Remarkably, grassroots-based community planning flourishes in New York City - the self-proclaimed "real estate capital of the world" - with at least seventy community ...
There is no easy way to define Franz West's art: it is fundamentally sculptural in its construction, veers frequently toward the biomorphic and prosthetic, ...
Written from a neo-Marxist point of view by a prominent Italian architectural historian, Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a ...
Kargon and Molella show that the techno-city represents an experiment in integrating modern technology into the world of ideal life. Techno-cities mirror society's understanding ...
The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more ...
Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the sturdy Tuscan and ...
Maki's treatment of his two overarching themes'the contemporary city and modernist architecture'demonstrates strong (and sometimes unexpected) linkages between urban theory and architectural practice. After ...
Writing a history of the architectural profession from the bottom up'from the standpoint of the architectural draftsman'George Barnett Johnston clarifies the role and status ...
Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its ...
Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical references in favor of universalized abstraction. In the decades after the ...
In Built upon Love Pérez-Gómez uncovers the relationship between love and architecture in order to find the points of contact between poetics and ethics--between ...
Numerous international exhibitions and biennials have borne witness to the range of contemporary art engaged with the everyday and its antecedents in the work ...
Examines the connections between obesity and architecture, unchecked sprawl and unchecked appetites, and other forms of insatiability that are hurting our planet and bodies. ...
