EMPIRE STATE AND BUILDING

This book considers the material basis of building as a key impetus of both urbanization and the energetics of urban life. The otherwise externalized material geographies and thermodynamics of building’s material basis reveal much about the dynamics and efficacy of how we build. This book plots the...

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Main Author: MOE KIEL
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Language:English
Published: ACTAR 2017
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