Criticism

• Examines architecture that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred • All chapters are based on original archival studies, historical documents, and field visits to the sites and buildings • A stellar group of scholars and...

The business of architecture - shaped by anti-trust legislation and pro-corporate governmental policies - has created an extractive, inequitable, and precarious environment for its practitioners. These pressures have led many small firms, which make up...

• Edited by the leading academics in this area with contributions by internationally recognised scholars, professional architects, as well as several early career academics. • Chapters inspire imaginative architectural thinking and can be used to help...

This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings ​and bodies contribute to this. Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses...

Architecture Constructed explores the central, open secret of architecture: the long-suppressed conflict between arche and teckton—between those who design, and those who build. This unresolved tension has a centuries-old history in the discipline,...

Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline's repertoire. The book determines the screen's conditions of possibility by critically asking not what a screen means, but...

Presents a compelling argument for the still latent potential in modern architecture’s traditions and design principles and its future trajectory.Examines influential built and unbuilt projects of Le Corbusier, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, John Hejduk,...

Beautiful artist's book about Tin Drum's MR installation, Medusa. A meditation on emergent technologies, nature and architecture amidst the climate crisis with contributions from celebrated writers, academics and thinkers. The mixed reality Medusa...

Reflects upon the representation of modern architecture in children’s books internationally. Twelve essays from authors in: UK, Austria, Italy, France, Australia, Colombia, Venezuela, USA and Sweden. Reveals the stories which are told about modern...

Investigates postmodern architecture’s manifestations in the unlikely settings of Chile during the neoliberal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Poland during the late socialist Polish People’s Republic. Argues for a new account that incorporates the...

Designing Cultures of Care brings together an international selection of design researchers who, through a variety of design approaches, explore the ways in which design intersects with cultures of care. Unique in its focus and disciplinary diversity,...

In 2020, the Covid pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, causing unprecedented disruption worldwide, architects and designers began rethinking how to design cities...

This book reveals the 'Epistemic Imposition' of architectural ideas and practices by colonists from the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies from the late-19th century onwards, exploring the ways in which this came to shape the profession up to the...

The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family...

There are highly fragmented urban wildernesses remaining and scattering in rapidly urbanized and exceedingly industrialized cities, ranging from crevices along sidewalks to large areas of isolated forests. Although differing in scales with the natural...

Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the 'naked power' behind its operation. It conforms to principles of cultural logic of the society of spectacle, consistent with neoliberal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800081345Author Stylianos GiamarelosFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 156g

This book brings together a diverse group of theoreticians to explore architectural theory as a discipline, assessing its condition and relevance to contemporary practice. Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment. Since the turn of the 21st century, “design thinking” has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines. It is expected...

The 'Storming of the Capitol' was, for many, the culminating media performance of the four-year presidency of Donald Trump. His Presidency and it's 'final act', bore all the hallmarks of a 21st century form of populism and media-politico spectacle that...

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.In Art et...

Based on the eponymous symposium and exhibition, Fulfilled: Architecture, Excess, and Desire considers the role of architecture in a culture shaped by the excessive manufacturing and assuagement of desire. Until the term became synonymous with Amazon...

Based on aspects arising from architectural work and academic teaching, this essay addresses the wide-ranging issues involved with innovatively integrating sustainability into architecture. It presents five theoretical questions concerning the underlying...

Franziska Wittmann researches at the Chair of Gion A. Caminada on approaches to natural physical laws and physiological factors in architecture. Instead of focusing on the creation of physical constellations through architecture, her work investigates...

A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment Disability critiques of architecture usually emphasize the need for modification and increased access, but The Architecture of Disability calls for a radical...

Since early times, humans have explored the space below their feet for different purposes: to flee persecution and war, to find protection from severe climates, to improve urban life -- and more recently, to solve environmental problems. A rare look at...

In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked "Why Is Dallas Architecture So Bad?" Over the next quarter century, he offered readers of the Dallas Morning News a vision of how good...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787353718Author Stamatis ZografosFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 370g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945150968Author Chin JungkownFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Actar PublishersPublisher Actar PublishersWeight(grams) 285g

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect, academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary...

• Edited by the leading academics in this area with contributions by internationally recognised scholars, professional architects, as well as several early career academics. • Chapters inspire imaginative architectural thinking and can be used to help...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545464Author Ethan ZissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 229g

Never before have so many buildings been constructed as they are today, and never has architecture had so many technolog-ical and design possibilities at its disposal. And yet there is a sense of unease about contemporary architecture. The authors of...

Imagine a world where the power is always on, where there is not just enough energy, but an abundance of it. Such a world is no Utopia, it is a possible reality. Using indefinitely available sources of energy - especially photovoltaic solar, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981665832Author Carlo AielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint EvoloPublisher Evolo

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929112466Author Brian CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint Tuns PressPublisher Tuns Press

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and...

How does one envision architecture? Forays gathers the work of Joe Day and Deegan-Day Design into six diptychs, unified by this question. Working in a wide range of media and scales, Day's work mines the differentials between perspective and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500500286Author LyonsFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954081093Author Kongjian YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Oro EditionsPublisher Oro EditionsWeight(grams) 279g