Forensic Architecture - Violence at the Threshold of Detectability by Eyal Weizman
$62.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Zone Bks.
In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnest ...Show more
BANHAM IN BUFFALO by Gilabert, Eva Franch
$44.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Peter Reyner Banham, the renowned architectural historian and cultural critic, taught in the newly-founded architecture program at the State University of New York at Buffalo between 1976 and 1980. During his tenure at Buffalo, inspired by the daylight factories and the grain silos of the region, he con ...Show more
Station - A Whistlestop Tour of 20th- and 21st-Century Railway Architecture by Christopher Beanland
$45.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A glorious celebration of modern railway architecture in the 20th century and beyond, travelling all over the world. Many railway books are about nostalgia for the steam age, but this one is different: a global study of railway architecture from the 1950s onwards and into the future. In 50 fascinatin ...Show more
Papulu-Ku Nyinjjiki - A Housing Exhibition and Forum by WILYA JANTA by Wilya Janta (Editor); Paul Memmott
$12.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Papulu-Ku Nyinjjiki documents the harsh realities of remote indigenous housing in the Northern Territory. It attempts to tell the story of Tennant Creek through housing injustice and art—revealing these lived realities to the broader public. It is also about meaningful engagement and collaboration; cele ...Show more
Sydney Brutalism by Heidi Dokulil
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Big and bold or soft and sculptural, or a mix of the two, it’s not until you get up close that you feel brutalism’s radical roots. Brutalist architecture hit Sydney in the late 1950s when local architects and their international peers experimented with raw concrete and brick and kicked off a revolution ...Show more
The Politics of Public Space: Volume Five - A Publication of Transcripts That Speak Directly to the City and the Way We Read It by Office AU
$72.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
The Politics of Public Space began in 2018 as a public lecture series curated by OFFICE. These discussions took place outside the conventional spaces of the university, held on Melbourne's street corners, laneways, parks, shopping strips and plazas. Meeting in different locations around the city allowed ...Show more
Story of Water and Fire by May Muzaffar
$54.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Critical Theory Ser.
The Arab art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. Story of Water and Fire is a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the Iraqi art scene, poet and art critic May Muzaffar and artist Rafa Nasiri. This book offers a glimpse into the social and artistic milieu of Baghdad from the ...Show more
How Infrastructure Works: The Systems That Run Our World - and How We Fix Them by Deb Chachra
$36.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
'Pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece' Ed Yong. 'You won't see the world the same after reading this book!' Austin Kleon. Every day, we are granted the power to travel at high speeds, fly, see in the dark, summon water from distant mountains and electricity from t ...Show more
Modern Architecture Since 1900 by Curtis William
$65.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and intellectual developments are brought together in a ...Show more
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A. T. Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Modernism to the masses: Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern hom ...Show more
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture by Victor Papanek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
Whether it's horror at plastic littering the world's beaches, or despair at the melting of the polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative, Papanek argues for design that addresses these issues head on. This means using materials that can b ...Show more
The Social Dimension of Social Housing by Simon Guntner (Editor); Juma Hauser (Editor); Judith M. Lehner (Editor); Christoph Reinprecht (Editor); Amita Bhide (Contribution by); Silvia Federici (Contribution by); Astrid Ley (Contribution by); Iván Tosics (Contribution by)
$67.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A systematic global study of the social cultures within social housing. Twenty short essays, based on case studies from around the world, describe and illustrate the social elements of social housing developments. This volume embarks on an ambitious journey across continents and contexts, offering up ...Show more