Theory of Architecture

Skilful architecture without gloss and bling bling In this book, Albert Kirchengast looks at three projects that may serve as models of further co...

Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan Sergison demonstrieren auf den...

“Did you know, Logical Positivists, that the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who’s very in with art worldings these days, was al...

The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identify...

the global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identify...

Park Muskau, Prince Pückler’s extraordinary nineteenth-century creation on both sides of the River Neisse, together with Hints on Landscape Gardeni...

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Ger...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even oc...

Single-family houses are becoming increasingly outdated.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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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