Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

By Richard Wittman

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

Landscapes of Taste

The Art of Humphry Repton's Red Books

By André Rogger

Humphry Repton’s Red Books have long been the subject of scholarly interest for their unique contribution to British landscape discourse around 1800. Lavishly illustrated with...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

Topophilia and Topophobia

Reflections on Twentieth-Century Human Habitat

Edited by Xing Ruan, Paul Hogben

What distinguishes human habitat is not the size and complexity of our buildings but our ability to reflect on what we do and our ambivalence...

Published November 20th 2007 by Routledge.

To Scale

One Hundred Urban Plans

By Eric Jenkins

How big is Moscow’s Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there less public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might be...

Published November 15th 2007 by Routledge.

Digitalia

Architecture and the Digital, the Environmental and the Avant-Garde

By Susannah Hagan

Susannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.

Digitalia firstly demonstrates that...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

Market Towns

Roles, challenges and prospects

By Neil Powe, Trevor Hart, Tim Shaw

Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

The East

Buddhists, Hindus and the Sons of Heaven

By Christopher Tadgell

Continuing the Architecture in Context series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent...

Published November 6th 2007 by Routledge.

Indefensible Space

The Architecture of the National Insecurity State

Edited by Michael Sorkin

Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

From Models to Drawings

Imagination and Representation in Architecture

Edited by Marco Frascari, Jonathan Hale, Bradley Starkey

This edited collection addresses the vital role of the imagination in the critical interpretation of architectural representations. By challenging the contemporary tendency for computer-aided drawings...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

Irigaray for Architects

By Peg Rawes

Specifically for architects, the third title in the Thinkers for Architects series examines the relevance of Luce Irigaray’s work for architecture. Eight thematic chapters explore...

Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge.