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The Architecture of the Screen: Essays in Cinematographic Space

9781841507118
Cairns G
With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This book examines the relationship between the visual language of film and the onscreen perception of space and architectural design, revealing how film's visual vocabulary influenced architecture in the twentieth century and continues to influence it today.
£23.95
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The Cultural Meaning of Aleppo: A Landscape Recovery for the Ancient City

9781789381771
Neglia, Giulia Annalinda
A documentation of the cultural meaning of the urban landscape of the Ancient City of Aleppo though the urban structures and characteristic courtyard houses, this is both a theoretical and practical handbook for architects, urban planners and restorers alike. 70 b/w illus.
£40.00
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Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life

9781789382716
Akcay Kavakoglu, Aysegul
Considers how film and related visual media offer insights into the city, looking at the built environment as well as a lived social experience. It brings together an international group of filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret and create narratives of the city. 80 b/w illus.
£75.00
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Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities

9781789384703
Gharipour, Mohammad (Morgan State Univer
The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience, and response to previous epidemics might inform our understanding of the current world. 150 b/w illus.
£30.00
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Anarchitectural Experiments: When Unbuilt Designs Turn to Film

9781789385427
Stasiowski, Maciej (Independent reseache
Comprehensive exploration of architectural visualization through speculative design projects. Outlines how cinema and animation augment traditional design drawing practices to expand the possibilities for theoretical architectural projects. It provides a history of speculative designs and elaborates on their modes of representation. 119 b&w illus.
£94.95
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Reframing Berlin: Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations

9781789386875
Wilson, Christopher S.
Reframing Berlin investigates the concept of urban memory through the transformation and/or consistency of the built environment. These architectural changes, defined as urban strategies, range from demolition (forgetting) to memorialisation (remembering) and are shown through case studies using film locations in Berlin. 64 b/w illus.
£109.95
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Architecture and the Virtual

9781783201945
Jecu, Marta
A study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists working with the tools of our post-digital age. It maps the convergence of virtual space and contemporary conceptual art and is an anthropological exploration of artists who deal with transformable space and work through analog means of image production.
£82.95
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Islamic Architecture on the Move: Motion and Modernity

9781783206384
Gruber, Ch
This book brings together scholars from architectural studies, design, art history and other fields to challenge and expand concepts of Islamic architecture. Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii, this volume raises key questions about Islamic architecture and material, artistic and cultural mobility.
£70.95
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