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  • How Much House?: Thoreau, le Corbusier and the Sustainable Cabin by

    In text, drawings, and photographs, this book analyses three projects and shows parallels and similarities. Inspired by Tolstoy's story How Much Land Does a ...

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  • Toward an Architecture by

    Published in 1923, Toward an Architecture had an immediate impact on architects throughout Europe and remains a foundational text for students and professionals. Le Corbusier ...

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  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by

    You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve ...

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  • Architectural Theory by

    If you've ever wondered what goes through architects' minds when they design buildings, you'll be happy to know that there's no shortage ...

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  • Attunement: Architectural Meaning After the Crisis of Modern Science by

    Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Perez-Gomez calls for an ...

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  • Studio Futures: Changing Trajectories in Architectural Education by

    Studio Futures includes case studies of innovative studio models together with critical essays that consider the history of the design studio and how it might ...

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  • The Poetics of Space 2nd edition by

    Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious ...

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  • Double: Storefront for Art and Architecture Manifesto Series 2 by

    Double includes a group of artists, architects, critics, historians and theorists, discussing the effects, desires and implications in the act of doubling and replicating. Society ...

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  • Analysing Architecture 4th edition by

    Now in its fourth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those wishing to become professional ...

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  • Architecture: A Modern View by

    The crisis of modern architecture is part of a much larger crisis involving the whole question of the way we live and how we use ...

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  • Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design by

    In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are ...

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  • The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture by

    The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and ...

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  • The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture by

    Architecture is usually analyzed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image ...

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  • The Thinking Hand: Existential Wisdom in Architecture by

    In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin , by taking a wider view ...

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  • Modern Architecture: A Critical History 4th edition by

    This acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980. For this fourth edition, Kenneth Frampton ...

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