Theory of Architecture

Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'lef...

The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and ...

In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design...

The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture collects thirty essays from a transdisciplinary array of experts on biology in art and a...

Christian Norberg-Schulz’s Interpretation of Heidegger’s Philosophy investigates the theoretical contribution of the world-renowned Norwegian archi...

A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on...

Old things, historic things, smelly dirty things, all the things that were considered the very opposite of "contemporary," have suddenly irrupted f...

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and...

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and...

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three de...

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expa...

Rethinking Basic Design in Architectural Education provides historical and computational insights into beginning design education for architecture....

Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importan...

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expa...

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari’s scholarship and teachings over the last three de...

Architecture has long been understood as a cultural discipline able to articulate the human condition and lift the human spirit, yet the spirituali...

Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the re...

The building shell is the interface with the outside world, it offers protection and at the same time represents its owners or occupants. But what ...

This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathem...

Without environmental justice, there can be no social justice. The critical symptoms of human suffering, climate collapse and animal maltreatment ...

This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese t...

First published in 2009, Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism is a detailed round of pedagogical dialogue on architecture and urban...

Global pandemics, smart technologies, demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home’s evolution...