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Victor Rahola Best Price: $4.25 The architecture of VÃctor Rahola is rich with a multiplicity of evident references....	Self-Sufficient Housing: 1st Advanced Architecture Contest Best Price: $20.93 This hand-sized publication chronicles the results of the 1st Advanced Architecture Contest...	The Function of Ornament Best Price: $22.24 I guess, to me at least, the title of the book is bit misleading, it should be "how to...	Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture Best Price: $21.77 With a refreshing sense of urgency and vigor, Kwinter launches a series of polemical expositions...	Ryan McGinness Best Price: $26.29 This book provides a great overview of McGinness's 2010 Studio Franchise exhibit in Spain....



Esc: Enter Spanish Creativity Best Price: $55.33 Every system needs an escape valve, a decompression mechanism. In professional graphic design,...	Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture Best Price: $45.51 Sanford Kwinter ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and architecture....	Welcome to Espaiñ (English and Spanish Edition) Best Price: $50.20 Welcome to Espain explores Spanish plays and scenes, offering sometimes-startling color images...	The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles Best Price: $18.98 Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now...	The Unavowable Community Best Price: $48.24 Note well: This hardbound title, publshed by Actar, is not the same as the title of the same...



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Self-Sufficient City Best Price: $23.17 SELF SUFFICIENT CITY: ENVISIONING THE HABITAT OF THE FUTURE represents over 100 proposals...	Goldbeck Best Price: $8.52 Photographs by Eugene Goldbeck. Contributions by Kitti Bolognesi, Roy Flukinger, Carlos Pinto.	Diccionario Metapolis Arquitectura Avanzada (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $55.53	Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age Best Price: $54.10 I read and annotated an uncountable number of pages in this dictionary. Some people would say it...	Operative Optimism Best Price: $20.95 A compilation of the most recent exploits of European architecture, Operative Optimism is a sort...

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Barceloneta Market Best Price: $26.57 The processes of de-construction and re-construction of the Barceloneta market, an architectural...	Mvrdv at Vpro Best Price: $129.60 VPRO is the most iconoclastic and freethinking private broadcasting company in the Netherlands....	Architecture of the Indeterminacy Best Price: $19.36 Lest anyone be in doubt, Yago Conde wants you to know that he and his work define the...	Good News Best Price: $49.95 This is a beautiful book: pictures by the Catalan photographer Jordi Bernado from all over the...	Philippe Thomas: Ready-Mades Belong to Everyone

Mutations Best Price: $54.37 This book is to be considered a piece of historical evidence of the tendencies of thought of the...	poch & moliner /anglais	Sonar: Ten Years (Multilingual Edition) Best Price: $1.62 In the course of the last decade, electronic music and club culture have ceased being a minority...	Crossed Lines: New Territories of Design Best Price: $1.12 The frontiers between the traditional disciplines of design are blurring, blurring, gone. This...	Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz Best Price: $44.98 More than the document of a remarkable project: "Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz" shows how...

Laus 01: 31st Laus Awards. Best of Design and Advertising in 2001 Best Price: $22.76 Description: Laus 01 is the latest installment of the best in Spanish graphic design, covering...	The Yokohama Project Best Price: $39.95 The book is an inspiring and surprisingly honest account of the design and the construction of...	Josep LluÃs Mateo: Barcelona International Convention Centre Best Price: $10.95 The CCIB (Barcelona International Convention Center) is one of the main structures housing the...	The Aesthetics of Resistance: Searching for Gramsci Best Price: $16.41 Artist Alfredo Jaar creates a series of works directly related to the city of Como, Italy. As a...	Yona Friedman: Pro Domo Best Price: $26.51 Yona Friedman became familiar within architectural discourse in the mid-1950's when he began...

Paul Pfeiffer Best Price: $14.97 Paul Pfeiffer is among the most recognized and influential American artists today. This is a...	From I to J A woman writes letters to a man who is in prison. Coixet has created an installation based on...	Hyperadriatica OP2 Best Price: $22.75 The book collects the original and innovative materials, of the research on the transformation...	Quaderns D'architectura I Urbanisme 221. Catalan Architecture: The State of the Question	Barcelona transfer, 1984-1994: Sant Andreu-La Sagrera : planificacion urbana = urban development = planificacio urbana (Spanish Edition)

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Drama Turquesa Best Price: $43.49 This catalog presents the exhibition Drama Turquesa by Los Carpinteros, the collective formed by...	Erc-Pi: Escissio O Cop D'Estat A L'Independentisme? (Col-Leccio La Guitza)	Gsd Platform 02 Best Price: $26.39 Taking off the previous volume, Platform 2 again features work, lectures and material poured...	Requiem: For the City at the End of the Millennium Best Price: $12.45 In this small, but sharply-pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the...	In Favour of Public Space Best Price: $37.29 Bearing witness to the tensions of public space in Europe: this is the aim of the European Prize...

Ingo Maurer: Passion for Light (English and Spanish Edition)	Verb: Architecture Boogazine Best Price: $24.94 I've read the majority of it, and now I could say that it's worth reading 'Verb'...	Toyo Ito: Sendai Mediatheque Best Price: $19.80 Originally inspired by the image of floating seaweed, Toyo Ito's multi-purpose cultural...	Pascal Comelade and His Play Toy Orchestra Best Price: $325.00 This is a catalog for an exhibition at the Catalan Toy Museum in 2003 that consists of well done...	Designin' in the Rain: Designin' in the Rain Best Price: $0.31 I think this is a real great design book. Dealware people really knows what they are doing! It...

Verb Connection (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $25.27	Desert America: Territory of Paradox Best Price: $11.99 Most residents of the southwest are well-aware that the desert is hardly 'deserted'. It...	Carles Santos: Long Live the Piano! Best Price: $113.86 Talks about the imaginary visual and aural universe of the baroque, groundbreaking and...	Barcelona Brand New Fashion Designers (Modafad Twenty Editions) Best Price: $18.95 I got this book because I am a fashion designer and lover and I wanted to see what was happening...	GSD 08 Platform: A Year of Research Through Studio Work, Theses, Exhibitions, and Conferences at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Best Price: $21.72 This book has some great graphics as you would expect from Harvard. However, some of the...

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