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Product Description: Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a âThird Ecologyâ emerged...read more
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9781472476449 | Routledge, November 8, 2016, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a âThird Ecologyâ emerged.
Product Description: The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is a comprehensive survey of modern Greek architecture of the past hundred-plus years...read more
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9781861893796 | Reaktion Books, April 15, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures.
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9783663018957 | Reprint edition (Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, December 16, 2012), cover price $59.99
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9788864130033 | Ore Cultura Srl, May 30, 2009, cover price $19.00
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9788481564334 | Penguin Random House Grupo USA, November 30, 2007, cover price $33.95 | also contains Santiago Calatrava: Los Puentes | About this edition: BOOKS IN SPANISH
Product Description: âThe definitive study of the great Spanish architect whose soaring work is allabout openness, energy and aspiration.â âMet Home Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has achieved considerable international acclaim with his breathtaking feats of architecture and engineering in the service of elegant and humanistic modern forms...read more
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9780847829958 | Expanded edition (Rizzoli Intl Pubns, October 16, 2007), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: âThe definitive study of the great Spanish architect whose soaring work is allabout openness, energy and aspiration.
Product Description: Santiago Calatrava established his reputation as the preeminent engineer of our time with a stunning series of bridges designed for cities around the globe. Renowned for being a universal designer, devoting equal time to architecture, engineering, and sculpture, Calatrava has been a singular force in reviving an excitement for construction technology and ambitious architecture projects...read more
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9780847827893 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, January 3, 2006, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Santiago Calatrava established his reputation as the preeminent engineer of our time with a stunning series of bridges designed for cities around the globe.
Product Description: Renowned for being a universal designer, Santiago Calatrava has been a singular force in reviving an excitement for construction technology and infrastructure projects. Over the last two decades, Calatrava revolutionized the idea of bridges from utilitarian, mechanical instruments into elegant objects that enhance the sense of place and community of their settings...read more
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9780789313454 | Universe Pub, November 1, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Renowned for being a universal designer, Santiago Calatrava has been a singular force in reviving an excitement for construction technology and infrastructure projects.
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9780847826414 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, December 15, 2004, cover price $75.00
A leading architectural historian examines the roots of modern architecture in the buildings, sites, and architectural details of ancient Greece, providing a close-up look at the technology, rituals, social structures, political conflicts, and myths of antiquity and assessing how they influenced the design of Greek architecture. 25,000 first printing.
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9782080304421 | Flammarion, December 11, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: A leading architectural historian examines the roots of modern architecture in the buildings, sites, and architectural details of ancient Greece, providing a close-up look at the technology, rituals, social structures, political conflicts, and myths of antiquity and assessing how they influenced the design of Greek architecture.
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9780415260244 | Routledge, July 1, 2004, cover price $180.00
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9780415260251 | Routledge, March 1, 2004, cover price $78.95
Product Description: This richly illustrated and designed book in the "Architecture in Focus" series reconsiders critical regionalism and demonstrates the global viability of one of the most visible trends in contemporary architecture. As globalization increasingly enters every facet of our lives, its homogenizing effects on architecture, urban spaces and the landscape have compelled architects to embrace the principles of critical regionalism, an alternative theory that respects local culture, geography and climate...read more
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9783791329727 | Prestel Pub, November 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This richly illustrated and designed book in the "Architecture in Focus" series reconsiders critical regionalism and demonstrates the global viability of one of the most visible trends in contemporary architecture.
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9783764363239 | Birkhauser Architecture, March 1, 2002, cover price $192.00
Product Description: No other architect since Palladio has exercised such an immense influence as Le Corbusier. As with Einstein and Picasso, Le Corbusier made an impact that was felt within but also outside his special discipline. Through numerous buildings, urban projects, paintings, sculptures, drawings, and publications, he succeeded to develop a unique poetics of machine and metaphor, revolutionizing the way people see, use, and make architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780789306340 | Universe Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: No other architect since Palladio has exercised such an immense influence as Le Corbusier.
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9780471496083 | Academy Editions Ltd, May 1, 2001, cover price $75.00
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9780789303608 | Universe Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $29.95
Product Description: This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Architects Award, surveys two and a half decades of architectural projects in Europe. It begins with the completion of the first commissions embodying the ideas that sprang out of the exuberant events of 1968, and ends with the official unification of Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780847816248 | Rizzoli Intl Pubns, September 1, 1992, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Architects Award, surveys two and a half decades of architectural projects in Europe.
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9780500279489 | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, September 1, 1997), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This work, winner of the 1992 American Institute of Architects Award, surveys two and a half decades of architectural projects in Europe.
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9780821222287 | Bulfinch Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $65.00
Product Description: This richly illustrated and designed book in the "Architecture in Focus" series reconsiders critical regionalism and demonstrates the global viability of one of the most visible trends in contemporary architecture. As globalization increasingly enters every facet of our lives, its homogenizing effects on architecture, urban spaces and the landscape have compelled architects to embrace the principles of critical regionalism, an alternative theory that respects local culture, geography and climate...read more
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9780312052003 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This richly illustrated and designed book in the "Architecture in Focus" series reconsiders critical regionalism and demonstrates the global viability of one of the most visible trends in contemporary architecture.
Product Description: The exploration of how movement and stationary form interact is as old as the act of designing itself. The built structure must strive for stability and equilibrium - and yet doors, corridors and stairways, and elevators, train stations and airports all serve, in their many different ways,to facilitate the locomotion of man and things...read more
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9783764350505 | Birkhauser, October 1, 1995, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The exploration of how movement and stationary form interact is as old as the act of designing itself.
Product Description: Computer technology has revolutionized many aspects of building design, such as drafting, management, construction - even building with robots. This revolution has expanded into the field of design creativity. Presented in this book is an up-to-date, comprehensive picture of research advances in the fast-growing field of informatics applied to conceptual stages in the generation of artifacts - in particular, buildings...read more
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9780444898708 | Elsevier Science Ltd, March 24, 1994, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: Computer technology has revolutionized many aspects of building design, such as drafting, management, construction - even building with robots.
Hermes and the Golden Thinking Machine is a witty, fastpaced novel of ideas and intrigue. (view table of contents)
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9780262200769 | Mit Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Hermes and the Golden Thinking Machine is a witty, fastpaced novel of ideas and intrigue.
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9780262700474 | Reprint edition (Bradford Books, September 8, 1992), cover price $35.00
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9783035600841 | Birkhauser Architecture, January 1, 1987, cover price $42.00
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9780262700313 | Mit Pr, October 16, 1986, cover price $31.00
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