Theory of architecture

This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime.

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse of organic self-generation: one dealing with the problem of stopping in the design processes in history, and the other with the organic legacy of style in the nineteenth century as a preeminent form of aesthetic ideology.

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.

The sciences philosophy, psychology and neuroscience share the basis that all refer to the human being.

"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.

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

This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.

The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety.

Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito-the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment-stands as a testament to architectural in-betweenness.

This book poses spatial violence as a constitutive dimension of architecture and its epistemologies, as well as a method for theoretical and historical inquiry intrinsic to architecture; and thereby offers an alternative to predominant readings of spatial violence as a topic, event, fact, or other empirical form that may be illustrated by architecture.

If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city.

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture.

People and Spaces: Experience, Ethics, and Intent examines the dynamic relationship between built environments and human behavior in today's rapidly evolving world.

This book investigates the interconnections between textile and architecture via a variety of case studies from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century and from diverse geographic contexts.

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.

'For anyone who has wondered whether they'll ever be in charge of their emotions, this book has the answer: yes' - Angela Duckworth, author of Grit'This book does much more than make sense of emotions it breaks new ground on how to manage them' - Adam Grant, author of Think AgainWhether it s anxiety about the dentist, boiling rage when we re stuck in traffic or devastation after a painful break-up, our lives are filled with situations that send us spiralling.

By linking building theory to the emancipatory project of critique advanced by radical thinkers in our time, this work investigates the key conceptual and historical elements that culminate in an emancipatory theory of building entitled: 'Toward a philosophy of shelter'.

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

Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation.

A new, critical edition of Vitruvius'' Ten Books of Architecture.

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage 2020 includes contributions on the protection, and restoration of architectural monuments and the reconstruction of major historical urban development sites, as well as various complex issues and aspects of engineering reconstruction of monuments and preservation of historical heritage.

the construction of the apartment block at number 24, rue Nungesser et Coli in Paris, between 1931 and 1934, was an important milestone for Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret.

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The word time occurs more than seven times as often as space in written English, yet in the design of the indoor environments where we now spend most of our lives these priorities are typically reversed, with time often being little more than an afterthought.

Museum Configurations demonstrates how museum space functions cognitively and communicatively and questions whether it can be designed to provide a rich embodied experience, situating displays and their public in felicitous dialogue.

Architects often employ design methods to help them find more creative forms.

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655.

This book explores the methodological strategies for linking philosophy and neuroscience concerning the study of the conscious brain.

Those affected by cancer or receiving cancer treatment have often been more susceptible to infections due to coexisting chronic diseases, overall poor health status, and systemic immunosuppressive states caused by both cancer and anticancer treatments.

Contents Chora: The Space of Architectural Representation - Alberto Perez-Gomez - The Measure of Expression: Physiognomy and Character in the Nouvelle Methode of Jean-Jacques Lequeu - Jean-Francois Bedard - Michelangelo: The Image of the Human Body, Artifice, and Architecture - Helmut Klassen - Architecture as Site of Reception - Part I: Cuisine, Frontality, and the Infra-thin - Donald Kunze - Fictional Cities - Graham Livesey - Instrumentality and the Organic Assistance of Looms - Indra Kagis McEwen - Space and Image in Andrey Tarkovsky's "e;Nostalgia"e;: Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture in Cinema - Juhani Pallasmaa - The Momentary Modern Magic of the Panorama - Stephen Parcell - The Building of a Horizon - Louise Pelletier - Anaesthetic Induction: An Excursion into the World of Visual Indifference - Natalija Subotincic.

This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.

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China's rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable.

This is the first-ever English translation of Daniele Barbaro's 1567 Italian translation of and commentary on Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, an encyclopaedic treatment of science and technology whose influence extended far beyond its day.

Global pandemics, smart technologies, demographics and climate change are just some of the external disruptors that may impact the home's evolution over the next ten years.

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Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper for architectural history.

This book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and complementary perspectives and, by doing so, it helps researchers and practitioners alike, among them reconstruction managers, urban governance and professionals.

La obra de arquitectura, hecho material en el cual el hombre desarrolla procesos productivos de diverso tipo, se programa a partir de los requerimientos del usuario y los condicionantes de tiempo y lugar, se disena con elementos que delimitan los espacios expresados en el proyecto y se construye mediante un proceso, con materiales operados con mano de obra, herramientas y maquinarias adecuadas para cada ocasion.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works.

This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context.

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

This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume.

The pressing economic, environmental and social crises emanate the need for a redefinition of the dominant views, perspectives and values in the field of architecture.

This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture.