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Multiplicity
On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781625347992
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Today, the field of architecture faces a reckoning. While there is no longer consensus on what defines an architectural work, theorists, historians, and practitioners are grappling with urgent issues-among...
Post-War Reconstruction: A Reader
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CA$45.00
ISBN: 9781915743411
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
This publication, co-published with Ukrainian platform CANactions, brings together wide-ranging essays on the subject of post-war reconstruction. Produced in the light of the current invasion of Ukraine, it covers a spectrum of historical examples and geographic contexts to navigate the challenges and opportunities that define post-war reconstruction and war-related issues within the field of architecture. Considering urban planning, education, building materials, and innovative spatial relations, it centres around the human experience of the built environment in the aftermath of conflict. With a preface by editor Bohdan Kryzhanovsky, this reader presents theoretical and practical explorations of an urgently timely topic, offering a basis for wider conversation as well as a handbook of ideas for architects and planners and a pragmatic guide for shaping the future of Ukrainian cities. Essays by Gruia Badescu, Jan Knikker and Fokke Moerel, Silke Langen-berg, Peter Larkham, John Pendlebury, Wendy Pullan, Andrea Urushima, Lynnette Widder, and Patrick...
Van Ginkel Associates
Travelling Ideas
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780929112800
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Dalhousie Architectural Press
This book examines the exceptional work of Van Ginkel Associates, the office of husband and wife Sandy Van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco, whose significance in the development of Canadian architecture and...
Ideals Then Ideas
Alison Brooks Architects
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780929112732
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Dalhousie Architectural Press
Ideals Then Ideas presents an overview of ABA’s built and unbuilt work within a set of conceptual, formal, and material themes that have emerged over the past two decades. Four principal ideals –...
Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780929112770
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Dalhousie Architectural Press
This book brings together five transformative architectural practices from around the globe to critique the assumptions, working methods, and embedded social and political biases within "normal" architectural...
Animate(d) Architecture
A Spatial Investigation of the Moving Image
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781802074451
Pub Date: April 2024
At their peak, architectural marvels such as the Sagrada Família, the Tower of London, the Mosque?Cathedral of Córdoba, and the Eiffel tower, had a combined annual visit of almost 16.4 million people....
Architecture from Below: An Anthology
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CA$45.00
ISBN: 9781915743374
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
For the French-Brazilian architect, theorist, and painter Sérgio Ferro, looking at architecture from below means putting the building site and building workers at the centre of architectural enquiry. Instead of new trends or big names, Ferro strives for an approach ?that enables one to see both head and feet at the same time ? the magnanimous ideal and the muck down below?. The process of building rarely features in archi-tectural history and theory. Ferro argues that this persistent dismissal and neglect of building labour is no mere oversight, but instead a structural necessity of capitalist development which serves to deny labour as the source of value, to make capital?s command appear mandatory, and to maintain the profession?s capacity to act ?on? and ?over? the building site. Written between 1967 and 2019, these ten essays introduce Sérgio Ferro?s vital thinking by confronting architecture with critical theories ranging from Marx to contemporary...
Discours croisés sur l'architecture
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CA$81.85
ISBN: 9782807616134
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
La tentative d’identifier les mots, outils de l’architecte, leur évolution et leur arrangement dans une mise en discours seront autant d’occasions de saisir des urbanités écrites, décrites, voire proscrites, et de mettre en évidence les caractéristiques discursives d’une vision urbanistique ou architecturale qui composent un « archilecte ».
Material Reform (Reprint)
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CA$32.00
ISBN: 9781913620813
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
This acclaimed and bestselling book by design and research practice Material Cultures brings together a series of short, incisive essays on the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. Texts centred around key topics including resources, maintenance, agriculture, land use, and value are interwoven with a visual essay capturing the impact of indus-trialisation on landscapes at different scales. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. Here, Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam, and George Massoud explore how this has come about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated. Through text and visuals, concepts and practice, Material Reform explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can help us find new languages with the potential to supersede those we have inherited from a narrow lineage of...
Art Applied
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CA$125.00
ISBN: 9781915743343
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
This retrospective of the oeuvre of Petra Blaisse and her acclaimed studio Inside Outside presents a kaleidoscopic view of their work across interior, exhibition, and landscape design over the course of more than three decades. Rather than working solely on static buildings, Inside Outside design environments across a huge variety of scales, from expansive urban landscapes to intimate domestic spaces defined by soft textile walls. The resulting spaces defy conventional classification. This comprehensive survey encompasses renowned projects including the recently completed Taipei Performing Arts Center; the Kunsthal Rotterdam; Biblioteca degli Alberi in Milan, a park spanning almost ten hectares; and LocHal Library in Tilburg, a vast factory repurposed using an architecture of semi-translucent curtains. It also presents revelatory unrealised projects and explores the studio?s many collaborations, including the rich body of work produced with OMA since the late 1980s. Opening with a collection of incisive thematic essays, this volume presents...
Juan Muñoz
The Politics of Silence
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CA$94.85
ISBN: 9781803742472
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
This is the first in-depth study of Spanish artist Juan Muñoz’s work in terms of the idea of silence. Drawing on a wealth of documents, this book shows how silence and memory defined and shaped his art, ultimately revealing how his art probes and reanimates the uncanny memory of Spain’s traumatic past.
New Cultural and Political Perspectives on Serbian-Romanian Relations
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CA$142.95
ISBN: 9781636670348
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
This is a landmark publication, the first of its kind in English, and will leave readers with a more comprehensive understanding of cultural and political relations in Southeastern Europe.
Nordic Design in Translation
The Circulation of Objects, Ideas and Practices
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CA$137.75
ISBN: 9781800792890
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
«Scandinavian Design» is a myth, a brand and a shorthand for a range of design ideas. It has touched and transformed design cultures around the world, but has also been shaped by influences from abroad. This collection considers Nordic design in terms of transnational cultural interaction, circulation and cross-border flows.
Children of the Soil
The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
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CA$38.95
ISBN: 9781478025290
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Duke University Press
Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the Indian Ocean port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, showing how the built environment was central to how its residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries.
Koechlin House
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CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781915743176
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Mack Books
This book by photographer and architect Daisuke Hirabayashi is a meditation on the often overlooked lives of buildings after the arch-itect has left. Through a sequence of intimate, immersive images, Hirabayashi explores Koechlin House, an early private home des-igned by now-celebrated architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland. His images picture the house as a site of everyday life, with all its small joys, surprises, awkward infelicities, rituals, and revelations. The original clients left long ago, and this book quietly studies the current owner?s unplanned, harmonious occupation. The Koechlin House was designed ?inside out?, prioritising the ex-perience of the interior home over its outward-facing appearance. In this sense, Hirabayashi works in the spirit of the building, centring the embodied experience within and disregarding the omniscient and dehumanised view prevalent in so many accounts of architecture. Alongside a text by architects and writers Ellena Ehrl and Tibor Bielicky, these images...
Collected Works: Volume 2 2000?2012
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CA$110.00
ISBN: 9781915743190
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Mack Books
This second volume in Caruso St John?s Collected Works traces an interlacing set of themes through the celebrated practice?s work over the first twelve years of the twenty-first century. Their unique approach to history is revealed as a rejection of the myth of relent-less novelty in favour of an understanding of the past as present and an interest in working with the existing. The influences of Milan, Chicago, and Rome on understandings of the city are explored, as well as the use of ornament and the place of Switzerland in shaping the practice?s evolving trajectory. Throughout these contexts, collaborations with contemporary artists including Thomas Demand and Damien Hirst continue to shape their relations to the materiality and drama of space. This volume encompasses some of Caruso St John?s most renowned projects, including works on historic buildings such as Tate Britain and the Barbican and new projects such as Hirst?s Newport...
Multiplicity
On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781625347992
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Post-War Reconstruction: A Reader
CA$45.00
ISBN: 9781915743411
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
Van Ginkel Associates
Travelling Ideas
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780929112800
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Dalhousie Architectural Press
Ideals Then Ideas
Alison Brooks Architects
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780929112732
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Dalhousie Architectural Press
Situated Practices in Architecture and Politics
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780929112770
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Dalhousie Architectural Press
Animate(d) Architecture
A Spatial Investigation of the Moving Image
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781802074451
Pub Date: April 2024
Architecture from Below: An Anthology
CA$45.00
ISBN: 9781915743374
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
Discours croisés sur l'architecture
CA$81.85
ISBN: 9782807616134
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
La tentative d’identifier les mots, outils de l’architecte, leur évolution et leur arrangement dans une mise en discours seront autant d’occasions de saisir des urbanités écrites, décrites, voire proscrites, et de mettre en évidence les caractéristiques discursives d’une vision urbanistique ou architecturale qui composent un « archilecte ».
Material Reform (Reprint)
CA$32.00
ISBN: 9781913620813
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
Art Applied
CA$125.00
ISBN: 9781915743343
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: Mack Books
Juan Muñoz
The Politics of Silence
CA$94.85
ISBN: 9781803742472
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
This is the first in-depth study of Spanish artist Juan Muñoz’s work in terms of the idea of silence. Drawing on a wealth of documents, this book shows how silence and memory defined and shaped his art, ultimately revealing how his art probes and reanimates the uncanny memory of Spain’s traumatic past.
New Cultural and Political Perspectives on Serbian-Romanian Relations
CA$142.95
ISBN: 9781636670348
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
This is a landmark publication, the first of its kind in English, and will leave readers with a more comprehensive understanding of cultural and political relations in Southeastern Europe.
Nordic Design in Translation
The Circulation of Objects, Ideas and Practices
CA$137.75
ISBN: 9781800792890
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
«Scandinavian Design» is a myth, a brand and a shorthand for a range of design ideas. It has touched and transformed design cultures around the world, but has also been shaped by influences from abroad. This collection considers Nordic design in terms of transnational cultural interaction, circulation and cross-border flows.
Children of the Soil
The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
CA$38.95
ISBN: 9781478025290
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Duke University Press
Koechlin House
CA$60.00
ISBN: 9781915743176
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Mack Books
Collected Works: Volume 2 2000?2012
CA$110.00
ISBN: 9781915743190
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: Mack Books