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Modern Architectural Theoryby Harry Mallgrave
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 43.00Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere. more...
German Architecture for a Mass Audienceby Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Routledge 2000; US$ 62.95This book illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. more...
Architecturally Speakingby Alan Read
Routledge 2000; US$ 59.95Architecturally Speaking is an international collection of essays by leading architects, artists and theorists of locality and space. This book will appeal to urbanists, geographers, artists, architects and cultural historians. more...
The Seven Lamps of Architectureby John Ruskin
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a book that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lamps of Architecture, it was far more than a treatise on the Gothic style; instead, it elaborated Ruskin?s deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. The book was published to immediate acclaim and has since become an acknowledged classic. more...
Gender Space Architectureby Jane Rendell; Barbara Penner; Iain Borden
Routledge 1999; US$ 69.95This significant text brings together for the first time the most important essays concerning the intersecting subjects of gender, space and architecture. more...
Proportionby Richard Padovan
Spon Press 1999; US$ 79.95This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture. more...
Ethics and the Built Environmentby Warwick Fox
Routledge 2000; US$ 43.95International contributors debate ethics in the built environment in all its forms. Will be of interest to architects, students of building and building design, environmentalists, politicians and readers with a general interest in ethics. more...
Framing Placesby Kim Dovey
Routledge 1999; US$ 62.95Framing Places investigates how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power. It is an account of how our lives are "framed" within the clusters of rooms, streets and cities we inhabit. more...
Dimensions of Sustainabilityby Andrew MIT Scott
Spon Press 1998; US$ 100.95The edited summary of twelve key presentations at an International Design Symposium held at MIT, this book presents an important collection of contributions from key designers in the field of environmentally conscious buildings. more...
Courts of Pre-Colonial South Indiaby Jennifer Howes
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 190.00An investigation of how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space. more...