Theory of Architecture

Seemingly immobile and durable, architecture remains a challenge in the modern world of collecting and exhibiting. From the late eighteenth century...

Architecture in all its dimensions can only be experienced with our senses through an actual being-in-space. We orient ourselves visually and acous...

CARTHA is a non-profit curated platform for sharing different forms of critical thinking regarding architecture and society, founded in 2015. Throu...

This ambitious book is aimed at a new generation of architects who take technology for granted but seek to understand the principles of what makes ...

How and why do spectacular buildings get commissioned and procured? What are their visible urban effects? What can urban planners, architects, and ...

Bertrand Goldberg (1913-1997) was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive...

An architect''s defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media. Why would an architect reach for a pencil when draw...

In the Autumn of 2007, Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012), long admired for his visionary architecture and mastery of drawing, began a blog. Part forum and ...

If youve ever wondered what goes through architects minds when they design buildings, youll be happy to know that theres no shortage of brilliant r...

A fascinating history of the carbon footprint of our concrete worldfrom ancient Roman architecture to urban cityscapesand the trouble it spells for...

In recent years, perspective views have swept into the foreground in the field of landscape architecture. They have become the showpiece of any new...

The authors writings are based on his lecture series presented in 1968 at Yale University called Architecture: The Making of Metaphors which was th...

Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture aims to explore parallel approaches to the conceptualisation and composition ...

The book documents an event that took place in May 2009 at the Architectural Association to discuss, remember, criticise and attempt to answer the ...

These essays elaborate on such key modernist tropes as transparency, glass architecture, organicism, life and event, sameness and difference. Previ...

A unique and engaging book, Designing Change is a visual discourse into the creative psyche of the interior-architects at DPD. It explores and illu...

The concept of Layered Morphologies is a theoretical and methodological approach that investigates the coevolutionary nature of architecture and se...

Library as Stoa is a reflection on the building design and construction in essays and photographs of Snohetta''s Charles Library at Temple Universi...

In Berlin, science, architecture, and the city are interwoven in a unique way: what was originally a single palace in the historic centre gradually...

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings are deemed ugly, what are the con...