Theory of architecture books

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Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home

Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern...

Author: Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) ,  Georgina Downey (University of Adelaide, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350166110
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose...  Read More >>

Louis I. Kahn in Rome and Venice: Tangible Forms

Louis I. Kahn in Rome and Venice: Tangible Forms

Author: Elisabetta Barizza (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032002422
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project...  Read More >>

Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive Temporality of Practice

Affect, Architecture, and Practice: Toward a Disruptive...

Author: Akari Nakai Kidd (Deakin University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032005652
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Affect, Architecture and Practice, builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that has risen within...  Read More >>

Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City: The treatise ‘La Construction des villes’ of 1910/11

Le Corbusier’s Practical Aesthetic of the City: The...

Author: Christoph Schnoor
ISBN: 9780367528355
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced Le Construction...  Read More >>

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography, and Myths

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy: Narratives, Historiography,...

Author: Daria Ricchi
ISBN: 9780367559977
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential...  Read More >>

The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian Perspective

The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian Perspective...

Author: Petra Čeferin
ISBN: 9780367625139
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism...  Read More >>

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament: David Boswell Reid and Disruptive Environmentalism

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament: David Boswell Reid...

Author: Henrik Schoenefeldt (University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780367690083
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental...  Read More >>

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy: Accommodating an Uncertain Future

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy: Accommodating...

Author: Laura Sanderson ,  Sally Stone
ISBN: 9781032004204
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy explores the emergent techniques in architectural education that are...  Read More >>

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines: A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines: A...

Author: Mary Anne Alabanza Akers
ISBN: 9780367441661
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban...  Read More >>

Progressive Studio Pedagogy: Examples from Architecture and Allied Design Fields

Progressive Studio Pedagogy: Examples from Architecture...

Author: Charlie Smith
ISBN: 9780367649142
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions...  Read More >>

Produkte reflexiven Entwerfens

Produkte reflexiven Entwerfens

Author: Margitta Buchert
ISBN: 9783868597493
Format: Paperback
$75.00

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Research-related design and design-related...  Read More >>

Inhabited Machines: Genealogy of an Architectural Concept

Inhabited Machines: Genealogy of an Architectural Concept...

Author: Moritz Gleich
ISBN: 9783035623765
Format: Hardback
$155.00

Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces...  Read More >>

On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 2: Books IV–VI.

On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 2: Books...

Author: Ludger Hovestadt ,  Ludger Hovestadt
ISBN: 9783035625998
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius...  Read More >>

On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 1: Books I–III.

On Digital Architecture in Ten Books: Vol. 1: Books...

Author: Ludger Hovestadt ,  Ludger Hovestadt
ISBN: 9783035625981
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by...  Read More >>

Drinnen ist anders als draußen: Architektur lesen

Drinnen ist anders als draußen: Architektur lesen

Author: Arno Lederer ,  Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir
ISBN: 9783868598728
Format: Hardback
$116.13

Architects who write about the discipline are an endangered species—but where would the profession be if it were...  Read More >>

Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications

Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications...

Author: Umut Toker
ISBN: 9781032136011
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between...  Read More >>

Touching Architecture: Affective Atmospheres and Embodied Encounters

Touching Architecture: Affective Atmospheres and Embodied...

Author: Anthony Brand
ISBN: 9781032049007
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do, and...  Read More >>

Das Holz und seine Verbindungen: Traditionelle Bautechniken in Europa, Japan und China

Das Holz und seine Verbindungen: Traditionelle Bautechniken...

Author: Klaus Zwerger
ISBN: 9783035624793
Format: Hardback
$152.66

Two millennia of wood architecture There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound...  Read More >>

The Architecture of the Facade

The Architecture of the Facade

Author: Randall Korman
ISBN: 9781138851719
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the façade as both a physical and cultural artifact,...  Read More >>

Visualizations of Urban Space: Digital Age, Aesthetics, and Politics

Visualizations of Urban Space: Digital Age, Aesthetics,...

Author: Christiane Wagner
ISBN: 9781032324180
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where...  Read More >>

Expos as Great Urban Projects: Present and Future

Expos as Great Urban Projects: Present and Future

Author: Dinliang Yang ,  Joan Busquets
ISBN: 9781957183220
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Expos as Great Urban Projects: Present and Future is an outcome of a multiyear design research project that has...  Read More >>

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