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Theory of architecture
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Building the Architect's Character: Explorations in Traits
Kendra Schank Smith (Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Albert C. Smith (Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Theory of architecture; Architecture: professional practice; Professional interior design; Landscape art & architecture; Business ethics
Hardback
An understanding of architects' character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits... [more]
Hans Hollein and Postmodernism: Art and Architecture in Austria, 1958-1985...
Eva Branscome (University College London, UK)
Theory of art; Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Social & cultural history
Hardback
Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly... [more]
Cognition and the Built Environment
Ole Moystad (Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway)
Theory of architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning
Hardback
Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive... [more]
Terms of Appropriation: Modern Architecture and Global Exchange
Ana Miljacki, Amanda Lawrence
Theory of architecture; History of architecture
Hardback
This collection focuses on how architectural material is transformed, revised, swallowed whole, plagiarized, or in any other... [more]
Critiquing the Modern in Architecture
Jaimini Mehta (Studio Jaimini Mehta, India)
Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Cultural studies
Paperback
Written over four decades, Critiquing the Modern in Architecture is a collection of essays exploring the ideological and metaphysical... [more]
Why are Most Buildings Rectangular?: And Other Essays on Geometry and Architecture...
Philip Steadman (University College London, UK)
Theory of architecture; History of architecture
Paperback
This book brings together a dozen of Philip Steadman's essays and papers on the geometry of architectural and urban form,... [more]
Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture
Francois Penz (University of Cambridge, UK)
Theory of architecture; Architectural structure & design; Media studies
Paperback
Cinematic Aided Design: An Everyday Life Approach to Architecture provides architects, planners, designer practitioners, politicians... [more]
Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition
Karl Rosenkranz
Theory of art; Theory of architecture; Philosophy: aesthetics
Paperback
In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without... [more]
Remaking Cities: An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting
Tony Fry (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Theory of architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning
Paperback
Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity,... [more]
The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture
Marcos Cruz
Theory of architecture
Hardback
Today's architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness. A resurgence... [more]
Colour and Light: Spatial Experience
Karin Fridell Anter
Theory of architecture
Hardback
Colour and Light: Spatial Experience describes the coherent interaction of light and colour in the spatial context. It explains... [more]
Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies
Helene Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson, Helen Runting
Theory of architecture
Hardback
Set against the background of a `general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series... [more]
Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural...
Gail Peter Borden (University of Southern California and Borden Partnership LLP, USA), Michael Meredith
Theory of architecture; Architectural structure & design
Hardback
This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation,... [more]
Landscape and Agency: Critical Essays
Ed Wall (University of Greenwich, UK), Tim Waterman (The Bartlett School of Architeture, University College London, UK)
Theory of architecture; Landscape art & architecture
Hardback
Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated... [more]
The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Loenberg-Holm, Buckminster...
Suzanne Strum (College of Architects of Catalonia, Spain)
Architecture; Theory of architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture; Urban communities
Hardback
**Finalist for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019** This book traces the ideal of total environmental... [more]
Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiograpy
Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia)
Theory of architecture; History of architecture
Hardback
Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic,... [more]
Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture
Kim Sexton (University of Arkansas, USA)
Theory of architecture
Hardback
The relationship of architecture to the human body is a centuries-long and complex one, but not always symmetrical. This book... [more]
Capsules: Typology of Other Architecture
Peter Senk
Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Theory of architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture
Hardback
This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s,... [more]
Innovative Architecture Strategies
Simos Vamvakidis
Theory of architecture
Paperback
This book focuses on diverse architectural strategies for blending public and private spaces in mixed-use building with complex... [more]
John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture
Anuradha Chatterjee (Architectural author and theorist, Australia)
Theory of architecture
Hardback
Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume analyses the impact John... [more]
Towards a Public Space: Le Corbusier and the Greco-Latin Tradition in the...
Marta Sequeira (University of Evora, Portugal)
Theory of architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture
Hardback
**Selected in the top eight short-list for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019** Le Corbusier is... [more]
What Is Cosmopolitical Design? Design, Nature and the Built Environment...
Albena Yaneva, Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Theory of architecture; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Sociology; Human geography
Paperback
The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.... [more]
From Doxiadis' Theory to Pikionis' Work: Reflections of Antiquity in Modern...
Kostas Tsiambaos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Urban & municipal planning
Hardback
In this book, Tsiambaos redefines the ground-breaking theory of Greek architect and town planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis... [more]
Antiquity: Origins, Classicism and the New Rome
Christopher Tadgell
History of art: ancient & classical art; Theory of architecture; History of architecture; History
Paperback
This architectural history, starting with Egypt and Mesopotamia traces the development of building styles and techniques down... [more]
Transformations: Baroque and Rococo in the age of absolutism and the Church...
Christopher Tadgell
Architecture; Theory of architecture; History of architecture
Paperback
Unprecedented in scope - like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Mannerism - this sixth volume in the Architecture... [more]
