Theory of Architecture Books

New and Published Books

1. The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

   By John Shannon Hendrix

   Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Biographies & Space

   Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

   Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

   Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographical methods of historical...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Global Cities

   Edited by Peter Taylor, Jonathan Beaverstock, Ben Derudder, James Faulconbridge, John Harrison, Michael Hoyler, Kathy Pain, Frank Witlox

   Series: Critical Concepts in Urban Studies

   A striking consequence of contemporary globalization has been an increase in the importance and prestige of cities. Whereas only a generation or so ago cities were commonly viewed as ‘problems’, the sites of society’s ills, today they are more readily seen as ‘solutions’, places where twenty-first...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. Architectural Theories of the Environment

   Posthuman Territory

   Edited by Ariane Lourie Harrison

   As architects and designers, we struggle to reconcile ever increasing environmental, humanitarian, and technological demands placed on our projects. Our new geological era, the Anthropocene, marks humans as the largest environmental force on the planet and suggests that conventional anthropocentric...

   Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Cities and Photography

   By Jane Tormey

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. From Organisation to Decoration

   An Interiors Reader

   Edited by Graeme Brooker, Sally Stone

   From Organisation to Decoration: An Interiors Reader is a reader for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the theories, processes and principles of the aspects of the theory and practice of interior architecture, interior design and interior decoration. The book is divided into three...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Gadamer for Architects

   By Paul Kidder

   Series: Thinkers for Architects

   Providing a concise and accessible introduction to the work of the celebrated twentieth century German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer, this book focuses on the aspects of Gadamer’s philosophy that have been the most influential among architects, educators in architecture, and architectural...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Peripheries

   Edited by Ruth Morrow, Mohamed Abdelmonem

   Series: Critiques

   Architects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film making, post-disaster designs and slum management, as part of the architecture discourse and curriculum, is an indication of how broad architecture has become, and the extent...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Hotel Lobbies and Lounges

   The Architecture of Professional Hospitality

   Edited by Tom Avermaete, Anne Massey

   Series: Interior Architecture

   This series investigates the historical, theoretical and practical aspects of interiors. The volumes in the Interior Architecture series can be used as handbooks for the practitioner and as a critical introduction to the history of material culture and architecture. Hotels occupy a particular place...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Future Practice

    Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

    By Rory Hyde

    Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions of the design professions. Seventeen conversations with practitioners from the fields of...

    Published October 8th 2012 by Routledge