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Writing Architecture Series

25 primary works • 25 total works

Book 1

Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money
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3.94 · 79 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1995 · 6 editions
In Architecture as Metaphor, Kojin Karatani detect…

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    Book 2

    Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories
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    4.07     · 43 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1995 · 2 editions
    Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, con…

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    Book 3

    Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture
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    4.28     · 36 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 16 editions
    Differences brings together ten essays written ove…

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    Book 4

    Constructions
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    4.12     · 32 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions
    In this series of overlapping essays on architectu…

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    Book 5

    Such Places as Memory: Poems 1953-1996
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    4.10     · 40 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions
    The poems of an architect whose affection for urba…

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    Book 6

    Welcome to the Hotel Architecture
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    4.75     · 4 Ratings · published 1998 · 4 editions
    A rollicking tour in the form of a long poem, and …

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    Book 7

    Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy
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    4.31     · 29 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1991 · 8 editions
    Architecture and fire, construction and combustion…

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    Book 8

    Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space
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    4.10     · 90 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    Essays at the intersection of philosophy and archi…

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    Book 9

    Public Intimacy: Architecture and the Visual Arts
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    3.85     · 26 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 10 editions
    An examination of architecture and art as a screen…

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    Book 11

    Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism
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    4.13     · 38 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2008 · 8 editions
    How the different narratives of four historians of…

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    Book 12

    Drawing for Architecture
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    4.24     · 71 Ratings · 11 Reviews · published 2009 · 3 editions
    Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with feroci…

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    Book 13

    Architecture's Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde
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    4.03     · 60 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2009 · 6 editions
    While it is widely recognized that the advanced ar…

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    Book 14

    The Alphabet and the Algorithm
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    4.00     · 86 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2011 · 14 editions
    Digital technologies have changed architecture--th…

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    Book 15

    The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture
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    4.21     · 200 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2011 · 11 editions
    Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unit…

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    Book 16

    A Topology of Everyday Constellations
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    4.50     · 14 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 8 editions
    The threshold as both boundary and bridge: investi…

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    Book 17

    A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture
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    3.71     · 28 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
    Essays on contemporary architecture that are less …

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    Book 18

    Project of Crisis: Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture
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    3.50     · 8 Ratings · published 2013 · 1 edition
    An examination of the influential Italian architec…

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    Book 19

    Oblique Drawing: A History of Anti-Perspective
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    3.56     · 25 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
    For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's "Pe…

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    Book 20

    Noah's Ark: Essays on Architecture
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    4.33     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 7 editions
    Trained as an art historian but viewing architectu…

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    Book 21

    The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence
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    3.94     · 64 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 4 editions
    The first digital turn in architecture changed our…

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    Book 22

    On Accident: Episodes in Architecture and Landscape
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    3.75     · 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    Engaging essays that roam across uncertain territo…

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    Book 23

    Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture
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    4.45     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, e…

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    Book 24

    Architecture’s Theory
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 1 edition
    A collection of illuminating essays exploring what…

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    Book 25

    Architecture and Abstraction
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    4.52     · 27 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 4 editions
    A landmark study of abstraction in architectural h…

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    Book 26

    Rewriting Alberti
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renai…

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