Architecture - Criticism

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

How is social media reshaping architecture? What can platforms like Instagram, Twitch, Pinterest, and TikTok tell us about the spaces we inhabit? The Interiors of Social Media is the first book to explore the relationship between architecture, interiors, and social media, guiding us through...

A compilation of the designer and architectural theorist's writings on the interstices of art, architecture and cities from the past 30 yearsIn this comprehensive survey of his writing to date, Los Angeles-based designer and architectural theorist Joe Day (born 1967), who leads Deegan-Day Design...

Has architectural criticism disappeared for good or has it adapted to the pressures, exigencies, and fashions of the present? Its demise may be due to fibrillation or asthenia, to excessive sharp judgment, condemnation, and critique, or, conversely, to a resigned acceptance of reality. But...

The first in-depth study of American artist Alan Dunn (1900-1974), whose incisive cartoons mocked twentieth-century architecture and urban environments, expanding the field of architectural criticism. Drawing on his pioneering expertise in the relationship between graphic satire and architecture, Gabriele Neri retraces Alan Dunn's path...

In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered...

Author: Ila BekaISBN-13: 9791092194067Publisher: Beka & PartnersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2026Pages: 224Format: Paperback

A reflection on the dynamic interplay between spatial experience and its representations in cinema and photography. Space in the Image focuses on cinematic and photographic portrayals of the built environment, from individual buildings to entire cities. It addresses a timely and relevant topic, reflecting...

This book has been designed to present several Ipostudio architecture projects produced in different periods that feature assonances and shared conceptual characteristics and principles. Ipostudio is a working group that was founded in Florence 40 years ago. It carries out architectural design in the...

In early June 2006, a group of over one hundred artists and researchers met for a three-day conference in the Architecture Building at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, to discuss-from as many different viewpoints as possible-the varying relationships between sound and space. This conference...

Who was the bona fide architect of the New Houses of Parliament? Charles Barry (1795-1860), the winner of the Parliamentary competition, or Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52), the â ~ghostâ (TM) designer, a young Catholic architect and Gothic specialist? After both men died, the...

Author: Olga ZekiouISBN-10: 1527522296ISBN-13: 9781527522299Publisher: Cambridge Scholars PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2019Pages: 290Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Housing Histories explores how the study of 20th-century housing has posed specific problems for architectural historians, and how it has - as a result - yielded radically innovative approaches and methodologies of significance for the wider field of architectural history. Global research in architectural...

Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy's veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist ambiguity. This book critically examines this enduring phenomenon, exploring...

Considering a life away from the city? "If You're Going to Live in the Country" offers a comprehensive guide to navigating the challenges and joys of rural living. Written by Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond Huntley, this historical text explores the practical aspects of...

This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution of the environmental dimension of architectural theory and practice in the past twenty-five years. It deals with theAuthor: Dean HawkesISBN-10: 0419199004ISBN-13: 9780419199007Publisher: Taylor & FrancisLanguage:...

This book uniquely brings to bear questions of urgent cultural relevance on critical design decisions. As such, it is of as much importance to architects, planners and students of design, as to students of cultural history, geography and film.Author: Katherine ShonfieldISBN-10: 0415235421ISBN-13: 9780415235426Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Architects must play an important role if American society is to survive climate change and immigration. Defining ourselves as artists limits that role. This book argues for a redefinition of architects as the experts on the relationships between humans and built environments. Architects must...

An Historical Essay on Architecture, Volume 1, by Thomas Hope, presents a comprehensive overview of architectural styles and theories from antiquity to the early 19th century. Published in 1840, this volume explores the evolution of architectural design, examining the influences of various cultures and...

Investigations of Maya architecture have been among the chief vehicles for contemplating a great art tradition, the hieroglyphic writing system, and evaluating issues of comparative sociology. The powerful attraction of Maya architecture as an evocation of lost worlds, as a medium for the carved...

The 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture is the first major work of history to include an overview of the architectural achievements of the 20th Century. Banister Fletcher has been the standard one volume architectural history for over 100 years...

Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the best possible chance of recovery. It examines the relationship that people have with their...

Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who have participated in it, their relationships, and their involvement in the cultures where they lived and worked. In this way, buildings, their details, and...

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...

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge is an academic journal in, on, and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution, and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures, and results...

Choosing Architecture traces the history of arguments about architecture in the West via analyses of key documents to show how vital a subject it is for anyone interested in our contemporary world.For as long as there have been buildings, architecture has been a major...

This book chronicles 25 years of design research at SU11 Architecture + Design, where ideas, concepts, and techniques have both shaped and been shaped by the evolution of digital and post-digital paradigms. The projects presented here reflect an era defined by the rise of...

The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aesthetics...

Women Architects in the Modern Movement rewrites the history of modern architecture to elevate the often-overlooked female architects who helped build the movement. Starting with a theoretical analysis that situates women's roles both in society and architecture specifically, Carmen Espegel examines the transition from...

In the Western world the period from the mid-eighteenth through the nineteenth century was a time of expanding historical consciousness, a period that saw the birth of modern historiography, a profusion of historical novels and paintings, and the widespread production of historical plays. Historical...

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 Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental....

Some of the largest architecture firms have effectively become war corporations. At the same time as designing Olympic parks and world-famous buildings, they have constructed military bases, maintained weaponry, and trained personnel for wars in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed....