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X-Ray Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783037784433, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2018
200 pp., 20x15 cm, illus.
"X-Ray Architecture" explores the enormous impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the formation, representation and reception of twentieth-century architecture. It challenges the normal understanding of modern architecture by proposi...
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£30,00
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How Life Unfolds
ISBN: PB: 9783037785652, Lars Muller Publishers, March 2018
384 pp., 26x21 cm, 511 illus.
"How Life Unfolds" provides an insight into the approach, methods and processes of the popular design studio atelier oi based in La Neuveville, Switzerland. atelier oi pushes the boundaries of architecture, product design and scenography and experime...
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£35,00
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Power / Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9783037785461, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2018
260 pp., 24x17 cm, 581 illus.
"Power / Architecture" presents a series of projects based on current and extreme syntheses of comprehensive and complex world-views, which enables mapping a network of powers that align, intersect, inflect and diverge from each other. Collective pow...
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£30,00
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Marcel Breuer Building Global Institutions
ISBN: PB: 9783037785195, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2018
368 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 345 illus.
"Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions" is a collection of essays by a group of scholars, which examine Breuer's approach and way of working, his strategies and his signature buildings. These essays draw on an abundance of newly available docum...
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£29,00
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Positions on Emancipation Architecture between Aesthetics and Politics
ISBN: PB: 9783037785515, Lars Muller Publishers, January 2018
264 pp., 20x14 cm, 48 illus.
During the last decades architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong positions. A form of neoliberal indifference has become endemic, something that can be attributed to the fact that modernism has lost its claim to be both emancip...
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£22,00
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Landscape of Faith Interventions Along the Mexican Pilgrimage Route
ISBN: PB: 9783037784990, Lars Muller Publishers, December 2017
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 202 illus.
"Landscape of Faith" is a documentation of the way architecture can increase the identity of a pilgrimage route and add layers of meaning that reach far beyond the religious. The book presents sculptural and infrastructural interventions – in constan...
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£25,00
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Handbook of Tyranny
ISBN: HB: 9783037785348, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2017
160 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 987 illus.
"Handbook of Tyranny" portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of la...
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£25,00
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Embodied Energy and Design Making Architecture between Metrics and Narratives
ISBN: PB: 9783037785256, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2017
256 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 217 illus.
Architecture accounts for one third of global carbon emissions, energy consumption and waste. Buildings are increasingly understood to impact broader ecologies. Yet embodied energy – the various forms of energy required to extract raw matter, to prod...
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£32,00
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Emerging Nature Precursor of Architecture and Design
ISBN: PB: 9783037785263, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2017
312 pp., 29.5x21 cm, 160 illus.
"Emerging Nature" documents the work of the Argentinian architect, graphic designer and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz. The publication discusses his projects ranging from buildings and urban gardens including green facade vertical gardens to exhi...
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£32,00
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From Anselm to Zilla The Peter and Elisabeth Bosshard Collection of the Stiftung Kunst(Zeug)Haus
ISBN: PB: 9783037785478, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2017
320 pp., 30x24 cm, 390 illus.
This catalogue presents one of the largest collections of Swiss contemporary art in print for the first time. In the early 1970s, Peter and Elisabeth Bosshard, collectors and patrons of the arts, began to bring together works by Swiss artists. Over t...
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£35,00
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