Theory of architecture

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse.

Edited and authored by a wealth of international experts in neuroscience and related disciplines, this key new resource aims to offer medical students and graduate researchers around the world a comprehensive introduction and overview of modern neuroscience.

From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition.

Integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work using this book as a resource to help you.

Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design.

La inteligencia es un tema que ocupa gran parte de nuestras vidas.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national expositions that took place between 1937 and 1959.

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture.

Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York's public space over the past few decades.

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015).

Specifically for architects, the third title in the Thinkers for Architects series examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray's work for architecture.

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.

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years.

This book traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does.

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.

As buildings are responsible for fifty per cent of CO2 emissions, their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny.

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.

Farbe als kreatives Element Farbe ist unlosbar mit der Architektur verbunden - als Medium der Gestaltung, aber auch als eigene Qualitat pragt sie Form und Textur des Gebauten.

This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings ?

An accessible review of genetic and neuroimaging research that explains what determines intelligence and how we might enhance it.

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.

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***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins - those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and its aftermath.

In einer sich urbanisierenden Welt gilt die Stadt als Leitbild und Ma aller Dinge.

Originally published in 1971 The Geometry of Environment is a fusion of art and mathematics introducing stimulating ideas from modern geometry, using illustrations from architecture and design.

The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of 'planetary urbanisation'.

This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present.

David Wang's Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being (analogia entis).

Masonry constructions are the great majority of the buildings in Europe's historical centres and the most important monuments in its architectural heritage and the demand for their  safety assessments and restoration projects is pressing and constant.

A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment.

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy.

This volume presents 25 essays on the philosophy of design.

This book seeks to revise and revive architectural theory through psychoanalysis as well as to apply psychoanalytic theory to architecture.

Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment disciplines.

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.

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities.

The 'Storming of the Capitol' was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump.

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance as a critical component of the civic realm and arguing for the restoration of the art of the facade as both a subject of study within academia and an aspiration within the profession at large.