Theory of architecture Books

True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture was first published in 1841, when Pugin was 29 years old. Here he presents coherent arguments for the revival of the Gothic style, the case for which he had made pictorally in his sensational book...

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Do your architectural designs foster well-being and thrivability in occupants? Do your designs innovate architectural technology in new ways? And do you make design decisions that pull from the latest scientific findings, including biomimicry design or...

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This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, Jørn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the manner of''). Roger Tyrrell explains how the...

Cette deuxième édition des Cahiers du Laboratoire d’Étude de l’Architecture Potentielle propose une réflexion sur l’un des problèmes centraux du Mouvement moderne et de la critique postmoderne : la...

This volume of Incomplete Works is a compilation of twenty four items, each of which draws together: 1. an extract 2. a Cosmological Leap. The extracts are reflections on the nature of colour, they are selected from Doctor Watson Architects' library of...

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Dieses Buch behandelt den Stil in Bezug auf technische und tektonische Kunst sowie die praktische Ästhetik.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is...

The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized contexts, particularly in Africa, Asia, the Middle-East, South-East Asia and, Latin...

Written specifically for architects, this is the first clear and concise explanation of Heidegger's architectural thinking in the context of his work.

This volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of...

The essays selected for this book, presented in chronological order, discuss various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on two historical periods marked by comparable...

A stimulating and thought provoking exploration of one of the key concerns of the modern society - the relationship between public and private spheres, particularly as manifested in the urban space with its social and psychological significance.

Home/Housing as a manifestation of lifestyles is a critical forum for us to gauge the way we render our living within the urban sphere.NEXT HOME examines this ‘living’ as an architectural assignment, beyond and before the traces of commercial...

Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundaries in search of a deeper understanding of architecture in the evolution of human culture and identity...

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of...

The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Steven Holl and Peter Zumthor, as well as informing renowned schools of architectural theory, notably those around Dalibor Vesely at Cambridge,...

Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience.In the years after the 1994...

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulation games, game-like approaches, game scenarios, and gamification processes for teaching/learning, design and...

Questo saggio di Andrea Rigato, architetto e studioso italiano del XIX secolo, offre un'analisi attenta e dettagliata sull'opera di Andrea Palladio, uno dei massimi geni dell'architettura rinascimentale. Il testo si sofferma sugli aspetti formali e...

Based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork, this book describes how various governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger and the Republic of the...

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly discussion of broad traditions or continuities within Germanic or Central European façade design is even...

Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after...

This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice.Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues...

Recent legislative trends in the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries now require accurate and efficient assessment of environmental aesthetics. Most of this assessment is currently undertaken using...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This praxis-based book explores how an improvisational, creative and embodied practice such as the dérive works to defamiliarise our experience of the late modern built environment, fostering new insight into routinised cultural behaviours.In addition to...

This work studies the conservation of classical monuments in the Mediterranean region. It focuses on a specific method, anastylosis, and its application to classical monuments. The terminology, philosophy, theoretical principles and technical issues of...

The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture,...

A comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design.

Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth century's greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life...

In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design.Making extensive use of information gained from hours...

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg-Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930´s.

In Eine Theorie der Architektur präsentiert Nikos Salingaros eine bahnbrechende Erforschung der architektonischen Prinzipien und ihrer tiefgreifenden Auswirkungen auf das menschliche Erleben. Unter Verwendung seines umfangreichen Wissens in Mathematik...

Seoul is just behind Mumbai and Lagos in the list of the most extreme density cities in the world. From a population of 3.5 million in 1965, the city exceeded 25 million in 2019, hosting 50% of the population in an area as large as 12% of South Korea...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

Gottfried Semper untersucht in diesem bahnbrechenden Werk die Ästhetik der technischen und tektonischen Künste. Er zeigt, wie architektonische Elemente in verschiedenen Bereichen zum Einsatz kommen und wie sie durch ihre Gestaltung und Verwendung...

This book speaks to lovers of art, Santa Fe, historic architecture, guidebooks, and books as art. The imaginative images are combined with historical documentation, illuminating the diverse period-architecture found in a simple crisscross of seven...

In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical consciousness, a period that saw the birth of modern historiography, a profusion of historical novels and paintings, and the...

A Manual of Historic Ornament by Richard Glazier, published in 1906, is a comprehensive guide to the evolution, tradition, and development of architecture and the applied arts. The book covers a vast range of topics related to the history of...

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A witty and insightful critique of the architectural theories of John Ruskin, one of the leading figures of the Victorian era. Written by an anonymous author who identifies only as 'Architect,' this book presents a lively and engaging argument against...

In this seminal work of architectural theory, German architect Stephan Prager explores the nature of aesthetics and systematics in the field of architecture. Drawing on examples from across architectural history, from ancient Greece to modern-day Europe,...

Relationships with Italy were crucial in contributing to the making of postmodern architecture in Australia. In this collection of essays and conversations, the authors reflect upon the reception of Italian postmodern architecture in Australia, revealing...