Theory of architecture books

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Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History and Identity

Drawing as Placemaking: Environment, History and Identity...

Author: Jill Journeaux (Coventry University, UK) ,  Simon Woolham (University of Huddersfield, UK)
ISBN: 9781350457041
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Through nine chapters written by artists and ten conversations with artists, the book examines contemporary drawing...  Read More >>

New York Geologics: Representations of Manhattan from the Anthropocene

New York Geologics: Representations of Manhattan from...

Author: Tiago Torres-Campos
ISBN: 9781961856394
Format: Paperback
$87.95

The logics of land, water and ground – here called Geologics - advocate for architecture to become a productive...  Read More >>

Conservation of Uncertain Archaeological Sites: Prehistoric Scottish Brochs

Conservation of Uncertain Archaeological Sites: Prehistoric...

Author: Chang Liu
ISBN: 9789819539840
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book approaches the study from architectural perspectives, analyzing the collection of brochs’ features and...  Read More >>

Place and Parametricism: Critical, Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design

Place and Parametricism: Critical, Archival and Digital...

Author: Mark Burry (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) ,  Gini Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350329980
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book provides a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism and explores how designers and architects...  Read More >>

Exhibition Matters: Contemporary Displays and Exhibition-Making Practices

Exhibition Matters: Contemporary Displays and Exhibition-Making...

Author: Prof Pamela Bianchi (École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), France) ,  Dr Wesley Meuris (Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781350575547
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Bridges theory and practice to explore the impact of exhibition design on constructing the narrative of the exhibition....  Read More >>

A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature and Culture

A Book of Monsters: Promethean Horror in Modern Literature...

Author: David Ashford
ISBN: 9781526195456
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change

SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change

Author: Florencia Rodriguez ,  Santiago Bogani
ISBN: 9783038604686
Format: Paperback
$80.00

The official publication accompanying the 6th Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 2025), North America’s largest...  Read More >>

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 >>

Black Architect

Black Architect

Author: Sekou Cooke
ISBN: 9783038603825
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A provocative and personal investigation into the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment.  Read More >>

On the Aesthetics of Architecture: A Psychological Approach to the Structure and the Order of Perceived Architectural Space

On the Aesthetics of Architecture: A Psychological Approach...

Author: Ralf Weber
ISBN: 9781032820910
Format: Paperback
$82.77

Originally published in 1995, this title is a result of an interdisciplinary study in architectural theory, psychology...  Read More >>

Platon Issaias / Yiorgis Yerolymbos. Athens as a Project

Platon Issaias / Yiorgis Yerolymbos. Athens as a Project...

Author: Platon Issaias ,  Yiorgis Yerolymbos
ISBN: 9783775751964
Format: Hardback
$95.00

Athens as a Project is an interdisciplinary publication at the intersection of architecture and photography with...  Read More >>

Ovale & Blicke – Dominikus Zimmermanns Wallfahrtskirche in Steinhausen

Ovale & Blicke – Dominikus Zimmermanns Wallfahrtskirche...

Author: Fritz Barth ,  Achim Ilchmann
ISBN: 9783869050461
Format: Paperback
$110.88

Dominikus Zimmermann's pilgrimage church of Our Lady and parish church of St Peter and Paul in Steinhausen, built...  Read More >>

The Particular and the Public

The Particular and the Public

Author: Rachaporn Choochuey ,  Carrie Norman
ISBN: 9781638402275
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The Particular and the Public focuses on three Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professors' architecture studios...  Read More >>

Building Modern Antiquity: Hymns and Laments for Athens

Building Modern Antiquity: Hymns and Laments for Athens...

Author: Georgia Giannakopoulou
ISBN: 9781032053943
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.  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

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The Hidden Lives of Algorithms: Geometry and Social Meaning in Architecture

The Hidden Lives of Algorithms: Geometry and Social...

Author: Philip D. Plowright ,  Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781041003748
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This book examines how the geometric outcomes of spatialised algorithmic operations influence more complex human...  Read More >>

The Hidden Lives of Algorithms: Geometry and Social Meaning in Architecture

The Hidden Lives of Algorithms: Geometry and Social...

Author: Philip D. Plowright ,  Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
ISBN: 9781041003779
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book examines how the geometric outcomes of spatialised algorithmic operations influence more complex human...  Read More >>

Modern Architecture in the Balkans: From Le Corbusier to Tito

Modern Architecture in the Balkans: From Le Corbusier...

Author: Lorenzo Pignatti
ISBN: 9781041138839
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, through the figures of Le Corbusier...  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 >>

Modern Architecture in the Balkans: From Le Corbusier to Tito

Modern Architecture in the Balkans: From Le Corbusier...

Author: Lorenzo Pignatti
ISBN: 9781041139003
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book is an attempt to comprehend the reasons for modernity in the Balkans, through the figures of Le Corbusier...  Read More >>

Design and Architecture for Sustainable, Resilient, and User-Friendly Cities and Interiors

Design and Architecture for Sustainable, Resilient,...

Author: Anna Visvizi (Effat University, Saudi Arabia) ,  Asmaa Ibrahim (Effat University, Saudi Arabia)
ISBN: 9781805923701
Format: Hardback
$194.06

This edited book explores how architecture & design shape sustainable and user-friendly smart cities. Challenging...  Read More >>

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