Theory of Architecture

Investigates the complex relations between architecture, space and ethics from divergent and inter-disciplinary perspectives...

Presents common architectural subjects as though they were conversations across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text...

Written specifically for architects, this short book introduces practitioners and students to Irigaray’s work, enabling them to understand the value of historically informed cross- and inter-disciplinary modes of architectural practice...

Written specifically for architects, this short book introduces practitioners and students to Irigaray’s work, enabling them to understand the value of historically informed cross- and inter-disciplinary modes of architectural practice...

Through the lenses of dress studies, gender and visual studies, this volume assembles Ruskin’s theory of surface architecture, or the "wall veil." This book positions Ruskin as having proposed an unorthodox definition of architecture as surface, highlighting his major contribution and an important m..

Students of architecture will gain much from considering Kant, whose critical project consisted in testing and exploring the viability of ideas, so as to ascertain to what extent, and crucially, how, ideas can have a constructive effect on the whole world, and on us as active agents...

Students of architecture will gain much from considering Kant, whose critical project consisted in testing and exploring the viability of ideas, so as to ascertain to what extent, and crucially, how, ideas can have a constructive effect on the whole world, and on us as active agents...

A concise account of the relevance of Henri Lefebvre’s writing for the theory and practice of architecture, planning and urban design. Here is an introduction accessible for students and practitioners who wish to engage with the design possibilities offered by Lefebvre’s philosophy...

A concise account of the relevance of Henri Lefebvre’s writing for the theory and practice of architecture, planning and urban design. Here is an introduction accessible for students and practitioners who wish to engage with the design possibilities offered by Lefebvre’s philosophy...

This is the first volume of essays devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space...

_x005F_x000D_ Materiality and Architecture extends architectural thinking beyond the confines of current design literatures to explore conceptions of materiality across the field of architecture. Fourteen international contributors use elucidate the problems and possibilities of materiality-based ap..

This book summarises what Maurice Merleau-Ponty has to offer for architects, locates his architectural thinking in the context of his work, introduces key texts, helps decode difficult terms and provides quick reference for further reading...