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Bringing together architecture, fiction, film and art, Future Cities re-connects the imaginary city with the real – proposing a future for humanity that is already grounded in the present and in the creative practices of many kinds.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926554399093,"sku":"9781836390244","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836390244_869e7ea8-a2dd-4502-a09f-becbe1725d69.jpg?v=1786027949"},{"product_id":"9781789146929","title":"Animal Architecture – Beasts, Buildings and Us","description":"The spider spinning its web in a dark corner; wasps building a nest under a roof: there is hardly any part of the built environment that can’t be inhabited by nonhumans, and yet we are extremely selective as to which animals we allow in or keep out. This book considers many different animals, opening up new ways of thinking about architecture and the more-than-human. Looking closely at how animals produce spaces for themselves, Paul Dobraszczyk asks what we might require in order to design with animals and become more attuned to the other lifeforms that already use our structures. Animal Architecture is a provocative exploration of building in a world where humans and other animals are already entangled, whether we acknowledge it or not.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306847711605,"sku":"9781789146929","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789146929_72d2efac-95ca-45c7-bde7-fde2d076861a.jpg?v=1786026597"},{"product_id":"9781789149272","title":"Botanical Architecture – Plants, Buildings and Us","description":"When 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. While a tree creates its own structure, we generally destroy other things to build, with increasingly disastrous consequences.   Looking closely at how elements of plants – seeds, roots, trunks, branches, leaves, flowers and canopies – relate to buildings, this book asks what might be required to design with plants and become more attuned to vegetal life in our structures. It also proposes that we build as much for plants as for ourselves, understanding that our lives are always totally dependent on theirs. Botanical Architecture offers a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312914608501,"sku":"9781789149272","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789149272_d824bca6-a6f9-4c4e-b18f-dc00fcbbd79d.jpg?v=1786026716"},{"product_id":"the-matter-of-architecture","title":"The Matter of Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeology is the architecture of our planet and what we build has always been dependent on what the earth has already made. Yet in recent decades we, rather than the planet, have produced the geology of the future: millions of tonnes of concrete, plastic, brick, metal and other fabricated materials are quickly piling up to eventually become new strata.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan we recover a more equitable relationship to the earth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, this book asks what architects do with, and what they might learn from, what the earth creates. From caves and crystals to volcanoes and earthquakes, \u003ci\u003eThe Matter of Architecture \u003c\/i\u003edelves deep to mine a different way of building.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490141938037,"sku":"9781836391838","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836391838.jpg?v=1786442028"},{"product_id":"architecture-and-anarchism-building-without-authority","title":"Architecture and Anarchism – Building without Authority","description":"A 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-organized ways of building. They are what this book calls \"anarchist\" 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.  As Architecture and Anarchism 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-organization. Taken 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. Understood in this way, anarchism offers a powerful way of reconceptualizing architecture as an emancipatory, inclusive, ecological, and egalitarian practice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57492171653493,"sku":"9781913645175","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781913645175.jpg?v=1786528996"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-paul-dobraszczyk.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}