Theory of architecture

The Architecture of Neoliberalism pursues an uncompromising critique of the neoliberal turn in contemporary architecture.

La extensa y reconocida aportación de Francis D.

Susannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society.

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic.

The Art of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship in Design explores the form and nature of entrepreneurship in a range of creative disciplines.

The notion of data is increasingly encountered in spatial, creative and cultural studies.

This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage - including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future.

This previously unpublished work is essential reading for anyone who has followed Marco Frascari's scholarship and teachings over the last three decades.

This book assembles, identifies and highlights the most recent developments in Rehabilitation and retrofitting of historical and heritage structures.

From Vitruvius in the 1st century BCE on, there has been an attempt to understand how architecture works, especially in its poetic aspect but also in its basic functions.

In this wide-ranging study of architecture and cultural evolution, the author argues that underlying the global environmental crisis is a general resistance to changing personal and social identities shaped by a technology-based culture and its energy-hungry products.

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer's imagination.

Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships.

The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis.

The book discusses how division affect the fabric of cities, and people's sense of identity and agency, and are reflected in physical features, architecture, and urban planning.

In this book Egyptian Archeology and Mathematics meet.

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping - and in return being shaped by - the built environment.

Gerd de Bruyn widerspricht der ermüdenden Rede von der zweiten und dritten Moderne.

Design and implement successful private clouds with OpenStackAbout This BookExplore the various design choices available for cloud architects within an OpenStack deploymentCraft an OpenStack architecture and deployment pipeline to meet the unique needs of your organizationCreate a product roadmap for Infrastructure as a Service in your organization using this hands-on guideWho This Book Is ForThis book is written especially for those who will design OpenStack clouds and lead their implementation.

Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier.

A common question posed to PhD students from friends and family is, "e;What will you do after?

Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what they can do in the face of challenging times.

This book investigates the architectural, product design, and urban typology of the capsule which, beginning in the 1960s, broadened the concept of the basic building blocks of architecture to include a minimal living unit, called the "e;capsule.

Architecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession.

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented.

How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognitionAt the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time?

This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of "e;development"e; after World War II.

Es una evidencia incuestionable que las transformaciones sufridas en todos los territorios de la humanidad desde el pasado siglo y en los ultimos tiempos han sido de tal importancia y trascendencia que han cambiado de una manera decisiva la forma de entender este mundo, y por tanto, y obviamente, la arquitectura tampoco se ha librado de estas convulsiones.

Manhattan es el escenario donde se representa el último acto de la civilización occidental.

The Organizer's Guide to Architecture Education serves as a timely call-to-action for transforming architecture education to meet the monumental environmental and social challenges of our time.

Combining transgender studies with the 'neomodernist' architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this book challenges the implicit 'spatial models' of popular narratives of transgender - interiority, ownership, sovereignty, structure, stability, and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of transgender as a matter of exteriority, groundlessness, ornamentation, and movement.

How does it feel to live in a 'haunted home'?

This book is an academic essay about the urban regeneration policies which have been changing the physical - and partly social - outlook of many English cities during the last 10-15 years, eventually giving birth to a process which is also known as 'Urban Renaissance'.

Using language - speaking and understanding it - is a defining ability of human beings, woven into all human activity.

Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives.

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints.

This book investigates the spaces where architecture and computer science share a common set of assumptions and goals, using methods and objectives from architecture, ethnography, and human-computer interaction (HCI).

Building Socialism reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period.

Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.

Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution.

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation.

Jeder plant.

Im Zuge des demografischen Wandels ist die Architektur heute und in der Zukunft mehr denn je gefordert, die Gestaltung von Wohnsituationen fur alternde Menschen und vor allem solche mit Demenz neu zu denken.