Theory of architecture books

5247 books were found.

Consensus Design

Consensus Design

Author: Christopher Day ,  Rosie Parnell
ISBN: 9780750656054
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Landscrapers: Building with the Land

Landscrapers: Building with the Land

Author: Aaron Betsky
ISBN: 9780500341889
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Aaron Betsky's study explores how builders and architects are working with the land to produce structures that mirror,...  Read More >>

Understanding Sustainable Architecture

Understanding Sustainable Architecture

Author: Helen Bennetts ,  Antony Radford
ISBN: 9780415283526
Format: Paperback
$84.00

This book is a concise review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour...  Read More >>

Singular Objects Of Architecture

Singular Objects Of Architecture

Author: Jean Baudrillard ,  Jean Nouvel
ISBN: 9780816639120
Format: Hardback
$43.95

This exhilarating dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers working in philosophy and architecture today...  Read More >>

Understanding Sustainable Architecture

Understanding Sustainable Architecture

Author: Helen Bennetts ,  Antony Radford
ISBN: 9780415283519
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This book is a concise review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour...  Read More >>

Surface Architecture

Surface Architecture

Author: David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Mohsen Mostafavi (Dean, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780262134071
Format: Hardback
$126.72

A study of the building surface, architecture's primary instrument of identity and engagement with its surroundings....  Read More >>

Appropriate Sustainabilities/innovations Durables: New Ways in French Architecture/une Autre Architecture Francaise

Appropriate Sustainabilities/innovations Durables: New...

Author: Marc Emery ,  Luciana Ravanel
ISBN: 9783764367381
Format: Paperback
$149.16

Between 1999 and 2002, Electricite de France (EDF) initiated an ambitious research programme to bring together first-class...  Read More >>

Architectural Body

Architectural Body

Author: Madeline Gins ,  """Arakawa"""
ISBN: 9780817311681
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrate the interconnectedness of innovative architectural design,...  Read More >>

The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China: A Dialogue

The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China: A Dialogue...

Author: Carl Fingerhuth ,  Ernst Joos
ISBN: 9783764367428
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Since the last decades of the 20th century, Kunming, a provincial capital city in China, has been the twin town...  Read More >>

Architectural Body

Architectural Body

Author: Madeline Gins ,  """Arakawa"""
ISBN: 9780817311698
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrate the interconnectedness of innovative architectural design,...  Read More >>

Concrete Construction Manual

Concrete Construction Manual

Author: Friedbert Kind-Barkauskas ,  Bruno Kauhsen
ISBN: 9783764367244
Format: Hardback
$382.80

This volume shows the potential of concrete as a material and documents comprehensively the technical principles...  Read More >>

Kisho Kurokawa, Oita Stadium, Oita, Japan: Opus 46

Kisho Kurokawa, Oita Stadium, Oita, Japan: Opus 46

Author: Dennis Sharp ,  Koji Kobayashi
ISBN: 9783930698462
Format: Hardback
$68.00

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Haus eines Kunstfreundes: Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Leopold Bauer

Haus eines Kunstfreundes: Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott,...

Author: Gerda Breuer ,  Felix Commichau
ISBN: 9783930698882
Format: Hardback
$205.92

This book records and assembles illustrations of three large-format portfolios by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his...  Read More >>

Stuler/Strack/Merz. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin: Opus 45 Series

Stuler/Strack/Merz. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin: Opus...

Author: Klaus Jan Philipp ,  Christian Gahl
ISBN: 9783930698455
Format: Hardback
$68.00

The building has been totally restored for the 125th anniversary of the Museum's opening in 1876. Merz's basic idea...  Read More >>

The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings

The Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings...

Author: Osamu A. Wakita ,  Richard M. Linde
ISBN: 9780471395409
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Documents the evolution of a set of architectural working drawings. This book includes more than 900 illustrations...  Read More >>

Concrete Architecture: Design and Construction

Concrete Architecture: Design and Construction

Author: Burkhard Fröhlich
ISBN: 9783764368722
Format: Hardback
$40.00

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Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century

Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth...

Author: Stanford Anderson
ISBN: 9780262511308
Format: Paperback
$124.08

Stanford Anderson's long-awaited study of the great architect and designer Peter Behrens' contribution to the visual...  Read More >>

The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social...

Author: Iain Borden ,  Joe Kerr
ISBN: 9780262523356
Format: Paperback
$100.32

This book takes its place in the emerging architectural literature that looks beyond design process and buildings...  Read More >>

Truth, Radicality and Beyond in Contemporary Architechture

Truth, Radicality and Beyond in Contemporary Architechture...

Author: Andreas Papadakis
ISBN: 9781901092127
Format: Paperback
$72.60

An insider's view of contemporary architecture as seen by some of the world's most influential architects and critics...  Read More >>

Heinz Tesar: Christus, Hoffnung der Welt, Donau City, Wien: Opus 42 Series

Heinz Tesar: Christus, Hoffnung der Welt, Donau City,...

Author: Immo Boyken ,  Christian Richters
ISBN: 9783930698424
Format: Hardback
$68.00

Heinz Tesar built this church as a spiritual centre, an oasis in the diaspora, for Donau City, a new residential...  Read More >>

Peichl/Achatz/Schumer. Munchner Kammerspiele, Neues Haus: Opus 43 Series

Peichl/Achatz/Schumer. Munchner Kammerspiele, Neues...

Author: Heinrich Wefing ,  Gisela Erlacher
ISBN: 9783930698431
Format: Hardback
$68.00

This volume shows the extension of one of Munich's most significant Art Nouveau buildings, erected in 1901 by Richard...  Read More >>

Alfredo Arribas. Seat-Pavilion, Wolfsburg: Opus 44 Series

Alfredo Arribas. Seat-Pavilion, Wolfsburg: Opus 44 Series...

Author: Ralf Lange ,  Frank Hulsbomer
ISBN: 9783930698448
Format: Hardback
$68.00

Alfredo Arribas designed the Seat pavilion, and has brought off...  Read More >>

Nicholas Grimshaw, Halle 3a, Messe Frankfurt: Opus 41

Nicholas Grimshaw, Halle 3a, Messe Frankfurt: Opus 41...

Author: Volker Fischer ,  Waltraud Krasse
ISBN: 9783930698417
Format: Hardback
$110.88

This is one of Europe's largest exhibition halls and the most recent building of the internationally known British...  Read More >>

Expanding the Gap / Das Weite Suchen

Expanding the Gap / Das Weite Suchen

Author: Martin Rendel ,  Rene Spitz
ISBN: 9783932565281
Format: Hardback
$33.38

As in 2001, during the 2002 Cologne International Furniture Fair, three internationally known designers squeezed...  Read More >>

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