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Baroque Prague
ISBN: PB: 9788024643762, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2021
330 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 200 colour plates, 20 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Baroque Prague" is a lavish excursion through Prague's important baroque period, beginning with the defeat of Czech Protestants at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 and ending with the...
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£24,00
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Architectures of Embodiment Disclosing New Intelligibilities
ISBN: PB: 9783035801996, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, May 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This book began within Architecture of Embodiment, a research environment focused on the inquiry of architecture from an enactivist perspective and through aesthetic practices. Primarily, Architecture of Embodiment does not aim to find answers to its...
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£40,00
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Non-Construction An Architectural Gesture in Artistic Research
ISBN: HB: 9783035803488, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, April 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 50 halftone
By defining a concept of architecture based on the tactile experience and not on construction, this book allows us to explore both discursive practice as the study of architectural art and the integration of architectural art as a discourse of spatia...
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£32,00
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Boston's Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them
ISBN: PB: 9781684580392, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 160 colour plates
As Boston approaches its four-hundredth anniversary, it is remarkable that it still maintains its historic character despite constant development. The fifty buildings featured in this book all pre-date1800 and illustrate Boston's early history. This...
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£24,00
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Non-Design Architecture, Liberalism, and the Market
ISBN: HB: 9780226686066, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones
Anthony Fontenot's staggeringly ambitious book uncovers the surprisingly libertarian heart of the most influential British and American architectural and urbanist discourses of the postwar period, illuminating the unexpected philosophical common grou...
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Of Bridges A Poetic and Philosophical Account
ISBN: HB: 9780226735290, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 73 halftones
"Always", wrote Philip Larkin, "it is by bridges that we live". Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they...
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£28,00
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Perspective on EPFL Science, Architecture, People
ISBN: PB: 9782889153053, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
To mark its fiftieth anniversary, the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) gave free rein to three photographers, who were asked to capture the essence of the school and its future direction. Catherine Leutenegger's work delivered many det...
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£30,00
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Rem Koolhaas/OMA The Construction of Merveilles
ISBN: PB: 9782889153121, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The creator of buildings that stand out as surrealistic marvels amid the skylines of America, Europe, and Asia, Rem Koolhaas, along with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), is justly considered as one of the leaders of contemporary archit...
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£65,00
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Choosing Architecture Criticism, History and Theory since the 19th Century
ISBN: PB: 9782889153299, University of Chicago Press, EPFL Press, February 2021
276 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major subject of public discussion, considered and argued about not just by architects or residents, but also by critics, theoreticians, historians, and writers. This book offers an ov...
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£60,00
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Into the Nest Futures of Affordable Housing
ISBN: PB: 9781947603066, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2021
160 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 438 line drawings and 111 halftones
Access to affordable housing is one of the most pressing issues facing cities worldwide, as populations grow and real estate prices rise. But the question of what we mean by the term "affordable housing" is far from clear. Designers shy away from the...
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£13,00
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