Theory of Architecture Books

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1. Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The architecture of professional hospitality

   Edited by Anne Massey, Tom Avermaete

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-49653-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou: Supercrit #3

   Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

   The SuperCrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and explores how they have influenced the way we think and design today. Featuring groundbreaking examples, these books bring together description and debate from archival sources, original press...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-45786-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette: Supercrit #4

   Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

   The SuperCrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and explores how they have influenced the way we think and design today. Featuring groundbreaking examples, these books bring together description and debate from archival sources, original press...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-45788-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Spatial Agency: Other ways of Doing Architecture

   By Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, Nishat Awan

   The book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57193-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Derrida for Architects

   By Richard Coyne

   Looking afresh at the implications of Jacques Derrida’s thinking for architecture, this book simplifies his ideas in a clear, concise way. Derrida‘s treatment of key philosophical texts has been labelled as "deconstruction," a term that resonates with architecture. Although his main focus is...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-59179-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

   By William Taylor, Michael Levine

   This book describes and accounts for new opportunities for ethical reflection in architecture and adjacent design practices. Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, it explores the possibilities for ethical speculation across their disciplines and...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58972-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow-Food for the Architect's Imagination

   By Marco Frascari

   This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture. The text identifies the inauguration of architectural theory within the craftsmanship of...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-77926-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation: The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture

   By Tahl Kaminer

   Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-57824-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis

   By Letizia Modena

   This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-88038-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. City Reader

    Edited by Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout

    The fifth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new selections by Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry,...

    January 2011 | 978-0-415-55665-1 | Paperback (Routledge)