Theory of Architecture

In what is arguably a most crucial time for discourse around issues that are concerned with the political, institutional, and social shape of world...

Fire safety is an important part of building design. It consists of measures to prevent fires from starting, to facilitate the rescue of individua...

Amid Japans political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenz Tanges Pla...

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...

One of Japan''s leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural history from the seventh t...

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a c...

The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture ...

A handbook of best practices, strategies, and speculation for architecture''s future. Architecture has always been intimately intertwined with i...

The name Farsons is as synonymous with Malta as Guinness is with Ireland. Louis Farrugias visionary decision to conduct a European architectural co...

CARTHA magazine is a non-commercial magazine dedicated to architectural theory. It is a curated platform for sharing different forms of critical th...

Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, façade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stai...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in the classical surveys of Sigfried Giedion, Kenneth Frampton, William Curtis, Alan Colqu...

Based on aspects arising from architectural work and academic teaching, this essay addresses the wide-ranging issues involved with innovatively int...

In 1927, while a student of architecture at the Moscow Vhutemas, Georgii Krutikov presented a vision for a flying city. More than just a flight of ...

The story behind a little-known episode in the annals of modern architecture and psychology - a 1950s creativity study of the top architects of the...

Portrait of Studio Hani Rashid Building on the previous volume Re: Futures (2017), Re: Action presents a selection of innovative designs by Studio...

Aimed at current bachelors degree students, recent graduates and professionals looking for a specialisation, Masterclass: Architecture provides an ...

SOM 10 is the latest in a series of volumes presenting projects from the offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Projects featured here include ...

In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek Na...

In this moment of seemingly compounding global crises and existential concerns about the future of the planet, LA+ pauses to consider the values an...