Theory of architecture books

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Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism

Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism
Author: Janet Stewart ISBN: 9780415221764 Format: Hardback	$200.00
This book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf... Read More >>

Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century

Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth...
Author: Stanford Anderson ISBN: 9780262011761 Format: Hardback	$205.92
The complete story of Behrens' contribution to the history of twentieth-century architecture. Read More >>

'Designing Women': Gender and the Architectural Profession

'Designing Women': Gender and the Architectural Profession...
Author: Annmarie Adams , Peta Tancred ISBN: 9780802044174 Format: Hardback	$135.00
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Zwischenstadt: Zwischen Ort Und Welt, Raum Und Zeit, Stadt Und Land

Zwischenstadt: Zwischen Ort Und Welt, Raum Und Zeit,...
Author: Thomas Sieverts ISBN: 9783764363932 Format: Paperback	$59.95
Denken und Handeln von Stadt- und Raumplanern konzentrieren sich oft immer noch auf Probleme unserer Alt- und Kernstädte.... Read More >>

Computer-aided Manufacture in Architecture - The Pursuit of Novelty: Changing the Craft of Design

Computer-aided Manufacture in Architecture - The Pursuit...
Author: Nick Callicott ISBN: 9780750646475 Format: Hardback	$145.07
Can we synthesise existing craft methods with new technologies to form new methods of construction? Nick Callicott's... Read More >>

The Beehive Metaphor: From Gaudí to Le Corbusier

The Beehive Metaphor: From Gaudí to Le Corbusier
Author: Juan Antonio Ramírez ISBN: 9781861890566 Format: Paperback	$118.80
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Günter Behnisch

Günter Behnisch
Author: Peter Blundell Jones , N. von Mühlendahl ISBN: 9783764360467 Format: Paperback	$92.27
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The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool

The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of...
Author: Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen ISBN: 9780262720328 Format: Paperback	$79.20
This book looks at the domestic swimming pool. At one level, the book is a rereading of modern architecture that... Read More >>

Architecture Theory since 1968

Architecture Theory since 1968
Author: K. Michael Hays (Harvard University) ISBN: 9780262581882 Format: Paperback	$130.00
Presents forty-seven of the primary texts of contemporary architecture theory, introducing each by detailing the... Read More >>

Architecture and Modernity: A Critique

Architecture and Modernity: A Critique
Author: Hilde Heynen (Professor of Architectural Theory, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) ISBN: 9780262581899 Format: Paperback	$76.43
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Eccentric Spaces

Eccentric Spaces
Author: Robert Harbison ISBN: 9780262581837 Format: Paperback	$39.99
The subject of this book is the human imagination - and the interplay between the imagination and the spaces it... Read More >>

The Making of the Modern Architect and Engineer: The Origins and Development of a Scientific and Industrially Oriented Occupation

The Making of the Modern Architect and Engineer: The...
Author: Ulrich Pfammatter , M. Ferretti-Theilig ISBN: 9783764362171 Format: Paperback	$121.31
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Remembrance and the Design of Place

Remembrance and the Design of Place
Author: Frances Downing ISBN: 9780890969229 Format: Hardback	$105.47
Memories of places identify people as individuals and tie them to networks of culture and society. In this work,... Read More >>

Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development

Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development...
Author: Steven Fader , Vincent Scully ISBN: 9780874208337 Format: Paperback	$248.03
Describes the design and development of 14 denser than typical projects that range from single-family subdivisions... Read More >>

Multifamily Housing Development Handbook

Multifamily Housing Development Handbook
Author: Adrienne Schmitz ISBN: 9780874208696 Format: Hardback	$282.35
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Architecture and Identity

Architecture and Identity
Author: Chris Abel (University of Ulster, UK) , Chris Abel ISBN: 9780750642460 Format: Paperback	$195.23
This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the technological,... Read More >>

Victor Burgin - Shadowed: Victor Burgin

Victor Burgin - Shadowed: Victor Burgin
Author: Victor Burgin , Anthony Vidler ISBN: 9781902902166 Format: Paperback	$26.40
""Shadowed"" continues Victor Burgin's preoccupation, in writing and video installations, with the intrication of... Read More >>

In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the Practice of Architecture

In the Scheme of Things: Alternative Thinking on the...
Author: Thomas R. Fisher Fisher ISBN: 9780816636532 Format: Hardback	$48.95
Reconsiders the purpose and practice of architecture. Read More >>

Architecture in Black

Architecture in Black
Author: Darrell W. Fields ISBN: 9780485004113 Format: Hardback	$475.20
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Postmodern Urbanism

Postmodern Urbanism
Author: Nan Ellin ISBN: 9781568981352 Format: Paperback	$79.07
This text examines the issues faced by architects and planners since the 1960s, many of which have reacted against... Read More >>

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:
Author: Kate Nesbitt ISBN: 9781568980546 Format: Paperback	$118.80
Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume the most... Read More >>

Architecture without Shadow: Gursky, Forg, Burkhard, Hofer, Ruff, Sugimoto, Wall

Architecture without Shadow: Gursky, Forg, Burkhard,...
Author: Gloria Moure ISBN: 9788434309111 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Architecture has always been a natural subject matter for photographers, but for most of the twentieth century the... Read More >>

Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism

Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change...
Author: Jonathan Hughes , Simon Sadler ISBN: 9780750640831 Format: Paperback	$120.00
This book explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments. Attempts to circumvent planning... Read More >>

The Metropolis and its Image: Constructing Identities for London, c. 1750-1950

The Metropolis and its Image: Constructing Identities...
Author: Dana Arnold (University of Southampton) ISBN: 9780631216674 Format: Paperback	$44.95
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Le Corbusier Talks with Students

Le Corbusier Talks with Students
Author: Le Corbusier ISBN: 9781568981963 Format: Paperback	$39.47
First published in France in 1943, this work presents advice and commentary from the master of modernism for young... Read More >>

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