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50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International

From anti-globalist activists and corporate adbusters to online hackers and guerrilla street artists, the influence of the Situationist International (SI) is writ large across our contemporary cultural landscape.

A-frame

“A” was the architectural letterform of leisure building in postwar America. Eager to stake out mountain and lakeside retreats, an entire generation of high-end home builders and weekend handymen found the A-frame an easy and affordable home to ...

After the Crash

After the Crash is an anthology of essays that draw on firsthand observations of the built environment and architectural culture that emerged from the economically sober post-bubble period of Japan in the 1990s.

An Outline of European Architecture

For over 60 years Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s study of European architecture has been regarded as a seminal work which has inspired countless students of architecture around the world. In this updated, larger format edition, which also has a new and ...

Archigram

Archigram, provides a chronicle of the work of a group of young British architects that became the most influential architecture movement of the 1960s, as told by the members themselves.

Architectural Regionalism

This comprehensive reader brings together over 40 key essays illustrating the full range of ideas embodied by the term regionalism.

Architecture After Modernism

Architecture and Film

Architecture and Film looks at the ways architecture and architects are treated on screen and, conversely, how these depictions filter and shape the ways we understand the built environment.

Architecture and the Sciences

Since antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture and have had a direct influence on the shaping of built space. In recent years, architects have been looking again at science as a source of inspiration ...

Architecture in Berlin 1237–1920

Archimaps New Architecture in Berlin 1237–1920 is a handy folding map with information about the historic architecture of the German capital.