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The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession
August 20, 2015 - Comment

The Architectwas the first book in fifty years to survey the role of the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the present. Without claiming to cover every period in every country, it is nonetheless the most complete synthesis available of what is known about one of the oldest professions in the world. Dana [More]

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Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
June 9, 2015 - Comment

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In RADICAL CITIES, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the [More]

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Do-it-yourself Architectre
May 11, 2015 - Comment

What is do-it-yourself architecture? Self-building is a challenge not only in terms of material, economic, regulatory and bureaucratic difficulties, it is a challenge to oneself. It requires the desire and the ability to recognize one’s own limits, to overcome one’s own prejudices, to put aside one’s own ego in favour of the ability to listen [More]

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Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
February 20, 2015 - Comment

Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower– the third highest in [More]

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Portraits From Above (PB Edition)
February 20, 2015 - Comment

Second and revised edition of this fascinating project that documents Hong Kongs legacy of rooftop communities as a highly unique form of architecture that has informally evolved. The project offers a comprehensive survey of five rooftop settlements in the city, while also revealing the creative cultural energy of these rooftop communities and their inextricable links [More]

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Architecture and Utopia
January 27, 2015 - Comment

In this new era of disorientation and social hardship it isn’t pure formalism to rethink at utopia as a form of search, anticipation and projection in the realm of possibilities. Utopia: no place, good place, beautiful or unattainable place. The utopias are even more important in times of crisis because of their “unattainability”, because them [More]

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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
October 14, 2014 - Comment

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be [More]

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The Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice
October 8, 2014 - Comment

Many believe that the moral mission of architecture has been in serious decline for the last 25 years. In this important new book, Tom Spector points out the dilemmas of architectural practice and offers a theoretical and practical basis for an examination and transformation of the quandaries the profession now faces. What makes a good [More]

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Suburban Constellations: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century
October 2, 2014 - Comment

In a world of growing and multiplying cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America continue to proliferate, many other forms of suburbanization are now emerging around the globe. The highrise housing estates around many European and Canadian cities; the belts and wedges of squatter settlements [More]

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Make_Shift City: Renegotiating the Urban Commons
September 25, 2014 - Comment

Make_Shift City looks at urban design strategies that renegotiate and emancipate shared spaces and resources within the city, showing how the increasing scarcity of resources and commons–particularly in Western cities–have far-reaching consequences for the everyday urban experience.

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Simón Vélez: Architect Mastering Bamboo
September 25, 2014 - Comment

For Colombian architect Simon Vélez (born 1949), botany has been inextricable from architecture. His work has been significantly determined by his country’s tropical resources, in particular its lush vegetation and abundance of guadua bamboo–a common species throughout the valleys of Colombia. Working in close collaboration with the engineer-constructor Marcello Villegas, Vélez has devised bamboo buildings [More]

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    • Learning from Vernacular: Towards a New Vernacular Architecture

      In 1964, Bernard Rudofsky curated the exhibition Architecture Without Architects at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, thereby drawing the attention of the postwar Western public to traditional architectures, rescuing them from the ignominy to which they had been consigned by the ‘national’ ideologies of Europe in the 1930s. In the early 1980s, [More]
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    • Handmade Urbanism: Mumbai, São Paulo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Cape Town: From Community Initiatives to Participatory Models

      With urban expansion in almost global overdrive, opportunities for citizens to improve their own urban environment are growing steadily. Handmade Urbanism examines the possibilities of urban transformation that stem from community initiatives. It showcases projects that focus on the provision of social infrastructure, aiming to improve the living conditions of residents in the more impoverished [More]
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    • Housing By People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments (Ideas in Progress)

      John Turner is a British architect who has written extensively on housing and community organisation, his writings being influenced by a formative period spent working in the squatter settlements of Peru from 1957-1965. There, Turner studied and advised on a number of reconstruction and slum upgrading programmes which were part of a nation-wide community development [More]
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    • Re-Inventing Construction

      Re-inventing Construction goes off the beaten track of the building-as-usual, revealing a staggering potential of available alternatives in construction techniques, building materials, building typologies, programming techniques and development models. In doing so the book both introduces actual new inventions from current research as well as old inventions from the rich history of construction, which have [More]
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    • Make_Shift City: Renegotiating the Urban Commons

      Make_Shift City looks at urban design strategies that renegotiate and emancipate shared spaces and resources within the city, showing how the increasing scarcity of resources and commons–particularly in Western cities–have far-reaching consequences for the everyday urban experience.
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    • Design Like You Give a Damn {2}: Building Change from the Ground Up

      Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is the indispensable handbook for anyone committed to building a more sustainable future. Following the success of their first book, Architecture for Humanity brings readers the next edition, with more than 100 projects from around the world. Packed with practical and ingenious design solutions, this book addresses the [More]
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    • The Barefoot Architect

      A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a “greener” approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, including design (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what [More]
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    • We Own the City: Enabling Community Practice in Architecture and Urban Planning

      We Own the City examines the ways in which urban dwellers–who used to be merely “clients” of development–are taking ownership of their neighborhoods. Bottom-up initiatives are cropping up around the world, but institutions, government offices and developers often find themselves uncertain how to collaborate with and empower these impassioned citizens and communities. Offering solutions to [More]
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    • Design with the Other 90%: Cities

      Half the world’s population now resides in cities, which are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Close to one billion people live in crowded, unhealthy, informal settlements–commonly referred to as slums–many of which lack security of land tenure, adequate housing, sanitation, clean water and electricity. Experts estimate that by 2030, more than two billion people will [More]
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