Theory of architecture books

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Project of Crisis: Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary Architecture

Project of Crisis: Manfredo Tafuri and Contemporary...

Author: Marco Biraghi (Associate Professor of History of Contemporary Architecture, Politecnico di Milano) ,  Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)
ISBN: 9780262519564
Format: Paperback
$66.00

An examination of the influential Italian architectural historian Manfredo Tafuri's historical construction of contemporary...  Read More >>

Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death

Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture...

Author: Donald Kunze ,  David Bertolini
ISBN: 9781409462217
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism....  Read More >>

Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present

Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present

Author: Peggy Deamer
ISBN: 9780415534871
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven...  Read More >>

The Student's Instructor In Drawing And Working The Five Orders Of Architecture

The Student's Instructor In Drawing And Working The...

Author: Peter Nicholson ,  Gary Roberts
ISBN: 9780989747721
Format: Paperback
$41.27

The Student's Instructor, first in 1792 and for more than half a century, was the standard reference book for the...  Read More >>

Arquitetura Espacial: Edifícios para o Espaço Sideral

Arquitetura Espacial: Edifícios para o Espaço Sideral...

Author: Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta
ISBN: 9781492379225
Format: Paperback
$76.24

Em 2002 o arquiteto e urbanista Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta lançou o primeiro curso de arquitetura espacial no...  Read More >>

Space Architecture: Buildings for the Outer Space

Space Architecture: Buildings for the Outer Space

Author: Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta
ISBN: 9781492378952
Format: Paperback
$75.58

In 2012 the architect and urban planner Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta launched the first course of space architecture...  Read More >>

Fisica Tecnica Per L'Architettura: Esercizi Con Soluzioni

Fisica Tecnica Per L'Architettura: Esercizi Con Soluzioni...

Author: Paolo Vercesi
ISBN: 9781492709831
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present

Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present

Author: Peggy Deamer
ISBN: 9780415534888
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven...  Read More >>

History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering Development

History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering Development...

Author: J. M. de la Portilla ,  Marco Ceccarelli
ISBN: 9789400736405
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been presented at the International conferences CIPHI...  Read More >>

Green Dream - How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature

Green Dream - How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature...

Author: Winy Maas
ISBN: 9789056628628
Format: Paperback
$82.80

"Green Dream investigates what ""green"" means in practical terms for design, architecture and urbanism. Led by...  Read More >>

A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture

A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture

Author: Jeffrey Kipnis (Professor, Ohio State University) ,  Alexander Maymind
ISBN: 9780262519557
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Essays on contemporary architecture that are less about making critical judgments than about explication, exegesis,...  Read More >>

On the Formation of the Upper Monastic Area of Seon Buddhist Temples from Korea´s Late Silla to the Goryeo Era

On the Formation of the Upper Monastic Area of Seon...

Author: Lee Seung-yeon
ISBN: 9783319000527
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book analyzes numerous excavated temple ruins and inscriptions recording the lives of eminent monks to show...  Read More >>

Talca: A Matter of Education

Talca: A Matter of Education

Author: Miquel Adria ,  Manuel Cuadra
ISBN: 9786077784371
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This important pedagogical text illustrates the educational model  Read More >>

Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture: Phenomenal Phenomenology

Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation...

Author: M. Reza Shirazi
ISBN: 9780415637954
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy

Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy

Author: Kiel Moe (Harvard University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415824910
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Analyses a wide range of well-designed and illustrated case studies to demonstrate what architecture has to gain...  Read More >>

Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy

Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy

Author: Kiel Moe (Harvard University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415824903
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Analyses a wide range of well-designed and illustrated case studies to demonstrate what architecture has to gain...  Read More >>

Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference

Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference...

Author: Dörte Kuhlmann (Institute of Architectural Sciences, Vienna University of Technology)
ISBN: 9780415622950
Format: Hardback
$315.00

A comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design.  Read More >>

Simple Rules: what the oldtime builders knew

Simple Rules: what the oldtime builders knew

Author: Shannon Taylor Scarlett ,  Shannon Taylor Scarlett
ISBN: 9781484152072
Format: Paperback
$52.77

"""Book no 1: Simplicity is the heart of elegant proportion."""  Read More >>

Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference

Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference...

Author: Dörte Kuhlmann (Institute of Architectural Sciences, Vienna University of Technology)
ISBN: 9780415623001
Format: Paperback
$92.99

A comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design.  Read More >>

Brand-Driven City Building and the Virtualizing of Space

Brand-Driven City Building and the Virtualizing of Space...

Author: Alexander Gutzmer
ISBN: 9780415815345
Format: Hardback
$284.00

An investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial...  Read More >>

The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The Impact of Politics, Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design since 1990

The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The Impact...

Author: Robert Adam
ISBN: 9781443848244
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Taking the break-up of the Soviet Union and the entry of Russia, China and India into the global market as the start...  Read More >>

Emotional Architecture 4

Emotional Architecture 4

Author: Judith Angel ,  Calin Dan
ISBN: 9789490322397
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The Romanian Dutch artist and theorist Ca? lin Dan has developed a  Read More >>

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