Theory of architecture books

Directly confronting the nature of contemporary architectural work, this book is the first to address a void at...  Read More >>

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Und häufig noch mehr, was jenseits der technischen Ingenieurskunst liegt. Das Buch schaut über die technischen...  Read More >>

The book is relevant to current issues of contemporary practice and education, showing that philosophical issues...  Read More >>

A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgmentWhen buildings...  Read More >>

This book combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look...  Read More >>

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Architecture after God A vivid retelling of the biblical story of Babel leads from the contested site of Babylon...  Read More >>

In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer...  Read More >>

Following Norberg-Schulz examines the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz...  Read More >>

Architecture's Model Environments explores ten original model prototypes - of wind tunnels, water tables and filling...  Read More >>

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An accessible guide to the most important ideas and developments in the history of architecture, and the people...  Read More >>

Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose...  Read More >>

Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced Le Construction...  Read More >>

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential...  Read More >>

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental...  Read More >>

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban...  Read More >>

Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions...  Read More >>

Emerging Practices in Architectural Pedagogy explores the emergent techniques in architectural education that are...  Read More >>

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This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from...  Read More >>

This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project...  Read More >>

Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism...  Read More >>

Written for postgraduate students, researchers and academics in architectural theory and urban studies, Griffiths...  Read More >>