Recent Textbooks Articles

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   Design and Ethics (March 2012)

   This multi-disciplinary books considers how to create design which is at once aesthetically pleasing and also ethically considered, with contributions from fields as diverse as architecture, fashion, urban design and philosophy. The authors also address how to teach design based subjects while instilling a desire in the student to develop ethical work practices, both inside and outside the studio.
    

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   Rural Design

   This book is the first step along the path for rural design to emerge as an important new design discipline. Rural Design: A New Design Discipline establishes the theoretical base for rural design and the importance of looking at connecting issues to create synergy and optimal solutions from a global, national, state, region, and local perspective.

3. 

   Introducing Architectural Theory

   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 between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text.

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   Architecture and Climate

   Copiously illustrated with drawings and photographs, including a color plate section, this book brings a historical dimension to the appreciation of the environment in architecture and, equally, introduces an environmental dimension to the study of the history of architecture.
    

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   Exercises in Architecture

   This book offers student architects a series of exercises that will develop their capacity for doing architecture. Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture (third edition, Routledge, 2009) and demonstrated in his Twenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge, 2010). The three books taken together deal with the three aspects of learning: description, analysis of examples, and practice.

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   Review of “Spatial Agency” on Arquilecturas

   “Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture” by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till (2011) has received another positive review, this time on the Spanish website, Arquilecturas. Please click here to read the full review.

7. 

   Architecture Textbook Catalog

   The new 2011 Architecture Textbook Catalog is now available online - to view a copy click here

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   New and Key Textbooks in Architecture

   Routledge publish an unrivalled collection of books for architecture courses and students - below are a few of the new and best selling textbooks on the list. Click here to browse through the latest 2011 catalog

9. 

   Thinkers for Architects

   Our Series of the Month, Thinkers for Architects, is a "valuable addition to any studio space," says Architectural Record. Examining some of the most important, and most daunting philosophy of the 20th Century, Thinkers for Architects looks at the critical dialog on space, architecture, and experience in the built environment provided by leading lights of contemporary philosophy: Deleuze and Guattari, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and many others.