Theory of Architecture

Global pandemics, smart technologies, demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home’s evolution...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) After its foundation in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus developed into an...

This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national ...

Rekonstruktion bleibt ein Reizthema. Der Autor eröffnet eine pragmatische Sichtweise auf die polarisierende, oft polemisch geführte Diskussion. Erg...

Design Expertise explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, ski...

This title critiques the legacy and ongoing influence of Deleuze on the discipline and practice of architecture. Since the 1980s, Deleuze's philoso...

Whatever ‘ugliness’ is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock...

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves. But this poses a problem for architecture: ...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds—and of all those wh...

Meeting children as equals is not only a question of pedagogical attitude. Designing Spaces for Children shows how architecture and interior design...

This book offers an in-depth look at space frame architecture, including space frame projects completed by such notable architects as I. M. Pei, Bu...

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemo...

Paul Spencer Byard, an architect and lawyer, looks at more than sixty combinations, built and unbuilt, for criteria to help protect the public inte...

This is the second volume in a series from the Yale School of Architecture documenting a collaborative design studio. Students, together with the d...

Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychologica...