Theory of Architecture

Candide 13 results of a joint effort of scholars, researchers and students who address the theme of Experimental Architecture and Material Culture ...

***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...

Architectures role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, compli...

City streets form the backbone of public spaces. In addition to serve mobility, they provide opportunities for shopping, entertainment, strolling, ...

This book captures concepts and projects that reshape the discipline of architecture by prioritizing people over buildings. In doing so, it uncover...

What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20t...

Its widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities the ...

Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, Instabilities and Potentialities explores our post-digital culture to ...

Unlike books that concentrate on the monuments and other artefacts that architects produce, Constructing the Architect focuses on architecture as a...

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life. But in the contemporary Western city, producti...

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) Wer baut, sieht sich mit einem Dickicht von Positionen konfrontiert...

A systemic transformation is underway in architectural design, engineering and construction. The discipline and profession of architecture is bein...

The city is the largest human artefact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities. The particular di...

Classicism is ubiquitous, from the facade of Selfridges to the letterhead of The Times, to the pedimented porches of neo-Georgian housing estates. ...

This book evaluates how we experience and understand buildings in different ways depending upon our academic and professional background. With refe...

A French-language edition, which offers a new approach Weizman names documentary architecture, meaning that to write about the history of a buildin...

Learn about key concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings in The Architecture Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book ...

At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and hi...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The word time occurs more than seven times as often as space in written English, yet in the...

In their new book, the international CARTHA network engages with the question of forming identity in society and the role that architecture plays i...

Text in English & German. Chaos and anarchy represent the opposite pole to an ordered life. Nothing works any more, everything is devastated, e...