Theory of architecture books

- Reviews the basic building materials and structural components of a home in an easy-to-understand manner.- Discusses...  Read More >>

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This text details the investigation and remedy of a range of misfortunes which have afflicted buildings. It provides...  Read More >>

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This text explores how systems of design and ideas about aesthetics have governed both the construction of buildings...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between the way we see and the way we draw architectural ideas. The text deals...  Read More >>

This text is concerned with the preliminary stages of the design of structures for buildings. It is intended principally...  Read More >>

Each and every individual in the global community is both spectator andparticipant in urban carnage: responsible...  Read More >>

Presenting an account of the structural and architectural characteristics of Iranian historical structures, this...  Read More >>

""Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless: Theory and Criticism inArchitecture"" is the first comprehensive collection...  Read More >>

Calls for rethinking architecture as a way of renegotiating our encounter with the world, taking into account the...  Read More >>

Calls for rethinking architecture as a way of renegotiating our encounter with the world, taking into account the...  Read More >>

Throughout the creation and shaping of the built environment has been at the forefront of human endeavour. The Story...  Read More >>

Throughout the creation and shaping of the built environment has been at the forefront of human endeavour. The Story...  Read More >>

Provides a documentation of the architectural group the Sarasota school and considers their designs and theories....  Read More >>

Tracing urban design from its roots, the authors draw on historical and current practice, examining the key physical,...  Read More >>

A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.  Read More >>

Following World War I, a new artistic-social avant-garde emerged with the ambition to involve the artist in the...  Read More >>

"First published in France in 1980, this book was awarded the ""Grand Prix de la Critique d'Architecture"". It examines...  Read More >>

The focus of Perspecta 28 is the architect's persona. The essays concentrate on the role that personal vision plays...  Read More >>

This book offers contributions ranging from studies of hunter-gatherer camp organisation to the use of space in...  Read More >>

This is a textbook for potential use in design studio and design theory courses. It should also be appealing to...  Read More >>

This is a modern reference text for students of architecture. It is structured around the ambiguity of the term...  Read More >>