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His works delve into how natural forms inspire architectural design, challenging conventional notions of structure through themes like \u003cem\u003eAnimal Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBotanical Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a keen interest in the future of urban environments and social ideas, Dobraszczyk's books invite readers to consider architecture not just as physical space but as a reflection of cultural and political thought, exemplified in titles such as \u003cem\u003eArchitecture and Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFuture Cities\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"animal-architecture-by-paul-dobraszczyk-9781789146929","title":"Animal Architecture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA provocative call for architects to remember and embrace the nonhuman lives that share our spaces.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA spider spinning its web in a dark corner. Wasps building a nest under a roof. There's hardly any part of the built environment that can't be inhabited by nonhumans, and yet we are extremely selective about which animals we keep in or out. This book imagines new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human and asks how we might design with animals and the other lives that share our spaces in mind. \u003cem\u003eAnimal Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocative exploration of how to think about building in a world where humans and other animals are already entangled, whether we acknowledge it or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Our planet teems with an astonishing variety of forms of intelligent life. Yet the ambition of architecture to put the human house in order has contrived to shut them out, forcing them to find room in the cracks where buildings fall apart. Could an architecture of astonishment, open to flights of imagination freed from the rigor of reason, offer greater hope for future conviviality? Paul Dobraszczyk thinks so, and has amassed a wealth of examples, from every corner of the animal kingdom, to prove it.’ — Tim Ingold, author of \u003cem\u003eBeing Alive, The Perception of the Environment and Anthropology: Why It Matters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘An urgent book for anyone who designs, builds, or even just inhabits human architecture. Termites to foxes, rats to bees, salmon to swallows - we have much to learn from their genius strategies to \"house\" themselves. More importantly, we're invited to reconsider ways we might accommodate them. Dobraszczyk is asking us to fundamentally re-imagine the way we make spaces, structures, and cities, not exclusively for humans, but as realms for inter-species cohabitation, actively welcoming them into our lives. Or inviting ourselves into theirs?’ — Fritz Haeg, artist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423778980076,"sku":"9781789146929","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71-xJpLejYL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774430187"},{"product_id":"architecture-and-anarchism-by-paul-dobraszczyk-9781913645175","title":"Architecture and Anarchism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking look at sixty works of anarchist architecture. This book documents and illustrates sixty projects, past and present, that key into a libertarian ethos and desire for diverse self-organised ways of building. They are what this book calls \u003cem\u003eanarchist\u003c\/em\u003e architecture; that is, forms of design and building that embrace the core values of traditional anarchist political theory since its divergence from the mainstream of socialist politics in the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003cem\u003eArchitecture and Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e shows, a vast range of architectural projects reflects some or all of these values, whether they are acknowledged as specifically anarchist or not. From junk playgrounds to Freetown Christiania, Slab City to the Calais Jungle, isolated cabins to intentional communities—all are motivated by core values of autonomy, voluntary association, mutual aid, and self-organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaken as a whole, they are meant as an inspiration to build less uniformly, more inclusively, and more freely. This book broadens existing ideas about what constitutes anarchism in architecture and argues for its nurturing in the built environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnderstood in this way, anarchism offers a powerful way of reconceptualising architecture as an emancipatory, inclusive, ecological, and egalitarian practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47429909283052,"sku":"9781913645175","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781913645175.jpg?v=1774559833"},{"product_id":"botanical-architecture-by-paul-dobraszczyk-9781789149272","title":"Botanical Architecture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen we look at trees, we see a form of natural architecture, and yet we have seemingly always exploited trees to make new buildings of our own. Whereas a tree creates its own structure, humans generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBotanical Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Dobraszczyk looks closely at how elements of plants—seeds, roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers, and canopies—compare with and constitute human-made buildings. Given the omnipresence of plant life in and around our structures, Dobraszczyk argues that we ought to build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBotanical Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e offers a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430183682284,"sku":"9781789149272","price":57.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781789149272.jpg?v=1774559576"},{"product_id":"future-cities-by-paul-dobraszczyk-9781836390244","title":"Future Cities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchitects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. Challenging this opposition, \u003ci\u003eFuture Cities\u003c\/i\u003e teases out the links between speculation and practice, exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities—submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvaged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built. Dubai's recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past, while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Bringing together architecture, fiction, film, and art, the book reconnects the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is already grounded in the present and in creative practices of many kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compendious, dizzying collection of the cities of the future, and their analogues in the present. \u003ci\u003eFuture Cities\u003c\/i\u003e holds out the important hope that our cities could be better—fairer, more equal, more open—rather than just taller and weirder.\u003c\/b\u003e Owen Hatherley, author of \u003ci\u003eMilitant Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrans-Europe Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596457918700,"sku":"9781836390244","price":42.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781836390244-future-cities.jpg?v=1777926228"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/paul-dobraszczyk.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}