Theory of Architecture
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The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de BottonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Phil...
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The Poetics of Space
Gaston BachelardCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places...
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Visions of Architecture
Stephen LeesCurrent price €30.88Original price €32.50This fascinating study of the development of Western architecture focuses on a unique selection of 52 buildings - mostly from the last 300 years - ...
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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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Instituting Worlds: Architecture and Islands
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specif...
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Reflexives Entwerfen / Reflexive Design: Entwerfen und Forschen in der Architektur / Design and Research in Architecture
JOVIS VerlagCurrent price €34.68Original price €36.50Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Reflexive Design presents an integrative approach, both in theory an...
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The Digital, a Continent?: Nature and Poetics
Vera BühlmannCurrent price €86.44Original price €90.99In The Digital, a Continent?, the author argues in favor of a way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new materialism. She uses ...
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Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality
Michael JasperCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century archite...
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Shadow: the architectural power of withholding light
Simon UnwinCurrent price €27.08Original price €28.50Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They...
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The Shape of Music: Warren Schwartz
Mark VolpeCurrent price €60.79Original price €63.99In this enchanting volume, a combination of an artists sketchbook and an architectural design statement, Architect Warren Schwartz, a Founding Prin...
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Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building
Alexander TsigkasCurrent price €136.79Original price €143.99Between Theory and Practice in Architectural Design: Imagination and Interdisciplinarity in the Art of Building examines the intersection of philos...
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Practices of Futurecasting: Ways of sharing imagined tomorrows
BirkhauserCurrent price €45.04Original price €52.99What do designers, scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians have in common? They want to shape the future. But how can you make the future - that ...
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Margin and Text: Amplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture
Chronicle BooksCurrent price €32.29Original price €33.99A broad range of diverse voices in architecture discuss issues of equity, access, and social justice embedded in and related to the built environme...
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Queering Architecture: Methods, Practices, Spaces, Pedagogies
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the q...
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Following Norberg-Schulz: An Architectural History through the Essay Film
Dr Anna Ulrikke AndersenCurrent price €100.27Original price €108.99This book examines the window in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 2000). It draws new attenti...
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Building Time: Architecture, event, and experience
Dr David LeatherbarrowCurrent price €89.29Original price €93.99While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architectures temporal dimensions. Through a series of close rea...
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Italian Imprints on Twentieth-Century Architecture
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €103.54Original price €108.99Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academys venerati...
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Hollow Land: Israels Architecture of Occupation
Eyal WeizmanCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel's mechanisms of control and its tran...
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Hip-Hop Architecture
Sekou CookeCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectu...
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Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €95.67Original price €103.99Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reasses...
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Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure
Lars SpuybroekCurrent price €111.59Original price €123.99How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our mindsand of all those who...
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Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience
Christian ParrenoCurrent price €103.54Original price €108.99Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surrou...
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Architecture after Covid
Prof Albena YanevaCurrent price €75.04Original price €78.99In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, ca...
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Denkmal Postmoderne & High-Tech Heritage SET
BirkhauserCurrent price €120.64Original price €126.99HIGH-TECH HERITAGE AND DENKMAL POSTMODERNE IN THE SET - CURRENT STATE OF SCIENCE AND MONUMENT PROTECTION IN TWO CONGRESS VOLUMES Denkmal Postmodern...
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Denkmal Postmoderne & High-Tech Heritage SET
BirkhauserCurrent price €120.64Original price €126.99HIGH-TECH HERITAGE AND DENKMAL POSTMODERNE IN THE SET - CURRENT STATE OF SCIENCE AND MONUMENT PROTECTION IN TWO CONGRESS VOLUMES Denkmal Postmodern...
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The Role of Architects in Informal Settlements: Claiming the Right to the City
Nastaran SedehiCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions, these areas present one of the g...
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Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
Jeremy TillCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting ...
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Digital Fabrication and the Design Build Studio
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99This book explores the connection between digital fabrication and the design build studio in both academic and professional studios.The book presen...
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Common Space: The City as Commons
Associate Professor Stavros StavridesCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common S...
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Life
Ian RitchieCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Ian Ritchie is recognized as one of the UKs most visionary architects, renowned for his innovative approach that synthesises multiple creative disc...
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Non-Referential Architecture: Ideated by Valerio Olgiati - Written by Markus Breitschmid
Markus BreitschmidCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50More than ever, architecture is in need of provocation, a new path beyond the traditional notion that buildings must serve as vessels, or symbols o...
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The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity
Inaki AbalosCurrent price €42.74Original price €44.99With his book The Good Life, Inaki Abalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others ...
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2G Essays: Fernanda Canales. My House, Your City.: Privacy in a Shared World
Fernanda CanalesCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99Current price €37.99Original price €39.99Save 5% -
Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape: Primitivism and Progress
Lindsay HarrisCurrent price €126.64Original price €148.99Photography, Architecture, and the Modern Italian Landscape explores the impact of photography at a pivotal moment in Italian architecture and cult...
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Religious Buildings Made in Byzantium: Old Monuments, New Interpretations?
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €128.69Original price €142.99Each chapter of this volume provides a window into the vibrant world of Middle and Late Byzantium, offering new insights into the complexities of B...
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Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture: Lost and Found in Translation
De GruyterCurrent price €99.74Original price €104.99Citare in Italian means both to cite and to quote. Citazione means both citation and quotation. This volume, with many discussions of annotations o...
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Hans Scharoun and China: The East Asian Depth of Neues Bauen
Liyang DingCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book presents the first systematic overview and analysis of the deep connection between Scharoun and China, offering insights into East-West c...
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Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment
Dr Jean-Pierre ChupinCurrent price €30.39Original price €31.99This 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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Watch This Space: Exploring Cinematic Intersections Between the Body, Architecture and the City
Intellect BooksCurrent price €103.95Original price €112.99This book, and its individual essays, examine key emerging and evolving practices, theories and methodologies that operate in the blurred boundary ...
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African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks
Jonathan Alfred NobleCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Since 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...
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African Identity in Post-Apartheid Public Architecture: White Skin, Black Masks
Jonathan Alfred NobleCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Since 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...
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A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
Simon JenkinsCurrent price €28.89Original price €33.99The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surround...
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Renewing Design with Communities: Another Way of Building
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a spec...
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Changing the Game: How to be a Sustainable and Regenerative Small Practice
Lanre GbloadeCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99Architecture has hit something of a sticking point when it comes to adapting to contemporary life and its various concerns the finite resources of...
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Lager als Architektur: Kriegsflüchtlingslager der Habsburgermonarchie und Architektur der Moderne
Antje Senarclens de GrancyCurrent price €85.49Original price €89.99Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this b...
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