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Shifting Grounds: The Ground Between Form and Practice in Beirut
$34.95 Add to cartThe book investigates spatial practices at the ground level of Beirut – Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism – that fill the gap between the city’s capital-driven development and the asp… [more below]
- Author: Aramouny, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1638401241
- Language: English
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African Fabbers Atlas: Manual of Synthetic Vernacular Architecture
$34.95 Add to cartA compendium of essays, conversations and paradigmatic projects conceived as an adaptive platform on synthetic-vernacular architecture in Africa and its potential role as cultural driver for global s… [more below]
- Author: Cascone, Paolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1948765624
- Language: English
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Gilardi House: Barragan’s Last Witness
$44.95 Read moreGilardi House thoroughly documents Luis Barragan ́s last project, la ́CASA GILARDI ́, an emblem of Mexican architecture.
In 1976, 10 years after his retirement from the practice of arch
- Author: Alvarez Tinajero, José Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1638400377
- Language: English
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Histories of Ecological Design: An Unfinished Cyclopedia
$39.95 Read moreThis book documents the intersection of architecture and design with ecology, environmental history, policy, governance and law from the 19th century to today. It presents conflicting definitions and … [more below]
- Author: Kallipoliti, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1638400733
- Language: English
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Cohousing in Barcelona: Designing, Building and Living for Cooperative Models
$44.95 Read moreBarcelona offers a prime example of the co-housing model as an asset prized for its use value as opposed to investment.
This book is a compilation of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, both co- Author: Lorente, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400903
- Language: English
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Unless: The Seagram Building Construction Ecology
$34.95 Read moreDissects the construction ecology, material geographies, and world-systems of a most modern of modern architectures: the Seagram Building.
In doing so, it aims to describe how humans and nature inter- Author: Moe, Kiel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 194876539X
- Language: English
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The Mannerist Mind: An Architecture of Crisis
$24.95 Read moreDeparting from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices including … [more below]
- Author: González de Canales, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400369
- Language: English
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Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World
$44.95 Read moreSharing Tokyo is a collection of essays and drawings on the theme of sharing the urban space of Tokyo.
The book questions how “artifice” and the “social world” can be mutually and constructively integ
- Author: Mostafavi, Mohsen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400601
- Language: English
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Vertical Urban Factory
$49.95 Add to cartThis revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in cities–both the modernist period and today–and the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, an… [more below]
- Author: Rappaport, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1948765144
- Language: English
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Outdoor Domesticity: On the Relationships Between Trees, Architecture, and Inhabitants
$34.95 Add to cartTrees have been deliberately connected with houses since they were introduced as a prominent part of architectural design. The relationships of contiguity between houses and trees have existed since a… [more below]
- Author: Devesa, Ricardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1948765713
- Language: English
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Foundations of Urban Design
$39.95 Add to cartThe book is structured into twenty-nine essays, each dedicated to a pair of urbanistic concepts.
Discussing historical and contemporary, interpretive and designerly approaches to urbanity, the notions- Author: Smets, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400334
- Language: English
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Merging City & Nature: 10 Commitments to Combat Climate Change
$44.95 Add to cartAfter 40 years of professional experience developed in three areas of work –City-Territory, Landscape-Public Space and Building–, Batlle i Roig acquires a new commitment and positions itself in the … [more below]
- Author: Batlleiroig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400091
- Language: English
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Climate Inheritance
$34.95 Read moreClimate Inheritance is a speculative design research publication that reckons with the complexity of world and heritage in the Anthropocene. The impacts of climate change on heritage sites-from Venice… [more below]
- Author: Ghosn, Rania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400997
- Language: English
