Rakatansky Mark (11 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Architecture Words, 8; 288 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 287 pages. 7.25x4.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Gut. 361 S. Kartoniert. Kanten leicht berieben; wenige Seiten mit minimalen Knickspuren, sonst gutes Exemplar. [K 176].

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Paperback.Width: 11 cm. Height: 18cm. 288 pages. English text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 222pp. 8vo. Clean and crisp, tightly bound, as new/unmarked copy. Jacket protected in mylar cover (pictured without).

Hardback. Condition: New. Byoung Cho aims to make each of his buildings 'so it looks like it's not designed at all, it's just there'. Influenced by Korea's rich aesthetic tradition, Cho utilizes understated forms to create serene buildings that yield powerful and subtle experiences for their inhabitants. His work focuses on seemingly simple structures and has a strong regard for nature and sustainability. He has created many iconic buildings, art and cultural centres, schools, health facilities and residences throughout Korea, Japan and the United States. This book features over 25 of Cho's most highly acclaimed projects, including Twin Trees (2010), his instantly iconic towers located adjacent to the 14th-century royal Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul. The projects are accompanied throughout by sketches and plans, providing a comprehensive insight into the making of these buildings. Byoung Cho offers an engaging and indepth overview of one of the most creative and deeply thoughtful designers working today. It will inspire architects, architectural students and anyone interested in sustainability and the built environment.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 287 pages : illustrations, plans ; 18 cm. This instalment in the "Architecture Words" series collects together for the first time a number of key essays by the New York-based architect and critic Mark Rakatansky. Following its title, the book is broken down into three sections: Tectonic, Acts, Desires and Doubts. In each, Rakatansky covers a series of subjects, from Louis Kahn's relationship to the brick to a more general polemic involving identity and politics in contemporary architecture, and in a writerly voice that varies from the third-person narrative of the scholarly essay to the transcript of an email exchange with fellow academic Sarah Whiting, discussing two recent books by architect Greg Lynn.…

Hardback. Condition: New. Byoung Cho aims to make each of his buildings 'so it looks like it's not designed at all, it's just there'. Influenced by Korea's rich aesthetic tradition, Cho utilizes understated forms to create serene buildings that yield powerful and subtle experiences for their inhabitants. His work focuses on seemingly simple structures and has a strong regard for nature and sustainability. He has created many iconic buildings, art and cultural centres, schools, health facilities and residences throughout Korea, Japan and the United States. This book features over 25 of Cho's most highly acclaimed projects, including Twin Trees (2010), his instantly iconic towers located adjacent to the 14th-century royal Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul. The projects are accompanied throughout by sketches and plans, providing a comprehensive insight into the making of these buildings. Byoung Cho offers an engaging and indepth overview of one of the most creative and deeply thoughtful designers working today. It will inspire architects, architectural students and anyone interested in sustainability and the built environment.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Features: Transformational Constructions (For Example - Adult Day); Multiplicitous and Inorganic Bodies; Landscapes of Change - Boccioni's Stati d'animo as a General Theory of Models; Brian Boigon's Cartoon Regulators; Ready-made Traces in the Sand - The Sphinx, the Chimera, and other discontents in the Practice of Theory; Designs on the Body - Film/Architecture/Writing; Bodily Architectures; Re. Forging Warke's Forgeries; and more. 113 glossy pages. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of photos. Date stamp atop title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy.; 4to. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991-2001. A partial run, comprising 24 (of 41 volumes published) of this influential architecture and design magazine, curated by Michael Hays and Alicia Kennedy, with hundreds of articles, on a diverse range of topics, including Thomas Leeser's Falling House, 'Domesticity at War', 'Architecture, Authority and the Female Gaze', 'August Schmarsow's Theory of Raumgestaltung', and featuring work by noted architectural theorists including Stanford Anderson (vol. 1 14), Francoise Choay (vol. 1 5), Mario Gandelsonas (all volumes), Jorge Silvetti (all volumes), Werner Oechslin (vol. 1 16), Beatriz Colomina (vol. 14 41), Mark Rakatansky (vol. 14 33), Mark Wigley (vol. 14 41), Sanford Kwinter (vol. 16 41), Robert McAnulty (vol. 17 41), Jennifer Bloomer (vol. 17 41), and Lauren Kogod (vol 33 41). Minor chipping to spine tips of several issues, but a VG+ set overall.…