Theory of Architecture

Welcome to the hybrid home, in which the bathroom has become a temple of wellness, the living room an online couch, and the kitchen a lounge. Every...

This ambitious publication, now revised and expanded, dissects fifty-five modern masterpieces through specially commissioned freehand drawings that...

Skilful architecture without gloss and bling bling In this book, Albert Kirchengast looks at three projects that may serve as models of further co...

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan Sergison demonstrieren auf den...

The exhibition at the vai is the first to offer insights into the development process of the traveling exhibition on architecture in Vorarlberg, wh...

A growing part of the public is concerned about cities being designed and governed in a responsible way. In the contemporary information society, h...

Did you know, Logical Positivists, that the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher whos very in with art worldings these days, was also...

The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identify...

We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and growth. But what do all cities ...

Increasingly, innovative construction design relies on interdisciplinary cooperation between architects, engineers and the construction industry. G...

the global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identify...

Park Muskau, Prince Pücklers extraordinary nineteenth-century creation on both sides of the River Neisse, together with Hints on Landscape Gardenin...

Seit jeher beschäftigt die Menschheit sich mit der Natur als Vorbild, als Ziel und Herausforderung in ihrer Vollkommenheit. Die Natur ist in vieler...

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (18851967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Ge...

The process of coding is a systematic experimentation with signs, symbols, and the construction of larger cultural meanings. The fourth volume in t...

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Londons tall-...

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the re...

The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or e...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the YearSharp, revealing, funny.The GuardianAn original and even occasi...

This book contains 34 technical papers presented at the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference held in Stuttgart 2023. Modern geometric com...

An exploration into media and architecture, Everything All at Once features the experimental work of the New York Citybased studio MOS. By exchangi...

The logics of digital processes in architecture have begun to structure the way that architects design, the way that builders build, and the way th...

Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated. They offer no response to demographic change or to the fact that there are fewer and fewer...

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...

Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for gov...

Combining transgender studies with the neomodernist architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with mo...

Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of bou...

Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of makin...

Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of makin...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...

Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how...

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honest...

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

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

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

In 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...

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

***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...

***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...

Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for ...

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...