Theory of architecture books

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Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination

Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing:...

Author: Marco Frascari
ISBN: 9780415779265
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. Organized around eleven exercises,...  Read More >>

Japan-ness in Architecture

Japan-ness in Architecture

Author: Arata Isozaki (Arata Isozaki & Associates) ,  David B. Stewart (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780262516051
Format: Paperback
$69.99

One of Japan's leading architects examines notions of Japan-ness as exemplified by key events in Japanese architectural...  Read More >>

Vorsicht, Baustelle!: Vom Zauber der Kulissen und von der Verantwortung der Architekten

Vorsicht, Baustelle!: Vom Zauber der Kulissen und von...

Author: Gerhard Matzig
ISBN: 9783034606950
Format: Hardback
$43.91

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Nexus Network Journal 12,1: Architecture and Mathematics

Nexus Network Journal 12,1: Architecture and Mathematics...

Author: Kim Williams
ISBN: 9783034605175
Format: Paperback
$174.95

Letter From The Editor.- Letter From The Editor.- Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective.- Giotto and Renaissance...  Read More >>

Nexus Network Journal 12,3: Architecture and Mathematics

Nexus Network Journal 12,3: Architecture and Mathematics...

Author: Kim Williams
ISBN: 9783034605212
Format: Paperback
$174.95

Through time, thought has reflected on the visible processes and products of material craft to explain and train...  Read More >>

Basics

Basics

Author: Franziska Ullmann
ISBN: 9783709103234
Format: Paperback
$89.50

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The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities

The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable...

Author: Esther Charlesworth ,  Rob Adams
ISBN: 9780415572477
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America,...  Read More >>

Experiments: Architektur zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst / Architecture between Sciences and the Arts

Experiments: Architektur zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst...

Author: Ákos Moravánszky ,  Albert Kirchengast
ISBN: 9783868590401
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Beginning with the concept of the 'experiment', this title includes writings that are on architectural theory and...  Read More >>

A Green New Deal: From Geopolitics to Biosphere Politics

A Green New Deal: From Geopolitics to Biosphere Politics...

Author: Enric Ruiz Geli ,  Jeremy Rifkin
ISBN: 9788492861583
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A Green New DealA"" is the transit from a mineral architecture to vegetal architecture.  Read More >>

The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 B.C.--A.D. 700

The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 B.C.--A.D....

Author: Judith McKenzie
ISBN: 9780300170948
Format: Paperback
$147.84

Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has remained mysterious. This book shows...  Read More >>

Romance of Red Stone: An Appreciation of Ornament on Islamic Architecture in India

Romance of Red Stone: An Appreciation of Ornament on...

Author: Yashwant Pitkar ,  Mustansir Dalvi
ISBN: 9788190080941
Format: Hardback
$208.56

Indo-Islamic architecture is characterised by the prolific use of sandstone - red stone. Including pictures, this...  Read More >>

Building Science: Concepts and Applications

Building Science: Concepts and Applications

Author: Jens Pohl (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
ISBN: 9780470655733
Format: Paperback
$109.95

With the improved efficiency of heating, cooling and lighting in buildings crucial to the low carbon targets of...  Read More >>

Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

Author: William M. Taylor ,  Michael P. Levine
ISBN: 9780415589710
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This book describes and accounts for new opportunities for ethical reflection in architecture and adjacent design...  Read More >>

Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

Author: William M. Taylor ,  Michael P. Levine
ISBN: 9780415589727
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Travels in the History of Architecture

Travels in the History of Architecture

Author: Robert Harbison
ISBN: 9781861898180
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The twentieth-century architect Mies van der Rohe once declared that 'Architecture starts when you carefully put...  Read More >>

Pevsner's Architectural Glossary

Pevsner's Architectural Glossary

Author: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300167214
Format: Hardback
$118.80

A companion to the terms used in the ""Pevsner Architectural Guides"". It offers those who have wondered how a headstop...  Read More >>

Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-arts

Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-arts

Author: Jeffrey W. Cody ,  Nancy S. Steinhardt
ISBN: 9780824834562
Format: Hardback
$137.28

In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des...  Read More >>

Modernity Unbound: Architecture Words 7

Modernity Unbound: Architecture Words 7

Author: Detlef Mertins
ISBN: 9781902902890
Format: Paperback
$31.05

For almost 20 years, Detlef Mertins has been a critical voice in renewing our understanding of architectural modernity....  Read More >>

Projectiles: Architecture Words 6

Projectiles: Architecture Words 6

Author: Bernard Cache ,  Clare Barrett
ISBN: 9781902902883
Format: Paperback
$31.05

This collection of essays brings together a number of key texts by Cache, including his 1999 'Plea for Euclid' and...  Read More >>

Inventory Arousal

Inventory Arousal

Author: James Hoff ,  Danny Snelson,
ISBN: 9781907414169
Format: Paperback
$25.88

In February 2008, James Hoff delivered a lecture on minor history in Oslo, Norway. His lecture arranged rare publications,...  Read More >>

Masterworks: Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts

Masterworks: Architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts...

Author: Neil Bingham
ISBN: 9781905711833
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Since its foundation in 1768, the Royal Academy has counted many of Britain's most illustrious architects among...  Read More >>

Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation: The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture

Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation: The Reproduction...

Author: Tahl Kaminer (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9780415578233
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture...  Read More >>

Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing

Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing...

Author: Marco Frascari (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Carleton University, Canada Carleton University, Canada Carleton University, Canada Carleton University, Canada Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781283105033
Format: Electronic book text
$522.72

<p>This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially...  Read More >>

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