Chicago Architecture and Design (3rd edition)

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9781683354215

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1 online resource (328 pages)

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AeroBeginning to Now

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9781683355489

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1 online resource (272 pages)

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Anthropology for ArchitectsSocial Relations and the Built Environment

What can architects learn from anthropologists? This is the central question examined in Anthropology for Architects – a survey and exploration of the ideas which underpin the correspondence between contemporary social anthropology and architecture. The focus is on architecture as a design practice. Rather than presenting architectural artefacts as objects of the anthropological gaze, the boo…

Materials and Meaning in ArchitectureEssays on the Bodily Experience of Build…

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation. Arguing that architecture is primarily experienced by the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad…

The Place of SilenceArchitecture / Media / Philosophy

The Place of Silence explores the poetics and politics of silence in architecture. Bringing together contributions by internationally recognized scholars in architecture and the humanities, it explores the diverse practices, affects, politics and cultural meanings of silence, silent places and silent buildings in historical and contemporary contexts. What counts as silence in specific situation…

Original CopiesArchitectural Mimicry in Contemporary China

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Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts

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Mapping ChengdeThe Qing Landscape Enterprise

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Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea

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Diversity in the Great UnityRegional Yuan Architecture

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