Architecture - Criticism

Fairground Theory goes behind the scenes of the travelling fair - exploring its design, its atmosphere, and the people and processes that make it happen - in order to develop the first architectural theory of the fair. Even well-known places can be made strange...

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 relationships which exist...

The essential guide to beginning your career in architecture The Architecture Student's Handbook of Professional Practice opens the door to the vast body of knowledge required to effectively manage architectural projects and practice. A professional architect is responsible for much more than design; this...

Explore the timeless charm and enduring architectural appeal of "Remodeled Farmhouses" by Mary H. Northend. This classic exploration of American farmhouse design offers a fascinating glimpse into the renovation and remodeling trends of a bygone era. Delve into detailed descriptions and insights concerning the...

This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). From the imperial Royal Niger Company's charter in the...

Essays from architects, designers and builders on the relationship between construction, architecture, work and laborThis third volume in The Political Economy of Space series, edited by Harvard Graduate School of Design professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, updates the discussion on conflicts within the architectural profession with...

From "tomorrow's greatest designer" (The Atlantic), a deeply researched "essential guide" (Chelsea Clinton) to how humankind designs its world and how those decisions shape us. For the majority of the world, purposefully designed spaces are often only available for those who can afford them....

Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects. As a group, PAGON went on to become largely overlooked in the history of modern architecture, even though its...

Assessment in architecture and creative arts schools has traditionally adopted a 'one size fits all' approach by using the 'crit', where students pin up their work, make a presentation and receive verbal feedback in front of peers and academic staff. In addition to increasing...

The institutional history, With and Without Walls, reveals the origins and progress of the influential Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) through the 1970s and 1980s. After separating from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1972 amidst feelings of bureaucratic and ideological oppression,...

This book examines the relationship between architecture theory and the philosophy of mind. Today, the art of building has become increasingly dominated by concepts borrowed from science, but how do we interpret this influence when the causal reduction of thought and feeling to space-time...

Now in its fourth edition, this classic bestselling book has been updated with brand new chapters and hand-drawn illustrations. Using a highly accessible approach, the author takes history rather than aesthetics as his starting point. Risebero unfolds and explains the development of architecture in...

This book attempts to delineate three main characteristics for an architecture of the EXTERIORLESS.These three aspects-Interface, Expanded Domains, and New Forms of Urbanity-constitute the three main sections of the book.Author: Stefano CorboISBN-10: 1032170824ISBN-13: 9781032170824Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2024Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

Scholars and artists revisit a hugely influential essay by Rosalind Krauss and map the interactions between art and architecture over the last thirty-five years.Expansion, convergence, adjacency, projection, rapport, and intersection are a few of the terms used to redraw the boundaries between art and...

The work of Serero, through investigations of patterns found in nature, does not envision architecture to create new spaces, but rather as a strategy to unfold together patterns of cultural, social and spatial origins. Architecture, as a living organism, establishes a relationship between beings...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This anthology gathers together for the first time the most influential architectural texts from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Many of the texts, written between 1920 and 2007, appear for the first time in English, making them available to a worldwide...

Through stills, film and interviews, Nyberg's unfinished biography on Sigurd Lewerentz shatters his prevailing image as the "silent architect" Before his death in 1978, Bernt Nyberg had been working on the first biography of Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975), through film and interviews captured...

Once the preserve of visual art, provenance receives a new framework in this glossary of approaches to architectural methodologyWhile the provenance of artworks represents one of the greatest challenges of current scholarship, architecture has been excluded from this burning field of understanding the past...

Author: Landscape Architecture Europe FoundationISBN-10: 3034608152ISBN-13: 9783034608152Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2012Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.65lbsSize: 11.10h x 8.60w x 1.20d

A richly illustrated volume exploring the social potential of architecture and musicChristopher Dell (born 1965) transposes into book form the research on music and architecture undertaken by the Dialogue Concerts series he curated. Bringing together prominent figures of both disciplines, this book vividly demonstrates...

South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at...

This introductory book, specifically for architects, focuses on the work of critic Homi K. Bhabha, who's work has been used as a means to analyse architectural practices in previously colonised contexts. This title reveals how his work contributes to architectural theory and the study...

Soon after 1900 in both North America and Europe the evolution from the tradition of Mediterranean and Gallic architectural styles to modernism began. This phenomenon was due, in part, to American industrial architecture and the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright's building and architectural...

The proceedings of the 2024 Design as Activism Symposium are packed with inspiring and vital information for designers who want to design for more equitable outcomes. The book features partial transcripts of two keynote talks, three panel discussions, six workshops, and six conversations. It...

Exercises and conversations from architects, interior designers and educators that reconsider our definitions of domesticity and the concept of homeDivided into two correlated parts--"Reflections" and "Exercises"--this book brings together 21 perspectives in the form of essays, conversation and interactive exercises to reconsider home as...

Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Each issue pairs subjects with objects: interviewees with contents from an archive. It does not have a theme, but instead organizes a diversity of threads and...

An exploration of the shift towards work environments that foster creativity, well-being and meaningful growth - reimagining the future of work as a place where people really want to be.Although more and more tasks are being taken over by machines and artificial intelligence, humans...

Beauty in Architecture 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. Despite its recent resurgence in the public debate about the built environment, the notion of beauty...

Site-Reliant Immersive Experiences offers a new theoretical approach to the concept of immersive experiences in relation to space, site and atmosphere. An interdisciplinary work, interweaving philosophy, theory, and creative methods in contemporary art and architecture, this book looks beyond phenomenological accounts of immersion as...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Recent legislative trends in the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries now require accurate and efficient assessment of environmental aesthetics. Most of this assessment is currently undertaken using traditional design judgment, but when the powers of the government are used to...

The ReView: Common Good presents Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment's vision for educating future professionals to advance the common good across the diverse disciplines that shape our built world, using exploration, testing, and illustration to envision more equitable and inclusive spaces. The...

Was sind marxistische Architekturgeschichte und -kritik? Welche Methoden wenden sie an, und worauf beziehen sich ihre kritischen Analysen? Diese Fragen sind nicht neu, aber müssen jetzt im Lichte der kontinuierlichen Erweiterung und Überarbeitung des Marxismus in Reaktion auf die aktuellen globalen Krisen anders bewertet...

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor - in the light of...

Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a dynamic way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of community and belonging, space, ritual, and setting. A work in three parts, the book first analyses...

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 book explores spiritual wellness as a...

The superREUSE Manifesto is a critical exploration of ideas, research and practices in reuse. -Reuse identifies insights into cities, buildings, interiors and objects constructed through working with extant material. Super is an elevated pitch for a 21st century that is characterised by responses to...

Written between 1999 and 2015, the texts in this book were previously published in the Vitruvius online journal. This republication, however, is not a simple collection, but a compilation of essays that seeks to provide synergy to texts once isolated and that here define...

What Americans Build and Why examines five areas of Americans' built environment: houses, healthcare facilities, schools, workplaces, and shopping environments. Synthesizing information from both academic journals and the popular press, the book looks at the relationships of size and scale to the way Americans...

A spirited abecedarium-style book that shows how architects have engaged with animals as references and metaphors in modern and postmodern architecture. Through an examination of 26 case studies (26 different animals explored by 26 different architects, from A to Z), The Architect and the...

This first introduction to Nietzsche's philosophy written specifically for architects locates his evaluation of appropriate and inappropriate architecture in the body of his writings and presents a clear overview of Nietzsche's insights into architectural design alongside his advice for architects and designers.Author: Lucy HuskinsonISBN-10:...

What is the role of architecture - and the architect - in the Anthropocene?It's an immutable fact: human activity is driving the climate and biodiversity crises that now threaten all life. The damage we inflict on the planet undermines basic human rights, displaces millions,...

Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects and cultural historians.Author: Alan ReadISBN-10: 041523543XISBN-13: 9780415235433Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2000Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political presents an innovative pragmatist agenda that will inspire new thinking about the politics of design and architectural practice. Moving beyond conventional conversations about design and politics, the book shows how recent developments in political philosophy can transform our...

This book presents an interpretive architectural analysis of select content of the Samarāṇgaṇa Sūṭraḍhāra, explores the design process to generate temples, palaces and dwelling units and discusses its correlation with contemporary architectural paradigms.Author: Neena Singh ZutshiISBN-10: 1032222751ISBN-13: 9781032222752Publisher: Routledge IndiaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2025Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight:...

George Suyama began his architectural practice in Seattle in 1971. His early career is marked by a number of notable designs in the contemporaneous wood idiom of the region. Over time, however, Suyama developed an architecture characterized by a search for minimalist simplicity, a...

The book investigates spatial practices at the ground level of Beirut - Appropriation, Commoning, Production, and Activism - that fill the gap between the city's capital-driven development and the aspirations and needs of its inhabitants, in search for cohabitation and planning lessons that withstand...

Discover the hidden gem of English heritage with ""Battlefield Church, Salop: An Historical And Descriptive Sketch"" by G. Dimock Fletcher. This captivating work, long out of print, has been lovingly restored by Alpha Editions for today's readers and future generations. Step into the rich...

Haus Ideal, by German architect Oda Pälmke, serves as an instruction manual for nonlinear processes of generating new solutions to architectural problems and discovering ideal architectural forms. Images of architectural models demonstrate different stages of these unconventional design processes.Author: Oda PälmkeISBN-10: 3868593659ISBN-13: 9783868593655Publisher: Jovis...