Theory of architecture books

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Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World

Netspaces: Space and Place in a Networked World

Author: Katharine S. Willis
ISBN: 9781138573390
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book draws on theoretical approaches and contextualises the discussion with empirical case studies to illustrate...  Read More >>

Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis Reloaded

Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture: Praxis...

Author: Gevork Hartoonian
ISBN: 9781138573376
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Bringing together essays and interviews from leading scholars, this volume investigates and critically addresses...  Read More >>

The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter

The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and...

Author: Matthew Mindrup
ISBN: 9781138573512
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Focusing on matter as the premise of an architect’s imagination, each chapter identifies and graphically illustrates...  Read More >>

Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond

Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy...

Author: Ashraf M. Salama
ISBN: 9781138573505
Format: Paperback
$96.99

In this book, design education is dealt with as a paradigm whose evolutionary processes, underpinning theories,...  Read More >>

Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages of Peace, Images of War

Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1959: Messages...

Author: Rika Devos ,  Alexander Ortenberg
ISBN: 9781138573352
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European...  Read More >>

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution: constructed space conceptualized

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution: constructed...

Author: Lynn Churchill ,  Dianne Smith
ISBN: 9781138567788
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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The Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading

The Meaning of Modern Architecture: Its Inner Necessity...

Author: Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler
ISBN: 9781138572348
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes...  Read More >>

The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

Author: Amir H. Ameri
ISBN: 9781138567412
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Focusing on three secular, institutional building types: libraries, museums and cinemas, this book explores the...  Read More >>

Intersections of Space and Ethos

Intersections of Space and Ethos

Author: Kyriaki Tsoukala ,  Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou
ISBN: 9781138567368
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Investigates the complex relations between architecture, space and ethics from divergent and inter-disciplinary...  Read More >>

Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China: Intermediate Criticality in the Journal Time + Architecture

Constructing a Place of Critical Architecture in China:...

Author: Guanghui Ding
ISBN: 9781138573321
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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German Façade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500 to Modernism

German Façade Design: Traditions of Screening from 1500...

Author: Randall Ott
ISBN: 9781138573420
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book posits the 'screen façade' as a counter-narrative critiquing the essentialist, 'authentic' canon currently...  Read More >>

Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory

Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the Influence...

Author: Yvonne Rydin (University College London, UK) ,  Laura Tate
ISBN: 9781138573475
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book brings together an international range of contributors to explore such potential of Actor Network Theory...  Read More >>

Through the Healing Glass: Shaping the Modern Body through Glass Architecture, 1925-35

Through the Healing Glass: Shaping the Modern Body through...

Author: John Sadar (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138573437
Format: Paperback
$114.00

A history of the promotion of links between glass, light and health in architecture.  Read More >>

Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural Multiculturalism in North America

Courtyard Housing for Health and Happiness: Architectural...

Author: Donia Zhang
ISBN: 9781138567757
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Metamorphism: Material Change in Architecture

Metamorphism: Material Change in Architecture

Author: Akos Moravanszky
ISBN: 9783035608069
Format: Electronic book text
$141.28

Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are constructed...  Read More >>

Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

Author: Peter Šenk
ISBN: 9781138280359
Format: Paperback
$65.99

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Digital and Smart Cities

Digital and Smart Cities

Author: Katharine Willis ,  Alessandro Aurigi
ISBN: 9781138890374
Format: Hardback
$242.00

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Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture

Author: Peter Šenk
ISBN: 9781138280342
Format: Hardback
$242.00

"This book investigates the architectural design and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s,...  Read More >>

A Torch at Midnight: A Study of Ruskin's The Seven Lamps of Architecture

A Torch at Midnight: A Study of Ruskin's The Seven Lamps...

Author: Robert Brownell
ISBN: 9781843680772
Format: Paperback
$77.60

A study of John Ruskin's first work of architectural criticism  Read More >>

Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays

Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays

Author: Ed Wall ,  Tim Waterman (The Bartlett School of Architeture, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138125575
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated...  Read More >>

Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces

Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces...

Author: Gernot Bohme ,  A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul
ISBN: 9781474258081
Format: Hardback
$130.00

There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary...  Read More >>

Archifutures 4: Thresholds

Archifutures 4: Thresholds

Author: & beyond
ISBN: 9788494752339
Format: Paperback
$51.62

This is the fourth volume in the important ARCHIFUTURES series. THRESHOLDS offers a series of articles by eminent...  Read More >>

John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture

Author: Anuradha Chatterjee (Architectural author and theorist, Australia)
ISBN: 9781472449436
Format: Hardback
$231.00

"Through the lenses of dress studies, gender and visual studies, this volume assembles Ruskin’s theory of surface...  Read More >>

Kant for Architects

Kant for Architects

Author: Diane Morgan
ISBN: 9780415698696
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Students of architecture will gain much from considering Kant, whose critical project consisted in testing and exploring...  Read More >>

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