Theory of architecture books

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Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and...

Author: Abidin Kusno
ISBN: 9780415236157
Format: Paperback
$98.00

This book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations...  Read More >>

Changing Architectural Education: Towards a New Professionalism

Changing Architectural Education: Towards a New Professionalism...

Author: David Nicol ,  Simon Pilling
ISBN: 9780419259206
Format: Paperback
$126.00

This book brings together contributions from a wide range of authors, from both the UK and the USA, working in the...  Read More >>

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia

Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and...

Author: Abidin Kusno
ISBN: 9780415236140
Format: Hardback
$435.60

This book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, both historically and theoretically, as representations...  Read More >>

The American House

The American House

Author: Robin Langley Sommer
ISBN: 9781571452832
Format: Hardback
$59.95

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Architectural Ornament: Banishment & Return

Architectural Ornament: Banishment & Return

Author: Brent C. Brolin
ISBN: 9780393730463
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Embellishment is a basic human need. Why was it banished from modern architecture?  Read More >>

Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism

Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism

Author: Janet Stewart
ISBN: 9780415221771
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf...  Read More >>

Architecture and Film

Architecture and Film

Author: Mark Lamster
ISBN: 9781568982076
Format: Paperback
$65.87

An examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter...  Read More >>

Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism

Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism

Author: Janet Stewart
ISBN: 9780415221764
Format: Hardback
$266.00

This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf...  Read More >>

Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century

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

Author: Stanford Anderson
ISBN: 9780262011761
Format: Hardback
$205.92

The complete story of Behrens' contribution to the history of twentieth-century architecture.  Read More >>

The Ultimate Book of Historic Barns

The Ultimate Book of Historic Barns

Author: Robin Langley Sommer
ISBN: 9781571452238
Format: Hardback
$59.95

The contemporary reawakening of interest in the historic folk buildings of North America has made us see old barns...  Read More >>

'Designing Women': Gender and the Architectural Profession

'Designing Women': Gender and the Architectural Profession...

Author: Annmarie Adams ,  Peta Tancred
ISBN: 9780802044174
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Women architects in Canada have reacted with ingenuity to the architectural profession's restrictive and sometimes...  Read More >>

Zwischenstadt: Zwischen Ort und Welt, Raum und Zeit, Stadt und Land

Zwischenstadt: Zwischen Ort und Welt, Raum und Zeit,...

Author: Thomas Sieverts
ISBN: 9783764363932
Format: Paperback
$59.95

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Computer-aided Manufacture in Architecture - The Pursuit of Novelty: Changing the Craft of Design

Computer-aided Manufacture in Architecture - The Pursuit...

Author: Nick Callicott
ISBN: 9780750646475
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Can we synthesise existing craft methods with new technologies to form new methods of construction? Nick Callicott's...  Read More >>

Beehive Metaphor: from Gaudi to Le Corbusier

Beehive Metaphor: from Gaudi to Le Corbusier

Author: Juan Ramirez
ISBN: 9781861890566
Format: Paperback
$118.80

The beehive has served as the model for an ideal society, while honey and wax have provided the basis for countless...  Read More >>

Günter Behnisch

Günter Behnisch

Author: Peter Blundell Jones ,  N. von Mühlendahl
ISBN: 9783764360467
Format: Paperback
$92.27

This text examines the work of the Stuttgart based architect Gunter Behnisch. The book especially considers the...  Read More >>

The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool

The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of...

Author: Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen
ISBN: 9780262720328
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This book looks at the domestic swimming pool. At one level, the book is a rereading of modern architecture that...  Read More >>

Architecture and Modernity: A Critique

Architecture and Modernity: A Critique

Author: Hilde Heynen (Professor of Architectural Theory, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
ISBN: 9780262581899
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Besides presenting a theoretical discussion of the relation between architecture, modernity, and dwelling, the book...  Read More >>

Eccentric Spaces

Eccentric Spaces

Author: Robert Harbison
ISBN: 9780262581837
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The subject of this book is the human imagination - and the interplay between the imagination and the spaces it...  Read More >>

Architecture Theory since 1968

Architecture Theory since 1968

Author: K. Michael Hays (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780262581882
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Presents forty-seven of the primary texts of contemporary architecture theory, introducing each by detailing the...  Read More >>

The Making of the Modern Architect and Engineer: The Origins and Development of a Scientific and Industrially Oriented Occupation

The Making of the Modern Architect and Engineer: The...

Author: Ulrich Pfammatter ,  M. Ferretti-Theilig
ISBN: 9783764362171
Format: Paperback
$121.31

In this title, Pfammatter traces the origins and subsequent development of the scientific and industrial training...  Read More >>

Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development

Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development...

Author: Steven Fader ,  Vincent Scully
ISBN: 9780874208337
Format: Paperback
$248.03

Describes the design and development of 14 denser than typical projects that range from single-family subdivisions...  Read More >>

Multifamily Housing Development Handbook

Multifamily Housing Development Handbook

Author: Adrienne Schmitz
ISBN: 9780874208696
Format: Hardback
$282.35

Illustrated in full colour, this authoritative resource explains best practices, techniques, and trends in multifamily...  Read More >>

Architecture and Identity

Architecture and Identity

Author: Chris Abel (University of Ulster, UK) ,  Chris Abel
ISBN: 9780750642460
Format: Paperback
$195.23

This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the technological,...  Read More >>

Victor Burgin - Shadowed: Victor Burgin

Victor Burgin - Shadowed: Victor Burgin

Author: Victor Burgin ,  Anthony Vidler
ISBN: 9781902902166
Format: Paperback
$26.40

""Shadowed"" continues Victor Burgin's preoccupation, in writing and video installations, with the intrication of...  Read More >>

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