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Brittain-catlin\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eHardcover | \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e23.24 x 16.92 x 1.75 cm | 192 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003eMIT Press | 2014 | 9780262026697\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePLEASE NOTE: This title has been remainder marked by the publisher - a  marker pen dot or line on one edge. See images for example.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. 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Guest contributors were prompted to challenge and provoke the topics that are questioning the issues of open innovation models that operate a city, robotics and artificial intelligent systems, supply chains affected by digital storage, and data infrastructural arguments that play a large role within our Web 3.0 urban digital and real landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing a mixed-media approach, the book couples a novel exploration of XR (mixed-reality) and AR (augmented reality) into diagrammatic mapping and graphical cartography, and how data interacts with various open innovation models in digital property and real property.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"ORO Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47218970657026,"sku":"BK-ORO-DSDUS-001-G","price":12.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_6728_93b98c94-7963-4be5-8bb8-4726e3ced5de.jpg?v=1768242623"},{"product_id":"figments-of-the-architectural-imagination-and-other-essays","title":"Figments of the Architectural Imagination and Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eTodd Gannon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e14.61 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm | 284 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081970\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGathering twenty essays written over twenty years, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFigments of the Architectural Imagination\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the frontiers of speculative architectural design, theory, and pedagogy to offer clear-eyed and incisive treatments of some of the most important projects, practices, and polemics that make contemporary architecture contemporary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese sharp and insightful texts, whether addressing the impact of digital technology, the design of an effective hotel, the emergence of the Los Angeles vanguard, or the proper execution of a thesis project, combine frontline reportage, archival scholarship, trenchant prose, and impressive critical acumen to cut through the cacophony of recent architectural discourse with uncommon clarity, intelligence, rigour, and wit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaken together, these essays provide an essential orientation for practitioners, academics, students, and aficionados hoping to understand how contemporary architecture came to be where it is and to speculate on where it might go next.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn-depth investigations into the projects and ideas of noted contemporary architects including Archigram, Preston Scott Cohen, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Peter Eisenman, Wes Jones, Oyler Wu Collaborative, Jason Payne, PATTERNS, Lindy Roy, servo, Bernard Tschumi, and UN Studio\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeveral texts written in collaboration with notable thinkers in architecture and related fields including the literary critic N. 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Stated otherwise, the story \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econceives of the human life as a series \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof settings that stage the coevolution of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emental space and physical space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHuman, the story's protagonist, can be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eany one of us, and their journey from the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efirst room to the last room is the journey \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof a lifetime: it has its ups and downs, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emoments of clarity and moments of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econfusion, but overall it bends towards \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egreater knowledge and wisdom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHuman suddenly awakes in a square room with no memory of a prior life. 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This variety is reflected in the writing of the book, which intentionally juxtaposes different genres, including storytelling, philosophical reasoning, dialogues, and prose poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Labyrinth of Rooms \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ef\u003c\/span\u003eollows a long tradition of architects using fictional stories to think about architecture, including Adolf Loos, Hassan Fathy, Archigram, Superstudio, Arata Isozaki, Jon Hejduk, Lebbeus Woods, Rem Koolhaas, etc.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ORO Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47218986877186,"sku":"BK-ORO-TLOR-001-R","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_6727_7adfd1aa-7193-42ef-a3e5-cf9bfb6b7eaa.jpg?v=1768242565"},{"product_id":"speaking-of-architecture-interviews-about-practice-discourse-and-what-comes-next","title":"Speaking of Architecture: Interviews About Practice, Discourse and What Comes Next","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Foster Gage\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e17.78 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm | 244 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eORO Editions | 2023 | 9781957183183\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAuthor Mark Foster Gage has selected 11 of the most noteworthy and fascinating conversations from his year-long project of documenting the ideas of the next generation of designers who are revolutionising the nature of architectural practice and theory today. This remarkable collection of casual, informative, and personal interviews engages 15 architects as they reveal what made them who they are, what propels their architectural work forward, and what they anticipate comes next.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA noted practitioner, tenured Yale professor, CNN design contributor, and respected insider of the international architectural scene, Mark Foster Gage has spent his professional life with many of the most important figures in architectural discourse and practice. With this book he focuses on an emerging generation of practitioners ― approaching his subjects with a characteristic mix of insight, wit, and humour in a book that is consistently entertaining and informative as the architects open up in unexpected ways about their beliefs, work, lives and thoughts about where architecture, and they, are headed next.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ORO Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47218993725698,"sku":"BK-ORO-SOA-001-G","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_6741_57ab4c27-94f1-419f-93db-4a77efca896e.jpg?v=1768384768"},{"product_id":"twentieth-century-architecture-and-modernity-our-past-our-present","title":"Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our Present","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatrizia Mello\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e13.34 x 1.27 x 19.05 cm | 200 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eORO Editions | 2022 | 9781954081901\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe theme of “modernity” was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionising our way of life. By causing in its development absolutisations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to improve everyone’s life were reconsidered. Against the theory that the 20th century connected the objective of modernity to that of the Modern Movement, this book deals with the theme of a present continuity by revealing those “open visions” that characterised modernity at the end of the 19th century. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy critically reviewing the main stages of development over time - as well as the intense debates of architectural historians, architects and contemporary scholars - the thesis of modernity as tradition, research, criticism, place of contradictions is supported. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFurther, echoed by that of “architecture tout court,” enhancing the present environment in its current fragility of views - even more so today with the appearance of a virus capable of undermining our way of living. 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