Theory of Architecture
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Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film
Giuliana BrunoCurrent price €58.43Original price €61.50Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, emp...
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The West: From the advent of Christendom to the eve of Reformation
Christopher TadgellCurrent price €66.49Original price €69.99This volume tells the story of European architecture in the middle ages from the destruction by northern barbarians of Rome and the urban society ...
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Hannes Meyers neue Bauhauslehre: Von Dessau bis Mexiko
BirkhauserCurrent price €32.29Original price €33.99Hannes Meyer hat als zweiter Bauhausdirektor die von Walter Gropius und den frühen Meistern begründete Bauhauspädagogikwesentlich verändert und neu...
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Basics Detail Drawing
BirkhauserCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99The aesthetic and constructive quality of a building is also significantly determined by the careful design and implementation of details. Detaile...
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Code: Zwischen Operation und Narration
BirkhauserCurrent price €24.38Original price €26.50The process of coding is a systematic experimentation with signs, symbols, and the construction of larger cultural meanings. The fourth volume in t...
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Fit: An Architect''s Manifesto
Robert GeddesCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99Fit is a book about architecture and society that seeks to fundamentally change how architects and the public think about the task of design. Disti...
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Explorations in Urban Design: An Urban Design Research Primer
Matthew CarmonaCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinar...
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Urban Open Space+: Strategies in between Architecture and Open Space Planning
JOVIS VerlagCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50Gemeinschaftlich genutzte und gestaltete Freiräume sind Ankerpunkte in der Stadt und eine mögliche Antwort auf die Folgen von Urbanisierung und Kli...
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Frei und Losgelöst / Free and Detached: Architekten der Meisterklasse / Architects of the Master Class Wilhelm Holzbauer
BirkhauserCurrent price €40.47Original price €43.99From 1977 until his retirement in 1999, Wilhelm Holzbauer was Head of one of the three master classes for architecture at Vienna University of Appl...
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Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability: Theory, Practice, and Product
Donia ZhangCurrent price €151.04Original price €158.99Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other...
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Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture
Nicholas RayCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with ...
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Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making
Simon UnwinCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99Now in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily a...
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Adaptive Architecture: Changing Parameters and Practice
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €51.51Original price €55.99The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions ...
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Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €63.64Original price €66.99This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and arch...
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The Hermit''s Hut: Asceticism and Architecture in India
Kazi AshrafCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99The Hermits Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually re...
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Metamorphism: Material Change in Architecture
Ákos MoravánszkyCurrent price €50.59Original price €54.99Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are constructed, how they become cultural substances...
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From Object to Experience: The New Culture of Architectural Design
Harry Francis MallgraveCurrent price €37.04Original price €38.99Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognit...
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Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect
Simon UnwinCurrent price €37.04Original price €38.99This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content, building on the success of the previou...
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Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone
Andrew PressmanCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Design thinking is a powerful process that facilitates understanding and framing of problems, enables creative solutions, and may provide fresh per...
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Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet
Simone FerracinaCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Ecologies of Inceptio...
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Creating Desired Futures: How Design Thinking Innovates Business
BirkhauserCurrent price €45.99Original price €49.99Todays society is making great leaps in its effort to obtain ever more and ever more specific know-how in various specialties, with the consequence...
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Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment
Dr Jean-Pierre ChupinCurrent price €94.04Original price €98.99This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 2...
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Ornament and Order: Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon
Rafael SchacterCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken...
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Sordo Madaleno: Urban transformation
Barry BergdollCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99In its 85th year of existence, the architectural practice founded in 1937 by a very young Juan Sordo Madaleno, has decided to publish this unconven...
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Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari
Rowman & Littlefield InternationalCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99The post humanist movement which currently traverses various disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as the role that the thought of Deleuz...
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Basics Lighting Design
Roman SkowranekCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99Daylight is the most important element determining the mood and appearance of architecture, more so than all construction materials. In office buil...
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Architectonics and Parametric Thinking: Computational Modeling for Beginning Design
Angie CarpenterCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99This book is an approachable guide for students and professionals to learn parametric modeling through the lens of architectonics, allowing readers...
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Economy and Architecture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. From the Apple St...
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Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images
Professor Brad PragerCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemo...
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Architectonics and Parametric Thinking: Computational Modeling for Beginning Design
Angie CarpenterCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book is an approachable guide for students and professionals to learn parametric modeling through the lens of architectonics, allowing readers...
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Bild-Raum-Wissenschaft: Studies on Spatially Embedded Art
De GruyterCurrent price €69.34Original price €72.99As space conditions perception, the analysis of relationships between image and space is highly significant. The current popularity of immersive sp...
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Architecture and Interpretation: Essays for Eric Fernie
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €117.79Original price €123.99Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of architectural interpretation. Architecture affects us on a number of levels. It can cont...
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L''Architecture Gothique, Entre Invention Et Rception (Xiie-Xxe Sicle)
PIE - Peter LangCurrent price €39.55Original price €42.99Current price €39.55Original price €42.99Save 8% -
Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City
Ferda KolatanCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructu...
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Misfits & Hybrids: Architectural Artifacts for the 21st-Century City
Ferda KolatanCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructu...
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The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €217.54Original price €228.99Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this h...
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Building Technology and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region: Construction, Materials, Encounters
Springer Verlag SingaporeCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book compiles a curated selection of texts authored by architects and scholars hailing from Asia, Europe, and North America. Their research, o...
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Candide. Journal for Architectural Knowledge: No. 13
Hatje CantzCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99Candide 13 results of a joint effort of scholars, researchers and students who address the theme of Experimental Architecture and Material Culture ...
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The Architecture of Nothingness: An Explanation of the Objective Basis of Beauty in Architecture and the Arts
Frank LyonsCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...
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The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian Perspective
Petra eferinCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Architectures role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, compli...
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Die Stadtstraße: Konferenz zur Schönheit und Lebensfähigkeit der Stadt 13
JOVIS VerlagCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99City streets form the backbone of public spaces. In addition to serve mobility, they provide opportunities for shopping, entertainment, strolling, ...
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Non-Standard Architectural Productions: Between Aesthetic Experience and Social Action
Taylor & Francis IncCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99This book captures concepts and projects that reshape the discipline of architecture by prioritizing people over buildings. In doing so, it uncover...
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Architectural Education Through Materiality: Pedagogies of 20th Century Design
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20t...
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Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability
Christopher DayCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Its widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities the ...
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Instabilities and Potentialities: Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €45.59Original price €47.99Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, Instabilities and Potentialities explores our post-digital culture to ...
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Constructing the Architect: An Introduction to Design, Research, Planning, and Education
Leonard R. BachmanCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99Unlike books that concentrate on the monuments and other artefacts that architects produce, Constructing the Architect focuses on architecture as a...
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