Architecture - Criticism

In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their critical and productive role. The book is organized in sections which explore theory as an open issue in architecture, as it relates to and...

Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than seeking a singular or essential understanding of the term, the collection postulates that landscape might be better read in relation to its cognate terms across expanded disciplinary and professional...

City suburbs are the focus of this issue, which includes recent projects for large urban complexes by Castro, Tshumi, Koolhaas, Yudell, Eisenman, Rossi, Donate, Canella, and Aymonino.Author: Editrice Abitare SegestaISBN-10: 0823064131ISBN-13: 9780823064137Publisher: Watson-Guptill PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1995Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 10.62h x 8.45w x 0.83d

Architecture plays a powerful role in nation building. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they reflect the intersection of culture, politics, economics, and aesthetics in distinct social settings and distinct times. From first contact to the postmodern city, this...

Concepts from architects' minds evolve through sketches and as a mode of transference are conveyed to the finished building. This book compares qualities of sketches to reveal unique approaches to the instruments of thinking in which all architects engage. It provides new insight into...

This book poses important philosophical questions about the aims, values and purposes of landscape architecture. The editors, highly regarded in their field, have drawn together a distinguished team of writers who provide unique individual perspectives on contemporary themes from a wide base of knowledge....

In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of...

The experience of movement, of moving through buildings, cities, landscapes and in everyday life, is the only involvement most individuals have with the built environment on a daily basis. User experience is so often neglected in architectural study and practice. Architecture and Movement tackles...

Architects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film making, post-disaster designs and slum management, as part of the architecture discourse and curriculum, is an indication of how broad architecture has become, and the extent...

Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function...

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people's everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays...

Analyzing a range of ideas from biological, evolutionary and anthropological theories to a variety of feminist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and constructivist discourses, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design. Topics range from conceptions of...

Architecture and Capitalism tells a story of the relationship between the economy and architectural design. Eleven historians each discuss in brand new essays the time period they know best, looking at cultural and economic issues, which in light of current economic crises you will...

Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between body and design. These essays argue that aesthetic experiences can be nurtured at any moment in everyday...

A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspectiveTaking a broad view of the word 'politics', the essays address a range of questions, including: What is...

This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume. Covering a wide range of topics of central importance to architecture today, the papers...

This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture.Architecture is generally perceived as the solid, physical matter that it unarguably creates, but what of the spaces it creates? This issue drives Hill's explorative look...

Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. In his introduction, Nezar Alsayyad discusses the meaning of the word 'tradition' and...

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of...

Now in its fifth edition, Analysing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at those studying architecture, it offers a clear and accessible insight into the workings of this rich and fascinating subject. With copious illustrations from his...

Explaining the connection between physical and strategic design, this book proposes an aesthetic connection between two equal aspects of architectural design: the Real and the Ideal. Addressing architectural thinkers from the broad realms of academia and practice, it is suitable either as a seminar...

The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin is a foundational work of architectural criticism published in 1849. In this book, Ruskin presents seven moral principles-Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience-which he calls "lamps" to guide the practice of architecture. Rather than...

From "tomorrow's greatest designer" (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live.We've been led to believe that purposefully designed spaces are something reserved only for...

Earth Others calls on spatial practices to facilitate reciprocal exchanges between different lifeforms without imposing a designed order upon them. At the heart of Earth Others lies a choreographic understanding of architectural place-making. Consequently, spatial design is no longer a means of stewardship to...

The book tells the unwritten story of Chicago Studio over 25 years--a semester-long, place-based, experiential learning program harnessing the city as a learning lab through engagement of practitioners, city leaders and neighborhoods, while also providing pedagogical assessment and a look going forward. The authors...

Ineffable documents a timely and invaluable debate surrounding the use of computational tools in architecture and their effect on the nature of human expression. A distinguished group of architects, educators, and theoreticians discuss both the potential benefits as well as the perils associated with...

This latest edition of Oase, one of the leading professional journals on architectural theory, asks a critical question: has the party ended? In the early 1990s, favorable economic and political conditions in the Netherlands created an advantageous climate for unorthodox design approaches and experiments....

This book explores what it means for development activists to practise architecture on a global scale, and provides a blueprint for developing architectural practices based on reciprocal working methods. The content is based on real situations - through extended field research and contacts with...

Resisting Postmodern Architecture studies critical regionalism within the wider framework of postmodern architecture.Author: Stylianos GiamarelosISBN-10: 1800081359ISBN-13: 9781800081352Publisher: UCL PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2022Pages: 438Format: Hardcover

Starting with the question concerning the discursive formation of architectural history, the chapters compiled in this book attempt to re-read the historiography of early modern architecture from the point of view of the theoretical work produced since the post-war era. Central to the objectives...

Agencies of the Frame: Tectonic Strategies in Cinema and Architecture aims to explore parallel approaches to the conceptualisation and composition of place, space, time, materiality and narrative in cinematographic and architectural practices. Beyond drawing useful implications for design, the book investigates a range of...

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment. Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecological perception, ugliness, and hopeful monsters, architectural case studies investigate historical moments when relationships between architecture and site were...

Why does the word design owe its origin to Latin and not Greek roots? Where do the limits of the human mind lie? How does ambiguity enter the deterministic world of computation? Who was Parmenides and why is his philosophy still puzzling today? This...

The tropical belt - where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located - forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture...

This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the...

For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in. Occupants' experience can differ radically from designers' intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied spirit resonate...

Non-Plan explores ways of involving people in the design of their environments - a goal which transgresses political categories of 'right' and 'left'. Attempts to circumvent planning bureaucracy and architectural inertia have ranged from free-market enterprise zones, to self-build housing, and from squatting to...

This introductory textbook focuses on architecture as a disciplinary and professional process, a role in society, and a career of learning and mastery. An essential introduction for any student seeking to understand what it means to be an architect.Author: Leonard R. BachmanISBN-10: 1138062707ISBN-13: 9781138062702Publisher:...

Theories and Practices of Architectural Representation focuses on the study of architectural knowledge approached through the lens of representation: the making of things-about-buildings. Architectural knowledge systems continue to shift away from traditional means, such as books and photographs, into modes dominated by digital technologiesAuthor:...

Using the notion of "Realdesign", as a parallel to Realpolitik, the authors aim to highlight political, social and methodological obstacles when designers turn to design thinking, participation and "living labs", with the hope of changing the world for the better.Author: Otto Von Busch,Karl PalmåsISBN-10:...

Using the ideas of rational choice theory and behavioral economics, Choice Architecture shows how behavior, design, and wellness are deeply interconnected. We actively choose our responses to the architectural meanings we experience based on our perception of individual contexts. This book brings insight to...

The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological overview of the current global architectural industry, Donald McNeill covers the "star system" of international architects who combine...

Analyzes ten buildings embodying the human experience and clarifies that function in architecture is a generative force in determining built form.Author: Stephen Grabow,Kent SpreckelmeyerISBN-10: 0415843014ISBN-13: 9780415843010Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 210Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Choice 08/01/2015

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it.Author: Steven A. Moore,Barbara B. WilsonISBN-10: 0415840805ISBN-13: 9780415840804Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2013Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.33lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.30d

Buildings continue changing once 'complete'. Examining the allure of incomplete, imperfect and impermanent architecture, professionals, students and educators are called upon to anticipate future changes by incorporating them into their designs.Author: Rumiko HandaISBN-10: 0415741505ISBN-13: 9780415741507Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2015Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.20w...

Examining the complex social and material relationships between architecture and ecology which constitute modern cultures, this collection hows how the 'habitats', 'natural milieus', 'places' or 'shelters' that construct architectural ecologies are composed of complex and dynamic material, spatial, social, political, economic and ecological concerns....

Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure related to the stylistic and ideological concerns of modernism in 1930s Britain.Author: Bruce PeterISBN-10: 0415428181ISBN-13: 9780415428187Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2007Pages:...

This text is a key contribution to the international debate in planning theory, exploring the experience of planning in South Africa during the ten years from 1994.Author: Philip Harrison,Alison Todes,Vanessa WatsonISBN-10: 0415360331ISBN-13: 9780415360333Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2007Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.53lbsSize: 9.41h x 6.50w x 0.77d

This anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environment - place, material, and assembly. It includes content from a diverse collection of notable architects, historians, and scholars.Author: Chad SchwartzISBN-10: 0367178362ISBN-13: 9780367178369Publisher:...

Author: Lyna BourouibaISBN-10: 3959059051ISBN-13: 9783959059053Publisher: Spector BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2026Pages: 326Format: Paperback