This book will have at least one feature in common with all those already published on Mannerism; it will appear to describe something ...
Continue Reading →In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern architecture from its ...
Continue Reading →The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art critic and theorist ...
Continue Reading →In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles ...
Continue Reading →Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident ...
Continue Reading →Despite dating from the 4th century BC, “The Art of Rhetoric” continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work ...
Continue Reading →Architecture from the fifteenth century to the present has been under the influence of three “fictions.” Notwithstanding the apparent succession of architectural styles, ...
Continue Reading →After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the ...
Continue Reading →Neoliberalism as a wealth redistribution imperative has made property ownership impossible or unprofitable for much of society. Whether in the form of mortgages ...
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