(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241415030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Alain de Botton
ISBN: 9780241970058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What makes a house truly beautiful Why are many new houses so ugly Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved This book explores one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Robert Bevan
ISBN: 9781780235974
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Now available in an expanded 2nd Edition, this is a polemical account of the destruction of architecture in war.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Abel
ISBN: 9780719096129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Refuting popular concepts of the self as separate beings, the author proposes a new theory of the extended self as a product of the coevolution of humankind and technology, comprising both social and material elements
(Paperback)
By: Cruz Garcia
ISBN: 9780760393802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2025
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Architectureis a convenient and portable reference for students, practitioners, and educators who seek to broaden and improve their understanding of and expertise in architecture.
(Hardback)
By: Timothy Hyde
ISBN: 9780691179162
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Jeremy Melvin
ISBN: 9781912217236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: WAI Architecture Think Tank
ISBN: 9780760380611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2023
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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Universal Principles of Architecture is a concise, visual introduction to 100 of the most fundamental elements of architecture.
(Paperback)
By: Kim Dovey
ISBN: 9781350175457
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Drawing on examples from cities around the world, this book introduces and explores a range of key concepts to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of urban design.
(Paperback)
By: Colin McFarlane
ISBN: 9781839760549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Verso Books
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Sanitation is fundamental to urban public life and health. We need Sanitation for All.
(Paperback)
By: Hlne Frichot
ISBN: 9781350236776
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Mark Foster Gage
ISBN: 9780262547710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Denis Hollier
ISBN: 9780262581134
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1992
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Against Architecture offers the first serious interpretation of this challenging thinker, spelling out the profoundly original and radical nature of Bataille's work.
(Paperback)
By: Malcolm McCullough
ISBN: 9780262528399
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Jean-Pierre Chupin
ISBN: 9781350343627
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Ray Lucas
ISBN: 9781474241496
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dana Arnold
ISBN: 9780719099502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This well-illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Combining original archival material with cultural theory, the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in the visual ekphrasis or description of its architecture.
(Hardback)
By: Dana Arnold
ISBN: 9780719099496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This well-illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Combining original archival material with cultural theory, the book considers the idea of the past and the role of space and time in the visual ekphrasis or description of its architecture.
(Paperback)
By: Hilde Heynen
ISBN: 9780262581899
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Besides presenting a theoretical discussion of the relation between architecture, modernity, and dwelling, the book provides architectural students with an introduction to the discourse of critical theory.
(Paperback)
By: Professor Peter Blundell Jones
ISBN: 9781472577481
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Peter Blundell Jones
ISBN: 9781472577474
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Alberto Prez-Gmez
ISBN: 9780262660556
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1985
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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This important book, which won the 1984 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, traces the process by which the mystical and numerological grounds for the use of number and geometry in building gave way to the more functional and technical ones that prevail in architectural theory and practice today.
(Paperback)
By: Manfredo Tafuri
ISBN: 9780262700207
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1979
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Architecture and Utopia leads the reader beyond architectural form into a broader understanding of the relation of architecture to society and the architect to the workforce and the marketplace.
(Paperback)
By: Kojin Karatani
ISBN: 9780262611138
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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In Architecture as Metaphor, Kojin Karatani detects a recurrent "will to architecture" that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics.
