The Evolution of Designs

Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

By Philip Steadman

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings....

Published May 29th 2008 by Routledge.

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Islam

From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul

By Christopher Tadgell

This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its...

Published April 1st 2008 by Routledge.

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Postcolonial African Cities

Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

Edited by Fassil Demissie

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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Visualizing the City

Edited by Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with...

Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

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Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt

Supercrit #1

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas

Supercrit #2

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Architecture and the 'Special Relationship'

The American Influence on Post-War British Architecture

By Murray Fraser, with Joe Kerr

With particular reference to the field of architecture, this text examines the economic and political consequences for Britain of the post-war Anglo-American 'special relationship', providing...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

By Christopher Hight

A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.

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Topophilia and Topophobia

Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat

Edited by Xing Ruan, Paul Hogben

This book is about the love and hate relations that humans establish with their habitat, which have been coined by discerning modern thinkers as topophilia...

Published November 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Digitalia

Architecture and the Digital, the Environmental and the Avant-Garde

By Susannah Hagan

Susannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.

Digitalia firstly demonstrates that...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

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