Theory of architecture books

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The Architecture of Use: Aesthetics and Function in Architectural Design

The Architecture of Use: Aesthetics and Function in...

Author: Stephen Grabow (University of Kansas, USA) ,  Kent Spreckelmeyer (University of Kansas, USA)
ISBN: 9780415843027
Format: Paperback
$124.00

Analyzes ten buildings embodying the human experience and clarifies that function in architecture is a generative...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Use: Aesthetics and Function in Architectural Design

The Architecture of Use: Aesthetics and Function in...

Author: Stephen Grabow (University of Kansas, USA) ,  Kent Spreckelmeyer (University of Kansas, USA)
ISBN: 9780415843010
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Analyzes ten buildings embodying the human experience and clarifies that function in architecture is a generative...  Read More >>

Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals): How People Are Creating Their Own Environment

Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals): How People...

Author: Nick Wates (Nick Wates Associates, UK) ,  Charles Knevitt
ISBN: 9780415708586
Format: Paperback
$79.99

First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture,...  Read More >>

CHD Chandigarh - South Asian Architectural Guides

CHD Chandigarh - South Asian Architectural Guides

Author: Vikramaditya Prakash
ISBN: 9788494234200
Format: Paperback
$56.93

Chandigarh is a unique city, besides being one of the newest city of the twentieth century that is characterized...  Read More >>

Materials, Technologies and Practice in Historic Heritage Structures

Materials, Technologies and Practice in Historic Heritage...

Author: Maria Bostenaru-Dan ,  Richard Pøikryl
ISBN: 9789400791039
Format: Paperback
$362.22

This book considers the architectural, aesthetic and cultural value of materials in restoring historic buildings....  Read More >>

The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds

The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds

Author: Chris Abel ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719096129
Format: Paperback
$56.99

"Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the ""extended self""...  Read More >>

Spatial Design Education

Spatial Design Education

Author: Ashraf M Salama, Professor (Qatar University, Qatar)
ISBN: 9781336283527
Format: Electronic book text
$356.27

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

Kahn at Penn

Kahn at Penn

Author: James Williamson (University of Memphis, United States)
ISBN: 9781336221192
Format: Electronic book text
$409.20

Louis I. Kahn is widely known as an architect of powerful buildings. But although much has been said about his buildings,...  Read More >>

Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes

Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes...

Author: Nnamdi Elleh
ISBN: 9781409467847
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds

The Extended Self: Architecture, Memes and Minds

Author: Chris Abel ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719096112
Format: Hardback
$183.99

"Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the ""extended self""...  Read More >>

Louis I. Kahn: Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete, 1960-1974

Louis I. Kahn: Towards the Zero Degree of Concrete,...

Author: Anna Rosellini
ISBN: 9782940222773
Format: Hardback
$320.85

Through sheer determination and courage, Kahn has researched the nature of concrete in the form of precast, cast...  Read More >>

Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'

Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'

Author: Vitruvius ,  Ingrid D. Rowland (Southwestern University, Texas )
ISBN: 9780511840951
Format: Undefined
$594.00

This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the Misadventures of Precision

The Architecture of Error: Matter, Measure, and the...

Author: Francesca Hughes
ISBN: 9780262526364
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Why the rise of redundant precision in architecture and the accompanying fear of error are key to understanding...  Read More >>

Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures: Australia and Beyond

Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures:...

Author: Janet McGaw ,  Anoma Pieris (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415815321
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book pursues a new architecture for colonised Indigenous cultures that moves beyond this quandary, and takes...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Industry: Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and Planning

The Architecture of Industry: Changing Paradigms in...

Author: Mathew Aitchison ,  Dr. Eamonn Canniffe
ISBN: 9781472432995
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Through a series of case studies, this book documents the changing nature of industrial building and planning from...  Read More >>

Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art and Architecture

Retracing the Expanded Field: Encounters between Art...

Author: Spyros Papapetros (Associate Professor, Princeton University) ,  Julian Rose (Senior Editor, Artforum International)
ISBN: 9780262027595
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Scholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art...  Read More >>

Die Nationale Bautradition Denken: Architekturideologie Und Sozialistischer Realismus in Der Ddr Der Funfziger Jahre

Die Nationale Bautradition Denken: Architekturideologie...

Author: Alexander Karrasch
ISBN: 9783786127185
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Alexander Karrasch arbeitet die ideologischen, philosophischen und gesellschaftspolitischen Hintergrunde der Bemuhungen...  Read More >>

Raw: Architectural Engagements with Nature

Raw: Architectural Engagements with Nature

Author: Solveig Bøe ,  Hege Charlotte Faber
ISBN: 9781472421005
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Nature inheres in many aesthetic forms of expression. In architecture, however, nature emerges with a particular...  Read More >>

Paradigms in Computing: Making, Machines, and Models for Design Agency in Architecture

Paradigms in Computing: Making, Machines, and Models...

Author: David Jason Gerber ,  Mariana Ibanez
ISBN: 9781938740091
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Paradigms in Computing: Making, Machines, and Models for Design Agency in Architecture investigates and instigates...  Read More >>

We Want World Wonders - Building Architectural Myths. The Why Factory 7

We Want World Wonders - Building Architectural Myths....

Author: Winy Maas
ISBN: 9789462081772
Format: Paperback
$85.39

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Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty

Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty

Author: Benjamin Flowers ,  Dr. Eamonn Canniffe
ISBN: 9781409445753
Format: Hardback
$284.00

After two decades which saw the construction industry flourish, has come a sudden period of instability, where architecture...  Read More >>

Louis I. Kahn in Conversation: Interviews with John W. Cook and Heinrich Klotz, 1969-70

Louis I. Kahn in Conversation: Interviews with John...

Author: Jules David Prown ,  Karen E. Denavit
ISBN: 9780300208146
Format: Hardback
$72.95

In 1969 and 1970, Louis I Kahn (1901-1974) - one of America's greatest 20th-century architects - participated in...  Read More >>

The Architect's Tour: Notes for the Design Traveler

The Architect's Tour: Notes for the Design Traveler...

Author: Ben Jacks
ISBN: 9781941892022
Format: Paperback
$86.99

"If you want to be a good designer, set aside the glossy magazines, turn off your computer, and seek out first-hand...  Read More >>

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