Critical Architecture

Edited by Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Mark Dorrian, Murray Fraser

Critical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to...

Published September 4th 2007 by Routledge.

Cafes and Bars

The Architecture of Public Display

Edited by Christoph Grafe, Franziska Bollerey

The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt...

Published August 21st 2007 by Routledge.

Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces

The Architecture of Seduction

Edited by David Vernet, Leontine de Wit

Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and...

Published August 15th 2007 by Routledge.

Landscape and Sustainability

Edited by John Benson, Maggie Roe

This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape...

Published August 9th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

The Environmental Imagination

Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment

By Dean Hawkes

This title, from a well-regarded and established expert, explores the changing relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. Working...

Published August 8th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

The Practice of Modernism

Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972

By John R. Gold

In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning...

Published June 14th 2007 by Routledge.

Designing Australia's Cities

Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900 – 1930

By Robert Freestone

Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a highly visual account of historical,...

Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge.

Antiquity

Origins, Classicism and the New Rome

By Christopher Tadgell

The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its...

Published May 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

The Ludic City

Exploring the Potential of Public Spaces

By Quentin Stevens

This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of...

Published April 16th 2007 by Routledge.

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2

The Environmental Assessment Methods

Edited by Mark Deakin, Gordon Mitchell, Peter Nijkamp, Ron Vreeker

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical...

Published April 5th 2007 by Routledge.