This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality. It offers a spatial-psychoanalytical reading of virtual reality (VR), examining how...Daugiau...
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, from the 1935 to the 1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts, and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of moder...Daugiau...
This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453. It focuses on how the conquest is remembered by Islamist-nationalist imagination in Turkey today and how architecture plays a role in shaping th...Daugiau...
Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America is a coauthored book that examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cul...Daugiau...
This volume emphasizes the significance of Professor Amos Rapoports lifelong scholarship. Scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced unde...Daugiau...
How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigmslike fair, right, goodconvey different meanings? Delving in...Daugiau...
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives. It uses simultaneous narrat...Daugiau...
This book connects Frank Lloyd Wrights organic theory with his pursuit of beauty, presenting a path for the recovery of beauty in architecture. This book connects Frank Lloyd Wrights organic theory with his pursuit of beaut...Daugiau...
The book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It a...Daugiau...
This book, first published in Finnish in 1985 under the title Aalto, is a critical introduction to Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), written by one of Aaltos Finnish architectural contemporaries, Kirmo Mikkola (1934-1986). The book is di...Daugiau...
As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropiuss activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Bauhaus founders contributions to architecture and design while living in London between 1934-37....Daugiau...
This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregottis projects and works, but rather a historical-critical analysis of his peculiar figure. Like a few others, Gregotti embodied the model of the architect-intellectual that characterised post-war Italia...Daugiau...
This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and profe...Daugiau...
Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers. Experimental Visualization in Archit...Daugiau...
A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987 provides a comprehensive survey of architectural projects exhibiting intelligence since the Late First Century right up to the...Daugiau...
This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaa...Daugiau...
This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize winning Portuguese architect Įlvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life. It combines philosophical hermeneutics, narrative textual descriptio...Daugiau...
The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of architecture histories, working toward the theme of critical re-writing of history. The c...Daugiau...
This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (1949-1976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of the Cultural Revolution from 1969 to 1976. This book investigates the architectural history...Daugiau...
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion. This...Daugiau...
