Books selected by Jill Chisnell (Art, Architecture & Design Librarian).
Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence by
Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libres--free people of color--in a city where the mixed-race descendants of whites and other free Blacks could own property.
Co-habitats: how we do live together in... Addis Ababa, Al Azraq Camp, Beirut, Hong Kong, India, Mexico/Egypt/Nigeria, New York, Prishtina, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Venice
Conceived as a record that delves deeper into a special section of the exhibition, Cohabitats comprises essays and visual material that look to the theme of the Biennale Architettura 2021 from the lens of a specific geographic location.
Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran: A Vital Past by
This book analyses the use of the past and the production of heritage through architectural design in the developmental context of Iran, a country that has endured radical cultural and political shifts in the past five decades. Offering a trans-disciplinary approach toward complex relationship between archite
Expansions: Responses to, How Will We Live Together?
A complement to the Biennale Architettura 2021 catalog, Expansions gathers over 80 responses to the question: how will we live together?
Hip-Hop Architecture
Hip-Hop Architecture explores the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop. It is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip hop's cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas.
How Will We Live Together?: Biennale Architettura 2021
"The official catalog for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia consists of two volumes: the first is dedicated to the International Exhibition curated by Hashim Sarkis and the second presents the National Participations and Collateral Events. "How will we live together?" is as much a social and political question as a spatial one: rapidly changing social norms, growing political polarization, climate change and vast global inequalities are making us ask it more urgently than before."
Learning from Delhi: Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes
This book will trace the background to the studio work, review working methods and, through a series of essays, reflect on themes for studio endeavour and its application to live projects for students and practitioners working with urban settlements throughout the world.
Monuments As Cultural and Critical Objects: From Mesolithic to Eco-Queer by
Explores monuments as political, psychical, social, and mystical objects. Incorporating autoethnography, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, postcolonialism, and queer ecology, Houlton argues for a radical, interdisciplinary approach to our monument-culture.
Posthuman Architecture: A Catalogue of Archetypes by
For long, spatial design has been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. And today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge. This is why this book collects, reconstructs, and discusses archetypal models of posthuman architecture, from the cabin of Henry David Thoreau to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Rethinking Global Modernism: Architectural Historiography and the Postcolonial
This anthology collects developing scholarship that outlines a new decentred history of global modernism in architecture using postcolonial and other related theoretical frameworks.
Spatial Concepts for Decolonizing the Americas
This collection of essays presents an innovative and provocative set of concepts to understand the spaces of the Americas through local lenses. The disciplines of architecture, urban design, landscape, and planning share the fundamental belief that space and place matter; however, the overwhelming majority of canonical knowledge in these fields originates in another continent and is external to the lived experience in such regions.
Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis by
“Design fiction” is a fast-growing area within design and architecture, increasingly deployed as a serious methodology by designers as a tool in scenario planning. Writing Design Fiction takes the practice to a higher level conceptually and theoretically, but also practically.
The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind by
The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers.
Contemporary Japanese Architecture
The contemporary architecture of Japan has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creativity.
Cuban Modernism: Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1970 by
A biographical survey portraits the 40 most important Cuban architects of the era.
How to Build an Indian House: The Mumbai Example by
A model for designers of mass housing anywhere: how homes can be built in one of the world's densest cities. This volume focuses on one of Mumbai's and India's perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing.
Kazuo Shinohara: Traversing the House and the City
One of the greatest and most influential architects of Japan's postwar generation, Shinohara Kazuo (1925-2006) has remained virtually unknown outside the small community of devoted followers.
Korean Modern: The Matter of Identity by
The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the country's dramatic transformations since the late 19th century. The authors interrogate major periods from the Late Joseon Dynasty to the vibrant democratic present, showing how architecture, by making technological and stylistic leaps, has played a important role in the construction of the nation's identity.
Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture by
Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect.
Monsoon Mosques: Arrival of Islam and the Development of a Mosque Vernacular by
Presents a finely curated selection of beautiful mosques from South and Southeast Asia.
Raising the Roof: Women Architects Who Broke Through the Glass Ceiling by
This timely book celebrates the inspirational achievements of women architects in every corner of the world.
Spectrografías by
Through the process of spectrography, Tomás Casademunt (born 1967) has created a visual chronicle that summarizes in a single image all of the ingenuity and the processes that attend construction. Using multiple exposures on the same large-format plate from the same position, Casademunt's photographs illustrate the creation of various buildings designed by iconic Mexican architects.