Theory of Architecture

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...

The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-po...

Architecture and the Virtual is a study of architecture as it is reflected in the work of seven contemporary artists, working with the tools of our...

Peter Eisenman-world-famous for his Holocaust Memorial in Berlin (2005)-confronts historicism with theory and the analysis of form, whose distingui...

Architecture is commonplace. We inhabit it and use it; it is constantly present; it serves as foreground and background and usually has a story to ...

This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and ...

High-tech Architecture - Preserving the Heritage of Innovative Construction The high-tech architecture of the 1970s1990s is typically characterize...

The Architectural Heritage of Postmodernism - Current State of Research on Architecture and Monument Preservation The architectural heritage of po...

The Studio for Immediate Spaces (SIS) is a two-year MA programme at Amsterdam's renowned Sandberg Instituut. It aims to explore and shape spatial...

Griffins, centaurs and gorgons: the Greek imagination teems with wondrous, yet often monstrous, hybrids. Jeremy McInerney discusses how these compo...

What properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect? What role does the perception of the audience play in how stage information is re...

The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic...

How much house does a man need? The space we live in, reduced to a minimum, has been fascinating us for generations the writer Thoreau lived in...

Urban planning is a keystone in the materialization of the Nordic welfare states. That is not to say that there is one particular city form or plan...

Die Anthologie Theorien des Wohnens versammelt erstmals systematisch die zentralen Wohntheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die hier ausgewählten philoso...

The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining near...

This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life. The contribution...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

For me Word Paintings involve the collection and creation of words and phrases that describe the architectural spirit. The Word Paintings arrive be...

This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment...

At their peak, architectural marvels such as the Sagrada Família, the Tower of London, the MosqueCathedral of Córdoba, and the Eiffel tower, had a ...

Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are ...

Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the s...

Network of superlatives Frederick Kiesler was a committed networker and communicated regularly with the whos who of the avant-garde. He was an imp...

Inverse Utopia looks at urbanism from the perspective of modernism and postmodernism, as well as at how commercialization has transformed the moder...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) GAM 20 begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem Alltäglichen in der Archi...

Queering Architecture explores what it means to queer architecture, challenging the methods and methodologies of architectural discourse and subver...

A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sturdy advice, delivered with humour and the occasional splinter' GuardianGorgeous . . . contains fascinating insights a...

In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spa...

Published 100 years ago, Le Corbusiers Vers une Architecture was conceived as a way of making sense architecturally of a moment of profound social ...