Draws on social, cultural and postcolonial writings and architectural evidence from various cities around the world to examine existing theories of globalization and to develop new perspectives.
Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book put..
This book brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. The contributors are architects and scholars of urbanism with backgrounds..
How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.) affect the way we perceive, inhabit and design..
This volume explores the place of the sketchbook in contemporary art and architecture. Drawing upon a diverse range of theories, practices, and reflec..
Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River..
Based on an in-depth ethnographic study working with some of the world’s most influential Independent Public Artists, this book takes a completely new..
Image, Text, Architecture brings a radical and detailed analysis of the architectural media, addressing issues of architectural criticism, architectur..
In this book, design education is dealt with as a paradigm whose evolutionary processes, underpinning theories, contents, methods, tools, are question..
Focusing on matter as the premise of an architect’s imagination, each chapter identifies and graphically illustrates how material imagination defines ..