Theory of Architecture

In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role...

In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role...

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 on architectural history – Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper...

This book is about the years that followed the end of WWII during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a Third Ecology emerged. This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events, bringing together and commenting on a sele..

This book is about the years that followed the end of WWII during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a Third Ecology emerged. This book critically discusses and revaluates these contradictory events, bringing together and commenting on a sele..

This book contributes to fill in the void regarding the systematic analysis of Le Corbusier’s city scale plans and, in particular, the public space...

Sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position..

Sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position..

This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter...

This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of 'Transcultural Architecture' and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter. One of the benefits that this change of perspective brings about is that a large part of the political agenda of Critical Regio..

Bringing together ten utopian works this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications...

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies, this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications, but also, their architecture and how that architecture informs the political ..