Brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can again become an integral part of discussions about architecture. Beauty in Architecture brings...Loe edasi...
A new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relation to space, site and atmosphere. Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relatio...Loe edasi...
Abhandlung zur digitalen Architektur Hovestadts Traktat folgt strikt den Linien der bekannten Abhandlungen von Vitruv und Alberti, in der Annahme, dass wir uns heute wieder in einer ähnlichen Konstellation befinden. Vitruv und Alberti bra...Loe edasi...
Three decades of intellectual work on architectural theory and feminist discourse. Hilde Heynen is a Belgian architectural theorist whose work bridges neo-Marxist critical theory and current feminist discourse, applying these perspectives...Loe edasi...
This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.The contributions to this volume celebrate critical analysis of past and present work...Loe edasi...
This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories.The contributions to this volume celebrate critical analysis of past and present work...Loe edasi...
Offering a novel conceptual methodology where Jungian psychology is used to analyse Jung’s own architecture, this book offers an innovative reading of Jung’s Bollingen Tower in order to explore a Jungian sense of place, situating it within a wider...Loe edasi...
Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.According to Pelin Tan, there are forms of belonging that do not quite belong. In this collection of essays a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781961856677)
This book is about architecture, but not about formal architectural images. It is about the people who inhabit and use buildings and places. It is about the people who have made and will make buildings and places. It is a book about subjects and t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Park Books, ISBN-13: 9783038604068)
Invents and defines a new category of groundbreaking architecture. Architects, historians, and theorists have been obsessed with fascist architecture since postmodernism. But who are the antifascist...Loe edasi...
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Re...Loe edasi...
The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. ...Loe edasi...
This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality. It offers a spatial-psychoanalytical reading of virtual reality (VR), examining how...Loe edasi...
A French-language edition, which offers a new approach Weizman names “documentary architecture, meaning that to write about the history of a building is also to map the world in which it is located....Loe edasi...
Across eight cases studies of patrons spanning the 18th to the 21st century, this assesses the ways that Louis XIVs Palace of Versailles has continued to shape the aesthetics of cultural capital since his death. The book demonstrates how the extrav...Loe edasi...
A history of the Palace of Versailles as the paradigm of cultural capital in Western architecture, interior design, and material culture from the 17th century to the present....Loe edasi...
This book moves the focus of exhibitions beyond their narratives, instead exploring their design as constructed interiors. Through a diverse range of case studies - spanning from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the former USSR, Croatia, Austria a...Loe edasi...
Exhibition design has long been studied in the fields of art, design and architecture, but the focus has been on the design of the exhibition narrative, rather than the design as interior space. This book breaks new ground, exploring the complex r...Loe edasi...
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement.Through this scholarly collaboration, the authors cre...Loe edasi...
This book, by an architect and a sociologist, addresses the disconnect between the design of the built environment and social life and lays out a pathway for interdisciplinary engagement. Through this scholarly collaboration, the authors create a ne...Loe edasi...
This book is a historical and cultural study of the work of the Jewish women architects who flourished in Palestine under the British Mandate (1920-1948). This comprehensive study adds a new chapter to...Loe edasi...
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, from the 1935 to the 1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts, and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of moder...Loe edasi...
Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert is one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. One of very few writers to be awarded the RIBAs highest honour, the Royal Gold Medal, in 2014, and author of countless books and essays, his inf...Loe edasi...
Born in Warsaw in 1926, Joseph Rykwert was one of the best-known critics and historians of architecture. In this new edition of his memoir, he posthumously expands upon the first edition by 20,000 words, delving deeper into how his life’s experien...Loe edasi...
According to the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), in the 21st century, we are living in a New Age of Biology, acknowledging the rapid development of transformative findings in the life sciences. The Routledg...Loe edasi...
Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes real estate developers’ role in entrenching ethnic and political divisions from Baltimore to Belfast and beyond. Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict expos...Loe edasi...
Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes real estate developers’ role in entrenching ethnic and political divisions from Baltimore to Belfast and beyond. Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict...Loe edasi...
The ambition of the book is to become the definitive reference book on the idea of type in architecture by demonstrating the fecundity of thinking typologically in both theory and practice of architecture....Loe edasi...
This book introduces the basic principles and methods of scientific research in architecture. Due to the specificity of the creative process and the architectural industry, the presented issues have also been adapted to the needs of architecture t...Loe edasi...
How do ambiances shape our sensory, social, and built environments? This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives to understand the profound ways in which ambiances redefine our experiences and perceptions of ordinary spaces.The study of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262553711)
A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.Much has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s man...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Park Books, ISBN-13: 9783038604327)
Studies the history of abstraction in architecture and posits its subversive potential for contemporary Black creators. In Black Abstraction in Architecture, Sean Canty charts the evolution of architectural abstraction from its...Loe edasi...
Chris Grimley, Michael Kubo, Enrique Ramirez, Mimi Zeiger
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Park Books, ISBN-13: 9783038604419)
Reflects on the modern impulse for rushed production, expansion, and consumption. Hurry up, we’re late: The early decades of the twenty-first century have demonstrated that we are already behind. Concepts like Moore’s Law, acceleration...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Park Books, ISBN-13: 9783038604396)
Explores the work of Boston-based Leers Weinzapfel Associates since 2011.Somewhere, Something, Someone, the second monograph of Boston-based architecture firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates since its formation in 1982, captures the...Loe edasi...
Martine de Maeseneer, Dirk Van den Brande, Jayne Kelley
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Park Books, ISBN-13: 9783038604372)
Explores the theory behind the work of Brussels-based practice Martine De Maeseneer Architects. Martine De Maeseneer and Dirk Van den Brande, principals of Brussels-based practice Martine De Maeseneer Architects (MDMA), are “not compul...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781935935575)
Today, designers, researchers, and scholars must responsibly engage the entangled networks and delineated systems far beyond boundaries of typical design practice to engage in thoughtful critique of the past and consider counter-imaginations of th...Loe edasi...
This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different times, cultures and places. It embraces discussions about theory, urban and regional debates, architectural design, history and educat...Loe edasi...
Surveying the extraordinary scope of contemporary theory, this book brings together contributors from around the world to speak to the ways in which theoretical concerns from a variety of disciplines operate within their respective fields of co...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the city of Athens, this book examines architecture as something that produces culture and ideology - rather than the opposite. Therefore, this book aims to complement architectural and urban theories that are based only on historical ov...Loe edasi...
This book brings new scholarship to students on the origins and development of planning thoughts, theories, policies, institutions and practices, outlining how these have shaped planning as...Loe edasi...
Structures for Architects: Planning, Analysis and Design explains the basics of structural systems to help architects conceive the structural form and analyze and design in a comprehensive manner. The objective is not to explain the struc...Loe edasi...
This book unfolds the artistic and cultural exchanges between China, Persia, and Italy, picturing “a Transcultural Renaissance on the Silk Road” with fascinating reading of rich images. The author has been intensely engaged in the transcultural ar...Loe edasi...
This book explores spiritual wellness as a foundational attribute to urban planning and design. Planning and design strategies are presented through case studies from around the globe that highlight the importance of spiritual wellness considerati...Loe edasi...
Imagine a world where buildings and cities actively nurture our well-being, not just physically, but spiritually. There is a growing awareness of the need for a more inclusive and comprehensive approach to wellness strategies in everyday life. This...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032792637)
This volume focuses on socio-spatial practices of indigenous communities in India. It explores the interrelation between the built environments and lifeworlds, i.e. practices, patterns, and structures of everyday life. This volume...Loe edasi...
The Architect’s Edge is a bold exploration of architecture, leadership and business, offering invaluable insights for creative entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Gareth Stapleton, an award-winning architect and project manager, shares practical...Loe edasi...
This book presents a new way of examining cities to reveal the many and varied meanings which are written into urban landscapes. As the title suggests, urban areas are full of messages and communications, with signs and symbols incorporated into bui...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031842306)
Focusing on the street as a socio-spatial catalyst, this book fosters a comprehensive conversation on the past, present, and future of streets and public space. While the street is commonly associated with urban form or the metropolitan context...Loe edasi...
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967569)
Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more re...Loe edasi...
Drawing from multiple disciplines, Lynch elaborates upon his distinct architectural approach he terms holding togetherFormer head of the graduate department of architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Peter Lynch has...Loe edasi...
How can mapping capture the dynamic entanglements of space and time in a rapidly changing world? Spacetimes Matter is an invitation to rethink mapping as a critical tool for understanding multiple spacetimesand how they come to matter. Introducing m...Loe edasi...
The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of the planet’s urban regions are living spaces and working landscapes. Despite this, we understand little about the centrality of urban peripheries as the sites and spaces for some of the most...Loe edasi...
What does it mean for architecture to be a truly collaborative venture where plants and other species also exercise their agency? This would mean to make architecture receptive—physically, premised on creating spaces for accommodating multispecies...Loe edasi...
Urbanism as Civic Art vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen für den städtebaulichen Entwurf. Stadträume, Hofräume, Platzräume und Straßenräume werden anhand von 5 Beispielen aus über 7 deutschen Städten maßstäblich dargestellt, analysiert und vergliche...Loe edasi...
Gibt es eine architektonische und städtebauliche Agenda hinter der Politik extrem rechter Kräfte? Diese Leitfrage durchzieht Right-Wing Spaces (Rechte Räume) dessen Essays zwischen 2 5 und 2 2 entstanden und viele aktuelle Diskussionen vorwegnahmen...Loe edasi...
What are Marxist architectural history and criticism? What methods do they employ, and what are their objects of critical analysis? These questions have been asked before, but now more than ever, they require reassessment in light of the continuous...Loe edasi...
This Primer provides insight into the significance of interior spaces and experiences. This book provides both interior design students and instructors, a clear and cohesive structure to understand and engage the important contributions that compr...Loe edasi...
This Primer provides insight into the significance of interior spaces and experiences. This book provides both interior design students and instructors, a clear and cohesive structure to understand and engage the important contributions that compris...Loe edasi...
Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America is a coauthored book that examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cul...Loe edasi...
Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concept...Loe edasi...
This volume emphasizes the significance of Professor Amos Rapoports lifelong scholarship. Scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced unde...Loe edasi...
An exploration into the impact of technological innovations and global crises on how architects approach their discipline, through drawings and works. Accompanied an exhibition at The National Museum, Oslo from 7 November 2023 to 31 March 2024. Text...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781961856394)
Manhattan is commonly regarded as an iconic island-territory of the twentieth century. Conventional representations reinforce its reading as an urban condition resulting from neoliberal capitalism. These forces have expanded the city g...Loe edasi...
From one of the world’s top experts on the economics of skyscrapers—a “fascinating” (Daily Mail, London) and “informative” (Publishers Weekly) account of the ever-growing quest for super tall buildings across the globe....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917920)
A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517917937)
A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its implementation across battlefi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781961856684)
Framework Thinking distills key lessons in creating extraordinary design outcomes. It shares how the clarity, power, and enduring presence of an inspired vision can be increased through holistic thinking, inclusive collaboration,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: DOM Publishers, ISBN-13: 9783869228525)
Landscape architects rely heavily on graphics to communicate content and ideas. From large-scale master plans and strategic visions, to design concepts and specific moods, through to types of vegetation and precise construction details – at some poi...Loe edasi...
From the material to the procedural and the conceptual, this volume explores the practices of finishing in architecture within three currents: surfaces, projects, and most broadly, architectural times. It will be of interest to students and instru...Loe edasi...
Finishing in Architecture: Polishing, Completing, Ending explores the topic of finishing and the fascinating physical and metaphysical implications of its various conceptions in architecture. Finishing is essential to all human practices an...Loe edasi...
How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigms—like fair, right, good—convey different meanings? Delving in...Loe edasi...
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narrat...Loe edasi...
If you’ve ever wondered what goes through architects’ minds when they design buildings, you’ll be happy to know that there’s no shortage of brilliant reading material to satisfy your curiosity. Wading through the archives at yo...Loe edasi...
