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Building Desire
On the Barcelona Pavilion
In 1986 on the centenary of Mies van der Rohe's birth, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the original 1929 German… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32524-0 (Routledge)
The Green City
Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs
A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37231-2 (Routledge)
Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture gives the first ever all-inclusive introduction to architecture and architectural history. Exceptional in its approach, it explores architecture as a current practice in… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32059-7 (Routledge)
The Emergence of Modern Architecture
A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26025-1 (Routledge)
Shaping the City
Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design
Taking on important themes and debates in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26189-0 (Routledge)
Constructing Place
Mind and the Matter of Place-Making
This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31466-4 (Routledge)
Modernism and the Spirit of the City
Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25841-8 (Routledge)
Writing Spaces
Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000
Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27493-7 (Routledge)
Ancient Cities
The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome
Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and…
read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-12182-8 (Routledge)
Actions of Architecture
Architects and Creative Users
Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29043-2 (Routledge)
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