Theory of Architecture

Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty. A...

Against those who consider architecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably ...

In this collection of idiosyncratic lessons, architect and teacher Pier Paolo Tamburelli engages with the very foundations of arch-itecture, propos...

In recent years, China has issued several basin-scale plans to deal with pressing resources, environmental, and social problems caused by regional ...

The Olympiapark in Munich is one of the most famous projects of the landscape architect Gunther Grzimek (1915-1996), yet his entire oeuvre has prov...

In his new book Absolute Beginners, acclaimed Spanish architect Inaki Abalos explores forms of innovation in architecture. Drawing on diverse mater...

Institutions the state, the church, the army, the judiciary, the university, the bank, etc. organise social relations. As social structures, they ...

Architecture and design exhibitions have long been important public sites of broadcasting, experimentation, position-taking, and the interrogation ...

Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Usin...

Architecture and ekphrasis examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Usin...

How architectural drawings emerged as aesthetic objects, promoted by a network of galleries, collectors, and institutions, and how this changed the...

At the turn to the twentieth century, architects began to realize that architecture should no longer find ist expression in historic styles. They h...

The career of architect Sergei Tchoban, born 1962 and educated in St. Petersburg, follows multiple yet closely linked trajectories in his native Ru...

Our contemporary condition, governed by the abstract apparatus of the capitalist market, demands a critical reading of the distribution, ownership,...

Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film...

Photography has both manipulated and bolstered our appreciation of modern architecture. With beautiful photographs of private and public buildings ...

Architects write a lot, especially now that conceptual aspects have become central in advanced reflections and narrative forms increasingly interse...

'City Riffs' traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also ...