Theory of Architecture

This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They al...

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out...

Drawing from a diverse range of interdisciplinary voices, this book explores how spaces of care shape our affective, material, and social forms, fr...

This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education.Annot...

This book explores the creative potential for architecture curricula to integrate solid interdisciplinary thinking in design studio education.Annot...

Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are b...

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experiments—unique interdisciplina...

This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s—Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern archite...

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production t...

This book brings together a dozen of Philip Steadman’s essays and papers on the geometry of architectural and urban form, written over the last 12 ...

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on archit...

An understanding of architects’ character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skill...

For the past 50 years, the advancements of technology have equipped architects with unique tools that have enabled the development of new computer-...

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as we...

This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another, as articulated wi...

Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six p...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the Ri...

This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and th...

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

Digital Monuments radically explodes "iconic architecture" of the new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the digital image....

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultu...

The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferati...

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview ...

The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the d...

The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the d...

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from t...

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book ...

Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and s...

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domestici...

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture’s encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer t...

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imaginat...

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies, and the step towards digitally built objects made to individual specif...

This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857–1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in parti...

This book explores the relationship between architecture and philosophy through a discussion on threshold spaces linking public space with publicly...

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy explores the emergent techniques in architectural education that are helping to bridge the gap between...

A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, w...

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book inv...

David Wang’s Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being...

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

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from t...

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

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in...

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variet...

In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively ‘mediated’ city. Today, more than ever before, the o...

Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six p...