Theory of architecture books

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Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge in Response to War and Violence in Iraq, 2003–2023

Rupturing Architecture: Spatial Practices of Refuge...

Author: Dr Sana Murrani (University of Plymouth, UK)
ISBN: 9781350325388
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Addresses architectural responses to the traumatic events surrounding war, conflict and displacement, using case...  Read More >>

Fairground Theory: The Hidden Life and Architecture of the Travelling Fair

Fairground Theory: The Hidden Life and Architecture...

Author: Professor Stephen Walker (Manchester School of Architecture, UK)
ISBN: 9781350524705
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Going behind the scenes of the travelling fair – exploring its design, atmosphere, people, and processes – in order...  Read More >>

Archaeoastronomy: Introduction to the Science of Stars and Stones

Archaeoastronomy: Introduction to the Science of Stars...

Author: Giulio Magli
ISBN: 9783031758515
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of...  Read More >>

Architektur – Lebenswelt – Landschaft

Architektur – Lebenswelt – Landschaft

Author: Karsten Berr ,  Petra Lohmann
ISBN: 9783658496296
Format: Paperback
$237.57

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes führen in die komplexen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Architektur, Landschaft und Lebenswelt...  Read More >>

Cornell Journal of Architecture 13: Missing

Cornell Journal of Architecture 13: Missing

Author: Val Warke ,  Emma Silverblatt
ISBN: 9780997260274
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Architecture seems to have always grappled with missingness in its numerous guises and disguises, attempting to...  Read More >>

Teaching Urbanism: Lucerne Talks

Teaching Urbanism: Lucerne Talks

Author: Heike Biechteler ,  Johannes Käferstein
ISBN: 9783038604501
Format: Paperback
$99.00

An inspiring compendium on the importance of urban design in architectural education and practice that brings together...  Read More >>

Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent’s Architectural Installations (1969–1975)

Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent’s Architectural Installations...

Author: Igor Siddiqui
ISBN: 9781966515227
Format: Paperback
$88.00

Using rarely published archival materials as well as new drawings produced by the book’s author, Oblique Experiments...  Read More >>

North Gallery: Volume 8

North Gallery: Volume 8

Author: Andrew Benner ,  Luke Bulman
ISBN: 9781638402053
Format: Paperback
$34.99

North Gallery : Volume 8 displays work from six exhibitions that appeared in the Yale School of Architecture gallery...  Read More >>

Soundscape Architecture

Soundscape Architecture

Author: Jim Welty ,  Karen van Lengen
ISBN: 9781961856745
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Soundscape Architecture presents historical examples, design projects and art works related to the sonics of architectural...  Read More >>

Media Matters in Landscape Architecture

Media Matters in Landscape Architecture

Author: Karen M’Closkey ,  Keith VanDerSys
ISBN: 9781957183671
Format: Paperback
$87.95

A unique contribution to landscape architectural praxis in its explicit framing of “environmental media” in terms...  Read More >>

With and Without Walls: The Southern California Institute of Architecture in the 1970s and 1980s

With and Without Walls: The Southern California Institute...

Author: Benjamin J. Smith
ISBN: 9781961856936
Format: Paperback
$120.00

With and Without Walls unfolds the history of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), founded...  Read More >>

Totems and Other Essays

Totems and Other Essays

Author: Irenee Scalbert
ISBN: 9783038604624
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A new collection of 14 essays by French-British architectural historian and critic Irénée Scalbert, reflecting nearly...  Read More >>

Building Sites: Architecture, Labour, and Production Studies

Building Sites: Architecture, Labour, and Production...

Author: Matt Davies ,  Will Thomson
ISBN: 9781032788845
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Through its engagement with the ground-breaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a...  Read More >>

Building Sites: Architecture, Labour, and Production Studies

Building Sites: Architecture, Labour, and Production...

Author: Matt Davies ,  Will Thomson
ISBN: 9781032791524
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through its engagement with the ground-breaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a...  Read More >>

Modern Architecture and Gender in Pre-State Israel

Modern Architecture and Gender in Pre-State Israel

Author: Sigal Davidi
ISBN: 9783031966675
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine...  Read More >>

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature:...

Author: Ben Moore (Assistant Professor in English Literature, University of Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781399508490
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Rethinks the relationship between architecture, literature and (in)visibility in the nineteenth-century city  Read More >>

(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design

(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design

Author: Federica Goffi ,  Isabel Potworowski
ISBN: 9781032823102
Format: Paperback
$103.47

This book calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination...  Read More >>

(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design

(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design

Author: Federica Goffi ,  Isabel Potworowski
ISBN: 9781032823928
Format: Hardback
$375.19

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Mapping: Narratives, Practices and Spatial Inquiry

Mapping: Narratives, Practices and Spatial Inquiry

Author: Gihan Karunaratne
ISBN: 9781032934204
Format: Hardback
$375.19

Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions...  Read More >>

Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO

Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO

Author: Roberto Podda
ISBN: 9781032357423
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti. It does so selectively, focusing...  Read More >>

Inventing the Built Environment: Planning, Science, and Control in British Architecture

Inventing the Built Environment: Planning, Science,...

Author: Juliana Yat Shun Kei
ISBN: 9780367771416
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Inventing the Built Environment reveals the reconceptualisation of architecture and town planning in Britain c.1964....  Read More >>

Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture in the Kaiaimunucene

Spirit Structures of Papua New Guinea: Art and Architecture...

Author: Michael Hirschbichler
ISBN: 9781032471464
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book investigates the art and architecture of Papua New Guinean spirit structures, with a multi-perspectival...  Read More >>

Nelson Goodman and Modern Architecture: A Belated Encounter

Nelson Goodman and Modern Architecture: A Belated Encounter...

Author: Kasper Lægring
ISBN: 9781032347431
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s—Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic theory on one side,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran: From Pedagogical Revolution to Revolutionary Pedagogy (1960-1990)

The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran: From...

Author: Ali Javid
ISBN: 9781032743141
Format: Paperback
$111.24

The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran explores the evolution of architectural pedagogy during two significant...  Read More >>

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