Theory of Architecture

Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up there by the Allied forces, particularly the USA, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in Vienna to ask how this can inform our broader understanding of architectural Postmodernism...

This book brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal...

This book brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal...

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

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

A collection of thought-provoking essays on the changing face of domestic architecture over two centuries, highlighting the wide range of source materials and theoretical perspectives available to scholars of architectural history...

Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors. Applying a theoretical method of ’utopic critique’ developed from the work of Louis Marin and Fredric ..

Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectural photography and the role of journal editors...

This book argues that design drawings should be recognised as intermediaries, mediating between the world of ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and tangible. The book argues that this ’in-between’ quality to architectural drawing is essential and that it is critical to perceive d..

Focusing on Islamic geometric architectural drawings, it draws on key philosophical and conceptual notions of imagination from the Islamic tradition as these relate to the creative act...

International contributors from industry set out the most pressing contemporary concerns for the production of architecture, and the academic contributions ask what methods and objects are appropriate for this emerging field of study...

Investigates the complex relations between architecture, space and ethics from divergent and inter-disciplinary perspectives...