books by Metropolis Books

books by Metropolis Books

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Metropolis Books

Uncommon Life Of Common Objects, The
Akiko Busch, Susan Szenasy, ...

Metropolis Books, 2005

What makes us love our things? Why do we attach certain sentiments to certain items? How is it that sometimes objects can tell stories more eloquently than people? These are questions explored and answered in The Uncommon Life of Common Objects. Author Akiko Busch devotes a chapter to each of 12 common objects, and discusses her and others' ...

Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

Bryan Bell, Katie Wakeford, ...

Metropolis Books, 2008

Good design can be Everywhere!
This book is filled with examples of good designs that redefine architectural resources. I am challenged to share architectural ways of thinking and space making in my own town. This book shows how good design can improve the way we work and live together!

Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Metropolis Books, 2006

The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research-based educational organization that produces public programs about the built landscape of the United States from its sites in Los Angeles, Utah and the Mojave desert, with an upstate New York location opening in 2006. The Center's aim is to increase and diffuse information about how the nation's ...

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises

Architecture for Humanity

Metropolis Books, 2006

INCREDIBLE
Okay, so I havent actually read the book but Cameron Sinclair came to my school a month ago to give a lecture based on the book. It was one of the most motivating and perspective changing experiences that Ive ever had. It gave me a totally new perspective on ...

Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn

Metropolis Books, 2008

Not enough ideas for my own front yard
My husband and I want to convert most of our front and back yard to fruit trees and gardens, as we have long thought that most people do not make use of their grass anyhow. Most of the book made the case for using property for food production, but the book was short on ...

Looking At Los Angeles

Jane Brown, Craig Krull

Metropolis Books, 2005

Getting to Know LA: Los Angeles Time Capsule
Nice time captures of LA images.

Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist Design in Our Time

Natalia Ilyin, Susan Szenasy

Metropolis Books, 2006

Book report
I'm finishing up with "Chasing The Perfect" by Natalia Ilyin and when I'm done, I'm going to read it over again. In my periodic browsing of the Graphic Arts section at B&N I became a statistic and fell for the cover. Bauhaus period minimalism...always gets me. ...

Robert Polidori's Metropolis

Robert Polidori, Martin C. Pedersen, ...

Metropolis Books, 2004

Photography of Architecture as Archaeology
Photographer Robert Polidori is at once a journalist and an artist and combines these two elements of inspection and observation into a remarkably beautiful and touching book. Polidori is fascinated, even obsessed, with architecture as evidence of the presence or ...

Design Is...Words, Things, People, Buildings, and Places at Metropolis

Metropolis Books, 2001

Like the magazine, Metropolis, that spawned it, Design Is...celebrates design in all its guises. This anthology of groundbreaking articles presents an ongoing conversation about design and design culture in the generous and lucid manner we have come to expect from this world-famous publication. Over seventy contributors-including virtually every ...