Theory of Architecture
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Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond
Ashraf M. SalamaCurrent price €137.07Original price €148.99Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...
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The Architecture of the Illusive Distance
Amir H. AmeriCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...
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Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications
Umut TokerCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural...
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Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction
Tino MagerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...
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Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism
Thorsten Botz-BornsteinCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...
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The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity
Andreas LuescherCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased...
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The Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading
Hans Rudolf MorgenthalerCurrent price €137.07Original price €148.99Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...
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Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century China
Mary PaduaCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...
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Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy
David EscuderoCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...
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Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy
David EscuderoCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...
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Research in Landscape Architecture: Methods and Methodology
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €174.59Original price €193.99Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for ...
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The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity
Johnny RodgerCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...
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Introducing Architectural Tectonics: Exploring the Intersection of Design and Construction
Chad SchwartzCurrent price €75.99Original price €79.99Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the re...
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Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
Jin BaekCurrent price €179.54Original price €188.99At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage...
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Architecture as the Ethics of Climate
Jin BaekCurrent price €56.99Original price €59.99At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage...
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The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts
Frank LyonsCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...
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NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London
Claire JamiesonCurrent price €179.54Original price €188.99Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...
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This Thing Called Theory
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their...
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The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency
Tahl KaminerCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the...
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Dahomeys Royal Architecture: An Earthen Record of Construction, Subjugation, and Reclamation
Lynne Ellsworth LarsenCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...
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Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture
Paul KidderCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New Yorks World Trade C...
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Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice
Akari Nakai KiddCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including ge...
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Architectural Excellence in Islamic Societies: Distinction through the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Ashraf M. SalamaCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center a...
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New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey
Bülent BatumanCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in todays world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consi...
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