt to new cultural and technological patterns. The designers provide brilliant medit...

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Architecture

Orthographs The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Yerolymbos Yiorgis, Piano Renzo, Storr Katharine, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300226812, Yale University Press, February 2017
164 pp., 26.7x36.4 cm, 64 colour illus., 119 black&white illus.

This stunning photographic essay traces the development of Renzo Piano's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a multifunctional complex for arts, education, and entertainment opening in 2017 in Athens. Photographer Yiorgis Yerolymbos finds in...

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American Imperial Pastoral The Architecture of US Colonialism in the Philippines

Tinio McKenna Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226417769, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "Made No Little Plans", set off for the Philippines, the new US colonial acquisition. Charged with designing environments for the occupation government, Burnha...

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Contemporary Art

Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media

Bruno Giuliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226434636, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 24.7x22.8 cm, 80 colour plates, 6 halftones

What is the place of materiality – the expression or condition of physical substance – in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? In "Surface", cultural critic and theori...

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Building Histories The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi

Rajagopalan Mrinalini

ISBN: HB: 9780226283470, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour plates, 51 halftones, 1 table

"Building Histories" offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi – the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex – tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinali...

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Stone Houses Best in Ecology

Martinez Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9788416500406, GMC Group, Monsa, February 2017
144 pp., 18x23 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in Ukraine and Russia! In modern architecture natural stone is now thought of as a material that provides both elegance and sustainability, which can transform both residential and commercial buildings and is a first choice for both it...

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Why X Matters

Why Preservation Matters

Page Max

ISBN: HB: 9780300218589, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement – and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes una...

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