The Transparent State

Architecture and Politics in Postwar Germany

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Examining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this book questions the prevailing assumption in German...

Published January 7th 2005 by Routledge.

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Performative Architecture

Beyond Instrumentality

Edited by Branko Kolarevic, Ali Malkawi

This book addresses the emergence of a new kind of architecture, in which building performance is a guiding design principle, adopting new performance-based priorities for...

Published December 17th 2004 by Routledge.

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Understanding Architecture

By Dr Hazel Conway, Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch

Understanding Architecture is the first comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history. It explores the experience of architecture in relation to its history and the...

Published December 15th 2004 by Routledge.

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Fluid City

Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront

By Kim Dovey

Fluid City traces the transformation of the urban waterfront of Melbourne, the re-vitalization of the Yarra River waterfront, Melbourne Docklands and Port Philip Bay.

As...

Published December 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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The Anxious City

British Urbanism in the late 20th Century

By Richard J. Williams

In the Western world, cities have arguably never been more anxious: practical anxieties about personal safety and metaphysical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city...

Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Surrealism and Architecture

Edited by Thomas Mical

This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the...

Published November 18th 2004 by Routledge.

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Environmental Diversity in Architecture

Edited by Mary Ann Steane, Koen Steemers

This book takes the position that the dynamic of the architectural environment is a key aspect of good design, yet one which is not well...

Published September 16th 2004 by Routledge.

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Peter Shepheard

Edited by Annabel Downs

Published September 15th 2004 by Taylor and Francis.

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Measuring Quality in Planning

Managing the Performance Process

By Matthew Carmona, Louie Sieh

Published September 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Private Dwelling

Contemplating the Use of Housing

By Peter King

Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and allows us to be intimate with those we are...

Published August 19th 2004 by Routledge.

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