Theory of Architecture

This is the dumbest smart book on contemporary architecture. What really is this "technology" that we speak of? How do we define "intelligence?" ...

This book presents a new take on the evolution of digital design theories in architecture from modernity to today, as they have been inspired both ...

This anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environ...

Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired built environments that have suggested reinvented relationships with their original architectural inspir...

This anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environ...

If participation has been an ideal in politics since ancient democracy, in art it became central only with the avant-gardes emerging from WWI and t...

Should all-inclusive engagement be the major task of architecture? All-Inclusive Engagement in Architecture: Towards the Future of Social Change pr...

Through a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectu...

Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History is an essential introduction to the complex relationship between for...

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity t...

Urban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of a five-year design research project undertaken by professor Joan Busquets and Dingli...

Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. Fi...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long ma...

Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories ‘fl...

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long ma...

Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. Fi...

Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories ‘fl...

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and a...

One of the field’s most innovative thinkers reconsiders the purpose and practice of architecture. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, architec...

Contents Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation - Alberto Perez-Gomez - The Measure of Expression: Physiognomy and Character in the Nouve...

Explains what revivalism, rationalism, eclecticism, and functionalism meant to those who practiced them, explores the influence of the other arts a...

Tony Hunt's Sketchbook illustrates the connection between brain and hand in conceiving structural concepts and details as possible solutions to str...

Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects as they compete for wor...

The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new vol...

"Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review. A fourth edi...

This collection of twenty-one essays, written by colleagues and former students of the architectural historian Spiro Kostof (1936-1991), presents c...

This book examines key moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers different ways in which its image has been formulated and p...

Rudolf Arnheim's great forte is his ability to illuminate the perceptual processes that go into the making and reception of artworks - painting, sc...

This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both 'lived' and 'imagined' sp...

In order for a book to succeed in presenting a theory of architecture, it must address aspects of imagination and creativity as well as the channel...