Theory of architecture books

Anyone interested in the intersection of theory and practice in architecture will appreciate the insight offered...  Read More >>

"This text brings together eight of Robin Evans's essays, including ""Mies van der Rohe's Paradoxical Symmetries""...  Read More >>

Main Street has come to symbolize a place of honest aspirations and few pretenses, a place where economics, community...  Read More >>

Advanced technology is constantly creating new possibilities for the achievement of architectural intentions. This...  Read More >>

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

This second volume continues the study of the relationships of the ideals of design and the realities of construction...  Read More >>

This text aims to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity....  Read More >>

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture,...  Read More >>

This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture,...  Read More >>

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Sexuality & Space's interdisciplinary essays address gender in relation to architectural discourse and critical...  Read More >>

As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized...  Read More >>

Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic....  Read More >>

Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic....  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active...  Read More >>

This self-taught Dutch architect was among the most widely copied architects of the 1930s and 1940s.  Read More >>

The problems faced by cathedrals in seventeenth-century English society were if anything greater than those encountered...  Read More >>

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na broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of images Irather than of words. Modern communication...  Read More >>

Lighting, including its physiological, health and emotional consequences, has become one of the leading issues in...  Read More >>

This volume collects seminars, essays, lectures and projects by Rem Koolhaas to form a concise explanation of the...  Read More >>

Through close reading of two major figures of modern architecture, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, this text argues...  Read More >>

This collection brings together the essays of avant-garde theorist and architect, Bernard Tschumi, from 1975-1990....  Read More >>