Theory of architecture books

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The Rhetoric of Modernism: Le Corbusier as a Lecturer

The Rhetoric of Modernism: Le Corbusier as a Lecturer...

Author: Tim Benton
ISBN: 9783764389444
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Le Corbusier presented his work to the world in his lectures. In this volume, the numerous excerpts, preliminary...  Read More >>

Analysing Architecture

Analysing Architecture

Author: Simon Unwin (University of Dundee, UK)
ISBN: 9781281900715
Format: Electronic book text
$871.20

Clear and accessible, Analysing Architecture opens a fresh way to understanding architecture. It offers a unique...  Read More >>

Spatial Practice: Axi:ome

Spatial Practice: Axi:ome

Author: Heather Woofer
ISBN: 9780981462851
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Thinking Big: The History of Davis Langdon

Thinking Big: The History of Davis Langdon

Author: Jim Meikle
ISBN: 9781906155711
Format: Hardback
$77.50

Thinking Big: A History of Davis Langdon provides a history of one of the world's largest quantity surveying companies....  Read More >>

Architecture Depends

Architecture Depends

Author: Jeremy Till (Head of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London)
ISBN: 9780262012539
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want...  Read More >>

Architecture Oriented Otherwise

Architecture Oriented Otherwise

Author: David Leatherbarrow
ISBN: 9781568988115
Format: Hardback
$105.47

So much writing about architecture tends to evaluate it on the basis of its intentions: how closely it corresponds...  Read More >>

Curating Architecture and the City

Curating Architecture and the City

Author: Sarah Chaplin ,  Sarah Chaplin
ISBN: 9781282065680
Format: Electronic book text
$522.72

Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, this book addresses the collection, representation...  Read More >>

Dwelling and Architecture: From Heidegger to Koolhaas

Dwelling and Architecture: From Heidegger to Koolhaas...

Author: Pavlos Lefas ,  Rod Hackney
ISBN: 9783868590128
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Explores the influence of Martin Heidegger's concept of dwelling (Wohnen) in disputing major imperatives of modern...  Read More >>

Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

Postcolonial African Cities: Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial...

Author: Fassil Demissie (DePaul University, USA) ,  Fassil Demissie
ISBN: 9780415495653
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book offers a range of scholarly interpretations of the new forms of urbanity in contemporary African cities,...  Read More >>

Railway Stations, Centres and Markets

Railway Stations, Centres and Markets

Author: Camelia Kusumo
ISBN: 9789085591429
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Kusumo attempts to define urban spatial frameworks for creating livable space in railroad station areas by examining...  Read More >>

The Fifth City

The Fifth City

Author: Jurgen Rosemann
ISBN: 9789078658030
Format: Paperback
$190.08

Rosemann examines why the Rijnland region in the Randstad is experiencing slower growth and development and has...  Read More >>

Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture

Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture...

Author: Sven-Olov Wallenstein
ISBN: 9781568987859
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This book introduces Michel Foucault's work on biopolitics to an architectural audience. It explores Foucault's...  Read More >>

Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning

Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and...

Author: Sophia Psarra
ISBN: 9780415343763
Format: Paperback
$84.00

Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental to the ways in which buildings are shaped, used...  Read More >>

Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning

Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and...

Author: Sophia Psarra
ISBN: 9780415343756
Format: Hardback
$266.00

Conceptual ordering, spatial and social narrative are fundamental to the ways in which buildings are shaped, used...  Read More >>

Ruskin on Venice: """The Paradise of Cities"""

Ruskin on Venice: """The Paradise of Cities"""

Author: Robert Hewison
ISBN: 9780300121780
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Traces John Ruskin's long and intricate relationship with Venice. This book shows how Ruskin shed his Romantic vision,...  Read More >>

Writings on Architecture

Writings on Architecture

Author: Paul Rudolph ,  Robert A. M. Stern
ISBN: 9780300150926
Format: Paperback
$47.52

Presents a collection of writings of Paul Rudolph, one of the most innovative architects and educators of the 1950s...  Read More >>

Bunker Archaeology

Bunker Archaeology

Author: Paul Virilio
ISBN: 9781568980157
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Out of print for almost a decade, we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titlesphilosopher...  Read More >>

Architektur- und Planungstheorie: Konzepte städtischen Wohnens

Architektur- und Planungstheorie: Konzepte städtischen...

Author: Ursula Paravicini
ISBN: 9783834816504
Format: Hardback
$118.77

Die Architektur- und Planungstheorie ist das Reflexionsmedium, in dem Geplantes und Gebautes untersucht und kritisch...  Read More >>

Everyday Urbanism: Expanded

Everyday Urbanism: Expanded

Author: John Chase ,  Margaret Crawford
ISBN: 9781580932011
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Expanded and updated edition of the 1999 classic source book on urban design, which explores and illustrates novel...  Read More >>

Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation

Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation...

Author: Stan Allen
ISBN: 9780415776257
Format: Paperback
$77.00

Drawing on his own experience as a working architect, Stan Allen's theoretical essays examine the ways in which...  Read More >>

Back to the City: Strategies for Informal Interventions - Collaboration Between Artists and Architects

Back to the City: Strategies for Informal Interventions...

Author: Steffen Lehmann
ISBN: 9783775723299
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Edited by Steffen Lehmann. Text by Angela Philip, Stephen Garrett, Michael J. Ostwald.  Read More >>

The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print...

Author: Christopher Heuer (Princeton University, New Jersey, USA)
ISBN: 9780415433068
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The City Rehearsed offers a new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans...  Read More >>

Relearning from Las Vegas

Relearning from Las Vegas

Author: Aron Vinegar ,  Michael J. Golec
ISBN: 9780816650613
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticism. Immediately on its publication...  Read More >>

Relearning from Las Vegas

Relearning from Las Vegas

Author: Aron Vinegar ,  Michael J. Golec
ISBN: 9780816650606
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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