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Western architecture : a survey from ancient Greece to the present
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ISBN: 9780500203163 0500203164 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York Thames & Hudson


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Terms of appropriation : modern architecture and global exchange
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ISBN: 9781138940048 9781138940031 9781315674506 9781317379355 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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This collection of critical essays focuses on how material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized or in any other way appropriated in order to address pressing and timely questions regarding architectural influence. It charts new territory within this still unexplored yet highly topical area of study by establishing a shared vocabulary with which to discuss, or contest, the workings of influence as a vital and progressive aspect of architectural discourse. Written by a group of rising scholars in the field of architectural history and criticism, the essays cover a range of architectural subjects but they are linked in their investigations of how architects engage with their predecessors, and in what ways we can productively begin to analyse the workings of influence.


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How to love brutalism
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ISBN: 9781849944427 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Batsford,

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Featuring buildings typically constructed of concrete, Brutalist architecture flourished in the 1950s to mid-1970s. Though controversial, the style has an enthusiastic fan base-including John Grindrod, who is on a mission to explain his passion. His enlightening study brings humor, insight, and honesty to the subject as it journeys from the UK to examine Brutalism's influence around the world, from Le Corbusier's designs in India to Lina Bo Bardi's buildings in Brazil. Featuring a series of mini essays, along with illustrations by The Brutal Artist, it explains the human aspect of Brutalism and explores its architectural, historical, and even pop-cultural meanings.


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Dossier 'Het erfgoed, dat zijn wij!' : september 2018
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ISSN: 20345771 ISBN: 9782875841674 Year: 2018 Publisher: Brussel : Brussel stedenbouw en erfgoed,


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Ideals of the body
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ISBN: 082298606X 9780822986065 9780822945284 0822945282 Year: 2018 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa.

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Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid fears of national decline that accompanied the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, efforts to modernize Paris between 1800 and 1850 focused not on grand and comprehensive structural reforms, but rather on improving the bodily and mental fitness of the individual citizen. These forgotten efforts to renew and reform the physical and moral health of the urban subject found expression in the built environment of the city--in the gymnasiums, swimming pools, and green spaces of private and public institutions, from the pedagogical to the recreational. Sun-Young Park reveals how these anxieties about health and social order, which manifested in emerging ideals of the body, created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of modernity in the postrevolutionary capital, one profoundly impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, spectacle, and technology.


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Toward a concrete utopia : architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980
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ISBN: 9781633450516 1633450511 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. The Museum of Modern Art

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Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia's architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a postwar architecture both in line with and distinct from the design approaches seen elsewhere in Europe and beyond. The architecture that emerged from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist social condensers is a manifestation of the radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself. 'Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980' introduces the exceptional work of socialist Yugoslavia's leading architects to an international audience for the first time, highlighting a significant yet thus-far understudied body of modernist architecture, whose forward-thinking contributions still resonate today. Exhibition: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (15.07.2018-13.01.2019).


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Elements of architecture
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ISBN: 9783836556149 3836556146 Year: 2018 Publisher: Köln Taschen

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Derived, updated, and expanded from Koolhaas' exhaustive and much-lauded exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, this is an essential toolkit to understanding the pieces, parts, and fundamentals that comprise structure around the globe. Designed by Irma Boom and based on research from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 2,600-page monograph contains essays from Rem Koolhaas, Stephan Trueby, Manfredo di Robilant, and Jeffrey Inaba; interviews with Werner Sobek and Tony Fadell (of Nest); and an exclusive photo essay by Wolfgang Tillmans.


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Besides, history : Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
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ISBN: 9781927071496 1927071496 9783960983729 3960983727 Year: 2018 Publisher: Montréal : London : Canadian centre for architecture ; Koenig Books,

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What role can history play in contemporary architecture practice? Go Hasegawa, Kersten Geers, and David Van Severen reread, redraw, translate, and appropriate from the past and from each other in order to construct relationships and meaning out of a constellation of references. History becomes something that can be used rather than just studied.

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