Architecture Design & Theory Books

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1. Fiction, Image, Tone: The Metropolis and the Realisation of Architecture

   By Raymond Quek

   Offering students a unique opportunity to understand architecture’s place in arts and indeed how architecture could strive to offer the ultimate synthesis of the arts, this book makes essential reading for any individual studying the theory, philosophy or history of architecture....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-49293-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades

   By Jules Moloney

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-61034-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Urban Design: The Composition of Complexity

   By Ron Kasprisin

   For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened. Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59147-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Computer Aided Design Guide for Architecture, Engineering and Construction

   By Ghassan Aouad, Angela Lee, Song Wu

   Recent years have seen major changes in the approach to computer aided design (CAD) in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) sector. CAD is increasingly becoming a standard design tool, facilitating lower development costs and a reduced design cycle. Not only does it allow a...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-49507-3 | Paperback (Spon Press)

5. Performalism: Form and Performance in Digital Architecture

   Edited by Yasha Grobman, Eran Neuman

   Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer "liberated? architecture from the tyranny of the...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58361-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou: Supercrit #3

   Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

   Supercrit 3 Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou addresses the Centre Pompidou which set the tone for the subsequent and distinguished line of Grands Projects that were commissioned and built in Paris during the 1980s and 1990s. Highly illustrated this innovative text is an invaluable...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-45786-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette: Supercrit #4

   Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

   Supercrit #4 Bernard Tschumi: Parc de la Villette addresses the Parc de la Villette, a groundbreaking public space with art installations. Supported by an extensive illustrated section this innovative text is an invaluable resource for any architect student and an inspiring record of this...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-45788-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Around and About Stock Orchard Street

   Edited by Sarah Wigglesworth

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57529-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow-Food for the Architect's Imagination

   By Marco Frascari

   This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture. The text identifies the inauguration of architectural theory within the craftsmanship of...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-77926-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

    By Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, Nishat Awan

    The book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice. At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-57193-7 | Paperback (Routledge)