Architecture

Architectural discourse is dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate, this book challenges this position, arguing for the need to develop a more creative and spatial understanding of chance as..

There have been five different settings that have contained the dead body of Atatürk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions, this book also describes and interprets t..

There have been five different settings that have contained the dead body of Atatürk, organizer of the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923) and first president of the Republic of Turkey. Narrating the story of these different architectural constructions, this book also describes and interprets t..

Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with utopian concepts. Beyond Utopia argues that Metabolism Megastructures represent an amalgam genre: myth camouflaged as utopia. After exploring the growing demand for a new myth in architecture (the origin of myth), ..

Megastructure proposals by the Japanese Metabolism group are commonly identified with utopian concepts. Beyond Utopia argues that Metabolism Megastructures represent an amalgam genre: myth camouflaged as utopia. After exploring the growing demand for a new myth in architecture (the origin of myth), ..

This book presents a series of chapters examining aspects of Brutalist and New Brutalist architecture from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. This volume is consistent with a broader resurgence in Brutalism, presenting new scholarship on Brutalist architects and projects from Skopje to Sydney, and from Har..

Through a specific architectural lens, this book exposes the role the British Empire played in the development of apartheid. Through reference to previously unexamined archival material, the book uncovers a myriad of mechanisms through which Empire laid the foundations onto which the edifice of apar..

Through a specific architectural lens, this book exposes the role the British Empire played in the development of apartheid. Through reference to previously unexamined archival material, the book uncovers a myriad of mechanisms through which Empire laid the foundations onto which the edifice of apar..

A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the developm..

A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the developm..

Focusing on the emergence of new building types between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, this analyses architectural form, function and space to explore the reproduction and the subversion of power in the modern city...

Camera Constructs reflects critically on the varied interactions of the different practices by which photographers, artists, architects, theorists and historians engage with the relationship of the camera to architecture, the city and the evolution of Modernism. Including twenty-three essays by a wi..