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New Nature
ISBN: PB: 9783037784822, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
600 pp., 28x23 cm, 574 illus.
"A New Nature" is a book about architecture as the organization of material. It unfolds an idea of working with architecture and urbanity as conditions rather than form. By experiencing cities and cultural landscapes as states of change, the author i...
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£50,00
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Some Pigeons Are More Equal Than Others
ISBN: HB: 9783037784655, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
192 pp., 24.7x21 cm, 78 illus.
Pigeon languages our cities. When a speckled grey pigeon is trapped by artists and spray-painted in a miniature car wash, and released as an ultramarine green pigeon streaking through a public space, what happens to the "flying rat"? How do we really...
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£37,00
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Between Land and Sea Works of Kiyonori Kikutake
ISBN: HB: 9783037784327, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
208 pp., 24.9x20.5 cm, 200 illus.
For more than half a century, visionary architect Kiyonori Kikutake (1928-2011) pursued Metabolic architecture, embracing forces of renewal, recycling, and transformation. This volume, the first comprehensive assessment of Kikutake in the English lan...
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£37,00
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Buckminster Fuller Inc. Architecture in the Age of Radio
ISBN: PB: 9783037784280, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 150 illus.
"Buckminster Fuller Inc." offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller's work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller's entire career was a multi-dimensional refl ect...
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£25,00
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Ex-formation
ISBN: HB: 9783037784662, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
480 pp., 16x11.8 cm, 500 illus.
For Kenya Hara, design begins with comprehension of the unknown. The concept of "exformation", to which a chapter was already devoted in "Designing Design", continues to preoccupy the Japanese designer. In contrast to "information", "exformation" des...
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£22,00
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Genealogy of Modern Architecture 1924-2007 A Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form by Kenneth Frampton
ISBN: HB: 9783037783696, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2015
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 500 illus.
"Genealogy of Modern Architecture" is a reference work on modern architecture by Kenneth Frampton, one of today's leading architectural theorists. Conceived as a genealogy of twentieth century architecture from 1924 to 2000, it compiles some sixteen...
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£29,00
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
ISBN: PB: 9783037781265, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2015
152 pp., 18x12 cm
One of Fuller's most popular works, "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth", is a brilliant synthesis of his world view. In this very accessible volume, Fuller investigates the great challenges facing humanity. How will humanity survive? How does auto...
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£15,00
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Poemotion 2
ISBN: HB: 9783037783511, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2015
64 pp., 23x17 cm, 30 illus.
The interactive book object "Poemotion 2" is a color sequel to Takahiro Kurashima's popular title "Poemotion" from Lars Mu?ller Publishers. The abstract graphic patterns in this slim volume start to move as soon as the reader overlays them with the s...
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£18,00
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Poster Collection 27 The Hand
ISBN: PB: 9783037784778, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2015
98 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 120 illus.
Gestures and facial expressions are our foremost non-linguistic means of interpersonal communication. It is thus no coincidence that the face and hand are also popular motifs in visual communication. The history of posters is particularly rich in var...
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£19,00
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Rooms You May Have Missed Umberto Riva, Bijoy Jain
ISBN: PB: 9783037784587, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2015
240 pp., 21x15 cm, 430 illus.
"Rooms You May Have Missed: Umberto Riva, Bijoy" Jain is an unexpected story of architectural attitudes that starts unfolding from the interior. The book pairs two architects operating in distinctive contexts, Mumbai and Milan, in order to uncover ne...
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£18,00
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