Theory of Architecture

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

In this book, Clarkeson reads Palladio's drawings as being carefully crafted, having integrity in their own right, with their own story to tell, an...

This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattaris philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on lat...

This book is written for those who are interested in the experience and the meaning of architecture in general. The speed and directness with which...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...

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

Originally published in 1997, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. ...

Originally published in 1995 as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new se...

Though much attention has been given to the prefabrication of architecture, there has been little discussion on the influence and importance of pre...

Though much attention has been given to the prefabrication of architecture, there has been little discussion on the influence and importance of pre...

Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specif...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Reflexive Design presents an integrative approach, both in theory an...

In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses ...

Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century archite...

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They...

In this enchanting volume, a combination of an artists sketchbook and an architectural design statement, Architect Warren Schwartz, a Founding Prin...

Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philos...

What do designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and politicians have in common? They want to shape the future. But how can you make the future that ...

A broad range of diverse voices in architecture discuss issues of equity, access, and social justice embedded in and related to the built environme...

Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the q...

This book examines the window in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 2000). It draws new attenti...

While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architectures temporal dimensions. Through a series of close rea...