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Serial Books : Armed Surfaces
Andrew Benjamin
Paperback - $27.95
"Armed Surfaces presents DRD Lab's investigations into contemporary reality and a new typology for living. An analysis of transitional moments in daily life initiates a re-examination of Functionalism as an ideology of standardisation and normalcy. T ...
The U.N. Building
Aaron Betsky
Hardcover - $65.95
When it was completed in 1952 on a site on New York's East River, the United Nations building stood as a symbol of world humanitarianism, a beacon of unity after the Second World War. One of the most historic commissions of the twentieth century was ...
Transnationale Raume/Transnational Spaces
Regina Bittner
Paperback - $47.95
In this era of economic globalization, multimedia communication and cross-border migration, cities increasingly consist of parallel worlds. Different urban cultures and practices immediately confront each other. Call centers, informal markets, sprawl ...
The Anatomy of Architecture : Ontology and Metaphor in Batammaliba Architectural Expression
Suzanne Preston Blier
Paperback - $57.95
Blier illuminates the extraordinary architecture of the Batammaliba people of Western Africa, revealing these buildings as texts through which we can read the beliefs, psychology, traditions, and social concerns of their inhabitants. In doing so, she ...
Oberlin Architecture, College & Town : A Guide to It's Social History
Geoffrey Blodgett
Paperback - $23.95
Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture
Axel Boethius
Paperback - $63.95
Axel Boethius's account begins about 1400 B.C. with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and by the Etruscans who by about 600 had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell.