Theory of architecture books

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Architecture in Italy 1400-1500: Revised Edition

Architecture in Italy 1400-1500: Revised Edition

Author: Ludwig H. Heydenreich ,  Wolfgang Lotz
ISBN: 9780300064674
Format: Paperback
$92.40

In 15th-century Florence, Brunelleschi's buildings and Alberti's treatise first established the principles of Italian...  Read More >>

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time

Author: John Brinckerhoff Jackson
ISBN: 9780300063974
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This work takes readers on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how surroundings reflect important...  Read More >>

Dictionary of Islamic Architecture

Dictionary of Islamic Architecture

Author: Andrew Petersen
ISBN: 9780415060844
Format: Hardback
$345.00

A collection of artistic, technical, archaeological, cultural and biographical data from the spread of Islamic culture....  Read More >>

Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts

Victorian Contexts: Literature and the Visual Arts

Author: Murray Roston
ISBN: 9781349139880
Format: Paperback
$84.99

Examines how both artist and writer in the Victorian era responded to the shared challenges, assumptions, and dilemmas...  Read More >>

The Presence of Mies

The Presence of Mies

Author: Detlef Mertins
ISBN: 9781568980133
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This interdisciplinary collection of essays takes a look at the work of the controversial architect Ludwig Mies...  Read More >>

Green Shift: Towards a Green Sensibility in Architecture

Green Shift: Towards a Green Sensibility in Architecture...

Author: John Farmer ,  Kenneth Richardson
ISBN: 9780750615303
Format: Paperback
$105.47

An historical and theoretical study of the style and construction of the dwelling house in Western architecture...  Read More >>

Back to the Front: Tourisms of War

Back to the Front: Tourisms of War

Author: Elizabeth Diller ,  Ricardo Scofidio
ISBN: 9781568980140
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Back to the Front is designed by the collaborative team...  Read More >>

The Environmental Tradition: Studies in the architecture of environment

The Environmental Tradition: Studies in the architecture...

Author: Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Dean Hawkes
ISBN: 9780419199007
Format: Paperback
$140.00

This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution...  Read More >>

As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays

As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays...

Author: Colin Rowe ,  Alexander Caragonne
ISBN: 9780262181679
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful ofoutstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban...  Read More >>

As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays

As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays...

Author: Colin Rowe ,  Alexander Caragonne
ISBN: 9780262181686
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and...  Read More >>

As I Was Saying: Urbanistics

As I Was Saying: Urbanistics

Author: Colin Rowe ,  Alexander Caragonne
ISBN: 9780262181693
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and...  Read More >>

Light Construction

Light Construction

Author: Terence Riley ,  Glenn T. Lowry
ISBN: 9780870701290
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"Transparency and luminescence have re-emerged in the vocabulary of architecture, and light and ""lightness"" have...  Read More >>

Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History

Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History

Author: Barbara Howe ,  Dolores Fleming
ISBN: 9780761989295
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories

Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories

Author: Bernard Cache ,  Michael Speaks
ISBN: 9780262531306
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money

Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money

Author: Kojin Karatani ,  Sabu Kohso
ISBN: 9780262611138
Format: Paperback
$79.99

In Architecture as Metaphor, Kojin Karatani detects a recurrent ""will to architecture"" that he argues is the foundation...  Read More >>

Baillie Scott: The Artistic House

Baillie Scott: The Artistic House

Author: Diane Haigh ,  Charlotte Wood
ISBN: 9781854904324
Format: Paperback
$237.60

Baillie Scott's long career spanned the years from 1892 to 1939 - several ages in architecture. He may be considered...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt

The Architecture of Deconstruction: Derrida's Haunt...

Author: Mark Wigley
ISBN: 9780262731140
Format: Paperback
$79.20

By locating the architecture already hidden within deconstructive discourse, Wigley opens up more radical possibilities...  Read More >>

Beaverbank: Between Material and Process

Beaverbank: Between Material and Process

Author: Frank Chiu ,  Richard Kroeker
ISBN: 9780929112343
Format: Paperback
$121.31

This small, striking book documents a project by TUNS School of Architecture in collaboration with the Nova Scotia...  Read More >>

The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and Design in Britain, 1550-1960

The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and...

Author: Jules Lubbock
ISBN: 9780300058895
Format: Hardback
$198.00

How do countries acquire their distinctive features and appearance, their look or style? Focusing on Britain, with...  Read More >>

Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western Design Theory

Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of...

Author: Mark Gelernter ,  Bethan Hirst
ISBN: 9780719041297
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book provides a critical history of Western architectural theory from the ancient world to the present day....  Read More >>

Anybody home?: Architectural Notes

Anybody home?: Architectural Notes

Author: Pierre Zoelly ,  Christoph Schütz
ISBN: 9783764351649
Format: Hardback
$33.00

In this text, Pierre Zoelly examines the work he has done since the 1960s to discover how well his houses have fulfilled...  Read More >>

A Theory for Practice: Architecture in Three Discourses

A Theory for Practice: Architecture in Three Discourses...

Author: William Hubbard
ISBN: 9780262082358
Format: Hardback
$92.40

This study looks at groups with an interest in a work of architecture - owners, inhabitants, customers, critics...  Read More >>

McCarter and Nairne: Significant British Columbia Projects

McCarter and Nairne: Significant British Columbia Projects...

Author: Linda M. Fraser ,  Kathy E. Zimon
ISBN: 9781895176643
Format: Spiral bound
$54.21

The firm of McCarter & Nairne dominated public architecture in Vancouver from the inception of the partnership between...  Read More >>

Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture of Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Hilberseimer

Modernism and the Posthumanist Subject: The Architecture...

Author: K. Michael Hays (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780262581417
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Drawing on both the work of modern theorists like Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Siegfried Kracauer,...  Read More >>

Venice and the Renaissance

Venice and the Renaissance

Author: Manfredo Tafuri ,  Jessica Levine
ISBN: 9780262700542
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A history of Venetian culture from the beginning of the 16th century through the first decades of the 17th century....  Read More >>

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