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Information Fall-Out: Buckminster Fuller's World Game
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CA$47.50
ISBN: 9783037785539
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Buckminster Fuller’s humanitarian take on the war gameInitially proposed for the US Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Buckminster Fuller’s World Game was an educational simulation intended to create...
The Global Turn
Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945-1989
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CA$70.00
ISBN: 9789462085831
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
An investigation of globalization’s effects on architecture and urban design between the start of World War II and the fall of the Berlin WallTo what extent did the circulation of people, commodities...
Cruising Pavilion
Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures
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CA$50.00
ISBN: 9783959057455
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
A fascinating, global look at the mutual conditioning between gay cruising subcultures and the built environments in which they functionThis volume investigates the influence of cruising cultures on...
Living Design
The Writings of Clara Porset
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781988111551
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Concordia University Press
Cuban-born and Mexico-based Clara Porset is renowned for her md-century modern furniture and interior design and for her collaborations with architects, such as Luis Barragán and Mario Pani. She was...
Between Conventional and Experimental
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture
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CA$86.95
ISBN: 9789462704046
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental...
Assembly by Design
The United Nations and Its Global Interior
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CA$48.99
ISBN: 9781517913335
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy For almost seven years after World War II, a small group of architects took on an exciting...
Modern Architecture of Curaçao
The DoCoMoMo Movement, 1930-1960
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CA$67.00
ISBN: 9789460229800
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Modernism is an important architectural style in which technological innovations are used for social purposes. The Curaçao chapter of the nonprofit organization DoCoMoMo (Documentation and Conservation...
Modernism's Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
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CA$150.00
ISBN: 9781477329481
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.
Modernism's Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781477329665
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.
Architectures of Resistance
Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices
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CA$93.95
ISBN: 9789462704053
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a wide variety...
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...
Housing: Strategies for Urban Redensification
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CA$30.00
ISBN: 9786078880232
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
An accessible reader offering case studies of innovative alternatives to expansionist urban housingThis reader takes the following assumption as its basis: the ceaseless expansion of the urban periphery...
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...
Home, Heat, Money, God
Texas and Modern Architecture
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CA$55.95
ISBN: 9781477328927
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Thematically focused analaysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects.
Solar Adobe
Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture
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CA$45.99
ISBN: 9781517914073
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s Against the backdrop of a global energy crisis, a widespread movement...
The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida
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CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780813080376
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University Press of Florida
This well-illustrated book illuminates the life and career of one of Florida's premier architects, whose elegant homes and design aesthetic shaped the architectural character of Winter Park and influenced urban development throughout central Florida.
Information Fall-Out: Buckminster Fuller's World Game
CA$47.50
ISBN: 9783037785539
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
The Global Turn
Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945-1989
CA$70.00
ISBN: 9789462085831
Pub Date: January 2025
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Cruising Pavilion
Architecture, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures
CA$50.00
ISBN: 9783959057455
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Living Design
The Writings of Clara Porset
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781988111551
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: Concordia University Press
Between Conventional and Experimental
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture
CA$86.95
ISBN: 9789462704046
Pub Date: October 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Assembly by Design
The United Nations and Its Global Interior
CA$48.99
ISBN: 9781517913335
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Modern Architecture of Curaçao
The DoCoMoMo Movement, 1930-1960
CA$67.00
ISBN: 9789460229800
Pub Date: September 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Modernism's Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
CA$150.00
ISBN: 9781477329481
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Modernism's Magic Hat
Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781477329665
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Architectures of Resistance
Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices
CA$93.95
ISBN: 9789462704053
Pub Date: July 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Multiplicity
On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781625347992
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Housing: Strategies for Urban Redensification
CA$30.00
ISBN: 9786078880232
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Van Ginkel Associates
Travelling Ideas
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780929112800
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: Dalhousie Architectural Press
Home, Heat, Money, God
Texas and Modern Architecture
CA$55.95
ISBN: 9781477328927
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Solar Adobe
Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture
CA$45.99
ISBN: 9781517914073
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9780813080376
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University Press of Florida