Theory of Architecture

Analysis of the architecture, iconography, and spatial relations that constitute the town hall to explore its historical ability to accommodate the "public" in different political and social contexts..

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning is a basic, embodied level of human cognition. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_  ..

The book provides a basic understanding of light and colour, and their significance for humans in the spatial context. It provides background context, facts and possible approaches; it is neither a manual of how to use colour and light practical or aesthetically, nor it is a traditional presentation..

Bringing together a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars, this book presents the convergence of architecture and storytelling across a broad temporal, geographic and cultural range. It follows the intellectual and creative framework of architectural cosmopoesis developed and practic..

This book assesses the contribution the Chinese journal Time + Architecture has made to the emergence of a critical architecture in China...

For the past 30 years, the Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, theoretical and pedagogical practices. This book assesses the contributio..

This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges on, and thus changes, the site in which it is set...

Projecting forward in time from the processes of design and construction that are so often the focus of architectural discourse, Consuming Architecture examines the variety of ways in which buildings are consumed after they have been produced, focusing in particular on processes of occupation, appro..

Projecting forward in time from the processes of design and construction that are so often the focus of architectural discourse, Consuming Architecture examines the variety of ways in which buildings are consumed after they have been produced, focusing in particular on processes of occupation, appro..

Identifying four key themes in Chinese philosophy to promote health and happiness at home, this book links architecture with Chinese philosophy, social sciences, and the humanities, and in doing so, argues that Architectural Multiculturalism is a vital ideology to guide housing design in North Ameri..

This book links architecture with Chinese philosophy, social sciences, and the humanities, and argues that Architectural Multiculturalism is a vital ideology to guide housing design in North America...

Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism...