Theory of Architecture

Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediat...

Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediat...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the Ri...

Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey studies the unfolding of modern architecture in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s. The book brings together scholar...

While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinc...

Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, 'posthuman' and ...

Highways are more than mere traffic routes – they are symbols of speed and mobility; in 1930s Germany, they served propaganda purposes. Today they ...

This year Pressing Matters 9 was completely rethought; the aim was to present an Open Source publication that shares the Department of Architecture...

Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding th...

Finland is the undisputed pioneer in architectural education. In 1998, it was one of the first countries in Europe to develop an official architec...

This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and arch...

Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding th...

The Landscape Project is a collection of essays by the landscape architecture faculty at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsyl...

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It ex...

Carbon is everywhere — in the soil, in the air, in life. Carbon is the foundation of architecture and the built environment. Carbon is also infamou...

Typologies for Big Words is a collection of projects redesigning traditional building and landscape types as openings within the interiority of the...

In recent years, visual urbanism has emerged as a new research field. Photographers and researchers had been experimenting with critical visual met...

This book traces the historical identity of Kashmir within the context of Islamic religious architecture between early fourteenth and mid-eighteent...

The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new vol...

Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book inclu...

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