An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world's most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Burak Erdim
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781477321218
Pub Date: August 11th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Landed Internationals explores how postwar encounters in housing and planning helped transform the dynamics of international development and challenged American modernity.
Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space
by Tali Hatuka
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781477315767
Pub Date: August 1st, 2018
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Presenting case studies from around the world, this book offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a designed event that uses public space to challenge the distance between institutional power.
Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim religious and cultural expression.
Presenting over two hundred previously unpublished images from the city’s largest and most comprehensive photographic archive, this volume chronicles Houston’s transformation into a city of international importance.
Edited by Vladimir Kulic, Timothy Parker and Monica Penick
Introduction by Frederick Steiner
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781477307595
Pub Date: June 1st, 2014
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
With new research on building programs in political, religious, and domestic settings in the United States and Europe, this collection of essays offers a fresh look at postwar modernism and the role that architecture played in constructing modern identiti
Postmodern Architecture, Multiculturalism, Decline, and Other Issues
by Karl Galinsky
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9780292753983
Pub Date: February 27th, 2013
Format: Paperback
204 Pages
In this thought-provoking work, a noted classics scholar tests the ancient-modern comparison, showing what it can add to contemporary debates and what its limitations are.
Edited by Henry Cisneros, Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain and Jane Hickie
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780292737921
Pub Date: April 1st, 2012
Format: Paperback
319 Pages
Former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros and a team of experts on aging, architecture, construction, health, finance, and politics offer the first comprehensive overview of the possibilities and challenges in helping seniors live independently to a very old ag
Spotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet’s eco
