Theory of architecture books

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The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor...

Author: Paul B. Jaskot
ISBN: 9780415173667
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Sandtiquity: Architectural Marvels You Can Build at the Beach

Sandtiquity: Architectural Marvels You Can Build at...

Author: N Wells ,  Kappy Wells
ISBN: 9781572230941
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Clear instructions and step-by-step color photos make it easy to achieve incredible results for building architectural...  Read More >>

Building an American Identity: Pattern Book Homes and Communities, 1870-1900

Building an American Identity: Pattern Book Homes and...

Author: Linda E. Smeins
ISBN: 9780585189901
Format: Book
$155.25

This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community...  Read More >>

The Penguin Guide to Vaastu: The Classical Indian Science of Architecture and Design

The Penguin Guide to Vaastu: The Classical Indian Science...

Author: Sashikala Ananth ,  S. Prabhakaran
ISBN: 9780140278637
Format: Paperback
$26.50

The Penguin Guide to Vaastu is a meticulously researched book that seeks to place the ancient Indian art of Vaastu...  Read More >>

Changing Architectural Education: Towards a New Professionalism

Changing Architectural Education: Towards a New Professionalism...

Author: David Nicol ,  Simon Pilling
ISBN: 9781280141133
Format: Electronic book text
$427.55

Architectural education is under pressure to change to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and...  Read More >>

Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday

Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture...

Author: Alan Read
ISBN: 9781280404047
Format: Electronic book text
$184.67

Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor...

Author: Paul B. Jaskot
ISBN: 9780415223416
Format: Paperback
$158.00

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"Perspecta 30 ""Settlement Patterns""": The Yale Architectural Journal

"Perspecta 30 ""Settlement Patterns""": The Yale Architectural...

Author: Louise Harpman ,  Evan M. Supcoff
ISBN: 9780262581783
Format: Paperback
$55.44

The issue includes original documentation of notable housing projects from the 1920s and 1930s, when modernist ideas...  Read More >>

Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture

Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture...

Author: Claude Bragdon
ISBN: 9781564595133
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Reveals how consciousness, music, and architecture merge to create a beautiful synthesis of mankind, structures,...  Read More >>

Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture

Proportion: Science, Philosophy, Architecture

Author: Richard Padovan
ISBN: 9780419227809
Format: Paperback
$135.00

This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with a well-illustrated and readable...  Read More >>

The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in '68

The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in '68...

Author: Marc Dessauce
ISBN: 9781568981765
Format: Paperback
$72.60

In 1968, students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris had the idea for a series of pneumatic buildings, furniture,...  Read More >>

Design and Feminism: Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and Everyday Things

Design and Feminism: Re-visioning Spaces, Places, and...

Author: Joan Rothschild ,  Paola Antonelli
ISBN: 9780813526676
Format: Paperback
$68.51

A collection of essays rethinking architecture, design, and technology from feminist perspectives.  Read More >>

Structural Repair of Traditional Buildings

Structural Repair of Traditional Buildings

Author: PEB Robson
ISBN: 9781873394403
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Suitable for those involved in the repair, maintenance and refurbishment of traditional buildings, this title begins...  Read More >>

The Situationist City

The Situationist City

Author: Simon Sadler
ISBN: 9780262692250
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that...  Read More >>

The Historiography of Modern Architecture

The Historiography of Modern Architecture

Author: Panayotis Tournikiotis
ISBN: 9780262201179
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Studying the influence of literature on the history of architecture.  Read More >>

Construction Print Reading

Construction Print Reading

Author: Leonard Koel
ISBN: 9780766808393
Format: Paperback
$456.59

This well-illustrated text teaches the basic skills needed to read, study, and understand construction drawings....  Read More >>

The Emerald City: And Other Essays on the Architectural Imagination

The Emerald City: And Other Essays on the Architectural...

Author: Daniel Willis ,  Daniel Willis
ISBN: 9781568981741
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In this book, the author takes us on a flight of imagination that never strays far from the most tangible, even...  Read More >>

Designs and their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics

Designs and their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics...

Author: Richard Hill
ISBN: 9780300079487
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Richard Hill examines the many-faceted relationship between aesthetic theory and architecture. Hill suggests that...  Read More >>

Origins of Architectural Pleasure

Origins of Architectural Pleasure

Author: Grant Hildebrand
ISBN: 9780520215054
Format: Hardback
$95.95

In this engaging study Grant Hildebrand discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings...  Read More >>

In Search of Elegance: Towards an Architecture of Satisfaction

In Search of Elegance: Towards an Architecture of Satisfaction...

Author: Michel Lincourt
ISBN: 9780773518278
Format: Paperback
$86.99

An approach to architecture and urban design that bridges the gap between theory and practice.  Read More >>

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