Theory of architecture books

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Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

Author: Thomas Heatherwick
ISBN: 9780241389799
Format: Paperback
$29.99

In this manifesto for change, one of the world's preeminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the...  Read More >>

Container Architecture: Modular Construction Marvels

Container Architecture: Modular Construction Marvels...

Author: Sibylle Kramer
ISBN: 9783037682876
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Design reduced to the absolute essential - the shipping container. Invented in the 1950s by Malcom McLean, these...  Read More >>

Atrium

Atrium

Author: Charles Rice
ISBN: 9780262048330
Format: Hardback
$110.00

How the rise of the large-scale atrium space in the 1970s and '80s changed the way buildings could be designed,...  Read More >>

William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult

William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult

Author: Amandeep Kaur Mann
ISBN: 9781032149080
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857 – 1931) and his relationship...  Read More >>

Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism

Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism...

Author: Ashraf M. Salama
ISBN: 9780367690168
Format: Paperback
$60.99

First published in 2009, Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism is a detailed round of pedagogical...  Read More >>

The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment

The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and...

Author: Dean Hawkes
ISBN: 9780367537166
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Artificial Intelligence in Architecture

The Routledge Companion to Artificial Intelligence in...

Author: Imdat As (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) ,  Prithwish Basu
ISBN: 9780367749590
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Providing the most comprehensive source available, this book surveys the state of the art in AI as it relates to...  Read More >>

The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural Imagination

The Architect's Dream: Form and Philosophy in Architectural...

Author: Sean Pickersgill
ISBN: 9781789387407
Format: Hardback
$248.95

The Architect's Dream draws on a broad range of subject areas, from philosophy to film to mathematics and economics,...  Read More >>

Zwischen Raum und Substanz

Zwischen Raum und Substanz

Author: Österreichische Gesellschaft für Architektur
ISBN: 9783035627336
Format: Paperback
$72.45

A house or a room can never be viewed in isolation. As part of a nexus, architecture creates relationships from...  Read More >>

Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst: Studienausgabe Band 3: Platzräume

Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst: Studienausgabe Band 3: Platzräume...

Author: Christoph Mäckler ,  Deutsches Institut für Stadtbaukunst e.V
ISBN: 9783986120573
Format: Paperback
$72.45

Band 3 des vierbändigen Werks Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst enthält Beispiele von Platzräumen als Anleitung zum Entwurf....  Read More >>

Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized Urban Design

Atlas of Informal Settlement: Understanding Self-Organized...

Author: Kim Dovey (Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, University of Melbourne, Australia) ,  Matthijs van Oostrum (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350295049
Format: Hardback
$150.00

While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production:...  Read More >>

Wide Angle View: Architecture as social space in the Manplan series 1969-70

Wide Angle View: Architecture as social space in the...

Author: Valeria Carullo
ISBN: 9781915722331
Format: Paperback
$52.99

The companion exhibition catalogue to the RIBA’s photography exhibition: Wide Angle View: Architecture as social...  Read More >>

50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know

Author: Philip Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781529432206
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Master the architectural ideas that have shaped the world we live in today.  Read More >>

Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places

Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts,...

Author: Nina Juzwa ,  Jakub Świerzawski
ISBN: 9781032517728
Format: Hardback
$105.00

"Authored by two architects, this book tells a story of buildings that were built in Poland between 1980-2020, as...  Read More >>

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory...

Author: Amir H Ameri
ISBN: 9781032008011
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants...  Read More >>

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico...

Author: Luis E. Carranza
ISBN: 9781032003573
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture of Kashmir (Early 14th –18th Century)

The Syncretic Traditions of Islamic Religious Architecture...

Author: Hakim Sameer Hamdani (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH), Kashmir Chapter, Srinagar, India)
ISBN: 9780367744298
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides a detailed overview of the origin and development of Islamic religious architecture while contextualizing...  Read More >>

Architecture en temps de crise: Stratégies actuelles et historiques pour la conception de « mondes nouveaux »

Architecture en temps de crise: Stratégies actuelles...

Author: Susanne Stacher
ISBN: 9783035627749
Format: Paperback
$95.74

In times of crisis: Quo vadis, architecture? Driven by the desire to create better worlds in the face of multiple...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance

The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary...

Author: Douglas Spencer
ISBN: 9781350375901
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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