The Global Architect

Firms, Fame and Urban Form

By Donald McNeill

The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95641-3 (Routledge)

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The Possibility of (an) Architecture

Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects

By Mark Goulthorpe

Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77495-6 (Routledge)

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The Evolution of Designs

Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

By Philip Steadman

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings....

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44753-9 (Routledge)

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Islam

From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul

By Christopher Tadgell

This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43609-0 (Routledge)

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Postcolonial African Cities

Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

Edited by Fassil Demissie

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of...

January 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45448-3 (Routledge)

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Visualizing the City

Edited by Alan Marcus, Dietrich Neumann

This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination with...

January 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41971-0 (Routledge)

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Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt

Supercrit #1

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43412-6 (Routledge)

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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas

Supercrit #2

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43414-0 (Routledge)

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Architecture and the 'Special Relationship'

The American Influence on Post-War British Architecture

By Murray Fraser, with Joe Kerr

With particular reference to the field of architecture, this text examines the economic and political consequences for Britain of the post-war Anglo-American 'special relationship', providing...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-419-20910-2 (Routledge)

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Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

By Christopher Hight

A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-38482-7 (Routledge)

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