Theory of Architecture

This book brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. The contributors are architects and scholars of urbanism with backgrounds in literature, history, religious studies, and art history. Rather than developing a single theoretical statement, the book addresses architecture’s ..

This book brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. The contributors are architects and scholars of urbanism with backgrounds in literature, history, religious studies, and art history. The book addresses architecture’s relationship with the city in a wide range of historica..

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic..

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic..

Drawing on his own experience as a working architect, Stan Allen's theoretical essays examine the ways in which the tools available to the architect affect the design and production of buildings. This new edition includes revised essays together with previously unpublished work. Allen’s seminal piec..

This book describes and accounts for new opportunities for ethical reflection in architecture and adjacent design practices. Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, it explores the possibilities for ethical speculation across their disciplines and respective..

The book explores the dynamic, changing and contradictory relationship between architecture and the global environmental crisis and looks at how to re-position architectural and urban practice in relation to wider intellectual, environmental, political and cultural shifts...

Nature inheres in many aesthetic forms of expression. In architecture, however, nature emerges with a particular power and clarity, which makes architecture a raw kind of art. Thus, by using the concept of ’raw’ as a focal point, this book provides new approaches to architecture in a broad sense, as..

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models a..

How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models a..

Reading Architecture shows that imagining people's lives is more important for architects than imagining spaces. Reading stories about lives lived in buildings, places, and cities is the best way to learn how to imagine. These eighteen new essays from contributors in nine countries on three continen..

Reading Architecture shows that imagining people's lives is more important for architects than imagining spaces. Reading stories about lives lived in buildings, places, and cities is the best way to learn how to imagine. These eighteen new essays from contributors in nine countries on three continen..