Theory of Architecture
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The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de BottonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Phil...
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The Poetics of Space
Gaston BachelardCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places...
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Visions of Architecture
Stephen LeesCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50This fascinating study of the development of Western architecture focuses on a unique selection of 52 buildings - mostly from the last 300 years - ...
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Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London''s Towering Cityscape
Günter GassnerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Londons tall-...
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Archaeoastronomy: Introduction to the Science of Stars and Stones
Giulio MagliCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the re...
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The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe: Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or e...
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Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
Reinier de GraafCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the YearSharp, revealing, funny.The GuardianAn original and even occasi...
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Advances in Architectural Geometry 2023
De GruyterCurrent price €74.09Original price €77.99This book contains 34 technical papers presented at the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference held in Stuttgart 2023. Modern geometric com...
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Everything All At Once: The Film and Software Projects of MOS
Princeton Architectural PressCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99An exploration into media and architecture, Everything All at Once features the experimental work of the New York Citybased studio MOS. By exchangi...
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Digital Workflows in Architecture: DesignAssemblyIndustry
BirkhauserCurrent price €75.04Original price €78.99The logics of digital processes in architecture have begun to structure the way that architects design, the way that builders build, and the way th...
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Future Living: Collective Housing in Japan
Claudia HildnerCurrent price €21.84Original price €22.99Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated. They offer no response to demographic change or to the fact that there are fewer and fewer...
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Why We Build
Rowan MooreCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of b...
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Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...
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Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America
Donia ZhangCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for gov...
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Transgender Architectonics: The Shape of Change in Modernist Space
Lucas CrawfordCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Combining transgender studies with the neomodernist architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with mo...
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Transgression: Towards an expanded field of architecture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €63.64Original price €66.99Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of bou...
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Learning from Failure in the Design Process: Experimenting with Materials
Lisa HuangCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of makin...
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Learning from Failure in the Design Process: Experimenting with Materials
Lisa HuangCurrent price €52.24Original price €54.99Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of makin...
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Writing the Materialities of the Past: Cities and the Architectural Topography of Historical Imagination
Sam GriffithsCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...
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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €206.09Original price €228.99As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...
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NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London
Claire JamiesonCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...
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Architectural Design and Ethics
Thomas FisherCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how...
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The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter
Matthew MindrupCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honest...
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Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond
Ashraf M. SalamaCurrent price €137.07Original price €148.99Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...
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The Architecture of the Illusive Distance
Amir H. AmeriCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...
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Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications
Umut TokerCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural...
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Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction
Tino MagerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...
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Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism
Thorsten Botz-BornsteinCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...
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The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity
Andreas LuescherCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased...
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The Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading
Hans Rudolf MorgenthalerCurrent price €137.07Original price €148.99Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...
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Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century China
Mary PaduaCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...
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Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy
David EscuderoCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...
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Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy
David EscuderoCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...
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Research in Landscape Architecture: Methods and Methodology
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €174.59Original price €193.99Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for ...
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The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity
Johnny RodgerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...
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Introducing Architectural Tectonics: Exploring the Intersection of Design and Construction
Chad SchwartzCurrent price €75.99Original price €79.99Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the re...
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Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
Jin BaekCurrent price €179.54Original price €188.99At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage...
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Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
Jin BaekCurrent price €56.99Original price €59.99At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage...
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The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts
Frank LyonsCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...
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NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London
Claire JamiesonCurrent price €179.54Original price €188.99Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...
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This Thing Called Theory
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their...
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The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency
Tahl KaminerCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the...
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Dahomeys Royal Architecture: An Earthen Record of Construction, Subjugation, and Reclamation
Lynne Ellsworth LarsenCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...
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Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
Paul KidderCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New Yorks World Trade C...
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Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice
Akari Nakai KiddCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including ge...
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Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies: Distinction through the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Ashraf M. SalamaCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center a...
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New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey
Bülent BatumanCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in todays world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consi...
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