Architectural Theory

Offering critical assessment in the face of major social and environmental issues of today, seventeen original contributions address the relevance of architectural theory in the contemporary world from various perspectives, including but not limited to: politics, gender, representation, race, environmental crisis, and history.

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory charged spatial experiences.

From the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism, this book explores the exciting role of colour in the world of architecture.

This is the first comprehensive study of the history of environmental thinking in architecture at any major institution globally.

In this lavishly illustrated text, Patrik Schumacher, a world-leading architectural theorist and principal architect with Zaha Hadid Architects, provides a comprehensive analysis on tectonism as evolving into the new architecture for the 21st century.

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It's a study of architecture and urbanism as cultural activity that both reflects and gives shape to our social relations, public institutions and political processes.

The study of the architectural discipline suffers an increasing disconnect between its teaching and its professional practice. In this edited collection, eighteen architectural voices address this disconnect by reflecting on the ways in which they exercise the architectural discipline in three ways: research, teaching, and practice.