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America Recovered
America Recovered reveals the point where abstract political processes manifest themselves in the physical world, thus providing an alternate means of experiencing the contemporary American landscape. Collectively, the images and essays show what aspects of our everyday lives are being assigned value in the promise of a recovered America. America Recovered collects forty images that mark one of…
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- 9781638409168
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Made UpDesign's Fictions
Through essays, interviews, and narratives by Bruce Sterling, Fiona Raby, Sam Jacob and other significant voices in the field, this volume questions the initial discourses around "design fiction"—a broad category of critical design that includes overlapping interests in science fiction, world building, speculation, and futuring. Made Up: Design's Fictions advances contemporary analysis and en…
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- 9781638409236
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LA Forum ReaderFrom the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture an…
The LA Forum Reader brings together three decades of discursive writings and publications on architecture, urbanism, and Los Angeles culled from the archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Published under thematic sections: Experiments, Detours, Hunches, and Santa Anas, with interludes dedicated to Art and Architecture, Downtown, and the long-running LA Forum Newsle…
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- 9781638409182
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Layered Landscapes LofotenUnderstanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change
This book discusses approaches towards landscapes under pressure and transformation, and the importance of unprejudiced and experimental investigations to reveal its natural and cultural complexity.Layered Landscapes Lofoten, Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change aims to challenge internalized concepts about how landscapes are considered and investigated, to open for alternative res…
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- 9781638409212
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Landscape as TerritoryA Cartographic Design Project
Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age, ' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced.Territory, understood as a 'political technology, ' has the capacity to involve architects and designers into complex social, political, tec…
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- 9781948765916
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WWW.DrawingArchitectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel
Architectural Drawing;technique and technology;Computational drawing;drawing theory
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- 9781638409243
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Terra-Sorta-FirmaReclaiming the Littoral Gradient
A critical and interdisciplinary exploration of our world's continuously urbanizing and expanding coastline. For centuries, cities have grown and expanded onto previously saturated grounds; "reclaiming" land from estuaries, marshes, mangroves, and seabeds. While these artificial coastlines are sites of tremendous real estate, civic, and infrastructural investments, they are also the most vulner…
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- 9781638409120
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Blueprint for a HackLeveraging Informal Building Practices
Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. "Blueprint for a Hack" aims to reimagine community spaces. Faced with extreme housing shortages, physical isolation, and a challenging climate, outdoor public spaces in northern communities remain large…
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Floppy LogicExperimenting in the Territory between Architecture, Fashion and …
Floppy Logic is an exploration into the 'architecture' of fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be understood and used to design and fabricate objects and space differently.A key concept here is the Floppy, defined as a quality in material that requires extraneous support to produce architecture. Floppy generally refers to…
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- 9781638409007
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Pure SpaceExpanding the Public Sphere through Public Space Transformations in…
This book may seem a simple accumulation of twenty-one public space projects in eight Latin American cities. On closer inspection, the presentation of project descriptions, photographs, and annotated drawings reflects a concern to analytically explain the operative aspects at work. The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in s…
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