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    Archigram: The Book

    Peter Cook, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron, Warren Chalk, Michael Webb

    A comprehensive monograph on Archigram - the renowned avant-garde design collective, who in the 1960s and '70s envisioned a new architectural reality through a series of iconic, hypothetical projects.

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    250 Things An Architect Should Know

    Michael Sorkin

    From iconic architect and critic Michael Sorkin comes a joyful celebration of architecture and city-making, told through his famous list, in one beautiful, illustrated book.

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    The Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City

    Michael Sorkin

    This important collection brings together noted Israeli, Palestinian, and American architects and urbanists to consider the physical future of Jerusalem and to offer specific proposals for making the city functional…

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    All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities

    Michael Sorkin

    Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as unique in America - - brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny. All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin…

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    Exquisite Corpse: Writing on Buildings

    Michael Sorkin

    Discusses the politics and culture of architecture - its powerful institutions and personalities, its various schools, and its background of hidden deals. These essays range from the skyscrapers and development…

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    Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

    Michael Sorkin

    Unearths a network of relationships between the physical and the social city. The author takes the reader past local characters, neighbourhood stores, buildings, streets and blocks, providing an informative, witty…

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    Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State

    Indefensible Space explores the increasing envelopment of public space and life by an architecture of security/paranoia, from the most literal level, barriers in front of buildings, to more abstract levels…

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    Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State

    Indefensible Space explores the increasing envelopment of public space and life by an architecture of security/paranoia, from the most literal level, barriers in front of buildings, to more abstract levels…

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    What Goes Up: The Right and Wrongs To the City

    Michael Sorkin

    The rise and fall of New York - a radical architect’s view of the destruction of the city.

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    Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space

    Michael Sorkin

    America’s cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism–manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space–is emerging both at the heart and…

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    Against The Wall: Israel’s Barrier to Peace

    Michael Sorkin

    Includes a collection of outstanding original pieces, along ith photographs and maps, that offer a frank critique of the wall from a range of perspectives: legal,

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    Some Assembly Required

    Michael Sorkin

    One of the best architecture critics writing today presents a new collection which previews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the…

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    Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

    Michael Sorkin (City College of New York)

    A nonfiction book describing a walk from Greenwich Village to Tribeca, about urban life in New York City, written by an acclaimed architect and architectural critic –

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    Analysing Ambasz

    Michael Sorkin

    Architect, museum curator, and industrial designer Emilio Ambasz is renowned for projects that fuse architecture and landscape. In this penetrating collection of essays, prominent scholars and architects take up the…

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    Giving Ground: The Politics of Propinquity

    A collection of essays focusing on the relations between globalization and identity politics in the field of urban planning.

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    After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City

    Nineteen of New York’s best urbanists consider the attacks of September 11. Their essays provide a panoramic social portrait of New York and point to a manifesto for a democratically…

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    Between Catastrophe and Revolution: Essays in Honor of Mike Davis

    It is all worse than we think. It is even worse than Mike Davis, for whom every day is judgment day (The Nation), could have imagined. The contributions to this…

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    City Sink: Carbon Cycle Infrastructure for Our Built Environments

    Denise Hoffman Brandt,Michael Sorkin

    Hardcover in clamshell box: City Sink is a design research proposal for a meta-park of dispersed landscape infrastructure to boost carbon stocks in biomass and through formation of long-term sequestration…

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    Michael Webb: Two Journeys

    60 years of drawing between architecture and art

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    Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: The Finest Disregard

    Frimkess' sculptural ceramics draw from an eclectic repertoire of cartoons and masterworks

    This book presents the work of Venezuelan artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (born 1929) and features a selection of…

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    Structuring Confluence: The Work of W Architecture and Landscape Architecture

    Barbara Wilks

    An investigation of W Architecture and Landscape’s work.

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    Whereabouts: New Architecture with Local Identities

    Susanna Sirefman,George Ranalli,Michael Sorkin

    A study of eight prominent, young North American architecture firms.

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    The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World

    Offers a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept…

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    Displaced

    Michael Sorkin,Mario Corea

    Hardcover in clamshell box: The work of Fabian Llonch and Gisela Vidalle - presented here in an eye -opening survey- is marvelous for its imaginative seamlessness, and the way in…

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    Prototyping Architecture: The Solar Roofpod: An Educational Design-Build Research Project

    Barry Bergdoll,Michael Sorkin

    Hardcover in slipcase: Close to 75% of primary energy in New York City is used in or for buildings. Amid the many different initiatives being implemented today to increase energy…

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    In Situ: George Ranalli,Works & Projects

    Michael Sorkin,Joseph Giovannini

    In Situ Design sums up the theoretical position embodied in the work of New York architect George Ranalli whoi has worked on projects in New York, other states in the…

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    Alan Buchsbaum

    Rosalind E. Krauss,Michael Sorkin,Steven Tilly,Steven Holl

    An illustrated collection of over 40 of Alan Buchsbaum’s projects, together with critical essays and personal tributes. The book features his loft spaces, commercial spaces, retail stores and hotels. It…

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    Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope

    Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-color

    The Gaza Strip is one of the most beleaguered environments on earth…

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    Eric Owen Moss: The New City: I’ll See It When I Believe It

    Eric Owen Moss

    A much-anticipated look at one of the most dramatic and exciting urban transformations in America.

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    Unearthed: Stephen Talasnik: Drawings, Sculpture, Installations

    Stephen Talasnik

    Stephen Talasnik’s intricate and mesmerizing work bridges the disciplines of art and architecture in this debut monograph.

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    Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s

    Michael R. Marrus

    Explores the wave of justice-seeking for the Holocaust: what it has been, why it emerged when it did, how it fits with earlier reparation to the Jewish people, its significance…

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