Recent titles
We offer books on architecture and related fields from publishers worldwide. Here is a small selection of some recent arrivals in the store.
Les abstractions concrètes d'Anni Albers (1899-1994) : Une histoire textile de la modernité
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Les abstractions concrètes d'Anni Albers (1899-1994) : Une histoire textile de la modernité
Née à Berlin en 1899, Anni Albers, artiste, designer et éducatrice, s'est rapidement heurtée aux préjugés de genre qui régnaient dans l'Allemagne des années 1920. Pourtant, elle sut tirer parti de toutes les contraintes pour en faire une force au...
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Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques : 40 ans d'expérience
Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques : 40 ans d'expérience réunit deux conférences tenues en 1985 et 2022 par Griselda Pollock. Dans sa conférence de 1985, Griselda Pollock formule une critique des politiques du genre présentes dans l'enseignement...
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On women
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On women
On Women presents seven essays and exchanges, spanning a range of subjects: the challenges and humiliations women face as they age; the relationship between women’s liberation and class struggle; beauty, which Sontag calls “that over-rich brew of so many familiar...
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Living design: The writings of Clara Porset
Cuban-born and Mexico-based Clara Porset is renowned for her mid-century modern furniture and interior design and for her collaborations with architects such as Luis Barragán and Mario Pani. She was also an accomplished critic and writer. Living Design collects Porset’s essays, reviews, and lectures...
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Women architects at work
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Women architects at work
In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women Architects at Work tells the stories of the resilient and resourceful women who surmounted barriers of sexism,...
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Modernism in Africa: the architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa 1930-1970
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Modernism in Africa: the architecture of Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa 1930-1970
Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive buildings with a fluidity of interior and exterior spaces play a...
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Worlding Ecologies: Art, science and activism towards climate justice
How can art, science and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? Worlding Ecologies serves as an anthology of examples and wayward navigational tool, assembling eighteen authors...
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