Theory of architecture

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century.

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a new century.

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s.

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s.

Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way.

Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way.

With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture.

With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture.

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world.

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world.

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity.

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity.

This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors.

This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors.

Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays.

Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays.

The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution.

The study of vernacular architecture explores the characteristics of domestic buildings in particular regions or localities, and the many social and cultural factors that have contributed to their evolution.

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.

Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology.

Revised to incorporate and reflect changes and advances since it was first published the new edition of Architecture in a Climate of Change provides the latest basic principals of sustainability and the future of sustainable technology.

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.

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.

Embedding memories into landscape.

Embedding memories into landscape.

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.

Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially.

Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially.

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

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

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.

From the Grand Tour to today's packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an exponential growth in travel and tourism and, as the twenty-first century unfolds, people of every class and from every country will be wandering to every part of the planet.

From the Grand Tour to today's packages holidays, the last two centuries have witnessed an exponential growth in travel and tourism and, as the twenty-first century unfolds, people of every class and from every country will be wandering to every part of the planet.

This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders.

This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders.

This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design.

This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design.

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.

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions.

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions.