Theory of Architecture

Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated. They offer no response to demographic change or to the fact that there are fewer and fewer...

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...

Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life. The United Nations World Happiness Report 2012 reflects a new worldwide call for gov...

Combining transgender studies with the neomodernist architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with mo...

Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of bou...

Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of makin...

Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of makin...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...

Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how...

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honest...

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment o...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased...

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...

***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...

Defining a research question, describing why it needs to be answered and explaining how methods are selected and applied are challenging tasks for ...

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...

Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction. Tectonic theory is an integrative philosophy examining the re...

At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage...

At a time when climate and ethics have become so important to architectural debate, this book proposes an entirely new way for architects to engage...

***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...

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...

In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their...

A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating in a displeasure with the...

Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New Yorks World Trade C...

Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including ge...

This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center a...