Theory of architecture

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental design perspective, and the role David Boswell Reid played in the development of the original ventilation and climate control system in parliament.

This book examines the theoretical foundations of the processes of planning and design.

Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined.

Amid Japan's political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism.

"In a flood of superficial media, the narrow focus of Stephan Trüby's History of the Corridor – one of the inspirations for our Elements of Architecture exhibition in Venice 2014 – reveals unsuspected depths.

Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present.

The book focuses on original approaches intended to support the development of biologically inspired cognitive architectures.

What makes a city?

The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture is the first systematic architectural history of Romania under socialism written in English.

Introducing Architectural Tectonics is an exploration of the poetics of construction.

Architecture has always been a decisive manifestation of power.

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings.

If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible?

The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society.

The constant in architecture's evolution is change.

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies.

Demand from building control officials for structural calculations - even for very simple projects - means that today's architects must have a thorough understanding of everyday structural concepts.

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.

Designing Post-Virtual Architectures: Wicked Tactics and World-Building explores, describes, and demonstrates theories and strategies for design in a post-virtual world.

Roberto Fernández plantea una revisión de Las Lógicas Proyectuales, cuyos primeros ensayos tuvieron lugar en Rosario en  1995.

How to Build a Human Brain takes a developmental approach to understanding brain structure and function.

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time.

This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew.

"e;Derham Groves has written this illuminating story of an exceptional but hitherto unsung Australian architect whose distinctive designs in China as well as his homeland may still be seen and enjoyed.

Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what urban life is about.

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

The Fundamentals of Architecture, 2nd Edition is an introduction to the basic ideas that inform architecture.

On Surface and Place is a rich and poetic exploration of surfaces which foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place.

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China.

The introduction of iron - and later steel - construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century.

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

Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty.

The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising the built environment, and offers an approach to understanding and shaping the built environment that supports (and benefits) human, and organismic, spatial intelligence.

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.

When Seon (Zen) Buddhism was first introduced to Korea around Korea's late Silla and early Goryeo eras, the function of the "e;beopdang"e; (Dharma hall) was transfused to the lecture hall found in ancient Buddhist temples, establishing a pivotal area within the temple compound called the "e;upper monastic area.

This collection of previously unpublished essays from a diverse range of well-known scholars and architects builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by Dalibor Veseley and Joseph Rykwert and carried on by David Leatherbarrow, Peter Carl and Alberto Perez-Gomez.

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia.

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.

The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferation through the major industrial centres of Britain.

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection.

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process.

This book brings together Kenneth Frampton's essays from the 1960s to today which epitomize his reflections on the historical theoretical entanglements of architecture with place, the public realm, cultural identity, urban landscape and environment, and the political question of the predicament of architecture in the new Millennium.

This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregotti's projects and works, but rather a historical critical analysis of his peculiar figure.

Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science.

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.