Theory of Architecture

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visi...

The Rationalist Reader incorporates the first documentary collection of writing on rationalism in twentieth century architecture, providing an acce...

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

Urban Latin America explores the relationship between images, words and the built environment using an engaging variety of methods and sources, wit...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COLVIN PRIZE 2021! Awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, the Colvin Prize is one of the world's ...

The Rationalist Reader incorporates the first documentary collection of writing on rationalism in twentieth century architecture, providing an acce...

At the formation of the new Republic of Ireland, the construction of new infrastructures was seen as an essential element in the building of the ne...

As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book rev...

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interes...

The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museu...

Fluid Space and Transformational Learning presents a critique of the interlocking questions of ‘school architecture’ and education and attempts to ...

Freud for Architects explains what Freud offers to the understanding of architectural creativity and architectural experience, with case examples f...

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

Originally published in 1971 The Geometry of Environment is a fusion of art and mathematics introducing stimulating ideas from modern geometry, usi...

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlight...

Museum Thresholds is a progressive, interdisciplinary volume and the first to explore the importance and potential of entrance spaces for visitor e...

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They...

Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment. Throughout the 19th century, th...

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

How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborator...

This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral te...

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case s...

This book vividly illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded ...

Over the last decade, critical theories of different kinds have had an enormous impact on many different disciplines and practices. Intersections i...

This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and mean...

Fluid Space and Transformational Learning presents a critique of the interlocking questions of ‘school architecture’ and education and attempts to ...

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a ne...

Marginalized due to the deployment of both a highly specialized jargon and a novel stylistic approach meant to upset established norms and conventi...

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

Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world, and understanding the use of space is fundamental to archae...

Phenomenology, Materiality, Cybernetics, Palimpsest, Cyborgs, Landscape Urbanism, Typology, Semiotics, Deconstruction - the minefield of theoretica...

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the ...

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned...

In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remi...

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned...

Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space inste...

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

The built heritage of postwar modernism has been under threat from climate change and the high expectations of society for years. The tremendous vo...

This book redresses the under-representation in existing English-language literature, of the global formation and development of global cities whic...

The Theory of Architecture Concepts, Themes & Practices Paul-Alan Johnson Although it has long been thought that theory directs architectural p...

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process...

Risk is many things. It can invoke fun, temptation, or danger; it can be laced with uncertainty, fear, or hope. But most importantly for the design...

Analogical thought is fundamental to creativity. The use of analogy can help to solve problems, make connections between disciplines, and use those...

Colour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embo...

50 years Learning from Las Vegas From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown’s advocacy for "messy vitality" has ...

The mind’s eye as a design principle Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) outlined his theory of the “smallest possible intervention” back in the early 1...

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