Theory of architecture books

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture...  Read More >>

The book explains how the evolution of the computational perspective in architecture has been parallel to the construction...  Read More >>

Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity’s grounding in the concept of kenosis, an ‘emptying’,...  Read More >>

This book represents a reflection on the policies of preservation that were established and interventions for restoration...  Read More >>

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Research-related design and design-related...  Read More >>

This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where...  Read More >>

Architects who write about the discipline are an endangered species—but where would the profession be if it were...  Read More >>

This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do, and...  Read More >>

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this...  Read More >>

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Two millennia of wood architecture There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound...  Read More >>

This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between...  Read More >>

This book reveals the ‘Epistemic Imposition’ of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands...  Read More >>

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the façade as both a physical and cultural artifact,...  Read More >>

Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces...  Read More >>

Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt’s treatise strictly follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius...  Read More >>

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This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do, and...  Read More >>

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen...  Read More >>

Expos as Great Urban Projects: Present and Future is an outcome of a multiyear design research project that has...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South resituates and recenters an array of pedagogic...  Read More >>

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This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between...  Read More >>

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