Theory of Architecture

Parangolé is an annual, independent journal that challenges ideas on urbanization, design and architecture by initiating a global dialogue on topic...

The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaus...

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

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design...

Building Theories speaks to the value of words in architecture. It addresses the authors fascination with the voices of architects, engineers, buil...

This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history...

This book offers a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture. Design thinking can be regarded as a fundamentally different way...

A thorough description of a built environments life cycle (brief; design; raw material extraction, transport and processing; construction materials...

What ideas are currently energising your architectural work and explorations? Why did these ideas become impactful while others did not? What role ...

By the late 1960s, The Architectural Review had a history of campaigning for important issues related to the built environment. Photography had lon...

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968), one of the main protagonists of the architectural avant-garde in Europe, paradoxically achieved this reputation far f...

Besides the practical and functional needs of the body which must be addressed in buildings and in the wider built environment, human communities h...

Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals examines the hardships and major challenges faced by the hospital system today and presents innova...

The Making and Unmaking of Colonial Cities is a comparative study of architectural space in four (post-)colonial capitals: Belfast, Northern Irelan...

The rediscovery of who we are and where we live has urged us to reconsider our passive attitude. However, there will be no substantial weight if th...

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

Anyone concerned with the history, tradition, and culture of our built environment will sooner or later come across the term Public Humanities. At ...

This step-by-step Pocket Guide will teach you how to draw stunningly beautiful perspectives, complete with reflections and shadows. The Pocket Guid...

digitalSTRUCTURES: Data and Urban Strategies of the Civic Future provokes a larger body of work that engages with digital property and data infrast...

In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning ar...

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pio...

As climate, culture, and technology evolve and become increasingly unpredictable, architectures stasis becomes more incongruous. Werewolf explores ...

In this invaluable and thought-provoking book, Vladimir Belogolovsky reflects on nearly 20 years of conversations with leading creatives from aroun...