Theory of architecture

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness.

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture?

Why write instead of draw when it comes to architecture?

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space?

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space?

What makes a city?

What makes a city?

The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings.

The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings.

Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture.

Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture.

Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation focuses on the study of architectural knowledge approached through the lens of representation: the making of things-about-buildings.

The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work.

A comprehensive analysis of the masonry, the design, and the abundant ancient literary evidence.

These essays apply the core conceptual innovation underlying Frege''s theory of number to the general analysis of theoretical knowledge.

Examines Quine''s views on meaning, reference and knowledge and addresses numerous problems in the interpretation of key texts.

This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G.

This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context.

This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century.

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century.

This book examines the extent to which the insights of STS can be used to analyse the role of architecture in and for social life.

This book offers new perspectives on the history of analytical philosophy, surveying recent scholarship on the philosophical study of mind, language, logic and reality over the course of the last 200 years.

The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century.

This two-volume book explores how the great buildings of England bear witness to a thousand years of the nation's history.

This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G.

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

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline.

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design.

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design.

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

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

This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing.

This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach.

Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach.

Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism.

Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism.

Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars.

Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars.

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings.

This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings.

Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy.

Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy.

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.

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.

The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish.

The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish.

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas.