Theory of architecture

La construccion del devenir disciplinar del arquetipo de la centralidad no solo es una manera de escribir la historia de la Arquitectura, sino que tambien es un modo de organizarla transversalmente por medio del estudio de las obras que la singularizan.

Este libro es una defensa del espíritu clásico, entendido éste como la búsqueda de las soluciones más perfectas e íntegras.

La historiografía de la arquitectura occidental tiene pendiente una revisión de su enfoque y cómo afecta a nuestras formas de vida.

This book introduces a ten-year-long design research project in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD), China, based on international cooperation studios, design workshops, a Ph.

Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the 'queer' in the context of architecture, and offers a fresh take on the methodological and epistemological challenges this poses to the discipline of architectural theory.

Featuring contributions from a range of significant voices in the field, this volume renews the conversation around what it means to speak of the 'queer' in the context of architecture, and offers a fresh take on the methodological and epistemological challenges this poses to the discipline of architectural theory.

This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life.

This book proposes new ways of looking at the built environment in archaeology, specifically through postcolonial perspectives.

In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city.

Éste es un libro sobre el habitar del ser humano.

This history-by-theory and theory-by-history book helps its reader make sense of the chaotic multitude of world architecture through time.

This history-by-theory and theory-by-history book helps its reader make sense of the chaotic multitude of world architecture through time.

The book Practices of Reflexive Design provides a revealing and initiating insight into the scope of research-oriented design and design-oriented research in architecture and landscape architecture and shows what aims can be associated with this.

Este texto parte de dos viajes inesperados, fisicos y conceptuales, que se repitieron con siglo y medio de diferencia.

Reflexive Design presents an integrative approach, both in theory and in practice, to the emergence and interpretation of design and research in architecture.

In addition to senior scientists, who have summarised their main results in the five volumes of the Future Megacities Book Series, ambitious young researchers have also contributed substantially to the German research programme on sustainable development of future megacities.

In an urbanizing world, the city is considered the ultimate model and the measure of all things.

As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.

Spolien sind gezielt und daher in der Regel sichtbar wiederverwendete Bauteile.

As a consequence of demographic change, it is increasingly necessary now and in the future for the architectural profession to rethink the design of residential solutions for aging people and especially those with dementia.

Urban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces.

Ein Architekt als Immobilienmakler?

The classical representative-democratic system that guarantees everyone the opportunity to participate has been coming under pressure.

In our society there is an increasing demand for participation in shaping our built environment.

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail.

Cantley's work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that mainstream architecture has yet to exploit.

Cantley's work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that mainstream architecture has yet to exploit.

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This book sets out to explore the creation of interior atmosphere as seen through the lens of mise-en-sc ne.

How can designers address the emergent self-organizing nature of complex urban environments?

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023Shortlisted for the Colvin Prize 2023A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during 'The Troubles' and are now considered 'icons' of that conflict.

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023Shortlisted for the Colvin Prize 2023A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist military groups during 'The Troubles' and are now considered 'icons' of that conflict.

Coding, Shaping, Making combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future of architecture, design and art.

Coding, Shaping, Making combines inspiration from architecture, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computation to look towards the future of architecture, design and art.

Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl.

Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl.

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored.

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored.

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves.

The fine arts are traditionally seen to have intrinsic value: that is, they are valuable in themselves.

This study illuminates the complex interplay between Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy and architecture.

This book offers, for the first time, access to the chronological arc of John Habraken's writing in a single collection.

This book offers, for the first time, access to the chronological arc of John Habraken's writing in a single collection.