Theory of architecture books

Robin Evans recasts the idea of the relationship between geometry and architecture, drawing on mathematics, engineering,...  Read More >>

The influential Dutch architect's long-awaited manifesto on the everyday environment as the first and best ground...  Read More >>

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Artists, critics, and philosophers ask what more architecture can do.  Read More >>

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Written at the end of a career as an architect and lighting designer, the book draws on the experience gained while...  Read More >>

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This book is a reference to the global structural analysis of buildings for professional civil and structural engineers...  Read More >>

An examination of the ways in which architecture and architects are treated on screen and how these depictions filter...  Read More >>

This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf...  Read More >>

This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf...  Read More >>

The complete story of Behrens' contribution to the history of twentieth-century architecture.  Read More >>

Women architects in Canada have reacted with ingenuity to the architectural profession's restrictive and sometimes...  Read More >>

Denken und Handeln von Stadt- und Raumplanern konzentrieren sich oft immer noch auf Probleme unserer Alt- und Kernstädte....  Read More >>

Can we synthesise existing craft methods with new technologies to form new methods of construction? Nick Callicott's...  Read More >>

Embellishment is a basic human need. Why was it banished from modern architecture?  Read More >>

The beehive has served as the model for an ideal society, while honey and wax have provided the basis for countless...  Read More >>

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This book looks at the domestic swimming pool. At one level, the book is a rereading of modern architecture that...  Read More >>

The subject of this book is the human imagination - and the interplay between the imagination and the spaces it...  Read More >>

Presents forty-seven of the primary texts of contemporary architecture theory, introducing each by detailing the...  Read More >>

Besides presenting a theoretical discussion of the relation between architecture, modernity, and dwelling, the book...  Read More >>

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