Theory of architecture books

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Bhabha for Architects

Bhabha for Architects

Author: Felipe Hernandez (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9780415477468
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on the work of critic Homi K. Bhabha, who's work has...  Read More >>

Adolf Krischanitz: Writings on Architecture

Adolf Krischanitz: Writings on Architecture

Author: Adolf Krischanitz
ISBN: 9783775724081
Format: Hardback
$145.20

"This monograph on Adolf Krischanitz (born 1946) is intended by him to read like a ""stream that encompasses all...  Read More >>

The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture

The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and...

Author: Harry Francis Mallgrave (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
ISBN: 9781405195850
Format: Hardback
$201.95

This richly detailed study explores the issue of how architects view the phenomenal world. Mallgrave sketches various...  Read More >>

Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture

Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema...

Author: Michael Tawa
ISBN: 9781443817455
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture aims to explore parallel approaches to the...  Read More >>

Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture

Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture...

Author: Allison Dutoit (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Juliet Odgers (Lecturer, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415553667
Format: Paperback
$142.43

There is widespread disagreement about what quality in architecture is, and how it can be measured and achieved....  Read More >>

Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture

Quality Out of Control: Standards for Measuring Architecture...

Author: Allison Dutoit (Cardiff University, UK) ,  Juliet Odgers (Lecturer, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415553650
Format: Hardback
$435.60

There is widespread disagreement about what quality in architecture is, and how it can be measured and achieved....  Read More >>

Thinking Space

Thinking Space

Author: Irmgard Frank
ISBN: 9783721207682
Format: Hardback
$242.88

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GSD PLATFORM II : A YEAR OF RESEARCH THROUGH STUDIO WORK

GSD PLATFORM II : A YEAR OF RESEARCH THROUGH STUDIO...

Author: VV.AA. ,  Michael Meredith
ISBN: 9788492861002
Format: Book
$105.47

Provides a sampling of the most salient research and design explorations undertaken at the Harvard Graduate School...  Read More >>

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular...

Author: Jean-Francois Lejeune ,  Michelangelo Sabatino
ISBN: 9780415776349
Format: Paperback
$84.00

Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice...  Read More >>

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular...

Author: Jean-Francois Lejeune ,  Michelangelo Sabatino
ISBN: 9780415776332
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Considering the influence of the forms and tectonics of the Mediterranean vernacular on modern architectural practice...  Read More >>

Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity

Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space...

Author: Lorens Holm
ISBN: 9780415419680
Format: Hardback
$210.00

Thoroughly illustrated, this text argues that perspective remains the primary and most satisfying way of representing...  Read More >>

Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity

Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier: Architecture, Space...

Author: Lorens Holm
ISBN: 9780415419697
Format: Paperback
$84.00

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Speech: Materiality

Speech: Materiality

Author:
ISBN: 9783869220147
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Modern architecture has at its disposal an almost infinite palette of materials. This title includes examples that...  Read More >>

The Amateur's Guide to Architecture

The Amateur's Guide to Architecture

Author: S Sophia Beale
ISBN: 9781151874900
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Publisher: Edinburgh J. Grant Publication date: 1905 Subjects: Architecture -- Study and teaching Architecture Notes:...  Read More >>

Preference-based Design in Architecture

Preference-based Design in Architecture

Author: R. Binnekamp
ISBN: 9781607505501
Format: Paperback
$229.68

Proposes the Preference-Based Design procedure that offers a design methodology in which the feasibility of considered...  Read More >>

Victorian Houses and Their Details

Victorian Houses and Their Details

Author: Helen Long
ISBN: 9781281006028
Format: Electronic book text
$464.38

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Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and Nature

Taking Shape: A New Contract Between Architecture and...

Author: Susannah Hagan (University of East London, UK)
ISBN: 9781281021953
Format: Electronic book text
$559.42

Taking Shape' explores the evolution of scientific and academic theories that have resulted in the concept of sustainability....  Read More >>

Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism: Collected Essays, 1964-1988

Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism: Collected...

Author: Robert A. M. Stern ,  Cynthia Davidson
ISBN: 9780300153972
Format: Hardback
$105.60

A collection of essays that brackets the years defined by the changes in architectural thinking introduced by Robert...  Read More >>

Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures

Agency: Working With Uncertain Architectures

Author: Florian Kossak (University of Sheffield, UK) ,  Doina Petrescu (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9780415566025
Format: Paperback
$85.00

Presenting thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship...  Read More >>

Understanding the CDM 2007 Regulations

Understanding the CDM 2007 Regulations

Author: Owen V Griffiths (Total CDM Solutions, UK) ,  Alun V Griffiths (Total CDM Solutions, UK)
ISBN: 9781283045391
Format: Electronic book text
$475.07

Almost 3000 lives have been lost in the UK construction industry over the last twenty-five years, in addition to...  Read More >>

Towards a New Architect

Towards a New Architect

Author: Yasmin Shariff ,  Jane Tankard
ISBN: 9781282737204
Format: Electronic book text
$332.51

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Economics of Crime, The: Lessons for and from Latin America

Economics of Crime, The: Lessons for and from Latin...

Author: Henry Ford II Professor of Economics Sebastian Edwards (World Bank Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles) ,  Ernesto Schargrodsky
ISBN: 9781282775688
Format: Electronic book text
$348.48

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world. This book features contributors who address a variety...  Read More >>

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