Theory of architecture books

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French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s Craft

French Gothic Ivories: Material Theologies and the Sculptor’s...

Author: Sarah M. Guérin (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009018876
Format: Paperback
$103.47

This monograph traces the first century of Gothic ivory sculpture (1230–1330) through a panoply of new sources,...  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Spatial (In) Justice: How Does It Manifest in the Built Environment?

Spatial (In) Justice: How Does It Manifest in the Built...

Author: Adnan Morshed (Catholic University of America)
ISBN: 9781394294664
Format: Paperback
$99.95

Explores how spatial justice shapes equitable, empowering, and inclusive experiences In an era increasingly defined...  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 >>

Modern Architecture of Quito: Global, Local, and the In-Between

Modern Architecture of Quito: Global, Local, and the...

Author: Christian Parreno (San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador)
ISBN: 9781350454934
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A historical study of Latin American modernism, foregrounding Quito, Ecuador as a point of encounter between local...  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 >>

Antifascist Architecture

Antifascist Architecture

Author: Andrew Santa Lucia ,  Daniel Jonas Roche
ISBN: 9783038604068
Format: Paperback
$80.00

Explores for the first time the phenomenon of antifascist architecture in distinction from anti-colonial or liberation...  Read More >>

Residential Architecture

Residential Architecture

Author: Kazuo Shinohara ,  Christian Dehli
ISBN: 9783038604587
Format: Paperback
$80.00

First English edition of Kazuo Shinohara’s perennial book on Japanese residential architecture of the late 20th...  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 >>

Tradition, Location and Community: Place-making and Development

Tradition, Location and Community: Place-making and...

Author: Adenrele Awotona (University of Massachusetts, USA) ,  Necdet Teymur
ISBN: 9781032846255
Format: Paperback
$90.54

First published in 1997, this title brings together the selected papers of seventeen architects, social scientists...  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 >>

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