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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...
Empathic Design
Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781642832051
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Island Press
How do you experience a public space? Do you feel safe? Seen? Represented? The response to these questions may differ based on factors including your race, age, ethnicity, or gender identity. In Empathic Design, designer and architecture professor Elgin Cleckley brings together leaders and visionaries in architecture, urban design, planning, and design activism to explore what it means to design with empathy. Empathic designers work with and in the communities affected. They acknowledge the full history of a place and approach the lived experience and memories of those in the community with respect.
Contributors explore broader conceptual approaches and highlight design projects including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, which replaced a long-standing statue of Christopher Columbus; and restoration of the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, first built by civil activist Clara Luper to provide a safe place for gathering and youth education; and The Camp Barker...
Identity, Diplomacy and Design
A Study of Canada's Embassies in the Age of Reconciliation
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781988366647
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Riverside Architectural Press
What is the future of diplomacy for Canada in the Age of Reconciliation? What is Canada's identity abroad as a colonial nation state? This booklet is a summary of an undergraduate design studio at the...
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781988111377
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Concordia University Press
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds is a curated selection of writings by a landscape architect dedicated to children’s right to play in urban environments. This volume assembles key...
Exactitude
On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781625346711
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Precision is necessary in the field of architecture, and new technologies have increased demands for accuracy, particularly when the smallest errors can have outsized consequences. However, the importance...
Exactitude
On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture
Price:
CA$113.00
ISBN: 9781625346728
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Precision is necessary in the field of architecture, and new technologies have increased demands for accuracy, particularly when the smallest errors can have outsized consequences. However, the importance...
A Chair for Pope Francis
A Collection of Designs for the Papal Sanctuary and Charrette
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CA$58.95
ISBN: 9781329701199
Pub Date: November 2016
It was destined for an event that was not only historic and public, but also sacred. The design was tasked to be temporary yet permanent and humble yet noble. Deliverables included plans, elevations,...
Architectural Quality
A Note on Architectural Policy
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CA$33.99
ISBN: 9789460224232
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
In 1985, in his role as chief government architect in the Netherlands, Tjeerd Dijkstra wrote a note on the concept of architectural quality and the criteria that, in his opinion, could be applied when...
Built Environment 2013-2014
Eindhoven University of Technology
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CA$54.00
ISBN: 9789462081611
Pub Date: March 2015
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
In this publication Eindhoven University of Technology's Department of Built Environment/Architecture presents a selection of the department's finest graduate school research projects. The fields investigated...
Buildings Cities Life
An Autobiography in Architecture, Volume 1
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CA$465.00
ISBN: 9781459704138
Pub Date: September 2013
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Renowned architect Eberhard Zeidler tells his story in a two-volume book that explores his early life in Germany and his years in Canada after he moved there in 1951. Architect of Toronto's Eaton Centre and Trump International Hotel and Tower, Zeidler has left his stamp on the urban landscape of Canada, the United States, and the rest of the world.
Crossover: DSD Series Vol. 1
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9789064506093
Pub Date: April 2013
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Crossover is the very first publication by the Delft School of Design (DSD), a laboratory for research and experimentation in architecture, urbanism and technologies of construction at the TU...
Original Copies
Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780824836061
Pub Date: January 2013
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
A 108-meter high Eiffel Tower rises above Champs Elysées Square in Hangzhou. A Chengdu residential complex for 200,000 recreates Dorchester, England. An ersatz Queen’s Guard patrols Shanghai’s...
Healthcare Architecture in the Netherlands
Price:
CA$107.50
ISBN: 9789056627348
Pub Date: October 2010
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Over the years, hospitals, psychiatric institutions and hospice facilities for the elderly have been subject to radical change. To a great extent, these buildings--their amenities and accommodations--have...
Architecture of Bali
A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms
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CA$64.95
ISBN: 9780824826833
Pub Date: December 2002
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
This is at once a compendium for designers and an entertaining essay on the architecture of Asia's most glamorous tropical island by one of its foremost admirers. Landscape and architectural designer...
Houses from Books
Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950: A History and Guide
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CA$165.95
ISBN: 9780271019437
Pub Date: November 2000
Imprint: Penn State University Press
'Designing Women'
Gender and the Architectural Profession
Price:
CA$41.95
ISBN: 9780802082190
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Women architects in Canada have reacted with ingenuity to the architectural profession's restrictive and sometimes discriminatory practices, contributing major innovations in practice and design to the field.
Multiplicity
On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781625347992
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Empathic Design
Perspectives on Creating Inclusive Spaces
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781642832051
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Island Press
Contributors explore broader conceptual approaches and highlight design projects including the Harriet Tubman Memorial in Newark, which replaced a long-standing statue of Christopher Columbus; and restoration of the Freedom Center in Oklahoma City, first built by civil activist Clara Luper to provide a safe place for gathering and youth education; and The Camp Barker...
Identity, Diplomacy and Design
A Study of Canada's Embassies in the Age of Reconciliation
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781988366647
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: Riverside Architectural Press
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on Pedagogical Playgrounds
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781988111377
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Concordia University Press
Exactitude
On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781625346711
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Exactitude
On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture
CA$113.00
ISBN: 9781625346728
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
A Chair for Pope Francis
A Collection of Designs for the Papal Sanctuary and Charrette
CA$58.95
ISBN: 9781329701199
Pub Date: November 2016
Architectural Quality
A Note on Architectural Policy
CA$33.99
ISBN: 9789460224232
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Built Environment 2013-2014
Eindhoven University of Technology
CA$54.00
ISBN: 9789462081611
Pub Date: March 2015
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Buildings Cities Life
An Autobiography in Architecture, Volume 1
CA$465.00
ISBN: 9781459704138
Pub Date: September 2013
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Crossover: DSD Series Vol. 1
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9789064506093
Pub Date: April 2013
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Original Copies
Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780824836061
Pub Date: January 2013
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Healthcare Architecture in the Netherlands
CA$107.50
ISBN: 9789056627348
Pub Date: October 2010
Imprint: Artbook / D.A.P.
Architecture of Bali
A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms
CA$64.95
ISBN: 9780824826833
Pub Date: December 2002
Imprint: University of Hawaii Press
Houses from Books
Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950: A History and Guide
CA$165.95
ISBN: 9780271019437
Pub Date: November 2000
Imprint: Penn State University Press
'Designing Women'
Gender and the Architectural Profession
CA$41.95
ISBN: 9780802082190
Pub Date: May 2000
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Women architects in Canada have reacted with ingenuity to the architectural profession's restrictive and sometimes discriminatory practices, contributing major innovations in practice and design to the field.