Theory of Architecture

For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emergi...

Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment. Throughout the 19th century, th...

Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this pragmatism as a way of thi...

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is f...

This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national ...

While our era of constant crisis demands stronger social and political engagement, architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong ...

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They...

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly disc...

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production t...

In many different parts of the world modern furniture elements have served as material expressions of power in the post-war era. They were often me...

The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of the planet’s urban regions are living spaces and working landscapes. Despite this, we unde...

This volume focuses on socio- spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments an...

The work of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) offers important insights into the ways in which artifacts addre...

This book critically examines the "mutual illuminations" between literature, religion, architecture, films, performative arts, paintings, woodworks...

Design, History and Time reflects on the nature of time in relation to design, in both past and contemporary contexts. In contrast to a traditiona...

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provi...

The work of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) offers important insights into the ways in which artifacts addre...

From cathedrals to cubicles, people go to great lengths and expense to design their living and working environments. They want their spaces to be p...

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies ...

A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew. In search of new knowledge ...

Mid-20th century sacred architecture in America sought to bridge modernism with religion by abstracting cultural and faith traditions and pushing t...