Theory of architecture
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A Modern Way to Live
£25.00A Modern Way to Live
In 2005, childhood friends Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill set out to convince people of the power of good design and its ability to influence our wellbeing. They founded The Modern House – in equal parts an estate agency, a publisher and a lifestyle brand – and went on to inspire a generation to live more thoughtfully and beautifully at home. As The Modern House grew, Matt and Albert came to realise that the most successful homes they encountered – from cleverly conceived studio flats to listed architectural masterpieces – had been designed with attention to the same timeless principles: Space, Light, Materials, Nature and Decoration. In this lavishly illustrated book, Matt tells the stories of these remarkable living spaces and their equally remarkable owners, and demonstrates how the five principles can be applied to your own space in ways both large and small.
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Event-Space
£36.99Event-Space
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde (1872-1947) began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself. This book establishes this general theory of spatial performativity by drawing on the specific fields of both performance studies and architectural studies, and views the championing of nonrepresentational spaces over the built form through this lens of performative architecture.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture
£12.99The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture
With over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger, this is the most authoritative dictionary of architectural history available. Beautifully illustrated and extensively revised and expanded, it is an invaluable work of reference for students of architecture, landscape architecture, professional architects, and art historians.
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