Theory of Architecture
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A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and Typology
Dongwoo YimCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...
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The Optimum Imperative: Czech Architecture for the Socialist Lifestyle, 19381968
Ana MiljackiCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99The Optimum Imperative examines architectures multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situ...
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Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China: Intermediate Criticality in the Journal Time + Architecture
Guanghui DingCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emergi...
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Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture
Nicholas RayCurrent price €132.04Original price €138.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with ...
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Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China
Nicholas JewellCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Chinas rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architect...
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Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 19701990
Lidia KleinCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...
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Political Postmodernisms: Architecture in Chile and Poland, 19701990
Lidia KleinCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...
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Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World
Katharine S. WillisCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99The focus of this book is on understanding and explaining the way that our increasingly networked world impacts on the legibility of cities; that i...
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Water and Sacred Architecture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion center...
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The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provi...
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Informal Settlements of the Global South
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Ken...
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Modernism in Late-Mao China: Architecture for Foreign Affairs in Beijing, Guangzhou and Overseas, 19691976
Ke SongCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (19491976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of t...
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Assembly: Matter, Lineament, and Aggregated Systems in Architectural Production
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Part-to-part relationships and the approach to governing their sensibilities is at the root of all architecture. The need for engaging in a dialogu...
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Assembly: Matter, Lineament, and Aggregated Systems in Architectural Production
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Living in Paradise: 97 Tips for Architects
Ondrej SluneckoCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99Current price €37.99Original price €39.99Save 5% -
The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the right to the city into todays context of ecological, economic and social crises...
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Remote Places, Public Spaces: The Story of Creative Works with Ten Small Communities
BirkhauserCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selec...
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The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory
SAGE Publications IncCurrent price €155.79Original price €163.99Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, expe...
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Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aest...
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Region
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99This book explores how the concept of region has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words regio...
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Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History
Tamara MetzCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99Building Meaning: An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History is an essential introduction to the complex relationship between for...
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G. E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography
Angelo MaggiCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99...the structure of G. E. Kidder Smith Builds, which traces his career first through books and then with exhibitions, means the book is more biblio...
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The Hybrid Practitioner: Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture
Leuven University PressCurrent price €63.64Original price €66.99Current price €63.64Original price €66.99Save 5% -
Architectural Principles in the Age of Fraud
Branko MitrovicCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Philosophy exercises a massive influence on contemporary architectural culture and the understanding of the built environment. Discussions of archi...
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Villa and Palace in the Venetian Renaissance: The Palladian House Between Country and City
Johanna D. HeinrichsCurrent price €108.29Original price €113.99Designed by Andrea Palladio, the Villa Pisani at Montagnana was the country residence of a Venetian nobleman, Francesco Pisani. Unusually, its desi...
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Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy
MIT Press LtdCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Current price €27.89Original price €30.99Save 10% -
New Geographies, 5: The Mediterranean
Harvard Graduate School of DesignCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I: A New Framework for Architecture
Patrik SchumacherCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logi...
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Valences of Historiography: Essays on Architectural History
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of arch...
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The Reality of the City: Continuity and Change in Urban Architecture. Learning from the Seventies
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Current price €22.79Original price €23.99Save 5% -
InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on Doctoral Research in Architecture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99With the continued growth of PhD programs in architecture and the simultaneous broadening of approaches, InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on ...
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People and Spaces: Experiences, Ethics, and Intent
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...
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People and Spaces: Experiences, Ethics, and Intent
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99People and Spaces explores our relationship with our environments, unveiling the unique ways that built environments and human behavior interact in...
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The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment
Dean HawkesCurrent price €127.29Original price €133.99The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically...
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Figures: Essays on Contemporary Architecture
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers LimitedCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99Current price €48.44Original price €50.99Save 5% -
Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building
Heather BarkerCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building explores, describes, and demonstrates theories and strategies for design in...
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The Routledge Companion to the Sound of Space
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €206.09Original price €228.99This companion explores a range of conceptual and practical relationships between sound and space across various disciplines, providing insights fr...
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Reading Uncensored Palladio in Light of Australian Vernacular Architecture
Antonia ClarkesonCurrent price €92.14Original price €96.99In this book, Clarkeson reads Palladio's drawings as being carefully crafted, having integrity in their own right, with their own story to tell, an...
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Architecture After Deleuze and Guattari
Chris L. SmithCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattaris philosophy and architecture. Presenting their wide-ranging impact on lat...
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Experience and Meaning Of Architecture
Misak TerzibasiyanCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99This book is written for those who are interested in the experience and the meaning of architecture in general. The speed and directness with which...
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Modern Architecture: The Basics
Graham LiveseyCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...
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Modern Architecture: The Basics
Graham LiveseyCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...
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The Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I: A New Framework for Architecture
Patrik SchumacherCurrent price €113.99Original price €119.99Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logi...
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Tradition, Location and Community: Place-making and Development
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99Originally published in 1997, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...
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Aesthetics, Well-being and Health: Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. ...
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On the Aesthetics of Architecture: A Psychological Approach to the Structure and the Order of Perceived Architectural Space
Ralf WeberCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99Originally published in 1995 as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new se...
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The Prefabricated Interior
Deborah SchneidermanCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Though much attention has been given to the prefabrication of architecture, there has been little discussion on the influence and importance of pre...
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The Prefabricated Interior
Deborah SchneidermanCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Though much attention has been given to the prefabrication of architecture, there has been little discussion on the influence and importance of pre...
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