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In addition, STUDIOs complement our best-selling textbooks with rich media ancillaries that students can adapt to their visual learning styles. To fi nd out more, and to view our collection of books, visit www.FairchildBooks.com. VISUAL ARTS – VISUAL ARTS Future Cities Building Time A Visual Guide Architecture, event, and experience Nick Dunn, Lancaster University, UK & Paul David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA Cureton, Lancaster University, UK Building Time demonstrates the centrality of time in modern What might our cities look like in 10, 20 or 50 architecture, and shows why an understanding of time is critical to years? What kind of lifestyles may evolve and how understanding good architecture. Examining works by distinctive will we move around, where will we live and work? modern architects – from Eileen Gray to Álvaro Siza and Wang How may future cities face global challenges? Shu – it takes the reader through a built work and reflects on the Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many importance of ‘making space for time’ in architectural design. This architects, artists and designers. is a book for both theorists and for architectural designers. Through Architecture it, theorists will find a way to rethink the fundamental premises and This book explores how cities of the future have been visualised, what aims of design work, while designers will rediscover the order and these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may ideas that shape the world around them—its buildings, interiors, and be for us now - a visually accessible resource demonstrating how the landscapes. methodology of futuring works and why it is valuable for architecture and urbanism. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 288 pages • 130 bw illus PB 9781350165182 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350165199 • £65.00 / $90.00 UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 288 pages • 166 colour illus ePub 9781350165212 • £23.75 / $26.07 PB 9781350011656 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350011649 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePdf 9781350165205 • £21.59 / $23.90 ePub 9781350011663 • £26.99 / $29.33 Bloomsbury Visual Arts ePdf 9781350011632 • £26.99 / $29.33 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Grace and Gravity Green Wedge Urbanism Architectures of the Figure History, Theory and Contemporary Lars Spuybroek, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Practice Reclaiming the concept from the realm of the fine arts, Spuybroek Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Politecnico di reveals grace to be a vital force in contemporary aesthetic theory Milano, Italy and digital architectural design. From Greek vases to Botticelli’s Part history, and part contemporary argument, this Primavera, and from textile folds and weavings to acrobatics, book first examines the emergence and global ornamental ceilings, and digital design technologies, Grace and diffusion of the green wedge in town planning Gravity traces a line between beauty, the body, and architecture, all in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, placing it in the broader connected by the concept of grace. Grace, Spuybroek shows, is key historic context of debates and ideas for urban planning with nature, to understanding the body and movement in space, and he uses before going on to explore its use in contemporary urban practice. an examination of the body in painting and sculpture to explore a Examining their relation to green infrastructures, landscape ecology range of notions of the figure in architecture and to argue for a new and landscape urbanism and their potential for sustainable cities, ‘architecture of the figural’. Green Wedge Urbanism highlights the continued relevance of a historic idea in an era of rapid climate change. UK November 2020 • US November 2020 • 464 pages PB 9781350020849 • £27.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781350020856 • £85.00 / $115.00 UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 304 pages • 87 bw illus ePub 9781350020825 • £30.23 / $33.68 PB 9781350154346 • £27.99 / $37.95 ePdf 9781350020818 • £30.23 / $33.68 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Previously published in HB 9781474229180 ePub 9781474229197 • £30.22 / $33.68 ePdf 9781474229203 • £30.22 / $33.68 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Shopping Towns Europe Second World Postmodernisms Commercial Collectivity and the Architecture and Society under Late Architecture of the Shopping Centre, Socialism 1945–1975 Edited by Vladimir Kulic, Iowa State University, Edited by Janina Gosseye, ETH Zurich, US Switzerland & Tom Avermaete, ETH Zurich, If postmodernism is ‘the cultural logic of late Switzerland capitalism’, why did typical postmodernist Shopping Towns Europe is the first book to explore the introduction themes like ornament, color, history and identity and dissemination of the shopping centre in Europe. 16 case studies find their application in the architecture of the communist Second span the European continent on both sides of the Iron Curtain – from World? How do we explain the retreat into paper architecture and Britain and The Netherlands to Sweden and the USSR – revealing the theoretical discussion in societies still nominally devoted to socialist first European shopping malls to be much more than mere carbon modernisation? This edited collection examines the answers to these copies of their American precursors. Drawing connections between questions, exploring whether or not architectural postmodernism had architectural history, political economy and commerce, together these a specific second world variant, and staking out new ground as the studies tell us much about the status and role of modernist design, first work to examine in-depth the transformations of second world the history of consumption, and the rapidly-changing social, urban, architecture globally in the 1970s and 1980s. and national contexts of post-war Europe. UK May 2020 • US May 2020 • 272 pages • 63 bw illus PB 9781350166189 • £24.99 / $34.95 UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 272 pages • 85 bw illus Previously published in HB 9781350014442 PB 9781350154452 • £27.99 / $37.95 ePub 9781350014435 • £81.00 / $89.10 Previously published in HB 9781474267373 ePdf 9781350014428 • £81.00 / $89.10 ePub 9781474267403