Arts / Architecture / Critiques

@home: Another Revolution in Architecture's Theory of the House

de Davina Jackson & Hugo Muecke

A 'time capsule' of perspectives (written in the mid 1990s and first published 2012) on how traditional architectural theories about homes and domestic life would be radically altered by mass market access to...

Foucault for Architects

de Gordana Fontana-Giusti

From the mid-1960s onwards Michel Foucault has had a significant impact on diverse aspects of culture, knowledge and arts including architecture and its critical discourse.?The implications for architecture...

Rethinking Architectural Technology

de William W. Braham & Jonathan A. Hale

This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the recent literature on architecture and technology....

Perspective, Projections and Design: Technologies of Architectural Representation

de Mario Carpo & Frédérique Lemerle

The essays selected for this book, presented in chronological order, discuss various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on...

The Politics of Making

de Mark Swenarton, Igea Troiani & Helena Webster

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 perspective

Taking a broad view...

Rethinking Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design

de Ritu Bhatt

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...

Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory

de Ariane Lourie Harrison

As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the Anthropocene, marks humans as...

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan

de Michael Sorkin

Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn’t in a hurry, and he never ignores his...

The Architecture of Control: A Contribution to the Critique of the Science of Apparatuses

de Grant Vetter

Grant Vetter develops an entirely new lexicon for analyzing architectural power in the twenty first century.

The Architecture of Happiness

de Alain De Botton

The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of...

How Architects Write

de Tom Spector & Rebecca Damron

This is the first writing reference book for designers. Whether you're an architect, landscape architect, interior designers, or an industrial designer How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of...

Aesthetics beyond the Arts: New and Recent Essays

de Arnold Berleant

The essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture;...

Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

de Jyoti Hosagrahar

This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges...

The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment

de Samir Younés

When architects judge the success or failure of a building, the range of ways and criteria which can be used for this evaluation causes many contentious and discordant arguments. Proposing that the increase...

Introducing Architectural Theory: Debating a Discipline

de Korydon Smith

This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject - such as tectonics, use, and site - as though it were a conversation across history...

Modern Architecture Through Case Studies 1945 to 1990

de Peter Blundell Jones & Eamonn Canniffe

Once again, new interpretations are presented of some of the most famous architecture of the period. Work by lesser-known architects, whose influence and role have been overlooked by conventional histories of...

Constructing Community: Configurations of the Social in Contemporary Philosophy and Urbanism

de Brian Elliott

Constructing Community is a provocative and original analysis of the question of urban politics in contemporary liberal democracies.This book examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping...

Pink Fits: Australian Perspectives on Architecture 1993=2006

de Davina Jackson & King Simeon

Twenty perspectives on trans-millennial architecture by Australian writer Davina Jackson.

Paolo Portoghesi Architect

de Paolo Portoghesi & Francesca Gottardo

Portoghesi's architecture - so focused on the diversity of sites, attentive to the needs and desires of its inhabitants and brimming with references to tradition and different fields of artistic expression -...

House Museums in Italy

de Rosanna Pavoni

A journey across the country to discover the simple houses and splendid royal palaces chosen from amongst the many stately homes and mansions Italy has to offer. Houses selected not only for their beauty or...