Theory of Architecture

This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture. Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds...

Cantleys work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that main...

The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the...

Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at the heart of architectural discours...

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacem...

This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatu...

Urbanism Beyond 2020 explores numerous questions triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: Why is city making a health project? How are ecological and hu...

For the vast majority of people, the word architecture speaks only of what buildings look like from the outside and what the decor is like on the i...

First published in 2017 as Revisiting Postmodernism, this refreshed edition of a seminal text reflects on a design movement that changed our world....

This volume marks the conclusion of the many years of teaching and research by Dieter Geissbühler, investigating the significance of construction...

This collection of essays highlights current debates for cities undergoing urban renewal, focussing on regional cities as places that lead change. ...

Tales of terror, mythoi of the macabre, phobic fantasies, and numinous narratives have played an integral role in collective cultural expression si...

Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quitothe capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment...

A collection of writings that sets out Kengo Kumas theories of architecture, but also a left field critique of where the architecture world finds i...

A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of Americas leading urban planners and schola...

Climate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time series documents...

This book seeks to revise and revive architectural theory through psychoanalysis as well as to apply psychoanalytic theory to architecture. Its aut...

The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between...

This book provides readers an approach to overall fire and life-life design of high-rise buildings in a way that meets all stakeholders objectives....

Between 1949 and 1989, remarkable buildings of late modernity were constructed in the coastal city of Kuwait. Within these four decades, the city s...

Though sometimes overlooked and underestimated, rural space has played a substantial role in social, cultural, economic, and ideological change. Th...