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Reconstructing architecture for the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 1282045652 9786612045653 1442679069 9781442679061 9781282045651 0802006256 0802075843 9780802075840 9780802006257 Year: 1995 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press

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This volume is an eloquent and farsighted call for a new approach to thinking about, producing, and inhabiting architecture. Using a richly conceived architectural history as a means for analysing debates that reverberate throughout the arts and human sciences, Anthony Jackson examines the myths of the architectural profession and in so doing reveals how they have arisen out of particular relations of power in a world shifting from autocracy to democracy. Jackson exposes the inadequacies of old conceptions of architecture as embodying metaphysical properties, and of architects as the sole keepers of this esoteric knowledge. He challenges architects to acknowledge and celebrate building as an expression of the ideals and values of the broader-based classless communities to which they now belong. The less people are excluded from the design process, the more likely it is to be effective in bringing about a human-made environment which enriches the lives of its inhabitants. In examining intersecting ideas about myth, culture, class, and design, the author draws examples from a wide array of architectural styles, ranging from Classical to Post-Modern. The result is a work that is extraordinarily provocative and useful for architects, visual artists, cultural historians, and sociologists, as well as for supporters of all forms of participatory democracy.

Finnish architecture and the modernist tradition
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ISBN: 0419195203 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Spon


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Arquitectura del camp : guia, centre de documantacio de la demarcacio de Tarragona del col.legi d'arquitectes de Catalunya
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ISBN: 8460530914 Year: 1995 Publisher: Tarragona Demarcacio de Tarragona

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Scottisch architecture : reformation to restoration 1560-1660
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ISBN: 0748605304 Year: 1995 Volume: *2 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

Encyclopedia of American architecture
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ISBN: 0070480109 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): McGraw-Hill


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Building in Britain : the origins of a modern industry
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ISBN: 1859280846 Year: 1995 Publisher: Aldershot Scolar press

Aymeric Zublena
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ISBN: 2870096089 9782870096086 Year: 1995 Publisher: Liège Mardaga

Toronto architect Edmund Burke : redefining Canadian architecture
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ISBN: 0773564861 9780773564862 0773512179 9780773512177 Year: 1995 Publisher: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Burke's career spanned a key period in Canadian architecture as the profession transcended its colonial beginnings to reach maturity with Canadian-born practitioners who converted both American architectural developments and European traditions into forms appropriate to the new Canadian federation. Burke's contributions to Canadian architecture include introducing the technology of the "Chicago men" to Canada and helping to establish a formal professional organization for architects in Ontario. Carr documents a comprehensive selection of Burke's works, including his firm's famous Robert Simpson store in Toronto, the first curtain-wall construction in Canada. She places Burke's life and career within the larger social context, addressing the influence of American architects and architecture, the sociology of professions, the organization of architectural offices, and the history of particular building forms. Toronto Architect Edmund Burke is not only a study of Burke's life and work; it is also an insightful look into the history of Canadian architecture.


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Lieven de Key, Haarlems stadsbouwmeester : een Vlaamse emigrant en zijn rijke nalatenschap
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ISBN: 9060974069 Year: 1995 Publisher: Haarlem Schuyt

The Japan guide.
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ISBN: 1878271334 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Princeton architectural press

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