Theory of architecture books

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Architecture: Presence, Language,Place

Architecture: Presence, Language,Place

Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz
ISBN: 9788881187003
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Through an original reflection on the history of architecture and modern building practices, Norberg-Schulz analyses...  Read More >>

Re-Presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience and Social Life in London 1800–1840

Re-Presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience...

Author: Dana Arnold
ISBN: 9781840142327
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Precis of the Lectures on Architecture

Precis of the Lectures on Architecture

Author: . Durand ,  Antoine Picon (Research Associate, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
ISBN: 9780892365807
Format: Paperback
$145.20

This text contains Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand's lectures (originally published in 1802 and 1805), which were a watershed...  Read More >>

Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function and Alterity

Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function and Alterity...

Author: Andrew Benjamin
ISBN: 9780485006056
Format: Paperback
$198.00

This text outlines a philosophical account of architecture and attempts to establish the singularity of architectural...  Read More >>

Impossible Worlds

Impossible Worlds

Author: Stephen Coates ,  Alex Stetter
ISBN: 9783764363178
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Bringing together visions of utopia from around the world, from the lowly caravan to grand city plans, this text...  Read More >>

Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function and Alterity

Architectural Philosophy: Repetition, Function and Alterity...

Author: Andrew Benjamin
ISBN: 9780485004151
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This text outlines a philosophical account of architecture and attempts to establish the singularity of architectural...  Read More >>

An Architecture Notebook

An Architecture Notebook

Author: Simon Unwin (University of Dundee, UK)
ISBN: 9780415228749
Format: Paperback
$145.07

A companion volume to the author's text, Analysing Architecture, this book, using the same approach and format,...  Read More >>

An Architecture Notebook

An Architecture Notebook

Author: Simon Unwin (University of Dundee, UK)
ISBN: 9780415228732
Format: Hardback
$266.00

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Anti-rationalists and the Rationalists

Anti-rationalists and the Rationalists

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner ,  J. M. Richards
ISBN: 9780750648158
Format: Hardback
$359.04

This book pits architectural theorists against each other in one volume. The subject for debate is Modernism, an...  Read More >>

Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology and Topography

Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology and Topography...

Author: David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9780262122306
Format: Hardback
$178.20

How building and site, technology and topography, interact to create successful buildings and resolve theoretical...  Read More >>

Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday

Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture...

Author: Alan Read ,  Alan Read
ISBN: 9780415235440
Format: Paperback
$112.00

Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by architects, artists and theorists of locality...  Read More >>

Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday

Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture...

Author: Alan Read ,  Alan Read
ISBN: 9780415235433
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by architects, artists and theorists of locality...  Read More >>

The Spaces between Buildings

The Spaces between Buildings

Author: Larry R. Ford (San Diego State University)
ISBN: 9780801863318
Format: Paperback
$75.99

In its exploration of how spaces become places, The Spaces between Buildings invites readers to see anew the spaces...  Read More >>

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

Author: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
ISBN: 9780415236546
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This book illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth-century...  Read More >>

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

German Architecture for a Mass Audience

Author: Kathleen James-Chakraborty
ISBN: 9780415173278
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This book illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by many of Germany's most celebrated twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Introducing Planning

Introducing Planning

Author: Clara H. Greed
ISBN: 9780485006124
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Updated, completely revised and restructured, this edition includes new material on the environment, European implications,...  Read More >>

"Perspecta 31 ""Reading Structures""": The Yale Architectural Journal

"Perspecta 31 ""Reading Structures""": The Yale Architectural...

Author: Carolyn Ann Foug ,  Sharon L. Joyce
ISBN: 9780262561266
Format: Paperback
$55.44

This book examines the relationship between architectural design and structural engineering through the processes...  Read More >>

Architectural Excursions: Frank Lloyd Wright, Holland and Europe

Architectural Excursions: Frank Lloyd Wright, Holland...

Author: Donald L. Johnson ,  Donald Langmead
ISBN: 9780313305672
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Provides insight into the effects of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural theories and designs in Holland and Europe...  Read More >>

The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries

The Projective Cast: Architecture and Its Three Geometries...

Author: Robin Evans
ISBN: 9780262550383
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering,...  Read More >>

Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge

Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge...

Author: Alberto Pérez-Gómez (Saidye Rosner BronfmanProfessor Director of the History and Theory of Architecture Program, McGill University) ,  Louise Pelletier (Ecole de design)
ISBN: 9780262661133
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Writing from inside the discipline of architecture, rather than from the more common extrapolations from the history...  Read More >>

The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment

The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the...

Author: N. J. Habraken ,  Jonathan Teicher
ISBN: 9780262581950
Format: Paperback
$130.00

The influential Dutch architect's long-awaited manifesto on the everyday environment as the first and best ground...  Read More >>

Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories

Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical...

Author: Iain Borden ,  Jane Rendell
ISBN: 9780415232920
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories

Intersections: Architectural Histories and Critical...

Author: Iain Borden ,  Jane Rendell
ISBN: 9780415231794
Format: Paperback
$98.00

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Anymore

Anymore

Author: Cynthia Davidson (ANYOne Corporation / Log)
ISBN: 9780262541107
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Artists, critics, and philosophers ask what more architecture can do.  Read More >>

Lighting Modern Buildings

Lighting Modern Buildings

Author: Derek Phillips
ISBN: 9780750640824
Format: Paperback
$253.31

Written at the end of a career as an architect and lighting designer, the book draws on the experience gained while...  Read More >>

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