Architecture - Criticism

Nerma Cridge demonstrates the relevance of the unbuildable, how it relates to current notions of seriality, copying and reproduction, and its implications for contemporary practice and discourse in the computational age.Author: Nerma CridgeISBN-10: 1138104221ISBN-13: 9781138104228Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2017Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...

Unlike books that concentrate on the monuments and other artefacts that architects produce, Constructing the Architect focuses on architecture as a disciplinary and professional process, an institution of society, and a career of learning and mastery. In doing so, it offers a lens into...

This book explores the theoretical & architectural connections.Author: José BernardiISBN-10: 1032344520ISBN-13: 9781032344522Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2025Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d

This book poses a simple question: how is this architecture possible? To respond, it will embark in a captivating journey through many singular architectural concepts. Author: Stavros KousoulasISBN-10: 103223525XISBN-13: 9781032235257Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2024Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Performing Home is the first sustained study of the ways in which artists create artworks in, and in response to, domestic dwellings.Author: Stuart AndrewsISBN-10: 1032176180ISBN-13: 9781032176185Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2021Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.37d

Narrative Theory in Conservation engages with conservation, heritage studies, and architectural approaches to historic buildings, offering a synthesis of the best of each, and demonstrating that conservation is capable of developing a complementary, but distinct, theoretical position of its own. Tracing the ideas behind...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture convenes a wide array of critical voices from architecture, art history, urbanism, geography, anthropology, media and performance studies, computer science, bio-engineering, environmental studies, and sociology that help us understand the meaning and significance of global...

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulation games, game-like approaches, game scenarios, and gamification processes for teaching/learning, design and research in architecture and urban planning.Author: Marta Brkovic DodigISBN-10: 1032084324ISBN-13:...

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Author: Amir H. AmeriISBN-10: 1032008016ISBN-13: 9781032008011Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2023Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

Step back in time with "Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 1, No. 7, July 1895: Italian Wrought Iron," a meticulously prepared print republication showcasing historical architecture. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into architectural design through the lens of late 19th-century periodicals. Delve...

For a stranger to Chester, the opportunity to explore the streets and buildings of a 2000 year old city, must promise much to the first time visitor. The presence of its almost intact circuit of medieval defensive walls, its many early churches, world famous...

Paperny examines the evolution of architecture in Russia during the Stalinist period. Defining two conflicting trends--Culture One and Culture Two--that have alternately prevailed in Russian culture, the author argues that the shift away from the architectural avant-garde of the 1920s was not entirely the...

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment....

Projecting forward in time from the processes of design and construction that are so often the focus of architectural discourse, Consuming Architecture examines the variety of ways in which buildings are consumed after they have been produced, focusing in particular on processes of occupation,...

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: 0415741491ISBN-13: 9780415741491Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2015Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...

Advances post-geographic understandings of physical and virtual boundaries and brings together the emergent theory of 'border thinking' with innovative thinking on design.Author: Eleni KalantidouISBN-10: 0415725194ISBN-13: 9780415725194Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2014Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Offers an excellent introduction to the remarkable work of Michel Foucault, providing a focused understanding suitable for architects.Author: Gordana Fontana-GiustiISBN-10: 0415693314ISBN-13: 9780415693318Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2013Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. This book explores the diverse...

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: 041542819XISBN-13: 9780415428194Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2007Pages:...

Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private. Author: Vittoria Di PalmaISBN-10: 0415415071ISBN-13: 9780415415071Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science.Author: Barbara KendaISBN-10: 0415398045ISBN-13: 9780415398046Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2006Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.11h x 6.24w...

This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730.Author: Shiqiao LiISBN-10: 0415374278ISBN-13: 9780415374279Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2006Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.38w x 0.49d

Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects, this new book examines the complex relationship between vision and subsequent practice in the saga of post-war urban reconstruction.Author: John R. GoldISBN-10: 041525843XISBN-13: 9780415258432Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2007Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.10h...

Occupying Architecture proposes a complete re-working of the relations between design and experience to transform the practices of the architect as well as ways of seeing and using architecture.Author: Jonathan HillISBN-10: 0415168163ISBN-13: 9780415168168Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/1998Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.68lbsSize: 9.59h x 7.39w x 0.67d

The authors use texts about such projects as Berlin's new Reichstag, Scotland's new parliament, and Auschwitz concentration camp museum to clarify the interaction between texts, design, critical debate and response.Author: Deborah Cameron,Thomas a. MarkusISBN-10: 0415143462ISBN-13: 9780415143462Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2001Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.66h x...

From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of architecture. In a historical context, industrial architecture evokes the smoking factories of the nineteenth century or Fordist production complexes of the...

This book explores Louis I. Kahn's approach to tradition as revealed in two of his important, unbuilt, projects. Focusing on Kahn's designs for the Dominican Motherhouse of St. Catherine de Ricci, Media, Pennsylvania (1965-1969), and the Hurva Synagogue, Jerusalem, Israel (1967-1974), the book challenges...

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the examples, it examines architectural drawing practices to elucidate the ways drawing advances...

This book explores the relationship between architecture and philosophy through a discussion on threshold spaces linking public space with publicly accessible buildings. It explores the connection between exterior and interior and how this creates and affects interactions between people and the social dynamics of...

The Optimum Imperative examines architecture's multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situated in the period loosely bracketed by the signing of the Munich accords in 1938, which affected Czechoslovakia's entrance into World War II, and the Warsaw Pact troops'...

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Hawkes' impressive 50-year academic career. Author: Dean HawkesISBN-10: 0367537168ISBN-13: 9780367537166Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2023Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.40d

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning is a basic, embodied level of human cognition. Author: Ole MöystadISBN-10: 0367331918ISBN-13: 9780367331917Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space instead offers a unique analysis of Le Corbusier's contributions to urban planning. The public spaces in Le Corbusier's plans are usually considered to break with...

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores Ruskin's different ideologies, such as the adorned wall veil, which were instrumental in...

Based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork, this book describes how various governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger and the Republic of the Congo, showing how this engagement produces problematizations of 'the modern', which ultimately...

A highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture--the preparation of meals and the production of space.The contributors to this highly original collection of essays explore the relationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examining...

Fables of content and undoing on the current state of architecture.In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for architectural...

Simon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the Situationist International left behind.Author: Simon SadlerISBN-10: 0262692252ISBN-13: 9780262692250Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/1999Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 8.10h x 7.76w x 0.58d

An investigation of the social, spatial, and material reality of right-wing populism.Para-Platforms investigates the social, spatial, and material reality of right-wing populism. Three case studies--presented in a symposium organized by Markus Miessen at the Gothenburg Design Festival in November 2017--form the core from which...

This book is born out of a sense of scepticism with self-indulgence in architecture. It seeks a new prescription for readdressing architecture as an expression of human need. Sense, Sagacity and the Sublime define the architectural realities of its organizing principle, while Gods and...

This handsome collection of 30 congenial, livable houses will be an invaluable resource for those considering building a house and an inspiration to all who admire good design."White's project descriptions are lucid, brief and hype-free, and they come stocked with floor plans. He describes...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

""A History of Architecture for the Student, Craftsman, and Amateur: Being a Comparative View of the Historical Styles, from the Earliest Period"" is a comprehensive guide to the evolution of architecture from its earliest beginnings to the late 19th century. Written by Banister Fletcher...

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into its discourse?Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect dwell in architecture, this book traces such refrains...

The work of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Hans van der Laan (1904-1991) offers important insights into the ways in which artifacts address the complexity of human physical, cognitive, and social needs. Van der Laan developed a number of powerful lines of thought,...

The Saskatchewan cultural and historical mosaic is reflected in homes, workplaces, schools, universities and religious buildings.Produced in cooperation with The Saskatchewan Architectural Heritage Society (SAHS), Building Our Future is an historical account that researches not just monuments, but also the history of individuals to...

This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA).Author: Louise J. Ravelli,Robert J. McMurtrieISBN-10: 1138499110ISBN-13: 9781138499119Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2018Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Paris Under Construction explores the social, political and cultural responses to construction work and urban transformation in Paris during the 1960s, arguing for the need to place social interaction and collaboration at the heart of the design and construction of cities.Author: Jacob PaskinsISBN-10: 0815381956ISBN-13:...

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: 0415360315ISBN-13: 9780415360319Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2007Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Author: Elizabeth R. MacaulayISBN-10: 1009407104ISBN-13: 9781009407106Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2026Pages: 406Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.74lbsSize: 9.64h x 6.78w x 0.67d