Nietzsche and Architecture explores Nietzsches relationship to the architects, buildings, and modern architectural movements he went on to inspire, and situates his philosophy more appropriately and comprehensively within the field of arch...Loe edasi...
The work of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Hans van der Laan (1904-1991) offers important insights into the ways in which artifacts address the complexity of human physical, cognitive and social needs. Van der Laan dev...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...
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...
Transgressive acts in architecture as responses to todays ecological, political, economic, and social crises In architecture, transgressive acts have always been a reality, in spite of rules and canons that have defined the discipline and...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...
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...
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...
(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...
Sari: Lateral Exchanges: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Practices
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477331408)
In his new manuscript, Shiben Banerji examines the movement toward global cities in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly as an outcropping of occult philosophies like Theosophy that worked toward what practitioners called univers...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...
Decoding Luigi Moretti’s Architettura Parametrica presents an unprecedented critical discussion of one of the earliest theoretical and practical explorations into the integration of scientific thought, mathematical models and digital tools...Loe edasi...
Sari: Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477331293)
The author argues that sports and architecture share many concerns, as both center the interplay of settings and bodies in motion. He sets out to study their conceptual and physical intersection, and to show what the aesthetics and spatial relatio...Loe edasi...
How architecture must learn to coexist with bacterial life, from the authors of the bestselling Are We Human?This provocative book is a manifesto for an alternative architectural philosophy. It treats bacteria as the real arch...Loe edasi...
Tent poles in the ground is a collection of 21 texts by the famous architect Stephen Bates. They testifies to the importance of writing as part of a form of practice that includes building and teaching....Loe edasi...
Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial pro...Loe edasi...
With this pocket-size edition of Universal Principles of Architecture, discover 100 essential concepts that redefine how we shape the world.Embark on a bold and thought-provoking journey through architectural theory and pra...Loe edasi...
In the late 1970s Bernard Stiegler was arrested for armed robbery and imprisoned. Whilst on hunger strike he was given his own cell where, in solitude, he began to study philosophy until his release in 1983. By 1993, under the supervision of Jacqu...Loe edasi...
In the late 1970s Bernard Stiegler was arrested for armed robbery and imprisoned. Whilst on hunger strike he was given his own cell where, in solitude, he began to study philosophy until his release in 1983. By 1993, under the supervision of Jacque...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adopting a comparative study of this influence between European and Chinese traditions. This book examines the role that time plays in the life of buildings, adop...Loe edasi...
Disabled by chasing curricular criteria (required for accreditation and professional registration), architecture schools are mostly compliance and reproduction machines serving the building industry. This book asserts disciplinary knowledge over p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Park Books, ISBN-13: 9783038603740)
Seminal writings from five decades by distinguished Argentinian-American architect Jorge Silvetti alongside new dialogues with Mark Lee, Erika Naginski and many others....Loe edasi...
The book establishes a correlation between architectural theory and the biosemiotic project, and suggest how this coupling establishes a framework leading to an architectural-biosemiotic paradigm that puts biosemiotic theory at the heart of cognising...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study examines the intricate relationship between the rise of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the emergence of modern architecture, exploring this connection through major intellectual and theoretical works while also an...Loe edasi...
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the...Loe edasi...