Theory of architecture books

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Architectural Atmospheres: On the Experience and Politics of Architecture

Architectural Atmospheres: On the Experience and Politics...

Author: Christian Borch ,  Christian Borch
ISBN: 9783038215127
Format: Hardback
$55.00

There is a growing awareness of the atmospheric dimensions of architecture in contemporary architectural practice...  Read More >>

Building Information Modeling

Building Information Modeling

Author: Karen M Kensek (University of Southern California, USA)
ISBN: 9781306661829
Format: Electronic book text
$364.32

This is adesign guide for architects, engineers, and contractors concerning the principles and specific applications...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Happiness

The Architecture of Happiness

Author: Alain de Botton
ISBN: 9780241970058
Format: Paperback
$27.99

What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and...  Read More >>

Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny

Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief...

Author: Caron Lipman
ISBN: 9781409467724
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book sets out to explore the questions posed by the reality of living in a 'haunted home' it attends to the...  Read More >>

Balinese Architecture

Balinese Architecture

Author: Julian Davison ,  Nengah Enu
ISBN: 9780804844598
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Balinese style villas and resorts are popping up everywhere-from Ibiza to St Barts to Singapore. But what is Balinese...  Read More >>

Architecture in the Netherlands - Yearbook 2013/14

Architecture in the Netherlands - Yearbook 2013/14

Author: Tom Avermaete (Tu Delft the Netherlands) ,  Hans Van Der Heijden
ISBN: 9789462081154
Format: Paperback
$158.40

The annual yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands provides an invaluable overview of contemporary Dutch architecture....  Read More >>

Mapping the Global Architect of Alterity: Practice, Representation and Education

Mapping the Global Architect of Alterity: Practice,...

Author: Michael Jenson (University of Colorado, Denver)
ISBN: 9780415818971
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Exploring the transformations globalization has unleashed on architecture, this book is a call to consider the broad...  Read More >>

Mapping the Global Architect of Alterity: Practice, Representation and Education

Mapping the Global Architect of Alterity: Practice,...

Author: Michael Jenson (University of Colorado, Denver)
ISBN: 9780415818964
Format: Hardback
$242.00

Exploring the transformations globalization has unleashed on architecture, this book is a call to consider the broad...  Read More >>

Der Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza zu Venedig

Der Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza zu Venedig

Author: Ines Lamprecht
ISBN: 9783050064406
Format: Hardback
$301.44

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City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space

City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History...

Author: Swati Chattopadhyay ,  Jeremy White
ISBN: 9780415819008
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"Analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical...  Read More >>

Metropolisarchitecture

Metropolisarchitecture

Author: . Hilberseimer ,  Richard Anderson
ISBN: 9781883584757
Format: Paperback
$52.80

In the 1920s, the urban theory of Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) redefined architecture's relationship to the city....  Read More >>

Consuming Architecture: On the occupation, appropriation and interpretation of buildings

Consuming Architecture: On the occupation, appropriation...

Author: Daniel Maudlin ,  Marcel Vellinga (School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415825009
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Projecting forward in time from the processes of design and construction that are so often the focus of architectural...  Read More >>

Victorian Glory in San Francisco and the Bay Area

Victorian Glory in San Francisco and the Bay Area

Author: Paul Duchscherer
ISBN: 9780764344350
Format: Hardback
$85.00

Local residents, visitors, and armchair travellers will all be delighted and informed by this unique visual resource....  Read More >>

Renewing Architectural Typologies: Mosque, House, Library

Renewing Architectural Typologies: Mosque, House, Library...

Author: Nina Rappaport ,  Leticia Wouk Almino De Souza
ISBN: 9780989331753
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This is the fifth book documenting the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professorship featuring the work of young...  Read More >>

Why Architects Still Draw

Why Architects Still Draw

Author: Paolo Belardi (Professor, University of Perugia) ,  Zachary Nowak
ISBN: 9780262525480
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.  Read More >>

Understanding Architecture

Understanding Architecture

Author: John Francis Kinsella ,  Jose Laborda-Yneva
ISBN: 9781496158772
Format: Paperback
$36.96

Architecture as a visual encounter possesses the undeniable merit of having an aesthetic goal, but this is a secondary...  Read More >>

Urban Literacy - Reading and Writing Architecture

Urban Literacy - Reading and Writing Architecture

Author: Klaske Havik
ISBN: 9789462081215
Format: Paperback
$85.39

"Literature provides essential insights into how people experience, use and imagine places. In an accessible but...  Read More >>

Shadow Line 1978-1984: Adolfo Natalini between the Superstudio and Architecture

Shadow Line 1978-1984: Adolfo Natalini between the Superstudio...

Author: Ventidue Lettera
ISBN: 9788862421072
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A critical montage of unpublished materials shows, under a di erent light, the transition years from the abstract...  Read More >>

Surface and Deep Histories: Critiques and Practices in Art, Architecture and Design

Surface and Deep Histories: Critiques and Practices...

Author: Anuradha Chatterjee
ISBN: 9781443854368
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Surface in architecture has had a deeper and a more pervasive presence in the practice and theory of the discipline...  Read More >>

Vacation Home: Budget, Design, Estimate, and Secure Your Best Price

Vacation Home: Budget, Design, Estimate, and Secure...

Author: Jobe David Leonard
ISBN: 9781496021458
Format: Paperback
$47.49

A how to book for those interested in building a Vacation Home . When you are ready to look at the most important...  Read More >>

Small Home, Tiny House: Budget, Design, Estimate, and Secure Your Best Price

Small Home, Tiny House: Budget, Design, Estimate, and...

Author: Jobe David Leonard
ISBN: 9781496010858
Format: Paperback
$47.49

A how to book for those interested in building a Small or Tiny Home . When you are ready to look at the most important...  Read More >>

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