Architecture

This book is the first step along the path for rural design to emerge as an important new design discipline. Rural Design: A New Design Discipline establishes the theoretical base for rural design and the importance of looking at connecting issues to create synergy and optimal solutions from a global, national, state, region, and local perspective.

This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text.

This book brings together an international group of scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design to reappraise mid-twentieth century modern life, offering a timely reassessment of culture and the economic and political effects on civilian life.

Architect, Randy Deutsch “highly recommend(s)” Andrew Pressman’s new book, "Designing Architecture: The Elements of Process" (published December 2011) on his blog, architects2zebras.com, describing Pressman’s writing as “top-rate” and his books as “all extremely readable, entertaining and especially important in our field, accessible”. Please click here to read the full review.

The book investigates the subject of urban ecology from the perspective of architectural design, engaging its definition at multiple levels, the biological, the informational and the social. The book has two main goals – to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational design protocols developed to describe the city as a territory of self-organization, a new kind of emergent "real-time world-city". Structured in the form of a manual, the authors draw on nearly a decade of design experiments from their ecoLogicStudio practice.
 

The dwelling is the most fundamental building type, nowhere more so than in the open landscape.

This book can be read in a number of ways. It is first a book about houses and particularly the theme ‘dwelling and the land’. It examines the poetic and prosaic issues inherent in claiming a piece of the landscape to live on.

A comprehensive study of the sacred buildings built and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this book offers scholarly discussion with analytical drawings and photographs.

Did you know that Routledge offers books in earth-friendly electronic editions? Many of our titles are also available to course instructors as complimentary e-inspection copies. Click here to find out more!

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Fran Ford and Wendy Fuller
Architecture Editors
 

We teamed up with Footprint in December to offer readers three free copies of Traditional Construction for a Sustainable Future by Carol Ryan. The winners were: Andrew Goodman (Hertfordshire), Steven Phillips (Norfolk) and Dima Srouji (Greater London). Congratulations! To read more about this title, please visit the book's page on our website.

Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture by Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till (2011), was very positively reviewed on John Hill’s Weekly Dose of Architecture page on Archidose last month:

"Ultimately this is a valuable book for those interested in pursuing alternatives to traditional architecture, those searching for ideas about how to make positive change when other means are not available, and for those gauging the state of architecture today." Read more >

Hill highlighted this title as a favorite, and also featured it in his list of Notable Books of 2011 on his Designers & Books page.