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The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is one of the world’s leading schools of architecture, with a substantial impact and presence worldwide. "Bartlett Works" covers the major achievements of former Bartlett architecture students and current staff, celebrating the diversity of different types of architectural activity and exploring the role of(...)
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January 1900, London
Bartlett works : architecture, buildings, projects
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The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London is one of the world’s leading schools of architecture, with a substantial impact and presence worldwide. "Bartlett Works" covers the major achievements of former Bartlett architecture students and current staff, celebrating the diversity of different types of architectural activity and exploring the role of the architect generally and in specific aspects of architectural practice, the construction industry, academia and public discourse. "Bartlett Works" explores the links between education and practice and brings together such disparate work as building design, architectural education, film direction, furniture design, architectural journalism, history and theory, arts and architecture policy formulation, video production and website design. Emphasis is placed on recently completed projects and work-in-progress. This book is a useful guide for anyone interested in pursuing a career in architecture or in the subject generally. Contributors include Foster & Partners, Softroom, Ushida Findlay, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, David Chipperfield Architects, Block Architecture and filmmaker Patrick Keiller.
Museums and Universal Exhibitions
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Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s,(...)
Skateboarding, space and the city: Architecture and the body
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Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.
Public Space
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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the(...)
Drive : journeys through film, cities and landscapes
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This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the avant-garde. Drive is about dynamic journeys, experiences and speeds, rooted in specific places and roads, and expanded into the realm of cinema, art and video games. It moves from the gentle deserts of The Grapes of Wrath to the adventurous city streets of The Italian Job, from the aesthetic delights of Rain Man and Traffic to the existential musings of Two-Lane Blacktop, Thelma and Louise and Vanishing Point, from the contemplative freeway pleasures of Lift to the Scaffold, Radio On and London Orbital to the hallucinatory high-speed dangers of Crash, Bullitt, Death Proof and C’était un Rendezvous. It shows how various kinds of driving – with different speeds, cars, attitudes, roads and cities – provide experiences and values that we ignore at our peril.
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The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience. A multistranded contemplation of the notion of "knowing a place," it is about both the existence and the possibilities of architecture and the city. An important inspiration for the book is the(...)
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June 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
The unknown city : contesting architecture and social space
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The Unknown City takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings to discover new ways of looking at the urban experience. A multistranded contemplation of the notion of "knowing a place," it is about both the existence and the possibilities of architecture and the city. An important inspiration for the book is the work of Henri Lefebvre, in particular his ideas on space as a historical production. Many of the essays also draw on the social critique and tactics of the Situationist movement. The international gathering of contributors includes art, architectural, and urban historians and theorists; urban geographers; architects, artists, and filmmakers; and literary and cultural theorists. The essays range from abstract considerations of spatial production and representation to such concrete examples of urban domination as video surveillance and Regency London as the site of male pleasure. Although many of the essays are driven by social, cultural, and urban theory, they also tell real stories about real places. Each piece is in some way a critique of capitalism and a thought experiment about how designers and city dwellers working together can shape the cities of tomorrow.
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June 2000, Cambridge, Mass.
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Landskating
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Histoire de la pratique du skate (skateboard) et de la genèse des skatepark des années 1960 à 2000, et les interactions de cette pratique avec le territoire. Analyse de 9 skateparks contemporains, puis reportage photographique sur quelques skateparks français.
Landskating
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Histoire de la pratique du skate (skateboard) et de la genèse des skatepark des années 1960 à 2000, et les interactions de cette pratique avec le territoire. Analyse de 9 skateparks contemporains, puis reportage photographique sur quelques skateparks français.
Urban Landscapes
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This extensively revised and updated Second Edition features 50 writings (of which 41 are new) organized into 10 sections that explore themes such as symbolic economies and new urban spaces; the culture industry; culture and technologies; everyday lives; contesting identity; boundaries and transgressions; utopias and dystopias; and possible urban futures.
The city cultures reader, second edition
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This extensively revised and updated Second Edition features 50 writings (of which 41 are new) organized into 10 sections that explore themes such as symbolic economies and new urban spaces; the culture industry; culture and technologies; everyday lives; contesting identity; boundaries and transgressions; utopias and dystopias; and possible urban futures.
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In this book, British architectural historian Iain Borden achieves the impossible – a ‘user manual’ for architecture. But the book’s title, "Manual", deriving from the handbooks for car mechanics, is not simply an ironic gesture: it indicates that this is a guide to architecture as a hands-on discipline; a guide to architecture through practice. Borden’s analysis of the(...)
Manual : the architecture and office of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
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In this book, British architectural historian Iain Borden achieves the impossible – a ‘user manual’ for architecture. But the book’s title, "Manual", deriving from the handbooks for car mechanics, is not simply an ironic gesture: it indicates that this is a guide to architecture as a hands-on discipline; a guide to architecture through practice. Borden’s analysis of the work of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the architectural practice formed in London ten years ago, looks at projects ranging from medical practices, offices and social housing to transport interchanges, pool-houses and lofts. All of these projects are explored in detail, and in 224 fully-illustrated pages "Manual" describes a framework of pathways, tendencies and ideas derived from inspiration, testing and experiments.
Architecture Monographs
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Over the last decade, various critical theories have had an enormous impact on different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to comprehensively survey this impact on architecture, providing 16 essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. Authors are from Europe and the United States.
Intersections : architectural histories and critical theories
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Over the last decade, various critical theories have had an enormous impact on different disciplines and practices. Intersections is the first book to comprehensively survey this impact on architecture, providing 16 essays that intersect a particular critical theory with specific architectural ideas, projects and events. Authors are from Europe and the United States.
Architectural Theory
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How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today.
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September 2014
Forty ways to think about architecture: architectural history and theory today
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How do we think about architecture historically and theoretically? Forty Ways to Think about Architecture provides an introduction to some of the wide-ranging ways in which architectural history and theory are being approached today.
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