Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America is a coauthored book that examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cul...Lasīt vairāk
This volume emphasizes the significance of Professor Amos Rapoports lifelong scholarship. Scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced unde...Lasīt vairāk
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narrat...Lasīt vairāk
Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, both through a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use tod...Lasīt vairāk
Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial pro...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and profe...Lasīt vairāk
Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers. Experimental Visualization in Archit...Lasīt vairāk
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings together essays by established and emerging scholars that discuss Pakistan, Turkey, and their diasporas in Europe. Together, the contributions show the scope of diverse artistic media, including architecture, painting, postcards,...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaa...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehns approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban lif...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations. Due to the historical c...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. This book investigates the architectural history...Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion. This...Lasīt vairāk
This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burford, Oxfordshire, in creating some of the foremost buildings of the 17th and early 18...Lasīt vairāk
Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architectures social, cultural and political di...Lasīt vairāk
This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India...Lasīt vairāk
The essays collected in this book offer a variety of critiques of the modernist idea of endless growth in the fields of architecture, literature, philosophy, and the history of science. They range in scope from studies of the history of modernity...Lasīt vairāk
Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Movement established the moral ethos of an architecture of care that not only remains embedded in curren...Lasīt vairāk
Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the disciplines repertoire. This book determines the screens conditions of possibility by critically asking not what a screen mea...Lasīt vairāk
