Theory of Architecture

What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20t...

The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academi...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In search of new knowledge ...

Originally published in 1971 The Geometry of Environment is a fusion of art and mathematics introducing stimulating ideas from modern geometry, usi...

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance...

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

Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design explains how environment-behavior (EB) studies can contribute to healthcare design research and ...

Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundari...

Designbuild Education adopts the intellectual framework of American Pragmatism, which is a theory of action, to investigate architects compelling u...

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...

The Optimum Imperative examines architectures multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situ...

For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emergi...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with ...

Chinas rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architect...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

The focus of this book is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that i...

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion center...

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provi...

Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Ken...

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (19491976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of t...

Part-to-part relationships and the approach to governing their sensibilities is at the root of all architecture. The need for engaging in a dialogu...