<P><B>Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences</B><BR/><BR/> </P><P>During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. <I>Architecture of Life</I> delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of their radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements that were developing concurrently across the globe. </P><P>Examining the theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, as well as those of their lesser-known colleagues, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychologica
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Deserts Are Not Empty challenges the colonial tendency to portaryarid lands as "empty" spaces ready to be occupied andexploited. Despite the undeniable presence of human and nonhuman lives and forces in desert territories. This volume brings...
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Adam Sharr tells the story of how modern architecture developed and produced its powerful cultural images. Considering the new building materials and techniques which shaped the movement, such as innovations in steel and concrete and the advent of air...
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<B><I>Universal Principles of Architecture</I> illustrates in 100 concepts the importance, possibilities, challenges, and roles that architecture plays in shaping the world.</B><BR/><BR/> Divided into Archetypes, Methods,...
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