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Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else
Edited by Esther Choi , Marrikka Trotter
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262014793
RRP Price: £20.95 Hardback
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Combining formal argument with informal conversations and design proposals, Architecture at the Edge of Everything Else offers creative ideas for "thinking and acting architecture differently." What makes the book unique (apart from its lively graphic format) is the freshness of its voices—young ar....MORE
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Event-Cities 4
Bernard Tschumi
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262512416
RRP Price: £25.95 Paperback
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Event-Cities 4 is the latest in the Event-Cities series from Bernard Tschumi, documenting recent built and theoretical projects in the context of his evolving views on architecture, urbanism, and design. Event-Cities 4 follows directly from the work of Event-Cities 3, which examined the interaction ....MORE
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A Scientific Autobiography
Aldo Rossi Translated by Lawrence Venuti
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262514389
RRP Price: £14.95 Paperback
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This revealing memoir by Aldo Rossi (1937–1997), one of the most visible and controversial figures ever on the international architecture scene, intermingles discussions of Rossi's architectural projects—including the major literary and artistic influences on his work—with his personal history. Draw....MORE
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Becoming Bucky Fuller
Loretta Lorance
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262123029
RRP Price: £19.95 Hardback
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Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic personality provided the media with a good story—that of a genius who could play the role of artist, scientist, and entrepreneur all at once. I....MORE
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Le Corbusier and the Occult
J. K. Birksted
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026481
RRP Price: £29.95 Hardback
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When Charles-Édouard Jeanneret reinvented himself as Le Corbusier in Paris, he also carefully reinvented the first thirty years of his life by highlighting some events and hiding others. As he explained in a letter: "Le Corbusier is a pseudonym. Le Corbusier creates architecture recklessly. He pursu....MORE
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Architecture Depends
Jeremy Till
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262012537
RRP Price: £16.95 Hardback
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Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious book, cannot help itself; it is dependent for its very existence on things outside itself. Despite the claims of autonomy, pu....MORE
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Perspecta 41 "Grand Tour"
Gabrielle Brainard , Rustam Mehta , Thomas Moran
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262512254
RRP Price: £16.95 Paperback
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The Grand Tour was once the culmination of an architect's education. As a journey to the cultural sites of Europe, the Tour's agenda was clearly defined: to study ancient monuments in order to reproduce them at home. Architects returned from their Grand Tours with rolls of measured drawings and less....MORE
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Nurturing Dreams
Fumihiko Maki
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262135000
RRP Price: £22.95 Hardback
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Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a perspective that is both global and uniquely Japanese. Influenced by post-Bauhaus internationalism....MORE
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Journey to the East
Le Corbusier, Edited by Ivan Zaknic
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262622106
RRP Price: £16.95 Paperback
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This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Southern, Central, and Eastern Europe in 1911. In a flood of highly personal impressions and visual notations, it records his first contact with the ver....MORE
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Matthew Frederick
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262062666
RRP Price: £8.95 Hardback
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This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language things that tend to be murky and abstruse in the classroom. These 101 concise le....MORE
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Gehry Draws
Mark Rappolt , Robert Violette
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262182416
RRP Price: £32.95 Hardback
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Everyone knows what the distinctive curves and lines of Frank Gehry's buildings look like. But where do they come from? Gehry has described drawing as his way of "thinking aloud"; Gehry Draws traces that thinking through 32 major projects (both built and unbuilt) with more than 500 drawings (many of....MORE
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Experiencing Architecture, 2nd Edition
Steen Eiler Rasmussen
MIT Press
ISBN: 0262680025
RRP Price: £16.95 Paperback
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Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, Experiencing Architecture manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding....MORE
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