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Why we build : power and desire in architecture / by Moore, Rowan.(CARDINAL)282613;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-377) and index.Desire shapes space, and space shapes desires -- The fixed and wandering home -- The true fake -- The inconstant horizon or notes on the erotic in architecture -- Power and freedom -- Form follows finance -- The rapacity of 'hope' -- Eternity is overrated -- Life, and the look of life -- Indispensable as bread.In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the very idea of what a building is, and whole cities are being invented overnight in exotic locales or here in the United States. Now, in a bold and wide-ranging new work, Rowan Moore former director of the Architecture Foundation, now the architecture critic for The Observer explores the reasons behind these changes in our built environment, and how they in turn are changing the way we live in the world. Taking as his starting point dramatic examples such as the High Line in New York City and the outrageous island experiment of Dubai, Moore then reaches far and wide: back in time to explore the Covent Garden brothels of eighteenth-century London and the fetishistic minimalism of Adolf Loos; across the world to assess a software magnate's grandiose mansion in Atlanta and Daniel Libeskind's failed design for the World Trade Center site; and finally to the deeply naturalistic work of Lina Bo Bardi, whom he celebrates as the most underrated architect of the modern era.
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture and society.;
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Radical reconstruction / by Woods, Lebbeus.(CARDINAL)194433;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168).
Subjects: Architecture and society.; Architecture;
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101 things I learned in architecture school / by Frederick, Matthew.(CARDINAL)482963;
101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the design studio and in their backpacks. It is also a book they may want to keep out of view of their professors, for it expresses in clear and simple language the things they tend to make murky and abstruse. These 101 concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation--from the basics of how to draw a line to the complexities of color theory--provide a much-needed primer in architectural literacy and make concrete what too often is left nebulous and open-ended in the architecture curriculum.--back cover
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture;
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Scanning : the aberrant architectures of Diller + Scofidio / by Diller + Scofidio.(CARDINAL)266011; Betsky, Aaron.(CARDINAL)266013; Hays, K. Michael.(CARDINAL)266012; Anderson, Laurie,1947-(CARDINAL)136411; Whitney Museum of American Art.(CARDINAL)139816;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-185) and index.
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Diller, Elizabeth; Scofidio, Ricardo; Diller + Scofidio; Architecture and technology.; Architecture;
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Nietzsche and "an architecture of our minds" / by Kostka, Alexandre.(CARDINAL)213206; Wohlfarth, Irving.(CARDINAL)213209;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.; Aesthetics, German; Architecture and philosophy.;
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Environmental alchemy : Randall Stout Architects / by Stout, Randall,writer of supplementary textual ocntent,architect.; Giovannini, Joseph,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)191899; Randall Stout Architects,issuing body.;
Subjects: Stout, Randall; Randall Stout Architects.; Architecture;
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Building conservation philosophy / by Earl, John,1928-(CARDINAL)269502;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Architecture; Architecture; Historic buildings; Buildings;
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On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Color codes : modern theories of color in philosophy, painting and architecture, literature, music, and psychology / by Riley, Charles A.,II.(CARDINAL)274287;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-342) and index.
Subjects: Color in art.; Arts.; Color (Philosophy); Color;
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Architecture of the absurd : how "genius" disfigured a practical art / by Silber, John,1926-2012.(CARDINAL)311613;
Subjects: Architecture; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Absurd (Philosophy) in art.; Architects and patrons.; Architecture and society.;
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Unprecedented realism : the architecture of Machado and Silvetti / by Hays, K. Michael.(CARDINAL)266012; Machado, Rodolfo,1942-(CARDINAL)287349; Silvetti, Jorge.(CARDINAL)287348;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274).
Subjects: Machado, Rodolfo, 1942-; Silvetti, Jorge; Architecture; Architecture; Realism.;
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