Architecture - Criticism

What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture. Capital's voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of "never enough." The current realities of building involve extraction and exploitation, which, in turn, cause climate...

Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep Çelik Alexander here dubs...

The AA Book is published annually and features hundreds of projects by students from every academic programme in the school. This year, units and programmes' pages are gathered, unbound, in groupings that reflect those of the exhibitors in Projects Review 2025 - an archipelago...

Expanded Architecture - Temporal Spatial Practises is devoted to Australian architectural icons of modernism by Harry Seidler, casting current artistic perspectives on Bauhaus ideas and its advocates. Expanded Architecture comprises more than 20 international architects and artists who explore diverse notions of an expanded...

Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which...

Discover the rich history and picturesque countryside of West Suffolk in this engaging travel guide. With detailed information on local landmarks, attractions, and hidden gems, it is the perfect companion for anyone planning a visit to this enchanting region.This work has been selected by...

Experience the cutting edge of architectural innovation with the Yearbook of the Columbia University School of Architecture. This stunning collection showcases the best and brightest of contemporary design, from towering skyscrapers to stunning public spaces.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

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,...

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,...

From winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of the ways children's playthings and surroundings affect their development-now featuring the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning essays. Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every...

This revised edition of nai010's well-received study includes a decade's worth of new case studies concerning urban-specific climate issuesTen years after its initial publication, Weather in the City is more relevant than ever. Prolonged heat waves are a source of many stress-related problems, especially...

Through rare archival photos, drawings and essays, an in-depth look at over five decades of James Wines' groundbreaking work in art, architecture and environmental design with his practice SITEThis volume presents more than five decades of visionary work in art, design, environment and education...

Dedicated to emerging voices in contemporary architectural research, Proyector decentralizes Mexico City's cultural scene by fostering a dialogue of integrated disciplinesProyector is a curatorial platform based in Mexico City committed to fostering new strategies and providing critical, theoretical and historical tools for addressing spatial...

Reclaiming the architectural history of the Arabian Peninsula through preindustrial practicesThe advent of the oil economy and its subsequent industrial narrative has overwritten previous traditions of landscape and territory in the Arabian Peninsula. This is evident in the long spans of highways that disinterestedly...

Held in the American South, this lecture series by Latin American architects aims to expand the scope of North American design curricula Hosted at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, this series of lectures by architects from the Global South spotlights professionals from Latin America...

In defense of the rituals--sacred and spiritual--that continue to underpin modern architecture despite its reductionist rationaleThe spiritual and ritual aspects of spatial production are regarded as atavistic and have been largely ignored by theorists. This bilingual (English/German) issue of ARCH+ attempts a tentative atlas...

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 architects, construction workers, maintenance crews and inhabitants of buildings. Spanish...

Despite the notorious fact of it being one of the most veiled countries in modern history, North Korea recently has started to get engaged with the rest of the world, and now we can easily witness various socio-economic changes of the nation which was...

In February 2008, James Hoff delivered a lecture on minor history in Oslo, Norway. His lecture arranged rare publications, ephemeral artworks, and the history of concept in writing and the arts within a dense mesh of anecdotal relations. There was no set agenda or...

AI has been unleashed. Nothing is going to be the same again. Updated to cover all the latest developments, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From ChatGPT...

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,...

This volume inaugurates a new series of publications edited by three leading authors on the world's architectural and artistic scene: H.U.Obrist, Rem Koolhaas and Stefano Boeri. This series of dialogues conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem Koolhaas is dedicated to the most topical...

Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) / Bilingual edition (English/German) In den Bereichen Kunst und Architektur lässt sich gegenwärtig eine Erweiterung des Ausstellungskomplexes beobachten: permanente und temporäre Ausstellungsräume werden immer mehr und vermischen sich mit Orten des Konsums. Als Reaktion auf diese Entwicklung widmet sich GAM.14 dem...

Dignity is a state of being, a quality of humanness inherent to each individual. It describes asense of value, worth, honor, and respect for one's personhood--how we all individually navigate, independently experience, and uniquely perceive the world around us. It is the ultimate quality...

In Search of Spatial Scripts is a re-collection of improvisational stories and stage sets and serves those interested in Spatial Tales of Origin Revealed through Specifications for Construction. Peter Waldman first recounts Mining Mica in the alleys of Manhattan only to initiate a resultant...

This volume presents anew the influential twentieth-century architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose reputation has unfairly languished. Critics often see him as a chameleon who turned against the vibrant aesthetic culture of Berlin upon emigrating to Chicago and created instead the spare, tectonically...

The state of things is very serious. The water is rising, the ice is melting, the forests are on fire, and the land is sinking. Every day is a new catastrophe, we're rushing toward a precipice, we're out of time, we're out of luck,...

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 the future.Our discussion of the unseen begins first with an understanding...

How can we design the architecture of metabolism? How can architecture redefine resources, produce nutrients and contribute to regenerate land and protect communities at risk? Building Metabolism aims to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material recycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and...

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory　discusses one of the greatest challenges for the twenty-first century society: what is to be done with the huge stock of existing buildings that have outlived the function for which they were built?Author: Sally StoneISBN-10: 1138226637ISBN-13: 9781138226630Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Through its discussion on case studies, places, and themes that fundamentally influenced discourse formation in the era, this book offers scholars, researchers and students fresh insights into how architecture can engage with the digital realm today.Author: Nathalie BredellaISBN-10: 103203887XISBN-13: 9781032038872Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2024Pages: 212Format:...

Original essays in this book written by an international range of recognised theorists investigate how the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture.Author: Andrew BallantyneISBN-10: 0415552133ISBN-13: 9780415552134Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2009Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

This book is a compendium of essays, presented during the 12th International Bauhaus Colloquium 2013, on the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk. It offers an interdisciplinary approach to an important aspect of the Bauhaus.Author: Chris DähneISBN-10: 386859261XISBN-13: 9783868592610Publisher: Jovis VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2015Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.56lbsSize:...

David Leatherbarrow is a leading voice in architectural education on the world stage, whose books and research address how architecture appears, is perceived and shapes topography. Featuring a collection of essays by renowned scholars and architects from Asia, Europe and North America, Communicative Construction...

What happens when an architecture firm decides to create six meaningful structures, each tailored to a specific location and with the aim of benefitting the local community, all at no cost to the recipient? In Pavilions for Giving, Dr Jin-Ho Park explores how the...

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...

Salmela Architect provides an in-depth look at one of America's leading "critical regionalist" architects. Salmela's buildings resolve a central question of our time: how to balance the various extreme positions that characterize contemporary architecture and culture. Salmela accomplishes this by juxtaposing opposites: modernist and...

This edited collection presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing the planet, its environments and its populations through their research, analysis and speculative practice. Author: Kate BishopISBN-10: 0367625296ISBN-13: 9780367625290Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This volumebrings together architects, urban designers and planners and asks them to reflect and report on the (built) place and the city to come, in the wake of Deleuze and Guattari.Author: Constantin V. BoundasISBN-10: 1786612682ISBN-13: 9781786612687Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2019Pages: 314Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century. Broad definitions of modernity and postmodernity introduce the book, which comprises 24 short thematic chapters looking at the concepts behind the...

The contemporary debate on sustainability issues is recently drawing its attention towards the climatic analysis of urbanization models and the relationship between urban form and the city's energy performance and livability. Often neglected, urban form bears intrinsic qualities that can determine the success or...

A collection of essays by British architect Tom Emerson. Dirty Old River brings together twelve essays penned by Tom Emerson over the past two decades. Written on very different occasions as contributions to books or articles in magazines, they explore a wide range of...

"This book illustrates syntactically derived and grammatically interpolated approaches for architectural configuration, analysis, and design generation"Author: Ju Hyun Lee, Michael J. OstwaldISBN-10: 1799816990ISBN-13: 9781799816997Publisher: Engineering Science ReferenceLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/2019Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.78d

Come with us for a moment out onto the porch. Just like that, we've entered another world without leaving home. In this liminal space, an endless array of absorbing philosophical questions arises: What does it mean to be in a place? How does one...

Since the publication of Edward Said's groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West's fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing their critical attention on the literary and pictorial arts, these studies have, to date, largely neglected the...

"Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass" by C. W. Whall is a timeless exploration of glass painting and staining techniques. A meticulously prepared republication, this book offers a comprehensive guide to the design and execution of stained glass art....

This book, like all of my texts, offers critique and commentary of those institutions and cornerstone organizations that play pivotal roles in impacting upon the black community. Most books about these institutions are descriptive and consist of fluff pieces outlining the well-meaning "programs," and...

How has erasure formed the space around us? How do we come to know it, so that we can design differently? Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the...

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 scholars, this book challenges and extends the...

Filled with fascinating factoids, this distinctive reference uncovers the hidden stories, curious histories, and comic coincidences behinds dozens of locations around the city of London. The sites addressed include the extensive networks of tunnels running beneath high street pavements; secret transport and signalling networks...