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We the Bacteria:Notes Biotic Arch

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:19 +0000

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We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture (Paperback)
by Beatriz Colomnia and Mark Wigley
How architecture must learn to coexist with bacterial life, from the authors of the bestselling Are We Human?
This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Spanish American architectural historian Beatriz Colomina and New Zealand?born architect Mark Wigley draw on the latest research to rethink the past and possible futures of the built environment, exploring the intimate entanglements of the microbes within bodies and buildings over the last 10,000 years, culminating in the antibiotic philosophy of contemporary architecture. Hostility to bacteria must give way to new forms of hospitality from a more symbiotic architecture that learns from bacteria, embracing them and reconnecting with soil, plants and other species. The main goal of the book is to rethink the very idea of shelter in terms of forms of inclusion rather than prophylactic forms of exclusion.

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Therma: Swiss Appliance’s 1904-78

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:19 +0000

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Therma: Swiss Pioneer of Electric Appliances 1904?1978 (Hardcover)
?The first comprehensive account of one of Switzerland’s most innovative electrical appliance companies and its role in industrial design.
?For more than 70 years, the Swiss company Therma produced electronic appliances ranging from irons and stoves to refrigerators and kitchens. The company’s history coincides with the decades of wide-ranging modernization of the Global North over the course of electrification. Therma did not simply submit to this process, but rather actively sought to affirm its competitive edge. Innovations in the field of electric cooking were particularly targeted at the modern housewife?through the gender roles invoked by this image, societal boundaries of the time become visible and legible. This publication offers the first comprehensive account of the history of Therma and its role in the development of industrial design from Art Nouveau to modernism, presented in six chapters filled with a wide range of previously unpublished illustrations.?

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CHIEF ENGINEER WASHINGTON ROEBLING

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:18 +0000

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Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
?The first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story–Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge.?

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Good Energy

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:16 +0000

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Good Energy:? Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life (paperback)
by Jared Green
Good Energy delivers a declaration that renewable energy can be beautiful, affordable, and easy to implement. Jared Green highlights thirty-five case studies from around the world, featuring a wide array of designs and building types? that achieve good energy, good design, and excellent cost-efficiency. Single-family homes, townhouses, community spaces, schools, offices, and even power plants demonstrate that relying on solar, wind, and? geothermal energy doesn’t have to cost more. Each inspiring design harmonizes nature, technology and democratic space and shows that renewable energy can be appealing and accessible to everyone.? Publisher:? Princeton Architectural Press-New York.? 240 pages. Code:? 300166Member Price:? $36.00?

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OUT OF LABYRINTH

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:15 +0000

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Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free (Paperback)
256 pages

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BRUNELLESCHIS DOME

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:15 +0000

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Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
208 pages
?The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it.?

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THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATUR

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:14 +0000

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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019 (Paperback)
?ISBN-10: ?1328519007?
?ISBN-13: 9781328519009
?384 pages?

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THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE WRITING

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:14 +0000

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The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019 (Paperback)
ISBN-10: ?1328519007?
ISBN-13: 9781328519009
384 pages

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AUTONOMY DRIVERLESS CAR

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:13 +0000

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Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car?And How It Will Reshape Our World (Hardcover)

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EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE

Katherine Till — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:33:13 +0000

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Everything All at Once: How to Think Like a Science Guy, Solve Any Problem, and Make a Better World (Paperback)
In the New York Times bestseller Everything All at Once, Bill Nye shows you how thinking like a nerd is the key to changing yourself and the world around you.?

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