Theory of architecture books

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Geoinformation Technologies for Geo-Cultural Landscapes: European Perspectives

Geoinformation Technologies for Geo-Cultural Landscapes:...

Author: Andreas Vassilopoulos (Geocultural Park of Eastern Aegean, Athens, Greece) ,  Niki Evelpidou (University of Athens, Greece)
ISBN: 9780415468596
Format: Hardback
$216.00

The research goals, both theoretical and practical, originate from multidisciplinary fields such as archaeology,...  Read More >>

Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation

Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation...

Author: Stan Allen
ISBN: 9780415776240
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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

A History of the Future

A History of the Future

Author: Donna Goodman
ISBN: 9781580932073
Format: Hardback
$118.80

This multi-faceted survey of utopian ideas, presented with clarity and humor, will appeal to a broad general readership....  Read More >>

Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design as a Healing Art

Places of the Soul: Architecture and Environmental Design...

Author: Christopher Day (Architect Design Consultant Self-Builder and Sculptor UK)
ISBN: 9780080544380
Format: Electronic book text
$79.07

Revised to incorporate the changes in opinions and attitudes since its first publication, the second edition of...  Read More >>

The Dissertation: An Architecture Student's Handbook

The Dissertation: An Architecture Student's Handbook...

Author: Iain Borden (University College London UK)
ISBN: 9780080461267
Format: Electronic book text
$92.27

The Dissertation is one of the most demanding yet potentially most stimulating components of an architectural course....  Read More >>

Consensus Design: Socially Inclusive Process

Consensus Design: Socially Inclusive Process

Author: Christopher Day (Architect Design Consultant Self-Builder and Sculptor UK)
ISBN: 9780080502885
Format: Electronic book text
$118.67

Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for...  Read More >>

Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures

Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures

Author: Florrian Kossak ,  Doina Petrescu (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781282443556
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

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

Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity

Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity

Author: Robert Tavernor
ISBN: 9780300143348
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Offers an account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. This book explores...  Read More >>

The Politics of Making

The Politics of Making

Author: Mark Swenarton (School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK) ,  Igea Troiani (School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415488006
Format: Paperback
$84.00

A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing...  Read More >>

From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation in Architecture

From Models to Drawings: Imagination and Representation...

Author: Marco Frascari ,  Jonathan Hale
ISBN: 9780415487986
Format: Paperback
$84.00

Addressing the vital role of the imagination in the critical interpretation of architectural representations, this...  Read More >>

Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design

Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design

Author: Paul Carter
ISBN: 9780824833121
Format: Paperback
$73.92

We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple;...  Read More >>

Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design

Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design

Author: Paul Carter
ISBN: 9780824832469
Format: Hardback
$168.96

We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple;...  Read More >>

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific Management and the Rise of Modernist Architecture

The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical: Scientific...

Author: Mauro F. Guillén
ISBN: 9780691138473
Format: Paperback
$67.99

The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of...  Read More >>

Coup de Des: Emerging European Architectures. Issue 2

Coup de Des: Emerging European Architectures. Issue...

Author: Walter van Dijk ,  Anssi Lassila
ISBN: 9788492049578
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Basics Construction Scheduling

Basics Construction Scheduling

Author: Bert Bielefeld
ISBN: 9783764388737
Format: Hardback
$30.00

In a world of tight time frames and highly interdependent processes, scheduling is an indispensable prerequisite...  Read More >>

Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye

Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye

Author: Stephen Kite (Professor, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781905981892
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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LichtEinfall: Tageslicht im Wohnbau

LichtEinfall: Tageslicht im Wohnbau

Author: Michelle Corrodi ,  Klaus Spechtenhauser
ISBN: 9783764386344
Format: Hardback
$63.95

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Lost Buildings

Lost Buildings

Author: Jonathan Glancey
ISBN: 9781741730333
Format: Hardback
$49.95

There are countless buildings that remain vivid in the collective memory, whether they were once real or were only...  Read More >>

Citámbulos – Mexico City: Reise in die mexikanische Megacity Journey to the Mexican Megalopolis

Citámbulos – Mexico City: Reise in die mexikanische...

Author: Ana Alvarez ,  Fionn Petch
ISBN: 9783939633761
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Offers a kaleidoscopic view of Mexico City, one of the most exciting cities in the world. This book invites readers...  Read More >>

Cold War Confrontations

Cold War Confrontations

Author: Jack Masey ,  Conway Lloyd Morgan
ISBN: 9783037781234
Format: Hardback
$78.94

World's Fairs and International Exhibitions have always had a political as well as a commercial and cultural context....  Read More >>

Before Architecture. Vor Der Architektur

Before Architecture. Vor Der Architektur

Author: Peter Allison ,  Hermann Czech
ISBN: 9783211094259
Format: Paperback
$72.00

Die Kommissarin des osterreichischen Beitrages zur 11. Architekturbiennale in Venedig stellt mit drei Positionen...  Read More >>

Building the Wooden House: Technique and Design

Building the Wooden House: Technique and Design

Author: Konrad Wachsmann
ISBN: 9780817651343
Format: Paperback
$163.68

An English edition of this work on the modern use of wood as a building material  Read More >>

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