Japanese Architecture as a Collaborative Process

Opportunities in a Flexible Construction Culture

By Dana Buntrock

Architects throughout the world hold Japan's best architecture in high regard, considering the country's buildings among the world's most carefully crafted and innovative. While many...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-419-25140-8 (Taylor & Francis)

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Towards Universality

Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl

By Richard Padovan

There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl. However, this book considers them in relation to...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-419-24030-3 (Routledge)

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The Hieroglyphics of Space

Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

Edited by Neil Leach

'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-19892-9 (Routledge)

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The Urban Lifeworld

Formation Perception Representation

Edited by Peter Madsen, Richard Plunz

Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23177-0 (Routledge)

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The Words Between the Spaces

Buildings and Language

By Deborah Cameron, Thomas A. Markus

Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity. It is therefore inevitable that...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-14346-2 (Routledge)

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Embodied Utopias

Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

Edited by Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach

Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24814-3 (Routledge)

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Future Transport in Cities

By Brian Richards

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic. A significant part of the problem is the enduring popularity of the...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26142-5 (Taylor & Francis)

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Architecture

The Subject is Matter

Edited by Jonathan Hill

The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23546-4 (Routledge)

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Monitoring and Assessment of Structures

Edited by Graham Armer

This book details the latest methods available for the in-service assessment of buildings and other structures. Written by a team of international experts, it provides...

2001 | Hardback: 978-0-419-23770-9 (Taylor & Francis)

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Brazil Built

The Architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil

By Zilah Quezado Deckker

Brazil Built is an examination of the architecture of the Modern Movement in Brazil. In the 1940s and 1950s, Brazil acquired unprecedented prestige in the...

2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23178-7 (Taylor & Francis)

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