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Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 20:45:08 CST
Turning-about in the coming-to-presence of the standing-reserve
The Architecture of Electricity-- The Continuation of Antiquity
The Architecture of the United Nations-- International Infrastructure
of ideas in the reserve at M.I.T.press
_An Architecture of Complexity_ Lucien Kroll 1987
this translation of Belgian architect Kroll's iconoclastic book,
~composants, provides valuable insights into the working methods of an
important contemporary European designer. Kroll, a leading advocate of
user participation in the design and construction of buildings,
describes and illustrates his own vision of an industrialized architect-
ure that marries both modern materials and hand craftsmanship, based on
modular design methods. ..now $14.50
_Architecture and Ideology in Eastern European during the Stalin Era_
-- An aspect of Cold War history-- Andres Aman 1992
Since 1978, Aman has been researching, photographing, and documenting
the architectural style known as Social Realism. This book records the
government-planned buildings, cities, parks, and monuments from the
Stalinist postwar period in Poland, Czechloslovakia, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria, and former East Germany. now $24.95
_Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution_
-- The Art and Structure of Large-Scale Buildings -- edited Robert Mark
Architectural Tech..examines innovative structures in eras that saw the
development of new, large-scale building types and describes the modern
scientific tools for clarifying the technological circumstances and the
design techniques employed by pre-EnLIGHTenment builders.
Illustrated with over 200 diagrams and photographs, chapters follow a
sequence from the ground up. now $37.50
_The Architectural Uncanny_ Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Anthony Vidler 1992 now $19.95
_Gardens and the Picturesque_
_Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture_ John Dixon Hunt 1991
Ranging over subjects form the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual
parallels within gardens, from the allegorical imagery to landscape
paintings, here are 11 essays (including several never published before)
by one of today's foremost writers on the history and theory of gardens
and landscape. They deal with the ways in which men and women have given
meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which
gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely."
now $27.50
_Modern Landscape Archtiecture_ A Critical Review -ed.Marc Treib 1993
These 22 essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplish
ments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture, and for
exploring the future of the discipline. Included are seminal articles
from teh 1930s and 1940s as well as writings by contemporary writers and
designers. "An important resource for serious researchers.. this is also
a book to be dipped into with great pleasure, sampling here and there."
-Elsa leviseur, ~Architectural ~REview now $35.00
_Architecture from without_ Diana I. Agrest 1991
"Agrest analyzes architecture's diminishing role in cities dominated by
mirrored-glass buildings, never ending skyscrapers, and urban-plans-as-
activity-systems. <social covenant> The essays, collected over a twenty-
eyear period, relflect the author's investigation of history and theory
(particularly semiotics) in relation to the city and architecture."AIA
now $27.95
_Architecture, Poetry, and Number at the Royal Palace at Caserta_
George L. Hersey- 1983 now $17.50
_The Built, The Unbuilt, and the Unbuildable_
-- In Pursuit of Architectural Meaning -- robert harbison 1991
now $19.95
_The Crystal Chain Letters_Architectural Fantasies by Bruno Taut and
His Circle. edited and translated by Iain Boyd Whyte, 1985
now $12.50
_The Electronic Design Studio_
-- Architectural Education in the Computer Era-- edited by Malcolm
McCullough, William J. Mitchell, and Patrick Purcell. 1990
AS a current review of the state of the art fo computer-aided
architectural design and an overview of the major issues , this
extensively illustrated volume is the most comprehensive source
available. "Among a plethora of 'how-to' books, this publication stands
out as a 'resource' book... The book will excite you and challenge you
to think about design differently." --ACADIA Newsletter now $39.95
_The Decorative Art of Today_ Le Corbusier 1987
The first English translation of Le Corbusier's 1925 classic polemic
against the crafts tradition adn superfluous ornament in interior
decoration. "one of le corbusiers best reasoned and erudite texts."
-- design book review now $12.50
_Le Corbusier's Sketchbooks_ four volumes, edited by Fondation Le
Corbusier and the Archtiectural Hisotry Foundation- notes by Francois de
Franclieu, "Spanning a half-century of his career, these lavishly
illustrated adn exceptionally handsome volumes bring a fascinating segmant
of Le Corbusier's art to the public for the first time... In his
~sketchbooks, we discover the intimate, personal world of one of the
seminal figures of our century." - david Gebhard, NYTmag 1982
now $395.00
_The Decorated Diagram_ Harvard Architcture and the Failure of the
Bauhaus Legacy-- Klaus Herdeg 1983 now $15.00
_Dwelling House Construction_fifth.edition. Albert G. H. Dietz
now $24.95
_Technics and Architecture_ Cecil D. Elliot, 1992
-- The Development of Materials and Systems for Building -- now $49.95
_Industrialized Building Systems for Housing_ edited by Albert gh Dietz
and Laurence S. Cutler, 1971 now $15.95
_Humanscale_ Niels Diffrient, Alvin R. Tilley, David Harman, and Joan
C. Bardagjy now $125.00
_MOdernism and the Posthumanist Subject_ 1992
The architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer- k.MichaelHays
"in this origianl, rigorous, and sophisticated study, K. Michael Hays
draws on European theory to illuminate the philosophical and
epistemological assumptions of the utopian and revolutionary
archtiectureal avant-garde of the 1920s and 1030s. Hays breaks new ground in
identifying the gradual disappearance of the autonomous subject as a central
motif of modern architectural theory." - Anson Rabinbach-The Cooper Union
now $29.95
_modernity and the classical tradition_ arch essays 1980-87
alan Colquhoun now $21.00 1989
architecture_ Sylvia Lavin now $30.00 1992
_Rob Mallet_Stevens architecture, furniture, interior design
edited by Jean-Francois Pinchon-- now $14.95 1991
_Robert Maillart and the art of Reinforced concrete_ Dvaid P
Billington, 1991 now $35.00 64 illus. 32 in color.
_The Secret Life of Buildings_ An American Mythology for Modern Arch
Gavin Macrae-Gibson 1986 now $15.00
_Stone Shelters_ Edward Allen, 1969, now $7.50
_handbook of regular patterns_
-- an introduction to Symmetry in Two dimensions_ Peter S. Stevens
1981 now $19.95
_INDUSTRIEKULTUR_ peter behrens and the AEG 1984
now $34.95
_The Material of Invention_ materials and design, ezio manzini, 1989
now $27.50
_Mies Van Der Rohe_ critical essays 1990 now $24.95
_On Weathering_ The life of Buildings in Time
Mohsen Mostafavi and David Leatherbarrow 1993 now $24.95
_Ulm Design_ The Morality of Objects
edited by Herbert Lindinger trnaslated by David Britt
AS the advocate of an objective and socially aware design for
industry, during its brief existance (1955-1968) the HfG Ulm fashioned a new
generation of objects, tools, and transportation and communication systems.
This definitive reference and source contains an historical account of the
school, a descriptive compendium of objects and designs, an assessment of
the curriculum, a profile of student life, adnd a roster of the many
talented instructurs. 1990 now $19.95
_Downtown, Inc._ How America Rebuilds cities. 1989
Bernard J. Frieden and Lynne B. Sagalyn, now $24.95
_Landmarks in American Civil Engineering_ Daniel L. Schodek, 1987
now $35.00
_Descriptions_ Stephen Neale, 1990 now $21.50
_Identity, Character, and Morality_ Essays in Moral Psychology 1990
now $30.00
_On being and saying_ essays for Richard Cartwright,
edited by judith jarvis thompson, 1987 now $9.95
_Interpretations of Poetry and Religion_ critical edition
geroge santayana, herman j.sattkamp, jr., geneditor
william g. holzberger, textual editor, intro by joel porte 1990
Originally published in the spring of 1900, this si Santayana's
first book of critical prose.l It devlops his view that "poetry
is called religion when it intervenes in life, and religion, when
it merely supervenes upon life, is seen to be nothing but poetry."
wm. james, complementing santayana's clarity and rigor while
emphasizing his disagreement with santanyana, called the work nothing
less than "a perfection of rotteness." now $13.50
_The Sense of Beauty_ Being the outlines of Aesthetic Theory
critical edition, george santayana, edt by wm.g.holzberger and herman
j. saatkamp, jr. "there are.. some remarkable anticipations, for
instance of postmodernism, especially in the treatment of symmetry,
and of current debates aobut intentionality." -p.caws Am Stud.INtl.
1988 now $12.50
habermas _Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of
Enlightenment_edit by Axel honneth, thomas McCarthy, Claus Offe,
and Albrecht Wellmer 1992
"Thirteen essays by noted philosophers and social theorists
continue a timely celebration of J:urgen Habermas's unfinished
project of reconstructing enlightenment rationality. Focussing on
Habermas's cultural and political thought, the essays take up
critical theory and political practice, the sociology of politicla
practice, historical-philosophical reflections on culture, moral
development, and the foundations of critical social theory.
now $24.95
_Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action_
J:urgen Habermas, trnaslated by Christian lenhardt and
shierry Weber Nicholsen 1990
This long awaited book sets out the implicationsof Habermas's
theory of communicative action for moral theory. "discourse ethics"
attempts to reconstruct a moral point of view from which teh
normative claims can be impartially judged. The theory of justice
it develops replaces Kant's categorical imperative witha procedurre
of justification based on reasoned agreement among participants in
practical discourse. now $24.95
_Communicative Action_ essays on J:urgen Habermas's
~the theory of communicative action~ ed by axel honneth and hansjoas
trasn by jeremy gaines and doris jones
"Habermas's monumental ..^.., considered by many the summa of his
remarkable career, engendered an intense international debate.
many of the most trenchant contributions have been judiciously
assembled by axel ..and hans.. for this volume, which concludes
with yet another of Habermas's vigorous and thoughtful replies to
his critics. the result is a book that is not merely about
communicative action, but also its very embodiement." -- martin
jay, uofcalifornia, 1991 now $19.95
_Justification and Application_ Remarks on Discourse Ethics 1993
J:urgen Habermas , trnas by Ciaran p. cronin now $16.95
_The New Conservatism_ Cultural Criticism and the Historians debate
J:urgen Habermas 1989
"Incisively introductd by Richard wolin, these essays, interviews,
and speeches bring to American readers Habermas's views on natl'
memory, political culture, Heidegger, Foucault, and the end of
utopianism.": -- voice literary supplement
social theorist j:urgen habermas reveals yet antoher facet of his
extraordinary talents in these insightful, often passiaonate
political and cultureal commentaries on contemporary German life.
the central theme uniting ht ebook is the German problem of
"coming to terms iwth the past" <electric>-- a problem that has
important implications outside fo Germany as well. now $18.00
_The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere_
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society- j:urgen habermas
"this is j:urgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological
book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the
postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who ahve known
Habermas only through his theoretical writings to find his later
interests in problems of legitimation and communication forshadowed
in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public
opinion in demacratic societies. "The most significant modern
work on its subject... Habermas offers perhaps the richest, best
devloped conceptualization available of the social nature and
foundations of public life." -- craig j.calhoun Contemp.Sociology
now $25.00
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_The Disappearance of Introspection_ william lyons 1986
Lyons presents an original thesis on introspection as self-
interpretation in terms of a culturally influenced model.
He provides a useful review of the history of introspection in teh
work of Wundt, Boring, and William James and reactions to it by
behavioralists Watson, Lashley, Ryle, and Skinner. now $15.95
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