Theory of architecture books

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Collage City

Collage City

Author: Colin Rowe ,  Fred Koetter
ISBN: 9783764356088
Format: Paperback
$80.95

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The Art of Architectural Drawing: Imagination and Technique

The Art of Architectural Drawing: Imagination and Technique...

Author: T.Wells Schaller
ISBN: 9780471284659
Format: Hardback
$113.39

This study demonstrates the viability, power, and beauty of architectural artwork, not as a means to an end, but...  Read More >>

The International Style

The International Style

Author: Henry Russell Hitchcock ,  Philip Johnson
ISBN: 9780393315189
Format: Paperback
$37.95

The most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely...  Read More >>

Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory

Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory...

Author: Neil Leach
ISBN: 9780415128261
Format: Paperback
$90.00

This book brings together the core writings on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorists of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory

Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory...

Author: Neil Leach
ISBN: 9780415128254
Format: Hardback
$280.00

This book brings together the core writings on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorists of the twentieth...  Read More >>

The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History

The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History...

Author: Dolores Hayden
ISBN: 9780262581523
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This text proposes new perspectives on gender, race and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and...  Read More >>

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
ISBN: 9781565840553
Format: Hardback
$54.00

"This text examines society's attitude towards the proliferation of invented environments such as theme parks and...  Read More >>

Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World: An Investigation into the Evolutionary Roots of Form and Order in the Built Environment

Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World: An Investigation...

Author: Norman Crowe
ISBN: 9780262531467
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture

Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture...

Author: Ignasi de Solà-Morales ,  Graham Thompson
ISBN: 9780262540858
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Differences brings together ten essays written over the past decade by the distinguished Spanish architect and theorist...  Read More >>

The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War

The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture Before...

Author: Frederic J. Schwartz
ISBN: 9780300068986
Format: Hardback
$198.00

During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund tried to forge new theories of architecture and design...  Read More >>

Sir William Chambers: Architect to George III

Sir William Chambers: Architect to George III

Author: John Harris ,  Michael Snodin
ISBN: 9780300069402
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Sir William Chambers (1726-1796) was an internationally-minded British architect, who was a favourite of King George...  Read More >>

Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and Its Legacy

Symbolic Space: French Enlightenment Architecture and...

Author: Richard A. Etlin
ISBN: 9780226220857
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Etlin explores the social and cultural hierarchies established in eighteenth-century France to illustrate how the...  Read More >>

Architecture and Identity: Towards a Global Eco-culture

Architecture and Identity: Towards a Global Eco-culture...

Author: Chris Abel
ISBN: 9780750607902
Format: Paperback
$120.00

This work is a collection of the author's writings on the technological, cultural and theoretical developments reshaping...  Read More >>

Le Corbusier – Les Villas La Roche-Jeanneret / The Villas La Roche-Jeanneret

Le Corbusier – Les Villas La Roche-Jeanneret / The Villas...

Author: Jacques Sbriglio
ISBN: 9783764354336
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The developmental leap which Le Corbusier made in his architecture and the liberty of expression in his use of colour,...  Read More >>

Vitruvius 'Ten Books of Architecture': A New English Translation with Commentary and Illustrations

Vitruvius 'Ten Books of Architecture': A New English...

Author: Ingrid Rowland ,  Thomas Howe
ISBN: 9780521553100
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Design Strategies in Architecture: An Approach to the Analysis of Form

Design Strategies in Architecture: An Approach to the...

Author: Geoffrey H. Baker
ISBN: 9780419161301
Format: Paperback
$112.00

A methodology for design analysis that reveals the underlying organisation of buildings. Part One explains the nature...  Read More >>

Le Corbusier - An Analysis of Form

Le Corbusier - An Analysis of Form

Author: Geoffrey Baker
ISBN: 9780419161202
Format: Paperback
$112.00

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The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays

The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays

Author: Rudolf Arnheim
ISBN: 9780520204782
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A collection of essays covering a range of topics and includes titles such as ""Outer Space and Inner Space,"" ""What...  Read More >>

Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space

Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space

Author: Zeynep Çelik ,  Diane Favro
ISBN: 9780520205284
Format: Paperback
$64.95

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Immeuble 24 N.C. et Appartement Le Corbusier. Apartment Block 24 N.C. and Le Corbusier's Home

Immeuble 24 N.C. et Appartement Le Corbusier. Apartment...

Author: Jacques Sbriglio
ISBN: 9783764354329
Format: Paperback
$43.50

Part of a series of concise guide-books devoted to major Le Corbusier edifices, this text looks at the residence...  Read More >>

Essays in Architectural Theory

Essays in Architectural Theory

Author: Coomaraswamy ,  Michael W. Meister
ISBN: 9780195638059
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) pioneered one form of cultural studies in India. His analysis of Indian civilization...  Read More >>

Chora 2: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

Chora 2: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture...

Author: Alberto Pérez-Gómez ,  Stephen Parcell
ISBN: 9780773514072
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Provides a new and long-overdue reading of Martin Heidegger's well-known essay ""Building Dwelling Thinking."" This...  Read More >>

Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices

Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and...

Author: Thomas A. Dutton ,  Lian Hurst Mann
ISBN: 9780816628094
Format: Paperback
$142.11

Questioning architecture's complicity with the status quo, this volume moves beyond critique to outline the part...  Read More >>

Inside Architecture

Inside Architecture

Author: Vittorio Gregotti ,  Kenneth Frampton
ISBN: 9780262571159
Format: Paperback
$52.80

An examination of the role the modernist project has played in late 20th century building. In this volume, Vittorio...  Read More >>

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