Theory of Architecture

During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been forced to retreat into private shelters and to question the limits of residential typologies. The villa i...

Southeastern Native American forms of domestic architecture underwent multiple transitions between the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries...

Organized chronologically, this volume analyzes the dynamics, convergences, and ideological clashes that have given life to the most significant mo...

The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran explores the evolution of architectural pedagogy during two significant socio-political upheavals in...

Authorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design authorship. As we ...

Buildings are not benign; rather, they commonly manipulate and abuse their human users. Architectural Agents makes the case that buildings act in t...

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: ...

Between 1926 and 1928, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed a house for his sister in Vienna (the Kundmanngasse). This book aims to clarify...

This book combines theory and practice with typical cases study. Pictures and texts are listed in each chapter for easier understanding. It is suit...

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...