Theory of Architecture
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Architectural Aesthetics: Appreciating Architecture As An Art
Mr Edward WintersCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: ...
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Self-understanding in the Tractatus and Wittgensteins Architecture: From Adolf Loos to the Resolute Reading
Raimundo HenriquesCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99Between 1926 and 1928, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed a house for his sister in Vienna (the Kundmanngasse). This book aims to clarify...
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Rebirth of Historical Cultural Village in China: Case Study of Wuyan Ancient Village
Guiqing YangCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99This book combines theory and practice with typical cases study. Pictures and texts are listed in each chapter for easier understanding. It is suit...
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Ugliness and Judgment: On Architecture in the Public Eye
Timothy HydeCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...
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Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe: Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840
E. BouwersCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-po...
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Architecture and the Virtual
Marta JecuCurrent price €91.19Original price €95.99Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our...
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The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture
Peter EisenmanCurrent price €33.24Original price €34.99Peter Eisenman-world-famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005)-confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distingui...
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What Kind of Architect Are You?
Udo GreinacherCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99Architecture is commonplace. We inhabit it and use it; it is constantly present; it serves as foreground and background and usually has a story to ...
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Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and ...
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The Color Black: Antinomies of a Color in Architecture and Art
Max RaphaelCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99Current price €48.44Original price €50.99Save 5% -
High-Tech Heritage: (Im)permanence of Innovative Architecture
BirkhauserCurrent price €70.83Original price €76.99High-tech Architecture - Preserving the Heritage of Innovative Construction The high-tech architecture of the 1970s1990s is typically characterize...
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Denkmal Postmoderne: Bestände einer (un)geliebten Epoche
BirkhauserCurrent price €70.83Original price €76.99The Architectural Heritage of Postmodernism - Current State of Research on Architecture and Monument Preservation The architectural heritage of po...
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Immediate Spaces 16-19
Park BooksCurrent price €26.22Original price €28.50The Studio for Immediate Spaces (SIS) is a two-year MA programme at Amsterdam's renowned Sandberg Instituut. It aims to explore and shape spatial...
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House 1 Catalogue All About Space Volume 2
Daniel ZamarbideCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99The Atelier de la Conception de l'Espace (ALICE), affiliated with the School of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, is an...
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Josep Lluís Mateo: In Transit
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50Current price €25.18Original price €26.50Save 5% -
Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination
Jeremy McInerneyCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these compo...
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Theory for Theatre Studies: Light
Professor Dean WilcoxCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99What properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect? What role does the perception of the audience play in how stage information is re...
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Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture: Essays on Otherness and Canon
Jorge Francisco LiernurCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic...
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How Much House?: Thoreau, Le Corbusier and the Sustainable Cabin
Urs Peter FlückigerCurrent price €32.29Original price €33.99How much house does a man need? The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations the writer Thoreau lived in...
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Urban Planning in the Nordic World
Ellen BraaeCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Urban planning is a keystone in the materialization of the Nordic welfare states. That is not to say that there is one particular city form or plan...
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Theorien des Wohnens: Eine kommentierte Anthologie
JOVIS VerlagCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99Die Anthologie Theorien des Wohnens versammelt erstmals systematisch die zentralen Wohntheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die hier ausgewählten philoso...
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The Gentleman''s House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780
S. HagueCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining near...
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Architecture, Materiality and Society: Connecting Sociology of Architecture with Science and Technology Studies
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contribution...
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