Theory of architecture

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulation games, game-like approaches, game scenarios, and gamification processes for teaching/learning, design and research in architecture and urban planning.

Este trabajo resume la experiencia y reflexión de muchos años.

Architecture is often seen as the art of a thinking mind that arranges, organizes and establishes relationships between the parts and the whole.

La obra examina la relevancia del trabajo de la filósofa Luce Irigaray en el contexto arquitectónico.

Occupying Architecture focuses on the importance of the user of architecture.

Architecture's role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism.

Research in the creative fields of architecture, design, music and the arts has experienced dynamic development for over two decades.

In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world.

As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny.

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.

This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders.

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture.

For over twenty years, the Chora series has received international acclaim for its excellence in interdisciplinary research on architecture.

This is the fourth book in the Neural Network series.

This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive.

Architecture and film have many things in common.

In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking.

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design.

This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand "e;the mind-body problem"e;.

A handbook for navigating our troubled and precarious times intended to help readers imagine and make their world anew.

Throughout history, nature has served as an inspiration for architecture and designers have tried to incorporate the harmonies and patterns of nature into architectural form.

This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging.

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings.

Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life.

Learning from Failure in the Design Process shows you that design work builds on lessons learned from failures to help you relax your fear of making mistakes, so that you're not paralyzed when faced with a task outside of your comfort zone.

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us?

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture.

No es sencillo interpretar las profundas alteraciones sufridas en la Arquitectura en las últimas décadas y experimentadas anteriormente en el Arte.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Progressive Studio Pedagogy provides guidance to educators in all design fields by questioning processes and assumptions about teaching and learning, utilising examples from architecture, landscape architecture, and interior design.

This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses.

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity.

The aim of this book is to expose readers to architecture's pretexts that include literary narratives, film, theatre, painting, music, and ritual, as a bridge between diverse intellectual territories and architecture.

Hal Foster, author of the acclaimed Design and Crime, argues that a fusion of architecture and art is a defining feature of contemporary culture.

The monograph aims to present the recent scientific knowledge on body sensations, i.

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design.

In this book, Nadir Lahiji introduces Kojin Karatani's theoretical-philosophical project and demonstrates its affinity with Kant's critical philosophy founded on 'architectonic reason'.

Despite the critical importance of the cerebellum in brain function, the scientific community still lacks effective treatments for most cerebellar ataxias.

"e;Patterns"e; of Threshold Spaces in the Historical City of Jeddah explores the meaning of threshold spaces and investigates the relationship between the public spaces and residential units in the historical city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while at the same time revisiting Christopher Alexander's theory in his canonical 1977 book, A Pattern Language.

What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'?

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as "e;contemporism"e; through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).

This book explores the experiences of gifted Black women doctoral graduates, featuring narratives of their challenges related to race, gender, parenthood, class, and first-generation status offering discussion on the role of community and academic support in their success.

Discover and explore the most incredible statues, monuments, temples, bridges, and ancient cities with this unparalleled survey of the most famous buildings and structures ever created by humans.

This book evaluates how we experience and understand buildings in different ways depending upon our academic and professional background.

This book explores the multiple facets of habit from diverse and complementary theoretical frameworks.

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory charged spatial experiences.