Ghost StoriesArchitecture and the Intangible

It is not without irony that in an age characterised by the dissolution of certainty – a consequence of digital dematerialisation and the catastrophic destabilisation of our social institutions and natural world – architecture, for so long the repository for our myths and the vessel for our intangible narratives and rituals, has been stripped bare. Increasingly preoccupied with the physical…

PlaygroundsThe Experimental Years

In the decades following 1945 a new kind of playground emerged in Northern Europe and North America. Rather than slides, swings and roundabouts, the new playgrounds encouraged children to build shacks and invent their own entertainment. This book tells the story of how bombsites and waste ground were transformed into hives of activity by children and progressive educationalists. It shows how a …

Capillas y templos modernosAmérica Latina 1914-2013

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City of WoodSan Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

2025 J.B. Jackson Book Prize, University of Virginia Center for Cultural Landscapes 2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers 2025 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. California's 1849 gold rush triggered cre…

The Earth That Modernism BuiltEmpire and the Rise of Planetary Design

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. The Earth That Modernism Built traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Kenny Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically shift the terms of anal…

ARQUITECTURA Y VIDEOJUEGOS

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ALVARO SIZA. A LA LUZ DE LA LUZ DE LA ARQUITECTURA

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9781643608396

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Plano Diretor Físico Hospitalar:Uma Abordagem Metodológica Frente a Problem…

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The Belgian Friendship BuildingFrom the New York World's Fair to a Virginia HBCU

A singular architectural landmark bridging western Europe and the American South How did the Belgian Friendship Building, originally constructed for the 1939 New York World’s Fair—and one of only a few surviving buildings from that celebrated exhibition—end up on the campus of an HBCU in Richmond, Virginia? In this richly illustrated book, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Katherin…

Projeto ArquitetônicoCompatibilização de Projetos

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9786556754345

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