Modern Architecture by Alan Colquhoun
$50.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Oxford History of Art S. | Reading Level: very good
Presents an account of international modernism, exploring the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assessing its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined, shedding light on t ...Show more
Forensic Architecture - Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
$62.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Zone Bks.
In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnest ...Show more
BANHAM IN BUFFALO by Gilabert, Eva Franch
$44.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Peter Reyner Banham, the renowned architectural historian and cultural critic, taught in the newly-founded architecture program at the State University of New York at Buffalo between 1976 and 1980. During his tenure at Buffalo, inspired by the daylight factories and the grain silos of the region, he con ...Show more
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
$55.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series | Reading Level: good
What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imag ...Show more
Station - A Whistlestop Tour of 20th- and 21st-Century Railway Architecture by Christopher Beanland
$45.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world. Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this one is different: a global study of railway architecture from the 1950s onwards and into the future. In 50 fascinatin ...Show more
Papulu-Ku Nyinjjiki - A Housing Exhibition and Forum by WILYA JANTA by Wilya Janta (Editor); Paul Memmott
$12.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Papulu-Ku Nyinjjiki documents the harsh realities of remote indigenous housing in the Northern Territory. It attempts to tell the story of Tennant Creek through housing injustice and art—revealing these lived realities to the broader public. It is also about meaningful engagement and collaboration; cele ...Show more
Sydney Brutalism by Heidi Dokulil
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Big and bold or soft and sculptural, or a mix of the two, it’s not until you get up close that you feel brutalism’s radical roots. Brutalist architecture hit Sydney in the late 1950s when local architects and their international peers experimented with raw concrete and brick and kicked off a revolution ...Show more
The Politics of Public Space: Volume Five - A Publication of Transcripts That Speak Directly to the City and the Way We Read It by Office AU
$72.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
The Politics of Public Space began in 2018 as a public lecture series curated by OFFICE. These discussions took place outside the conventional spaces of the university, held on Melbourne's street corners, laneways, parks, shopping strips and plazas. Meeting in different locations around the city allowed ...Show more
Story of Water and Fire by May Muzaffar
$54.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Critical Theory Ser.
The Arab art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. Story of Water and Fire is a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the Iraqi art scene, poet and art critic May Muzaffar and artist Rafa Nasiri. This book offers a glimpse into the social and artistic milieu of Baghdad from the ...Show more
How Infrastructure Works: The Systems That Run Our World - and How We Fix Them by Deb Chachra
$36.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece' Ed Yong. 'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' Austin Kleon. Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from t ...Show more
Modern Architecture Since 1900 by Curtis William
$65.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a ...Show more
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A. T. Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Modernism to the masses: Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern hom ...Show more