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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Paul Dobraszczyk
Architects, artists, film-makers and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights…
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A ground-breaking presentation of 60 projects of 'anarchist' architecture.
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Opens up new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human.
A provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.
This book studies the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation, and the contexts in which it flourished. As such, it offers new…
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Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned…
A breathtaking tour of imagined cities - from submerged, floating and flying, to vertical, underground, ruined and salvaged.
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The introduction of iron - and later steel - construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth-century. This book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in the aesthetics of architecture…
Using 60 different words that speak of the city, from bees to sewers, Manchester: something rich and strange offers a new way of thinking about this iconic post-industrial city. Twenty-three…
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