Theory of Architecture

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experimentsunique interdisciplinar...

En la antigüedad, los primeros arquitectos amasaban la tierra con sus pies para elaborar ladrillos, hoy en día esa imagen está bastante alejada de ...

Esta obra imprescindible da al profesionista y al usuario, de manera clara y sencilla, todos los datos de la antropometría, análisis de mobiliario,...

This volume tells the story of European architecture in the middle ages from the destruction by northern barbarians of Rome and the urban society ...

Hannes Meyer hat als zweiter Bauhausdirektor die von Walter Gropius und den frühen Meistern begründete Bauhauspädagogikwesentlich verändert und neu...

The aesthetic and constructive quality of a building is also significantly determined by the careful design and implementation of details. Detaile...

The process of coding is a systematic experimentation with signs, symbols, and the construction of larger cultural meanings. The fourth volume in t...

Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Disti...

Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinar...

Gemeinschaftlich genutzte und gestaltete Freiräume sind Ankerpunkte in der Stadt und eine mögliche Antwort auf die Folgen von Urbanisierung und Kli...

From 1977 until his retirement in 1999, Wilhelm Holzbauer was Head of one of the three master classes for architecture at Vienna University of Appl...

Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other...

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

Now in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily a...

The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions ...

This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and arch...

The Hermits Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually re...

Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are constructed, how they become cultural substances...

Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognit...

This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previou...

Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh per...

Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inceptio...

Todays society is making great leaps in its effort to obtain ever more and ever more specific know-how in various specialties, with the consequence...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 2...

Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken...

The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuz...

Daylight is the most important element determining the mood and appearance of architecture, more so than all construction materials. In office buil...