Reaktion Books imprint: 753 books
by Charlie Gere
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
From our bank accounts to supermarket checkouts to the movies we watch, strings of ones and zeroes suffuse our world. Digital technology has defined modern society in numerous ways, and the vibrant digital culture that has now resulted is the subject of Charlie Gere’s engaging volume.
In...
France
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Everyone knows Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, and the chateaux of the Loire Valley, but French architects have also produced some of the most iconic buildings of the twentieth century, playing a central role in the emergence and development of modernism. In France, Jean-Louis Cohen presents a complete...
Canada
Modern Architectures in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Canada is a country of massive size, of diverse geographical features and an equally diverse population—all features that are magnificently reflected in its architecture. In this book, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino offer a richly informative history of Canadian architecture...
The Making of Place
Modern and Contemporary Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Gardening is rich in tradition, and many gardens are explicitly designed to refer to or honor the past. But garden design is also rich in innovation, and in The Making of Place John Dixon Hunt explores the wide varieties of approaches, aesthetics, and achievements in garden design throughout the world...
Berlin Bodies
Anatomizing the Streets of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The capital of Germany and home to 3.5 million people, Berlin has one the most fascinating histories in all of Europe. At end of the nineteenth century it rapidly developed into a major urban center, and today it is a site where the scars of history sit alongside ultra-modern urban developments. It...
Landscape and Englishness
Second Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
As David Matless argues in this book—updated in this accessible, pocket edition—landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. It is the aspect of English life where visions of the past, present, and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes...
The Space Within
Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Alvar Aalto once argued that what mattered in architecture wasn’t what a building looks like on the day it opens but what it is like to live inside it thirty years later. In this book, architect and critic Robert McCarter persuasively argues that interior spatial experience is the necessary starting...
by Cheryl Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
British culture is marked by indelible icons—red double-decker buses, large oak wardrobes, and the compact sleekness of the Mini. But British industrial and product design have long lived in the shadows of architecture and fashion. Cheryl Buckley here delves into the history of British design culture,...
Last Landscapes
The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2004
Last Landscapes is an exploration of the cult and celebration of death, loss and memory. It traces the history and design of burial places throughout Europe and the USA, ranging from the picturesque tradition of the village churchyard to tightly packed "cities of the dead", such as the Jewish...
Tudoresque
In Pursuit of the Ideal Home
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
With its distinctive gables and arches, Tudor-style architecture is recognized around the world as a symbol of British culture; it represents the idea of home to British citizens in the United Kingdom and abroad. Some love it, others hate it, but the Tudoresque is still being built—to give a house...
by Steve Baker
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
In The Postmodern Animal, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo.
"A lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking"—The Sunday Times (Paperbacks of the Year, 1989)
"The...
by Mark Shiel
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Hollywood cinema and Los Angeles cannot be understood apart. Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles traces the interaction of the real city, its movie business, and filmed image, focusing on the crucial period from the construction of the first studios in the 1910s to the decline of the studio...
From the Shadows
The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662–1736) is one of English history’s greatest architects, outshone only by Christopher Wren, under whom he served as an apprentice. A major figure in his own time, he was involved in nearly all the grandest architectural projects of his age, and he is best known for his London...