Theory of Architecture

The book argues for a shift of orientation in architectural thought, from what the building is to what it does; it also shows that the workings or ...

After Belonging examines the objects, spaces, and territories of our transforming condition of be- longing. The global circulation of people, infor...

The Revenge of the Real envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognises that how populations govern themselves is literally a matter of life a...

Architecture Asia, as the official journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia, aims to provide a forum not only for presenting Asian phenomena...

It is impossible to dissociate the evolution of Enric Miralles' architecture from the development of his own system of representation. Founded on...

Haute Couture Architecture: The Art of Living Without Walls by Anneke van Waesberghe is so much more than a book about tented green building archit...

More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols o...

Pressing Matters is an exciting design and research compilation from PennDesign's Department of Architecture, featuring recent student work, news, ...

Pratt Sessions presents a series of conversations between notable practitioners and thinkers. It is a distributed symposium that is curated and yet...

Pressing Matters VI is an exciting compilation of design and research performed at PennDesign''s Department of Architecture. It features recent wor...

First used in the 15th century, the word transparent has origins in the Medieval Latin - transparere, meaning to show through. Its original Latin d...

What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction...

A fascinating history of the carbon footprint of our concrete world -- from ancient Roman architecture to urban cityscapes -- and the trouble it sp...

Dessau may be a mere speck on the map, but to this day the city of Bauhaus still occupies the most important place in the development of the New Bu...

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885-1967) redefined architecture's relationship to the city. His proposal for a high-rise c...

Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this cl...

An Atlas of Another America is a work of speculative architectural fiction and theoretical analysis of the American single-family house and its nat...

Jan Turnovsky (1942-95), born and educated in Prague, emigrated to Austria in 1966 and worked for various architectural firms in Vienna. In 1975 he...

The threshold as both boundary and bridge: investigations of spaces, public and private, local and global. Today, spaces no longer represent a b...

A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanismIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one anotheror to t...