Theory of Architecture

This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on the work of critic Homi K. Bhabha, who's work has been used as a means to analyse architectural practices in previously colonised contexts. This title reveals how his work contributes to architectural theory and the study of contemporar..

This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on the work of critic Homi K. Bhabha, who's work has been used as a means to analyse architectural practices in previously colonised contexts. This title reveals how his work contributes to architectural theory and the study of contemporar..

Highly original and thought provoking essays by a group of internationally recognized scholars consider issues of gender, childhood, sexuality and race in respect of the relationship between biographies and space. The result is a wide ranging exploration of the formation of identity...

Highly original and thought provoking essays by a group of internationally recognized scholars consider issues of gender, childhood, sexuality and race in respect of the relationship between biographies and space. The result is a wide ranging exploration of the formation of identity...

This book offers a clear, quick and accurate introduction for an architectural audience, reflecting on the consequences of Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas for architects and the field of architecture...

This book offers a clear, quick and accurate introduction for an architectural audience, reflecting on the consequences of Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas for architects and the field of architecture...

Thoroughly illustrated, this text argues that perspective remains the primary and most satisfying way of representing form, because it is the paradigmatic form of spatial consciousness...

Thoroughly illustrated, this text argues that perspective remains the primary and most satisfying way of representing form, because it is the paradigmatic form of spatial consciousness...

This book focuses on the role architects and architecture are playing in the process of political and cultural negotiation...

Focusing on Berlin’s destruction during World War II and its reconstruction after the end of the war, this book offers a rethinking of how the practices of destruction and burial combine to reform the city through geography and how burying a city is intricately tied to forgetting destruction, ruinat..

Exploring the relationship between cities and their cinematic portrayals in over a century of film, this book shows how notions of society inform and are influenced by the images we have come to know on screen...

Exploring the relationship between cities and their cinematic portrayals in over a century of film, this book shows how notions of society inform and are influenced by the images we have come to know on screen...