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Alien phenomenology, or, What it's like to be a thing

2012 • 2 Readers • 5

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The Architectural Detail

ByEdward R. Ford

2011 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

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The Art of Videogames

ByGrant Tavinor

2 Readers

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Reassembling the Social

2005 • 4 Readers • 312 pages • 4

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2008 • 43 Readers • 3.8

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

2006 • 224 Readers • 588 pages • 4.2

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Delirious New York

1978 • 6 Readers • 317 pages • 5

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In the Dust of This Planet

ByEugene Thacker

2011 • 22 Readers • 170 pages • 4

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#1 of 2 in Phaedrus

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

ByRobert M. Pirsig

1974 • 474 Readers • 417 pages • 3.8

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The Art of Looking Sideways

ByAlan Fletcher

2001 • 18 Readers • 533 pages • 4.7

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ByEspen J. Aarseth

1997 • 4 Readers • 216 pages

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Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture

ByMichael Bullock(Translator)

1970 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

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ByTimothy Snyder

2017 • 227 Readers • 130 pages • 4.1

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Design For A Living World

ByAndy Grundberg

2009 • 1 Reader • 199 pages

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Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary

ByDuncan McCorquodale(Editor),Katerina Rüedi Ray(Editor)

1996 • 1 Reader • 296 pages

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ByJacques Derrida,Ned Lukacher(Translator)

1987 • 1 Reader • 66 pages

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1957 • 74 Readers • 236 pages • 3.9

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Society of the Spectacle

ByGuy Debord,Fredy Perlman(Translator)

1967 • 125 Readers • 119 pages • 4

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

ByEdward R. Tufte

1983 • 83 Readers • 197 pages • 4.5

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ByFrancis D.K. Ching

1979 • 10 Readers • 416 pages • 5

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The Architecture of Happiness

ByAlain de Botton

2006 • 34 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6

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ByJonathan Crary

2013 • 16 Readers • 145 pages • 4

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Information Design: Research and Practice

ByAlison Black(Editor),Paul Luna(Editor)

2017 • 1 Reader • 750 pages

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Rulebook for Arguments

ByAnthony Weston

2018 • 16 Readers • 1,856 pages • 3.5

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Object-oriented ontology : a new theory of everything

ByGraham Harman

2018 • 9 Readers • 336 pages

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ByJonathan K. Foster

2008 • 9 Readers • 144 pages • 3.3

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2 The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series

ByMargaret Walters

2005 • 2 Readers • 159 pages • 1.5

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2000 • 17 Readers • 100 pages • 3.8

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

ByChristopher W. Alexander,Sara Ishikawa,+4 more

1977 • 105 Readers • 1,171 pages • 4.7

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

2011 • 131 Readers • 527 pages • 4.2

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The Origins of Totalitarianism

ByHannah Arendt

1948 • 126 Readers • 580 pages • 4.3

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ByRoland Barthes,Annette Lavers(Translator)

1957 • 62 Readers • 160 pages • 4.2

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Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction

2013 • 2 Readers • 136 pages

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Against Everything: On Dishonest Times

2016 • 3 Readers • 354 pages

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Imaginary Games

ByChris Bateman

2011 • 2 Readers • 334 pages • 4

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2 The Oxford Very Short Introductions Series

2011 • 5 Readers • 152 pages

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Foucault Against Himself

ByFrançois Caillat

2015 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

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Studies in Tectonic Culture

ByKenneth Frampton

1995 • 2 Readers • 448 pages

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ByJohan Huizinga

1938 • 24 Readers • 244 pages • 2.5

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An Architectural Approach to Level Design

ByChristopher W. Totten

2014 • 5 Readers • 472 pages

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1961 • 126 Readers • 458 pages • 4.1

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ByHeidi Zuckerman Jacobson(Contributor),Claude Bruderlein(Text)

2014 • 1 Reader • 280 pages

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Words and Buildings

2000 • 1 Reader • 335 pages

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ByAlain de Botton,John Armstrong

2013 • 14 Readers • 240 pages • 4.5

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Graphic Discovery

ByHoward Wainer

2004 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

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The Pearly Gates Of Cyberspace

ByMargaret Wertheim

1999 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

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Electronic Mediations

ByAlexander R. Galloway

2006 • 3 Readers • 160 pages

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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace

ByJanet H. Murray

1997 • 6 Readers • 336 pages • 4

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A Shelter Sketchbook: Natural Building Solutions

ByJohn S. Taylor

1983 • 3 Readers • 157 pages

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Writing Architecture

ByCarter Wiseman

2013 • 1 Reader

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Made in Tokyo: Guide Book

ByJunzo Kuroda,Momoyo Kaijima

2001 • 1 Reader • 191 pages

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#13 of 2 in Do Books

2019 • 5 Readers • 112 pages

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Modern Architecture

ByKenneth Frampton

6 Readers • 642 pages • 4

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Unit Operations : An Approach to Videogame Criticism

2006 • 4 Readers • 243 pages • 4

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Semiology of Graphics

ByJacques Bertin

1967 • 1 Reader • 438 pages • 3

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Analysing Architecture

1997 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

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ByNoah Wardrip-Fruin(Editor),Michael Crumpton(Designed by)

2004 • 2 Readers • 331 pages

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Why X Matters Series

Why Architecture Matters

ByPaul Goldberger

2009 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

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How to read a film : the world of movies, media and history, and theory of film and media

1977 • 16 Readers • 672 pages • 3.5

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Architecture Briefs

Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities

ByAlexandra Lange,Jeremy M. Lange

2008 • 1 Reader • 194 pages • 4

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Twisty Little Passages

ByNick Montfort

2003 • 3 Readers • 286 pages

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Citizens of No Place

2012 • 2 Readers • 143 pages • 4

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Body, Memory, and Architecture

ByKent C. Bloomer,Charles Willard Moore

1977 • 1 Reader • 147 pages

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Envisioning Information

ByEdward R. Tufte

1990 • 57 Readers • 4.5

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Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing

2012 • 6 Readers • 5

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Visual Explanations

ByEdward R. Tufte

1997 • 32 Readers • 168 pages • 4.2

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Architectural Intelligence

ByMolly Wright Steenson

2017 • 3 Readers • 312 pages

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Practical Color Combinations

2018 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

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Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture

ByLance LaVine,Fred Turner

2001 • 1 Reader • 242 pages

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The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes

ByPatrick Keiller

2013 • 2 Readers • 228 pages

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The World of Charles and Ray Eames

BySu Blackwell,Catherine Ince,+1 more

2015 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

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2016 • 11 Readers • 288 pages • 5

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The Myths We Live By

2003 • 3 Readers • 244 pages

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Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:

ByKate Nesbitt(Editor)

1996 • 2 Readers • 384 pages

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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

ByJames Stevens Curl

2006 • 1 Reader • 912 pages

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The Arcades Project

ByWalter Benjamin,Kevin McLaughlin(Translator),+1 more

1982 • 26 Readers • 1,088 pages • 4

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The Book of Judgement: Philosophy of Macrobiotics

ByGeorge Ohsawa

1991 • 1 Reader • 110 pages

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Information Design as Principled Action

ByJorge Frascara(Editor)

2015 • 1 Reader • 328 pages • 3