Theory of architecture

Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions.

Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building.

Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building.

Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves.

Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves.

This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process.

This book offers an explanation of why scale models are important to the design process.

This new selection of essays follows Chris Abel's previous best selling collection, Architecture and Identity.

This new selection of essays follows Chris Abel's previous best selling collection, Architecture and Identity.

Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots?

Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots?

There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl.

There is no shortage of books about Le Corbusier, or Mies van der Rohe, or De Stijl.

Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things.

Architecture can influence the way we feel, and can help us along as we go about our lives, or sabotage our habitual ways of doing things.

This unique guide provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space.

This unique guide provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space.

This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings.

This is the first book to give such close attention to Le Corbusier's approach to the making of buildings.

The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence.

The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence.

Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal.

Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal.

You know that something is wrong, even if you can't quite put your finger on it.

Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry.

The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner.

The architectural imagery that you create is most effective when it examines your project in an abstract manner.

Social media is restructuring urban practices-through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation.

Social media is restructuring urban practices-through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation.

As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects.

As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects.

In the late 1970s Bernard Stiegler was arrested for armed robbery and imprisoned.

This book looks at specific instances in the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our own time when architectural ideas and ideas of biological life come into close proximity with each other.

This book looks at specific instances in the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our own time when architectural ideas and ideas of biological life come into close proximity with each other.

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is.

Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is.

Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life.

Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life.

This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions.

This important work, now available in paperback, from Professor Geoffrey Broadbent, provides a clear analysis of the nature of many of today's design problems, identifying their causes in history and suggesting a basis for co-ordinated solutions.

This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings.

This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings.

This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings.

This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings.

Written with the non-Muslim reader in mind, this book analyses the principles and values established by Islamic tradition to govern the social and physical environments of Muslims.

Written with the non-Muslim reader in mind, this book analyses the principles and values established by Islamic tradition to govern the social and physical environments of Muslims.

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word 'culture' in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas.

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word 'culture' in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas.

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724-1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy.