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The book sharpens our critique of the relationship between direct political action, its media representation, and the role it assigns to architecture - as played out globally in the age of mass media.

The book sharpens our critique of the relationship between direct political action, its media representation, and the role it assigns to architecture - as played out globally in the age of mass media.

The book investigates how images of architecture are used in UK and US election campaigns as advertising backdrops, sets for photo shoots, metaphors in policy arguments, and how this has silently, but fundamentally, influenced built form through the ages.

This book, the thirdand final in the `Housing the Future' series, is inspired by the need to dealwith a critical issue at acritical time - the provision of affordable and decent housing.

Reflections on Architecture, Society and Politics brings together a series of thirteen interview-articles by Graham Cairns in collaboration with some of the most prominent polemic thinkers and critical practitioners from the fields of architecture and the social sciences.

The book investigates how images of architecture are used in UK and US election campaigns as advertising backdrops, sets for photo shoots, metaphors in policy arguments, and how this has silently, but fundamentally, influenced built form through the ages.

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This book explores housing design with a focus onaffordability. It gives the perspectives of award-winning and internationallyrenowned practitioners and academics who research and teach on housing, professionals who design and build, and students who are learning. The bookforegrounds innovative approaches of the designers of today and tomorrow.

This fascinating account looks at the increasingly sophisticated methods used - not just in advertising campaigns but also in art and architecture - to sell products to a smarter and ever more cynical public.

Our minds must be considered among the wonders of the natural world. It seems hardly credible that an organised assemblage of molecules can generate vivid feelings and sensations, yet the brain is such an assemblage and it does...So, how does our conscious mind arise from our physical brain? Evolving the Mind examines this question by following two main themes: how theories of the mind have evolved in science and how the mind itself evolved in...

With the birth of film came the birth of a revolutionary visual language. This book examines the relationship between the visual language of film and the onscreen perception of space and architectural design, revealing how film's visual vocabulary influenced architecture in the twentieth century and continues to influence it today.

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Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and restructured by the visual and theoretical frameworks introduced by different `technologies of sight¿ ¿ understood to include orthographic projection, perspective drawing, telescopic devices, photography, film and computer visualization, amongst others.

This is a book conceived in the ever widening realm of design practice and education. It is premised on the belief that the forces of globalisation that have affected design practice for decades have, in recent years, manifest themselves in design education as well. Consequently, it brings authors, practitioners and educators together from ten countries across six continents. They each offer an overview of the socio-cultural and economic facto...

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