Archi.Pop

Archi.Pop

Author: D. Medina Lasansky

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-10-23

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1472526694

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How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural forms including television, cinema, iconic buildings and everyday interiors, music and magazines. Bringing the study of architecture and culture firmly to the contemporary world, Archi.Pop offers a unique critical investigation into how this dynamic relationship has shaped the way we live and the way we interact with the constructed world around us.


Archi.Pop

Archi.Pop

Author: D. Medina Lasansky

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1472522540

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Archi.Pop explores the relationship of architecture and design to popular culture through a variety of case studies including television, music, film, magazines and domestic interiors.


Architek

Architek

Author: Dominique Ehrhard

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9780764358272

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An introduction to architectural creation, the 95 precut cardboard elements in this book can be combined in an infinite variety of ways to build all sorts of fantastical structures. Follow the full-color idea diagrams to create more than 20 unique projects, then disassemble them and try something different. Developing direction-following skills and 3-D creativity, this kit allows young architects to both learn traditional design rules and break them. Alternate the color and black-and-white facade graphics to customize your creations--no glue or fasteners needed, just slot into place! The vibrant cutouts increase spatial visualization skills while giving future architects first-hand experience with color, form, and pattern.


Hip-Hop Architecture

Hip-Hop Architecture

Author: Sekou Cooke

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1350116173

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“This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized the profession, and ignored all contemporary Black theory within the discipline. You have made architecture a symbol of exclusion, oppression, and domination rather than expression, aspiration, and inspiration. This book is not for conformists-Black, White, or other.” As architecture grapples with its own racist legacy, Hip-Hop Architecture outlines a powerful new manifesto-the voice of the underrepresented, marginalized, and voiceless within the discipline. Exploring the production of spaces, buildings, and urban environments that embody the creative energies in hip-hop, it is a newly expanding design philosophy which sees architecture as a distinct part of hip-hop's cultural expression, and which uses hip-hop as a lens through which to provoke new architectural ideas. Examining the present and the future of Hip-Hop Architecture, the book also explores its historical antecedents and its theory, placing it in a wider context both within architecture and within Black and African American movements. Throughout, the work is illustrated with inspirational case studies of architectural projects and creative practices, and interspersed with interludes and interviews with key architects, designers, and academics in the field. This is a vital and provocative work that will appeal to architects, designers, students, theorists, and anyone interested in a fresh view of architecture, design, race and culture. Includes Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.


The Vinland Sagas

The Vinland Sagas

Author: Leifur Eiricksson

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0141991550

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The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga contain the first ever descriptions of North America, a bountiful land of grapes and vines, discovered by Vikings five centuries before Christopher Columbus. Written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son Leif the Lucky’s perilous voyages to explore it. Wrecked by storms, stricken by disease and plagued by navigational mishaps, some survived the North Atlantic to pass down this compelling tale of the first Europeans to talk with, trade with, and war with the Native Americans.


Modern Dreams

Modern Dreams

Author:

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 9780262231381

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Modern Dreams explores the distinction between the theoretical and sociological production of London in the fifties and conceptually related work of New York in the eighties.


Hidden Histories

Hidden Histories

Author: D. Medina Lasansky

Publisher: didapress

Published: 2018-01-10

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 8833380114

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Tuscany is a landscape whose cultural construction is complicated and multi-layered. It is this very complexity that this book seeks to untangle. By revealing hidden histories, we learn how food, landscape and architecture are intertwined, as well as the extent to which Italian design and contemporary consumption patterns form a legacy that draws upon the Romantic longings of a century before. In the process, this book reveals the extent to which Tuscany has been constructed by Anglos — and what has been distorted, idealized and even overlooked in the process.


5 Houses

5 Houses

Author: Dominique Ehrhard

Publisher:

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 9782361935351

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Ln this large, Iandscape-format book, Dominique Ehrhard pays tribute to his love of architecture, with miniature paper models showcasing five of the most important houses of the twentieth century. A biography of each of the architects accompanies the models and transforms the book into a perfect small-scale museum.


Hokusai Pop-ups

Hokusai Pop-ups

Author: Courtney Watson McCarthy

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780500518847

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The iconic art of Japanese artist Hokusai, from great waves to waterfalls and mountains, reimagined in dramatic 3-D pop-ups


Little Hazelnut

Little Hazelnut

Author: Anne-Florence Lemasson

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 9781910646311

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From French creators Anne-Florence Lemasson and Dominique Ehrhard comes an unusual pop-up illustrating the turn of the season in a snowy garden. Squirrel drops a precious hazelnut and the snowfall buries it. The garden creatures come and go, but no-one finds the nut - and in the spring a little tree pops up in its place. Stunning, graphic artwork in a limited colour palette, a spare, charming text and superb paper engineering make this a collectible for children and adults alike.