Theory of architecture
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Theory of architecture
Paperback. Composed of ten essays and an epilogue that trace the history of contemporary form as an evolving poetic of structure and construction, the book's analytical framework rests on Frampton's close readings of key French and German, and English sources from the eighteenth century to the present. Num Pages: 448 pages, 485 illus. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1452.
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780262561495
- ISBN
- 9780262561495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.11€ 36.95
€ 52.11
€ 36.95
Hardcover. The building has been totally restored for the 125th anniversary of the Museum's opening in 1876. Containing text in English and German, this book aims to reveal the various historic layers of this building. Series: OPUS. Num Pages: 72 pages, 65 illus. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1DFG; AMA; AMB; AMG; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 285 x 12. Weight in Grams: 892.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783930698455
- ISBN
- 9783930698455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.49
€ 31.99
€ 23.49
Hardback. Style and Creativity in Design Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Num Pages: 345 pages, 64 black & white illustrations, 58 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AK; AMA; HPN; JMR; TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319140162
- ISBN
- 9783319140162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.78
€ 124.78
Paperback. This text aims to define the elements of early modernist architecture according to notions of realism and simplicity. Its critique of stylistic architecture is not only linked to the development of the Deutsche Werkbund movement, but also can be viewed as a cornerstone of the modern movement. Translator(s): Anderson, Stanford. Series: Texts & Documents. Num Pages: 208 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 259 x 192 x 11. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Getty Trust Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780892362837
- ISBN
- 9780892362837
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.88
€ 29.99
€ 21.88
Paperback. In this age of ever--increasing environmental awareness, the issue of sustainability is set to become the dominant factor in architectural design. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations (some colour) facsimiles, plans. BIC Classification: AMA; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 276 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1018.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471486602
- ISBN
- 9780471486602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.14
€ 55.14
Paperback. Exploring the social and cultural hierarchies established in 18th-century France, this volume illustrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the 18th-century. Num Pages: 262 pages, 112 halftones. BIC Classification: AMA; AMG; AMK; AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226220857
- ISBN
- 9780226220857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.89
€ 42.99
€ 32.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 76 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; AMA; AMX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 13. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415780766
- ISBN
- 9780415780766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.53
€ 70.53
Paperback. Advancing new relationships between architecture and nature, Territory emphasises the simultaneous production ofarchitectural objects and their surrounding environment. Series: Architectural Design. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 274 x 211 x 10. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 136
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470721650
- ISBN
- 9780470721650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.02
€ 39.02
The Active Image. Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling....
. Ed(S): Ammon, Sabine; Capdevila Werning, Re...
Hardback. Editor(s): Ammon, Sabine; Capdevila Werning, Remei. Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Num Pages: 122 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AF; AMA; HPN; TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319564654
- ISBN
- 9783319564654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.97
€ 144.97
Paperback. "Paperback reissue, with a new introduction by the author." Num Pages: 320 pages, 90 halftones. 1 musical example. BIC Classification: AMA; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- With a New introduction by the author
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158334
- ISBN
- 9780691158334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
€ 38.99
€ 28.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15 line art illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMA; AVGR; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816646616
- ISBN
- 9780816646616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.75
€ 29.99
€ 26.75
hardcover. Focuses on the various histories that intersect around and within the skyscraper. Editor(s): Moudry, Roberta. Num Pages: 298 pages, 89 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 28. Weight in Grams: 925.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521624213
- ISBN
- 9780521624213
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Paperback. Includes buildings that extend from the first examples of Australian architecture by convict architect Francis Greenway to the works by rising generation. This title covers many buildings by such famous architects as Walter Burley Griffin, Harry Seidler, Jorn Utzon, John Andrews, Philip Cox and Glenn Murcutt. Illustrator(s): Gragnato, Siegfried J. Editor(s): MacMahon, Bill. Num Pages: 256 pages, 455 illus. BIC Classification: 1MBFN; AMA; WTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Edition Axel Menges Germany
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783930698905
- ISBN
- 9783930698905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.51
€ 31.99
€ 23.51
Paperback. This richly detailed study explores the issue of how architects view the phenomenal world. Mallgrave sketches various moments of architectural thought as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory. He later repositions this question from the perspective of contemporary neuroscience. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470658253
- ISBN
- 9780470658253
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.74
€ 37.74
Hardback. This richly detailed study explores the issue of how architects view the phenomenal world. Mallgrave sketches various moments of architectural thought as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory. He later repositions this question from the perspective of contemporary neuroscience. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405195850
- ISBN
- 9781405195850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.51
€ 135.51
Paperback. Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 172 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1072.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470772980
- ISBN
- 9780470772980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.85
€ 54.85
Hardcover. Take a theoretical approach to architecture with The Autopoiesis of Architecture, which presents the topic as a discipline with its own unique logic. Architecture's conception of itself is addressed as well as its development within wider contemporary society. Num Pages: 478 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1212.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470772997
- ISBN
- 9780470772997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.51
€ 135.51
Paperback. Whereas the first volume of this set provides the intellectual groundwork for Schumacher's ideas, the second volume addresses the specific, contemporary challenges that architecture faces. It formulates these tasks, looking specifically at how architecture organizes and articulates the complexity of post-fordist network society. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 174 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1732.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 784
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470666166
- ISBN
- 9780470666166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.85
€ 54.85
Hardcover. Explores the contested territory between the state and corporate drive to 'securitise' urban space - and the principle of the city as a site for enacting open civil society, participatory democracy, and the freedom of speech and assembly. Editor(s): Simpson, Deane; Jensen, Vibeke; Rubing, Anders. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: AMA; AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 256 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1412.
- Publisher
- Birkhauser
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783035609707
- ISBN
- 9783035609707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 43.19
€ 44.99
€ 43.19
Paperback. Now available in an expanded 2nd Edition, this is a polemical account of the destruction of architecture in war. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AMA; AMX; HBG; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Expanded
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780235974
- ISBN
- 9781780235974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.91
€ 17.99
€ 13.91
Paperback. Explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture. Num Pages: 296 pages, 22 b/w photographs, 114 line illustrations, 2 music examples. BIC Classification: AMA; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422. 30th Anniversary Edition. 296 pages, illustrations. Explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: AMA; AMX. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight: 402.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520261259
- ISBN
- 9780520261259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.49
€ 38.99
€ 34.49
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 black & white halftones, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: AMA; AMVD; AMX; HPS; JPA; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 256 x 16. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138909854
- ISBN
- 9781138909854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.71€ 106.53
€ 173.71
€ 106.53
Hardback. First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. For every new intake of students studying Pallasmaa's classic text, The Eyes of the Skin provides a totally fresh understanding of architecture and a new set of insights. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119941286
- ISBN
- 9781119941286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.33
€ 37.99
€ 37.33
Paperback. Originally published in 1989, this book provides an English translation of a number of Gottfied Semper's published writings. Translator(s): Mallgrave, Harry Francis; Herrmann, Wolfgang. Series: RES Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 604. Series: RES Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics. 338 pages. Originally published in 1989, this book provides an English translation of a number of Gottfied Semper's published writings. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: AMA. Dimension: 253 x 175 x 19. Weight: 616. Translator(s): Mallgrave, Harry Francis; Herrmann, Wolfgang.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 338
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521180863
- ISBN
- 9780521180863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.17
€ 50.17