Mediating Modernism

Architectural Cultures in Britain

By Andrew Higgott

In this well illustrated volume, Andrew Higgott demonstrates how architectural books and journals have created twentieth century architectural culture in Britain.

Mediating Modernism discusses the publications,...

Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge.

Disclosing Horizons

Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

By Nicholas Temple

This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the...

Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.

Housing and Dwelling

Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

Edited by Barbara Miller Lane

Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth...

Published November 1st 2006 by Routledge.

Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture

Academia Eolia Revisited

Edited by Barbara Kenda

Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and...

Published October 24th 2006 by Routledge.

Crisis of the Object

The Architecture of Theatricality

By Gevork Hartoonian

Looking back over the twentieth century, Hartoonian discusses the work of three major architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi, in reference to their...

Published September 29th 2006 by Routledge.

Original Matters in Architecture

Edited by Jo Odgers, Flora Samuel, Adam Sharr

This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive.

The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture...

Published August 16th 2006 by Routledge.

Narrating Architecture

A Retrospective Anthology

Edited by James Madge, Andrew Peckham

This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first...

Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge.

Architecture in Words

Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

By Louise Pelletier

What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch...

Published May 5th 2006 by Routledge.

Immaterial Architecture

By Jonathan Hill

This fascinating argument from Jonathan Hill presents the case for the significance and importance of the immaterial in architecture.

Architecture is generally perceived as the solid,...

Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.

Interpretation in Architecture

Design as Way of Thinking

By Adrian Snodgrass, Richard Coyne

Drawing on cultural theory, phenomenology and concepts from Asian art and philosophy, this book reflects on the role of interpretation in the act of architectural...

Published December 1st 2005 by Routledge.