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This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. The... Læs mere
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This book examines the theoretical work of one of the most important architects of early modern Europe. Wren posited a new version of the origins and... Læs mere
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Originally published in 1976, The Architecture of Form is a collection of fourteen contributions by ten authors towards a quantitative approach to architectural design. This... Læs mere
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In this book, first published in 1958, Mr Scholfield deals with the history of the theory of proportion, and in doing so develops his own positive theory, which reconciles the apparent contradictions of rival systems and serves as a key to historical understanding.
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Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s, which are particularly relevant in the light of Postmodernism's demise.
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Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space investigates the relationship between the built environment and the... Læs mere
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This 1994 book explores theories of construction in modern architecture, in particular the relationship between... Læs mere
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Oechslin considers the origins of 'tectonics', the term used to articulate the relationship between construction structure, and architectural... Læs mere
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Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome examines methods and techniques that enabled builders to construct some of the most imposing monuments of ancient Rome. Focusing on structurally innovative vaulting and the factors that influenced its advancement.
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This study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there.
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In this 2004 book, Leslie Topp investigates how 'truth' in Viennese architecture at the turn of the twentieth century could be interpreted in a variety of ways, including truth to purpose, symbolist or ideal truth, and ethical notions of authenticity.
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In this ground-breaking study the traditional Indian science of architecture and house-building, Vatsu Vidya, is explored in terms of its secular uses, at the levels of both theory and contemporary practice.