Category: Architecture

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years.

A dynamic period of reexamination of the discipline, the postmodern eraproduced widely divergent and radical viewpoints on issues of making, meaning, history, and the city. Among the paradigms presented arearchitectural postmodernism, phenomenology, semiotics, poststructuralism, deconstruction, and feminism.

By gathering these influential articles from a vast array of books and journals into a comprehe...
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Richard Neutra: Promise and Fulfillment, 1919-1932: Selections from the Letters and Diaries of Richard and Dione Neutra

By: Neutra, Richard

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 367797

ISBN: 080931228X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The correspondence between Richard and Dione Neutra recounts the difficult early years and the developing philosophy of a man who would change the look of architecture. But as Thomas S. Hines, Neutra s biographer, makes clear, the book does far more than trace the development of two artistic young people: What you have here is not only valuable material about the making of an architectural career and of a salutary and interesting marriage, but documents of European and American social and cultural history in the early twentieth century. The letters and diary entries describe the period that fo...
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Survival Through Design

By: Neutra, Richard

Price: $35.00

Seller ID: 367963

ISBN: 087245675

Binding: Hardcover

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Intentions in Architecture

By: Norberg-Schulz, CHristian

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 372525

ISBN: 0262640023

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The chief focus of the book is on the symbolic and linguistic. The purpose is to develop an integrated theory of architectural description and architectural intention (and this includes the intention of the user as well as that of the designer), insofar as architecture is an art.

Norberg-Schulz is a practicing architect; his buildings stand in several countries; and he elucidates the nature of architectural reality with a practiced eye and from a practical viewpoint. Although the methods and theory that his book develops are uncompromisingly rigorous and tightly formed, they ar...
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Story of Architecture

By: Nuttgens, Patrick

Price: $8.50

Seller ID: 412270

ISBN: 0171483618

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center

By: Okrent, Daniel

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Viking Adult: September 2003

Seller ID: 99266

ISBN: 0670031690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the worst depression in American history, the most ambitious construction project since the Pyramids was the unintended result of a philanthropic gesture gone awry. But when it was finished, John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s accidental adventure redefined the very nature of New York City. In this hugely appealing book, noted journalist Daniel Okrent draws on a depth of original research and a broad grasp of subjects-money, art, politics, business, social history-to tell the s...
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Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic

By: Olmert, Michael

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 383855

ISBN: 0801447917

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies, Michael Olmert takes us into the eighteenth-century backyards of colonial America. He explores the many small outbuildings that can still be found at obscure rural farmsteads throughout the Tidewater and greater mid-Atlantic, in towns like Williamsburg and Annapolis, and at elite plantations such as Mount Vernon and Monticello.

These structures were designed to support the performance of a single task: cooking food; washing clothes; smoking meat; storing last winter's ice; or keeping milk, cheese, and cream fresh. Privies and small offi...
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Statics and Strength of Materials for Architecture and Building Construction

By: Onouye, Barry

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 402626

ISBN: 0131185837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Taking a visually-oriented approach, this text presents basic structural concepts in an easily understood manner. Written for students of architecture, building construction, and engineering technology programmes, the text introduces structural theory without relying on calculus.
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Finding Form: Towards an Architecture of the Minimal

By: Otto, Frei/Rasch, Bodo

Price: $75.00

Seller ID: 367125

ISBN: 3930698668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Explains the need for buildings that are light, energy-saving, mobile, adaptable, and natural.
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American Aesthetic

By: Owings, Nathaniel Alexander

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 366549

ISBN: 2367953

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

By: Pallasmaa, Juhani

Price: $12.50

Seller ID: 340871

ISBN: 0470015780

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Since the book's first publication, interest in the role of the body and the senses has been emerging in both architectural philosophy and teaching. This new, revised and extended edition of this seminal work will not only inspire architects and students to design more holistic architecture, but will enrich the general reader's perception of the world around them.

The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory and consists of two extended essays. The first surveys the historical development of the ocular-centric paradigm in western culture since the Greeks, and ...
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The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury

By: Pennoyer, Peter,Walker, Anne

Price: $20.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: August 2009

Seller ID: 432431

ISBN: 0393732223

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

As an inventor, Atterbury was responsible for one of the country's first low-cost, prefabricated concrete construction systems, introducing beauty and inexpensive good design into the lives of the working classes. The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury is the first book to showcase the rich and varied repertoire of this prolific architect whose career spanned six decades and whose work affected the course of American architecture, planning, and construction. Illustrated with Jonathan Wallen's stunning color photographs and over 250 historic drawings, plans, and photographs, it ...
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Perkins and WIll

By: Perkins and WIll

Price: $2.50

Seller ID: 391989

ISBN: 1864704314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Perkins & Will designs and strategises with a philosophy that places people at the centre of their work. This monograph explores the firm's work through its rich history, examining a variety of completed and conceptually designed projects.
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Category: Architecture