Theory of architecture books

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The Continuous City: Fourteen Essays on Architecture and Urbanisation

The Continuous City: Fourteen Essays on Architecture...

Author: Lars Lerup
ISBN: 9783038600664
Format: Hardback
$79.99

Offers fourteen previously unpublished essays by Lars Lerup, who ranks among the most significant teachers and researchers...  Read More >>

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760 - 1860

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture, 1760...

Author: Daniel Maudlin (University of Plymouth, UK)
ISBN: 9780815383895
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed...  Read More >>

Architectures of Sound: Acoustic Concepts and Parameters for Architectural Design

Architectures of Sound: Acoustic Concepts and Parameters...

Author: Michael Fowler
ISBN: 9783035613223
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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Buddhist and Hindu Architecture in India

Buddhist and Hindu Architecture in India

Author: S.K. Grover
ISBN: 9788123909738
Format: Paperback
$115.63

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Bauphysik: Wärme – Feuchte – Schall – Brand

Bauphysik: Wärme – Feuchte – Schall – Brand

Author: Anton Pech ,  Christian Pöhn
ISBN: 9783035605730
Format: Hardback
$67.27

Ein klassischer Kurs über die Gegenstände der Bauphysik: Wärmeschutz – Schallschutz – Brandschutz, ergänzt durch...  Read More >>

Stoffwechsel: Materialverwandlung in der Architektur

Stoffwechsel: Materialverwandlung in der Architektur...

Author: Ákos Moravánszky
ISBN: 9783035610185
Format: Hardback
$112.56

"Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are ""constructed"",...  Read More >>

Essays, Arguments & Interviews on Modern Architecture Kuwait

Essays, Arguments & Interviews on Modern Architecture...

Author: Ricardo Camacho ,  Sara Saragoça Soares
ISBN: 9783721209587
Format: Paperback
$60.00

Between 1949 and 1989, remarkable buildings of late modernity were constructed in the coastal city of Kuwait. Following...  Read More >>

Digital and Smart Cities

Digital and Smart Cities

Author: Katharine Willis ,  Alessandro Aurigi
ISBN: 9781138890381
Format: Paperback
$65.99

The book presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. It aims to give an informative and definitive...  Read More >>

Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture

Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture...

Author: Professor Stephen Kite (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781472588098
Format: Paperback
$61.99

The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to...  Read More >>

Bare Architecture: A Schizoanalysis

Bare Architecture: A Schizoanalysis

Author: Chris L. Smith (Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350015814
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Bare Architecture: a schizoanalysis, is a poststructural exploration of the interface between architecture and the...  Read More >>

Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays

Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays

Author: Ed Wall ,  Tim Waterman (The Bartlett School of Architeture, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138125568
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This book explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated...  Read More >>

Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography

Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography...

Author: Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138283510
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different...  Read More >>

Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture

Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture

Author: Kim Sexton
ISBN: 9781138188822
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Nature Modern: The Place of Landscape in the Modern Movement

Nature Modern: The Place of Landscape in the Modern...

Author: Albert Kirchengast
ISBN: 9783868592139
Format: Paperback
$65.00

Nature is not simply 'green' or 'the opposite of culture'. Essentially, it is an intellectual construct. The relationship...  Read More >>

The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

The Baroque in Architectural Culture, 1880-1980

Author: Andrew Leach ,  John Macarthur
ISBN: 9781138573284
Format: Paperback
$101.00

The book defines a role for the baroque in the history of architectural historiography and in the history of modern...  Read More >>

The City Crown by Bruno Taut

The City Crown by Bruno Taut

Author: Matthew Mindrup ,  Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis
ISBN: 9781138572324
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism

Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities...

Author: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
ISBN: 9781138573468
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and...  Read More >>

Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural Media

Image, Text, Architecture: The Utopics of the Architectural...

Author: Robin Wilson
ISBN: 9781138573260
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the architectural media, addressing issues of...  Read More >>

In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions

In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge...

Author: Hooman Koliji
ISBN: 9781138572379
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Focusing on Islamic geometric architectural drawings, it draws on key philosophical and conceptual notions of imagination...  Read More >>

Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure of a Demonstration

Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari: The Pleasure...

Author: Sam Ridgway
ISBN: 9781138567795
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Sam Ridgway draws on a wide selection of Frascari’s texts, including his richly poetic book Monsters of Architecture,...  Read More >>

Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction

Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction...

Author: Tino Mager
ISBN: 9781138573291
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of...  Read More >>

Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China

Author: Nicholas Jewell
ISBN: 9781138573338
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book examines how these interrelationships are manifested in the culturally hybrid built form of the shopping...  Read More >>

The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity

The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National...

Author: Johnny Rodger
ISBN: 9781138570108
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book examines architectural culture by studying a prominent selection of buildings, such as the Burns monuments...  Read More >>

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