Theory of Architecture

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...

The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the right to the city into todays context of ecological, economic and social crises...

The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selec...

Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, expe...

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aest...

This book explores how the concept of region has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words regio...

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

Philosophy exercises a massive influence on contemporary architectural culture and the understanding of the built environment. Discussions of archi...

Designed by Andrea Palladio, the Villa Pisani at Montagnana was the country residence of a Venetian nobleman, Francesco Pisani. Unusually, its desi...

Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logi...

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of arch...

With the continued growth of PhD programs in architecture and the simultaneous broadening of approaches, InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on ...

People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...

People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically...

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

This companion explores a range of conceptual and practical relationships between sound and space across various disciplines, providing insights fr...