Theory of architecture books

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Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern...

Author: Amy Bingaman ,  Lise Sanders
ISBN: 9780415248136
Format: Hardback
$266.00

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The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language

The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language...

Author: Deborah Cameron ,  Thomas A. Markus
ISBN: 9780415143462
Format: Paperback
$112.00

The authors of this work, one a linguist, the other an architect and historian, examine how texts which concern...  Read More >>

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern...

Author: Amy Bingaman ,  Lise Sanders
ISBN: 9780415248143
Format: Paperback
$98.00

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What is Architecture?

What is Architecture?

Author: Andrew Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780415256261
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Contributors to this volume challenge and help to define a view of architecture that considers what architecture...  Read More >>

The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language

The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language...

Author: Deborah Cameron ,  Thomas A. Markus
ISBN: 9780415143455
Format: Hardback
$266.00

The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new parliament, and Auschwitz concentration...  Read More >>

Future Transport in Cities

Future Transport in Cities

Author: Brian Richards
ISBN: 9780415261418
Format: Hardback
$308.00

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic. This title suggests a future...  Read More >>

Language of Space

Language of Space

Author: Bryan Lawson
ISBN: 9780750652469
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space. This book provides an introduction, and views...  Read More >>

What is Architecture?

What is Architecture?

Author: Andrew Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780415256278
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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Future Transport in Cities

Future Transport in Cities

Author: Brian Richards
ISBN: 9780415261425
Format: Paperback
$98.00

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The Language of Space

The Language of Space

Author: Bryan Lawson
ISBN: 9780080509969
Format: Electronic book text
$150.35

This unique guide provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space. Bryan Lawson provides an ideal...  Read More >>

Coming from the South

Coming from the South

Author: EDUARD BRU BISTUER
ISBN: 9788495273031
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib

The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and...

Author: Susan Slyomovics
ISBN: 9780714651774
Format: Hardback
$280.00

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa, looking...  Read More >>

Romancing the Cathedral: Gothic Architecture in Fin-de-Siècle French Culture

Romancing the Cathedral: Gothic Architecture in Fin-de-Siècle...

Author: Elizabeth Emery
ISBN: 9780791451236
Format: Hardback
$143.88

Through an analysis of political, art historical, and literary discourse, this book considers French fascination...  Read More >>

Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required

Author: Michael Sorkin
ISBN: 9780816634835
Format: Paperback
$44.95

One of the best architecture critics writing today presents a new collection which previews the state of contemporary...  Read More >>

The Language of Space

The Language of Space

Author: Bryan Lawson
ISBN: 9786611120153
Format: Electronic book text
$269.02

Provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space. This book provides an introduction, and views...  Read More >>

Entropia

Entropia

Author: Reinhold Martin ,  Kadambari Baxi
ISBN: 9781901033328
Format: Paperback
$43.86

This text explores the idea of entropia, which can be defined as the space between utopia and dystopia. This space...  Read More >>

The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib

The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and...

Author: Susan Slyomovics
ISBN: 9780714682150
Format: Paperback
$81.00

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The Ethical Architect

The Ethical Architect

Author: Tom Spector
ISBN: 9781568982847
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Many believe that the moral mission of architecture has been in decline for the last 25 years. In this work, Tom...  Read More >>

Field-Event/Field Space

Field-Event/Field Space

Author: Kevin Rhowbotham
ISBN: 9781901033403
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A collection of two- and three-dimensional studies that proceed from the idea of 'ground' or 'field' as the basis...  Read More >>

Action Research

Action Research

Author: Nicholas Boyarsky ,  Nicola Murphy
ISBN: 9781901033458
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Presenting on-going research into a process of generating architecture based on actions and their subsequent transposition...  Read More >>

After the City

After the City

Author: Lars Lerup (Rice University)
ISBN: 9780262621571
Format: Paperback
$50.16

An architect's view of the metropolitan consciousness and the suburban metropolis as the future frontier.  Read More >>

Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America

Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses...

Author: Keller Easterling (Yale University)
ISBN: 9780262550406
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Bridging the gap between architecture and infrastructure, Easterling views architecture as part of an ecology of...  Read More >>

Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture

Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction...

Author: Kenneth Frampton ,  John Cava
ISBN: 9780262561495
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure...  Read More >>

White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern Architecture

White Walls, Designer Dresses: The Fashioning of Modern...

Author: Mark Wigley
ISBN: 9780262731454
Format: Paperback
$130.00

In a daring revisionist history of modern architecture, Mark Wigley opens up a new understanding of the historical...  Read More >>

Architecture: The Subject is Matter

Architecture: The Subject is Matter

Author: Jonathan Hill
ISBN: 9780415235464
Format: Paperback
$124.00

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