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Asnago and Vender and the Construction of...

This is the first book in English on the Italian architects Mario Asnago (1896- 1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-1986). Their city was mid-twentieth century Milan in transformation, and the extraordinary Milanese architectural scene of...

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The Stones of Fernand Pouillon

Providing a new insight into twentieth-century architecture, this is the first book in English on the work of French architect Fernand Pouillon (1912-1986). It includes Jacques Lucan's analysis of his post-war urbanism and its critique...

65,00 € *

Über Putz, m. 1 Beilage

Putzoberflächen haben neben einem grossen praktischen auch einen hohen ästhetischen Wert. Heute finden sie oftmals als Bestandteil von verputzten Aussenwärmedämmungen Anwendung; meist wird dabei auf Standardlösungen zurückgegriffen, die...

66,00 € *

Urban Design in the 20th Century

Our time is an urban age. More people live in cities than ever before, cities are growing larger and denser than ever, and urbanity has reached unprecedented levels of complexity. This boom in urbanization, today evident around the...

59,00 € *

Die Entstehung des heutigen Menschen

Eine «neue Geschichte» schwebte dem Schweizer Kunsthistoriker und Herold der modernen Architektur Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) vor, als er 1929 die Arbeit an einem ambitionierten Buchprojekt aufnahm. Es behandelte die historische Spanne...

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Flowcharting

By the time the computer arrived on the architectural scene, its place had been prepared by decades of avant-gardist experimentation. The modernist program of rationalizing creative practice took a decidedly bureaucratic turn between two...

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Swiss Window Journeys

A window is a mediating device between our body and the environment: by simply opening or closing it, we can regulate air, light, and sight. Both climatic and cultural conditions, alongside technological developments, shape the...

39,00 € *

Cooking Up Dinner Speeches

Im Mai 1954 begibt sich Ise Gropius (1897-1983) zusammen mit dem berühmten Architekten Walter Gropius auf eine dreimonatige Japanreise. Der eng getaktete Terminplan ihrer Tour, organisiert durch das International House of Japan und...

32,00 € *

Arab Modern

The Arab world's modern built environment was shaped largely during a period when several Arab countries were on the cusp of gaining independence from colonial rule. Contributions in this volume present Arab modern architecture based on...

30,00 € *

Researching Otherwise

Methodological, epistemic, and ontological borders have long prevented landscape and urban studies from engaging in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness, and affect. Researching Otherwise uncovers possibilities for deploying sensory,...

32,00 € *

Amazônía

The Amazon's ecology and history of inhabitation are deeply intertwined with the natural world. In this issue of gta papers, researchers from diverse backgrounds lend their voices to challenge conventional narratives of colonization and...

25,00 € *

In the Daylight of Our Existence

In 1991, poet, author, and professor June Jordan encouraged radical alterations of the built environment as crucial to "A New Politics of Sexuality", the title of her address to the Bisexual, Gay, and Lesbian Student Association at...

32,00 € *

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