Theory of Architecture

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from t...

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmac...

This book captures concepts and projects that reshape the discipline of architecture by prioritizing people over buildings. In doing so, it uncover...

Cantleys work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that main...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in...

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variet...

In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively mediated city. Today, more than ever before, the omn...

Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Moveme...

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves a...

Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including ge...

Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six p...

The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for th...

First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have giv...

Research in the creative fields of architecture, design, music and the arts has experienced dynamic development for over two decades. The research ...

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

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of arch...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form, it is seen through the eyes of its...

Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the naked power behind its operation. ...

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish...