Theory of architecture

This book is concerned with the extent to which childhood stress and trauma lead in relative maturity to major depression (MDD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Shaker buildings have long been admired for their simplicity of design and sturdy craftsmanship, with form always following function.

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s-from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art-in the context of contemporary architectural discourses.

In this volume, some of the leading figures in the field have been brought together to write on the roots of the historic preservation movement in the United States, ranging from New York to Santa Fe, Charleston to Chicago.

This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.

This book develops and details a rigorous, canonical modeling approach for analyzing spatio-temporal brain wave dynamics.

Now in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture.

This book proposes new ways of looking at the built environment in archaeology, specifically through postcolonial perspectives.

Architectural Science and the Sun synthesizes physics, climate, program, and perception to provide a foundation in the principles of architectural science related to the sun: solar geometry, solar analysis and design techniques, passive design principles, and daylighting.

Originally published in 1996, Stud: Architectures of Masculinity is an interdisciplinary exploration of the active role architecture plays in the construction of male identity.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating .

La teoría poscolonial ha influido muy significativamente en la historiografía actual y en la evolución de la crítica arquitectónica contemporánea en particular.

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography.

Este libro es una defensa del espíritu clásico, entendido éste como la búsqueda de las soluciones más perfectas e íntegras.

Why do we love and hate airports at the same time?

Affect, Architecture, and Practice builds on and contributes to work in theories of affect that have risen within diverse disciplines, including geography, cultural studies, and media studies, challenging the nature of textual and representational-based research.

Are we our brains?

Este libro, publicado originalmente en 1968, es un intento de relacionar la estética arquitectónica con la historia social del mundo occidental.

In the home the intricate relations between architecture, gender and domesticity become visible.

This book introduces architects to a philosopher, Immanuel Kant, whose work was constantly informed by a concern for the world as an evolving whole.

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management.

In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "e;Modulor"e;.

How should we train?

Follow the Sun will guide you through all aspects of architectural photography, from the genre's rich history to the exciting new approaches brought by the advent of the digital age.

Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways.

Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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.

This is the fourth book in the Neural Network series.

For the first time, this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only co-exist but complement each other in the assessment of built works.

Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism.

Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space.

Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments.

What is landscape architecture?

In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens.

"El presente libro es un modesto aporte en la comprensión de los fenómenos patológicos que agreden al hormigón armado y a las estructuras que con este material se construyen.

This book focuses on Luis Frois, a 16th-century Portuguese Jesuit and chronicler, who recorded his impressions of Japanese gardens, cities and building practices, tea-drinking rituals, Japan's unification efforts, cultural traditions, and the many differences between Europe and Japan in remarkable manuscripts almost lost to time.

Set against the background of a 'general crisis' that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural.

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.

Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.

The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers.

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

Few architectural styles evoke so strong a sense of place as Pueblo architecture.

The importance of freehand drawing for educating architects is often underestimated.

This book engages readers in an enlightening exploration of cities' identities, sustainability, and urban development.

Summarizes the latest neuroscience of sleep and dreams, as well as the evolutionary background to their potential functions.

Examining discomfort's physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment.

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and their religious and symbolic worlds.