Theory of Architecture

Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are constructed, how they become cultural substances...

Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognit...

This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previou...

Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh per...

Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inceptio...

Todays society is making great leaps in its effort to obtain ever more and ever more specific know-how in various specialties, with the consequence...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 2...

Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken...

The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuz...

Daylight is the most important element determining the mood and appearance of architecture, more so than all construction materials. In office buil...

This book is an approachable guide for students and professionals to learn parametric modeling through the lens of architectonics, allowing readers...

Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. From the Apple St...

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemo...

This book is an approachable guide for students and professionals to learn parametric modeling through the lens of architectonics, allowing readers...

As space conditions perception, the analysis of relationships between image and space is highly significant. The current popularity of immersive sp...

Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of architectural interpretation. Architecture affects us on a number of levels. It can cont...

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructu...

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructu...

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this h...

This book compiles a curated selection of texts authored by architects and scholars hailing from Asia, Europe, and North America. Their research, o...