Theory of Architecture

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sci...

Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective....

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (19081961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as wel...

This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another, as articulated wi...

This collection is inspired by the transdisciplinary possibilities posed by the connections between space and justice. Drawing on a variety of theo...

Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six p...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts o...

This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental 'containment', while also fostering exchange ...

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

There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the...

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approache...

This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and th...

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

Digital Monuments radically explodes iconic architecture of the new millennium and its hijacking of the public imagination via the digital image. H...

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultu...

The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferati...

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, ...

Analyzing a range of ideas from biological, evolutionary and anthropological theories to a variety of feminist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist a...

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview ...

The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the d...

The Architecture of Persistence argues that continued human use is the ultimate measure of sustainability in architecture, and that expanding the d...

Architecture on the Borderline interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeab...

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Ha...