Theory of architecture books

5036 books were found.

Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the Modern World

Modern Architecture: The Structures that Shaped the...

Author: Jonathan Glancey
ISBN: 9781802791013
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Weiterbauen an Dorf, Siedlung, Stadt: Ein Plädoyer

Weiterbauen an Dorf, Siedlung, Stadt: Ein Plädoyer

Author: Albert Kirchengast
ISBN: 9783035626490
Format: Hardback
$94.44

"Kirchengast betrachtet in seinem Buch drei Projekte mit modellhaftem Charakter: Max Dudler, Franz Riepl und Jonathan...  Read More >>

Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy

Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses across Art,...

Author: Mark Foster Gage (Assistant Dean and Associate Professor, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780262547710
Format: Paperback
$90.00

How aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse...  Read More >>

The Short Works of John Habraken: Ways of Seeing / Ways of Doing

The Short Works of John Habraken: Ways of Seeing / Ways...

Author: Stephen H. Kendall (Ball State University, USA) ,  John R. Dale (HED, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9780367820077
Format: Hardback
$162.00

This book offers, for the first time, access to the chronological arc of John Habrakens’ writing in a single collection....  Read More >>

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination:...

Author: Jo Gill (Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts, University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9780198868347
Format: Hardback
$183.95

Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between...  Read More >>

Building Children’s Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks

Building Children’s Worlds: The Representation of Architecture...

Author: Torsten Schmiedeknecht ,  Jill Rudd
ISBN: 9780367675486
Format: Paperback
$75.99

The kinds of architectural worlds children are exposed to in picture books during their formative years may influence...  Read More >>

Rock-cut Architecture and Underground Cities in Koramaz Valley of Kayseri, Turkey

Rock-cut Architecture and Underground Cities in Koramaz...

Author: Ali Yamaç
ISBN: 9783031293733
Format: Hardback
$258.72

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described...  Read More >>

Building Children’s Worlds: The Representation of Architecture and Modernity in Picturebooks

Building Children’s Worlds: The Representation of Architecture...

Author: Torsten Schmiedeknecht ,  Jill Rudd
ISBN: 9780367675479
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The kinds of architectural worlds children are exposed to in picture books during their formative years may influence...  Read More >>

Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities: Theories, Methodologies and Cases in Architecture and Urbanism

Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities:...

Author: Bertug Ozarisoy ,  Hasim Altan
ISBN: 9781032152158
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term ‘transgression’ and how it shapes the utopian vision of...  Read More >>

Montessori Architecture: A Design Instrument for Schools

Montessori Architecture: A Design Instrument for Schools...

Author: Steve Lawrence ,  Benjamin Stæhli
ISBN: 9783038603153
Format: Paperback
$95.00

Presents nine case studies of Montessori school buildings in Europe and tropical countries through photos, plans,...  Read More >>

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture: Exercises, Provocations, and Theories of Digital Representation

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture:...

Author: Carl Lostritto ,  Viola Ago
ISBN: 9781951541552
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture addresses how and why architects, artists, and designers manipulate...  Read More >>

Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop V

Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop V

Author: Omar Khan ,  Laura Garofalo
ISBN: 9781954081710
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Architectural Ceramic Assemblies Workshop V chronicles the work of architectural firms Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF),...  Read More >>

Renovating Carbon: Re-imagining the Carbon Form

Renovating Carbon: Re-imagining the Carbon Form

Author: Erik L'Heureux ,  Giovanni Cossu
ISBN: 9781954081444
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Twelve critical essays in this book present a constellation of voices surrounding carbon and its relationship with...  Read More >>

The Landscape Project

The Landscape Project

Author: Richard J. Weller ,  Tatum Hands
ISBN: 9781954081420
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The Landscape Project is a collection of essays by the landscape architecture faculty at the Weitzman School of...  Read More >>

Typologies for Big Words

Typologies for Big Words

Author: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
ISBN: 9781954081567
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020)

Barbara Kasten: Architecture & Film (2015–2020)

Author: Stephanie Cristello ,  Humberto Moro
ISBN: 9788857247199
Format: Hardback
$60.00

In 2015, the Graham Foundation, in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, presented Barbara Kasten:...  Read More >>

MetroLab: Metropolitan Design as a New Discipline

MetroLab: Metropolitan Design as a New Discipline

Author: Roland Krebs ,  Stefan Mayr
ISBN: 9783986120115
Format: Paperback
$95.00

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architect, verb.: The New Language of Building

architect, verb.: The New Language of Building

Author: Reinier De Graaf
ISBN: 9781839761911
Format: Hardback
$36.99

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable...  Read More >>

Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860

Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in...

Author: Patrick Lee Lucas
ISBN: 9780813197128
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Examination of the material culture of Grecian-style buildings in antebellum America.  Read More >>

On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism: Proceeds of the International Conference on Architectural Criticism 2021

On the Duty and Power of Architectural Criticism: Proceeds...

Author: Wilfried Wang
ISBN: 9783038602712
Format: Paperback
$79.99

A rich collection of essays that offer essential, independent voices on architecture criticism in a highly challenging...  Read More >>

On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo

On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo

Author: Davide Deriu
ISBN: 9781848226210
Format: Hardback
$82.99

Since the construction of the first skyscrapers in the 19th century, urban environments have been increasingly marked...  Read More >>

Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger, Place, Architecture

Rethinking Dwelling: Heidegger, Place, Architecture...

Author: Distinguished Professor Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350253148
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Over the last twenty years, Jeff Malpas’ research has involved his engagement with architects and other academics...  Read More >>

H Blocks: An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland

H Blocks: An Architecture of the Conflict in and about...

Author: Louise Purbrick (University of Brighton, UK)
ISBN: 9781350240025
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023 A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate...  Read More >>

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