{"title":"Series: Critiques","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eCritiques\u003c\/em\u003e series offers a diverse exploration of ideas across philosophy, business, history, and technology. Readers can expect insightful examinations that challenge conventional thinking and invite deeper reflection on topics ranging from ethical investing to the nuances of altruism and cultural narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles that span from practical guides to imaginative storytelling, this collection blends sharp analysis with engaging perspectives. Whether delving into finance, computing, or travel, \u003cem\u003eCritiques\u003c\/em\u003e encourages readers to reconsider familiar subjects through a thoughtful and sometimes unexpected lens.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"architecture-festival-and-the-city-9781138362345","title":"Architecture, Festival and the City","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically, the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city. Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArchitecture has long served as a key aspect of this process, exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the construction of temporary buildings, the ‘dressing’ of existing urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part of the background fabric of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book examines how festivals can be used as a lens to examine the relationship between city and citizen and questions whether this is fixed through time, or has been transformed as a response to changes in the modern urban condition. \u003cem\u003eArchitecture, Festival and the City\u003c\/em\u003e looks at the multilayered nature of a diverse selection of festivals and the way they incorporate both orderly (authoritative) and disorderly (subversive) components. The aim is to reveal how the civic nature of urban space is utilised through festival to represent ideas of belonging and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecent political and social gatherings also raise questions about the relationship of these events to ‘ritual’ and whether traditional practices can serve as meaningful references in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605030846700,"sku":"9781138362345","price":104.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138362345-architecture-festival-and-the-city.jpg?v=1778121014"},{"product_id":"this-thing-called-theory-9781138222991","title":"This Thing Called Theory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, \u003ci\u003eThis Thing Called Theory\u003c\/i\u003e explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and borrows from other disciplines, thus opening up architecture itself and showing how architecture is inextricably connected to other social and theoretical practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sections move gradually from the specifics of architectural thought – its history, theory, and criticism – and their ongoing relation with philosophy, to the critical positions formulated through architecture’s specific forms of expression, and onto more recent forms of architecture’s engagement and self-definition. The book’s thematic sessions are concluded by and interspersed with a series of shorter critical position texts, which, together, propose a new vision of the contemporary role of theory in architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges, overall, is a critical and productive role for theory in architecture today: theory as a proposition, theory as task and as a ‘risk’ of architecture. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47608198234348,"sku":"9781138222991","price":423.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138222991-this-thing-called-theory.jpg?v=1778189167"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-critiques.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}