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Baltimore School of Urban Ecology Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities

Grove J. Morgan, Cadenasso Mary, Pickett Steward T., Machlis Gary E., Burch William R., Ogden Laura A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226973, ISBN: HB: 9780300101133, Yale University Press, April 2017
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.

The first "urban century" in history has arrived: a majority of the world's population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse is...

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Landscape Architecture

British Art Ancient Landscapes

Smile Sam

ISBN: PB: 9781911300144, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, April 2017
120 pp., 28x21.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

Published to accompany an exhibition at Salisbury Museum and Art Gallery, this volume explores the most significant works of art engaged with prehistoric moments across Britain from the 18th century to the 21st. While some of the works in the earlier...

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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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Building

Araguez Jose

ISBN: HB: 9783037784983, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
416 pp., 24x17 cm, 244 illus.

For nearly fifty years "the building" has primarily been viewed as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving it as a central discursive category in its own ri...

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Architecture

Beyond Urbanism

Sordi Jeannette

ISBN: PB: 9788898774128, Bookport, ListLab, July 2016
218 pp., 19.7x14 cm, colour illus.

Landscape Urbanism emerged in the late 1990s, as a critique of urban design's inability to deal wtih the expanded character of urbanization. Intended as a medium through which to interpret the contemporary city, Landscape Urbanism hopes to develop a...

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Architecture

Bulldozer Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape

Ammon Francesca Russello

ISBN: HB: 9780300200683, Yale University Press, May 2016
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 79 black&white illus.

Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambiti...

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Architecture

Design

Bauhaus

Friedewald Boris

ISBN: PB: 9783791382104, Prestel Publishing, March 2016
128 pp., 23.5x19.3 cm, 40 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

Now available in an updated edition, this book examines the tumultuous history of Bauhaus art and design. This lively introduction to the Bauhaus tells the story of a radical concept of artistic expression that would transcend the boundaries among t...

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Architecture

Building a Crossing Tower A Design for Rouen Cathedral of 1516

Beltrami Costanza

ISBN: PB: 9781907372933, Casemate, Sam Fogg, February 2016
112 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Prompted by the recent discovery of an impressive three-metre tall late Gothic drawing of a soaring tower and spire, this book offers a rare insight into the processes of designing and building a major gothic project. The drawing's place and date of...

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Architecture

Between Land and Sea Works of Kiyonori Kikutake

Oshima Ken Tadashi

ISBN: HB: 9783037784327, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
208 pp., 24.9x20.5 cm, 200 illus.

For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English lan...

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Architecture

Buckminster Fuller Inc. Architecture in the Age of Radio

Wigley Mark

ISBN: PB: 9783037784280, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 150 illus.

"Buckminster Fuller Inc." offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional refl ect...

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