| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 301 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-301). |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction : Heavy, not dead -- Architecture as medicine -- The valor of iron : an introduction to the material imagination -- The weight of architecture -- The emerald city : a study of substance and place -- Active architecture from Christo to Christmas trees -- Vernacular architecture and the economics of dwelling -- Gendered words, neutered spaces, and the trouble with new urbanism -- The contradictions underlying the profession of architecture -- Seven strategies for making architecture in the twenty-first century -- The work of architecture in the age of efficient production -- The impact of the computer on architectural practice. |
| Subject |
Architecture and society.
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Architecture -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
1568981740 (alk. paper) |
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