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Practice
Architecture, Technique and Representation, 2nd Edition
Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77625-7 (Routledge)
Nordic Architects Write
A Documentary Anthology
This anthology gathers together for the first time the most influential architectural texts from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. Many of the…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46352-2 (Routledge)
To Scale
One Hundred Urban Plans
How big is Moscow’s Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there fewer public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95400-6 (Routledge)
The Green City
Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs
A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37231-2 (Routledge)
Understanding Architecture
2nd Edition
Understanding Architecture gives the first ever all-inclusive introduction to architecture and architectural history. Exceptional in its approach, it explores architecture as a current practice in… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32059-7 (Routledge)
The Emergence of Modern Architecture
A Documentary History, from 1000 to 1810
A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26025-1 (Routledge)
Shaping the City
Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design
Taking on important themes and debates in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26189-0 (Routledge)
Constructing Place
Mind and the Matter of Place-Making
This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31466-4 (Routledge)
Modernism and the Spirit of the City
Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25841-8 (Routledge)
Writing Spaces
Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism and the Built Environment, 1960–2000
Writing Spaces examines some of the most important discourses in spatial theory of the last four decades, and considers their impact within the built environment… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27493-7 (Routledge)
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