Theory of Architecture

Architects and fiction writers share the same ambition: to imagine new worlds into being. Every architectural proposition is a kind of fiction befo...

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation ...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond c...

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for ...

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond c...

The publication rethinks climate control a key concern of the discipline of architecture through the lens of city climate phenomena over the cour...

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the pioneering works, events, and people that contributed to the paradigm shift defined by computa...

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the pioneering works, events, and people that contributed to the paradigm shift defined by computa...

This anthology radically resituates architecture as a support system in the service of infrastructure. A collection of 12 critical essays and creat...

From casting to sculpture Cast materials become solid, yet they originate as fluid materials that can take on any imaginable form. This simple yet...

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives...

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives...

Lars Lerup's conceptual explorations as a designer and thinker have been inspired by philosophers and artists from Foucault to Beckett. Lerup's fur...

This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between video games and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines....

This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between video games and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines....

Technical Drawing deals with the representation of plans throughout all phases of a project. For students, the primary focus is on the development ...

The theory of Co-Corporeality is based on a conception of the built environment as a biological entity that opens up a space for coexistence and in...

The MIT based SENSEable City Lab under Carlo Ratti is one of the research centers that deal with the flow of people and goods, but also of refuse t...

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural ...

In wachsenden Städten haben Schulstandorte das Potenzial, polyvalente Anlagen sowie lebendige Quartierszentren zu werden. UMBAU 31 untersucht sowoh...

This book explores extraordinary 20th-century utopian architecture from the prominent architecture groups Archigram and Future Systems. Filled with...

This book shifts the frame of reference for todays network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th cen...