Theory of Architecture

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places...

This book traces the legacy of the Department Building at the Ulm School of Design, where experimentation and intellectual rigor redefined modern a...

From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) acco...

A fast-moving summary of the history of architecture, retold as the story of a remarkable transformation: from the architecture of antiquity to a n...

High-tech Architecture - Preserving the Heritage of Innovative Construction The high-tech architecture of the 1970s–1990s is typically characteriz...

HIGH-TECH HERITAGE AND DENKMAL POSTMODERNE IN THE SET - CURRENT STATE OF SCIENCE AND MONUMENT PROTECTION IN TWO CONGRESS VOLUMES Denkmal Postmodern...

Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building explores, describes, and demonstrates theories and strategies for design in...

From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary...

Self-Regulated Design Learning: A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design reframes how educators in architecture, landscape archi...

In this thought-provoking book, Richard Hill examines the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Grounding his argume...

Drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, fr...

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities presents a curated selection of projects and texts contributed by leading internat...

Our world is full of lands, cities, buildings and artefacts, many of which are deposits and residues of colonial times and, more pervasively, colon...

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open ...

Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings, in the eighteenth century, t...

As a child, architect Arna Ma??ki?? experienced firsthand the Bosnian civil war, and with her family she fled her native country for the Netherland...

The Routledge Companion to Criticality in Art, Architecture, and Design presents an in-depth exploration of criticism and criticality in theory and...

Self-Regulated Design Learning: A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design reframes how educators in architecture, landscape archi...

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

With LUNCH 14, the editors wondered if they could use the frontier story itself to de-centre its power. They divide this task into four sections:...

Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'lef...

Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'lef...

The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and ...

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design...

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and a...

Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Interpretation of Heidegger’s Philosophy investigates the theoretical contribution of the world-renowned Norwegian archi...

A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on...

Old things, historic things, smelly dirty things, all the things that were considered the very opposite of "contemporary," have suddenly irrupted f...

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and...

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and...

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three de...

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expa...

Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education provides historical and computational insights into beginning design education for architecture....

Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importan...

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expa...

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three de...

Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituali...

Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the re...

The building shell is the interface with the outside world, it offers protection and at the same time represents its owners or occupants. But what ...

This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathem...

Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment ...