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 consideration...More info...
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....More info...
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...More info...
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...More info...
Delving into the dynamic and adaptable nature of ethical language and terminology in design, The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse argues that it is intrinsically flexiblewhat can be described as chameleonic....More info...
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 instruct...More info...
This book connects Frank Lloyd Wrights organic theory with his pursuit of beauty, presenting a path for the recovery of beauty in architecture....More info...
The book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti....More info...
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), written by one of Aaltos Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934-1986). The book is divid...More info...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of craft theory in relation to contemporary architecture. Within the ongoing story of craft are new and surprising ways to understand, design, and construct the built environment. Written for students and...More info...
Decoding Luigi Morettis 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 in archite...More info...
This book frames mannerism as an inescapable stage in the creative process. The mannerist phase is usually an adolescent stage of language, preceding the consolidation of thought. It is that period when architects design spaces, not yet knowing what...More info...
Stiegler for Architects is the first introduction to the key concepts and ideas of Bernard Stiegler that are relevant to architects. This book is essential reading for any architect or designer who is interested in how contemporary digital technolog...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Apr-2025, Publisher: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781003642688)
This book acts as a storytelling toolkit, taking designers through a tried-and-tested process for taking a project from thought to built project....More info...
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropiuss activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founders contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934-37....More info...
This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregottis projects and works, but rather a historical-critical analysis of his peculiar figure. Like few others, Gregotti embodied the model of the architect-intellectual that characterised post-war Italian des...More info...
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 pro...More info...
Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern per...More info...
This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between video games and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines....More info...
