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Poemotion 3
ISBN: HB: 9783037785133, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
64 pp., 23x17 cm, 30 illus.
In the fall of 2016, the long-awaited third installment of Takahiro Kurashima's series "Poemotion" will be published. In the previous edition, color was added; this time he goes back to the roots. Thirty abstract graphic and geometric shapes are brou...
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£18,00
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Are We Human? The Archeology of Design
ISBN: PB: 9783037785119, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
288 pp., 18x11 cm, 181 illus.
The question "Are We Human?" is both urgent and ancient. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley offer a multi-layered exploration of the intimate relationship between human and design and rethink the philosophy of design in a multi-dimensional exploration...
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£15,00
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Building
ISBN: HB: 9783037784983, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
416 pp., 24x17 cm, 244 illus.
For nearly fifty years "the building" has primarily been viewed as a means rather than an end within architectural history and theory. This volume presents an alternative to that trend by reconceiving it as a central discursive category in its own ri...
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£35,00
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Ethics of the Urban The City and the Spaces of the Political
ISBN: HB: 9783037783818, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
368 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 200 illus.
Is democracy spatial? How are the physical aspects of our cities, houses, streets, and public spaces – the borders, the neighborhoods, the monuments – bearers of our values? In a world of intensifying geo-economic integration, extreme financial and g...
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£30,00
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Form of Form Lisbon Architecture Triennale
ISBN: PB: 9783037785041, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2016
228 pp., 26.2x21.6 cm, 100 illus.
What is architectural form? What does architectural form mean? And why is it so significant today? Despite the historical signi?cance of form in architecture, the subject is frequently undervalued in debate. The publication "The Form of Form" examine...
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£30,00
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After Belonging Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit
ISBN: PB: 9783037785201, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2016
400 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 350 illus.
"After Belonging" examines the objects, spaces and territories of our transforming condition of belonging. The global circulation of people, information and goods has destabilized what we understand by residence, questioning spatial permanence, prope...
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£30,00
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Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9783037785034, Lars Muller Publishers, September 2016
160 pp., 30x24 cm, 103 illus.
"A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture" is part of an ongoing series by one of the leading architectural photographers worldwide, Leonardo Finotti. It presents roughly one hundred of Finotti's photographs of undiscovered Latin American m...
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£30,00
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Desert of Pharan Unofficial Histories Behind the Mass Expansion of Makkah
ISBN: PB: 9783037784853, Lars Muller Publishers, August 2016
400 pp., 24x17 cm, 400 illus.
Through a series of photographs, Ahmed Mater charts the city's origins to its more recent history over the last 5 years. It is a study of the site's recent transformation – Mecca, until recently, embodied a unique urban tapestry, layered with histori...
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£45,00
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Poster Collection 28 Leupin Herbert
ISBN: PB: 9783037785065, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2016
80 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 90 illus.
Marking the centenary of his birth, the "Poster Collection" series devotes its latest edition to the popular Swiss poster designer Herbert Leupin. Primarily conceiving posters for consumer goods, for many years Leupin created advertising for products...
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£19,00
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Tabula Plena Forms of Urban Preservation
ISBN: PB: 9783037784914, Lars Muller Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 23x16.5 cm, 149 illus.
In contrast to tabula rasa urbanism, this book considers strategies and possibilities for tabula plena – urban sites that are full of existing buildings and systems that have accumulated over time. Such dense urban sites prompt designers to work betw...
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£30,00
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