Theory of Architecture

This book is an essential resource for understanding tropical architecture and its various contemporary manifestations and will be invaluable to specialists, academics, students and practitioners...

This book is an essential resource for understanding tropical architecture and its various contemporary manifestations and will be invaluable to specialists, academics, students and practitioners...

This book’s principal aims are to identify the eighteenth-century origins of an evolving tradition in which architecture is analogous to a landscape, a history and a fiction, and to understand its influence on subsequent centuries...

A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms...

Aalto, Utzon, Fehn helps you understand the concept of "paradigm" (or, "in the manner of") by looking at the work and design methods of three Nordic humane modernist architects: Alvar Aalto, Jørn Utzon, and Sverre Fehn...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new types of African expression. This book examines some of the fascinating and impressive works of contemporary public architecture that 'concretize' imaginati..

Presenting current thinking from practitioners and scholars from around the world, this book asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the architectural profession, and society. Considering issues of agency, in particular the role of architectural research as an agency of transform..

This volume addresses the question of how interdisciplinary feminist thought and contemporary practice can inform architectural debate on the use and meaning of space._x005F_x000D_..

This volume addresses the question of how interdisciplinary feminist thought and contemporary practice can inform architectural debate on the use and meaning of space._x000D_..

This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process. Albert Smith takes the reader through the history and significance of models in architecture from the magic of the Egyptian scale model to the present day.Through this description of the relationship between arc..

A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, challenging the concepts and categories of architectural history and placing the current debates into a broader cultural and technological context...

Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary texts, which explore the intellectual, theoretical and practical substance of the architectural discipline. Throughout his academic career, he continued to work on numerous architectural projects, including exhibitions, competition entries, and designs fo..