Theory of Architecture

Landscape Architecture Criticism offers techniques, perspectives and theories which relate to landscape architecture, a field very different from t...

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book ...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

Northern Ireland has a complex urbanism with multilayered socio-spatial politics. In this environment, issues of communication, self-representation...

Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and s...

Coding, Shaping, Making combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future...

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domestici...

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architectures encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism. As the world moves closer to...

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imaginat...

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies, and the step towards digitally built objects made to individual specif...

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenementsthis book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland betw...

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colon...

This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (18571931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in partic...

On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place...

This book explores the relationship between architecture and philosophy through a discussion on threshold spaces linking public space with publicly...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy explores the emergent techniques in architectural education that are helping to bridge the gap between...

A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, w...

Drawing Parallels expands your understanding of the workings of architects by looking at their work from an alternative perspective. The book focus...

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (19342015). Vesely was a leading authority on phil...

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book inv...

David Wangs Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being ...

The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and ...