Theory of architecture books

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Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on Architecture and the City

Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on...

Author: Teresa Stoppani (University of Greenwich, London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138874046
Format: Paperback
$116.00

A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing the dynamic redefinition...  Read More >>

Commonsense Architecture: A Shelter Handbook

Commonsense Architecture: A Shelter Handbook

Author: John S Taylor
ISBN: 9781593720612
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Thousand-year-old earth-sheltered houses built in China, passive solar heating ideas used by the Pueblo Indians...  Read More >>

The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 1 - History and Epistemology

The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 1 - History...

Author: Luigi Cocchiarella
ISBN: 9783319053493
Format: Hardback
$168.16

"According to Regis Debray, in the present ""Visual Age"", which he has significantly defined as a ""Video-Sphere"",...  Read More >>

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History...

Author: Henriette Steiner ,  Maximilian Sternberg
ISBN: 9781409454793
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. The contributors are architects and...  Read More >>

Architecture and Democracy

Architecture and Democracy

Author: Claude Fayette Bragdon
ISBN: 9781511881968
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This book can lay no claim to unity of theme, since its subjects range from skyscrapers to symbols and soul states;...  Read More >>

Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters

Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters...

Author: Elizabeth Straughan ,  Harriet Hawkins
ISBN: 9781409448013
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding...  Read More >>

Kahn at Penn: Transformative Teacher of Architecture

Kahn at Penn: Transformative Teacher of Architecture...

Author: James Williamson (University of Memphis, United States)
ISBN: 9781138782143
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book is a critical, in-depth study of Kahn’s philosophy of education and his unique pedagogy.  Read More >>

Historical Earthquake-Resistant Timber Frames in the Mediterranean Area

Historical Earthquake-Resistant Timber Frames in the...

Author: Nicola Ruggieri ,  Gennaro Tampone
ISBN: 9783319161860
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT 2013 conference, held in Cosenza, Italy, which...  Read More >>

Starting from I Don't Know: Interviews on Architecture and Craft

Starting from I Don't Know: Interviews on Architecture...

Author: Samuel Smith
ISBN: 9781940190075
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Starting from ‘I Don't Know' documents a 2011 week-long workshop at Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, in which Studio Mumbai's...  Read More >>

Style and Creativity in Design

Style and Creativity in Design

Author: Chiu-Shui Chan
ISBN: 9783319140162
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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How To Pass The Architecture Registration Exam: A Handbook To Taking The ARE

How To Pass The Architecture Registration Exam: A Handbook...

Author: Michael Riscica Aia
ISBN: 9781517475376
Format: Paperback
$118.67

No matter where you are in the ARE process, you will benefit from this book. From deciding if taking the ARE is...  Read More >>

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History...

Author: Henriette Steiner ,  Maximilian Sternberg
ISBN: 9781409454809
Format: Electronic book text
$329.87

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture brings architecture and urbanism...  Read More >>

Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters

Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters...

Author: Dr. Elizabeth Straughan ,  Harriett Hawkins
ISBN: 9781409448020
Format: Electronic book text
$316.67

Geographical Aesthetics places the terms 'aesthetics' and 'geography' under critical question together, responding...  Read More >>

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture...

Author: Nadir Lahiji (University of Canberra, Australia)
ISBN: 9781474242097
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and...  Read More >>

Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance

Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance...

Author: Darell Wayne Fields
ISBN: 9781472567031
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic...  Read More >>

Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume II: The 1500s to the Future

Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future:...

Author: Kim Williams ,  Michael J. Ostwald
ISBN: 9783319001425
Format: Hardback
$317.95

Every age and every culture has relied on the incorporation of mathematics in their works of architecture to imbue...  Read More >>

After the Manifesto

After the Manifesto

Author: Craig Buckley ,  Beatriz Colomina
ISBN: 9781883584870
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position

Reckoning with Colin Rowe: Ten Architects Take Position...

Author: Emmanuel Petit (Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415741552
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Reckoning with Colin Rowe is a thought-provoking discussion of key schools, places, concepts and people of architectural...  Read More >>

Alps N. 7

Alps N. 7

Author: Pino Scaglione
ISBN: 9788898774401
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture in the Ohio Valley-Great Lakes

Building the Past: Prehistoric Wooden Post Architecture...

Author: Brian G. Redmond ,  Robert A. Genheimer
ISBN: 9780813060408
Format: Paperback
$224.27

This volume presents the most current research on domestic, public, and ritual architecture created over four millennia...  Read More >>

Art and Architecture

Art and Architecture

Author: Leo Hansen
ISBN: 9781626616103
Format: Paperback
$201.30

Explores the ways art has been an integral part of architecture and building since prehistory. Readers learn what...  Read More >>

The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

Author: Amir H. Ameri
ISBN: 9781472433183
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy...

Author: Ashraf M. Salama
ISBN: 9781472422873
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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

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