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ISBN: HB: 9783037783740, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2015
320 pp., 24x17.6 cm, 300 illus.

What is a city? What determines its specificity? What shapes its quality? The evolution of the contemporary city does not follow a linear movement. It is shaped by transformation processes that are directed toward often distant and conflicting goals....

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Imre Makovecz and the Hungarian Organic Architecture

Giustra Martina

ISBN: PB: 9788862421423, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, December 2014
160 pp., 22x16.7 cm, colour illus., language: English / Italian

The first time I met Makovecz, he drew me a map of Hungary, marking the most significant places through which I could get closer to his work. With the promise that I would return, we said goodbye. From this map, my research began.

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Irony; or, Self-Critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture

Petit Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300181517, Yale University Press, May 2013
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 26 colour images, 103 black&white illus.

In this fascinating reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individua...

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Imperial Gothic Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870

Bremner G. A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300187038, Yale University Press, April 2013
384 pp., 28x23 cm, 60 colour images, 230 black&white illus.

The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with 18th – and 19th – century British cultural politics. By the middle of the 19th century, architects and theorists had transformed the movement into a serious scholarly endeavour,...

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Inwalkaboutcity 2.0 Landform Building, Time, Architecture

Navarra Marco

ISBN: PB: 9788862420778, Prestel Publishing, Lettera Ventidue, February 2013
320 pp., 24x17 cm, colour photos

Ten years after the strip park's construction, INWALKABOUTCITY 2.0 accurately describes an inventory of tools for architecture, reassembling the fragments of the original book in a new perspective."Time after time" is a dialogue about the future of a...

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In the Life of Cities Parallel Narratives of the Urban

Mostafavi Mohsen

ISBN: HB: 9783037783023, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2012
376 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 286 illus.

What is it that gives places their individual qualities and defines the life of a city? Architects and urbanists are accustomed to describing and creating the organizational structures, the layouts and physical attributes of our cities. But what are...

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Insuring the City The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape

Rubin Elihu

ISBN: HB: 9780300170184, Yale University Press, May 2012
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.

The Prudential Center anchors the Boston skyline with its tall, gray tower. Though unassuming architecturally, it is a historical beacon, representing a midcentury moment when insurance companies such as Prudential were particularly aware of how thei...

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Imperfect Health The Medicalization of Architecture

Borasi Giovanna, Zardini Mirko

ISBN: HB: 9783037782798, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2012
376 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 300 illus.

As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? "Imperfect Health" looks at the complexity of today's health problems...

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Inigo Jones The Architect of Kings

Hart Vaughan

ISBN: HB: 9780300141498, Yale University Press, September 2011
336 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 colour images, 130 black&white illus.

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He fam...

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Ideas and Integrities A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

Fuller Buckminster R.

ISBN: PB: 9783037781982, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2009
416 pp., 18x12 cm, 50 black&white illus.

In "Ideas and Integrities" Buckminster Fuller describes the revolutionary designs and concepts he has pioneered – among them the geodesic dome, the Dymaxion world map, the Dymaxion 4-D house, the Dymaxion 4-D automobile, and the countless other struc...

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