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Airports : a century of architecture.
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ISBN: 1856693562 Year: 2004 Publisher: London King


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Revues d'architecture dans les années 1960 et 1970 : fragments d'une histoire événementielle, intellectuelle et matérielle : actes du colloque international tenu les 6 et 7 mai 2004 au Centre canadien d'architecture, CCA, à Montréal
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ISBN: 9782980782411 2980782416 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Montréal] Institut de recherche en histoire de l'architecture


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Homage to Barcelona : the city and its art 1888-1936
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ISBN: 0500274150 Year: 1986 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson

Contemporary world architecture.
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ISBN: 0714842036 9780714842035 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Phaidon

European union prize for contemporary architecture : Mies van der Rohe award 2001.
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ISBN: 849527387X Year: 2001 Publisher: Barcelona Actar


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Architecture itself and other postmodernization effects
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ISBN: 9781927071601 1927071607 9783959052283 3959052286 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leipzig Spector Books Canadian Centre for Architecture

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Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects? and architecture?s entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself. Postmodern architecture was characterized by four dominant beliefs: that architecture was distinct from the materiality of things; that history had an operative role to play in the present; that the emergence of a culture dominated by images enabled architects to equate drawing with authorship; and that architecture could secure its status among the arts by staking a claim to the exhibition space. While each strand of this belief system had deep historical roots, the expanding reach of American corporations played a crucial role in transforming these ideas into what was then termed the first global style. Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths features a series of fragments salvaged from canonic buildings of the late twentieth century together with archival materials from the CCA and other museum collections.

Connection.
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ISBN: 8495951061 9788495951069 Year: 2004 Publisher: Barcelona Actar

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Faced with an increasing blurring of the frontiers between the physical and the informational dimension of our cities, Verb Connection explores the relation between virtual connections - the effect of digital networks on the spaces and uses of the city - and the persistent role of architecture in creating physical connections between people, programs and uses. We look here into a series of projects that reveal the unpredictable effects of the evolution of our cities, while highlighting architecture's function as catalyst of public life and urban activity.

Conditioning.
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ISBN: 849595186X Year: 2005 Publisher: Barcelona Actar

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'Conditioning' investigates the ramifications of architectural signification. As our ability to control the production of form and the creation of environments begin to parallel that of natural processes, architecture is not only conceived as a platform for the development of human activity, but more and more as its generator and possibly also its limiting framework. To investigate these bracing notions, Verb spans the globe, exploring the entertainment recreations of a Las Vegas casino and the hermetic communities of Biosphere 2 and Grimshaw's Eden project as well as the experimental environments of Enric Ruiz-Geli (Villa Nurbs) and Makoto Yokomizo's soap bubble inspired Tomihiro Hoshino Museum, a square containing 20-odd cylindrical spaces. As in other industries ranging from computer applications to car manufacturing, mass-customized theming in architecture infiltrates the way buildings are conceived and used. If this trend is inevitably linked to commercial success, how will that affect the discipline? The thoughtful, cutting-edge Verb Conditioning will keep you on your architectural toes.

Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture
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ISBN: 1579582435 1579584330 1579584349 1579584357 9781579582432 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York ; London Fitzroy Dearborn

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"A balance of sophistication and clarity in the writing, authoritative entries, and strong cross-referencing that links archtects and structures to entries on the history and theory of the profession make this an especially useful source on a century of the world's most notable architecture. The contents feature major architects, firms, and professional issues; buildings, styles, and sites; the architecture of cities and countries; critics and historians; construction, materials, and planning topics; schools, movements, and stylistic and theoretical terms. Entries include well-selected bibliographies and illustrations."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.

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