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"Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet, throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, stores and shopping centers were an impor…
Architecture is more than what makes up our built environment; it is a way of thinking about the world - and beyond. This is the lesson author Geoff Manaugh communicates in this tour-de-force of architectural speculation and futuristic critique. Illustrated with fantastic images…
"This volume presents a thorough study of the more than a thousand preserved Danish medieval rural parish churches. It traces the transformations of church interiors from c. 1450 to 1600 (thus covering both the emergence and impact of the Danish Reformation) by interpreting mate…
Introduction : shells with holes -- Early gridshells -- Second-generation deployable gridshells (post-Mannheim) -- Ribbed gridshells -- Alternative materials and systems -- Recent small-scale projects and research experimentations -- Made to measure : digital fabrication -- Curr…
Flip of a switch -- Driving through the American night -- Lighting for labor -- Electric speech in the city -- Conclusion : groping in the dark.
The 21st century will face a radical paradigm change in how we produce construction materials - a shift towards cultivating, breeding, raising, farming, or growing future resources. The book presents innovative cultivated building materials, like cement grown by bacteria or bamb…