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Forthcoming Theory of Architecture Books

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  1. Climate Change and Cultural Heritage

    A Race against Time

    By Peter F. Smith

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

    History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate. More recently modern methods of warfare have exposed the vulnerability of the artefacts of civilisation. Bringing together a range of subjects - from science, energy and sustainability to aesthetics theory and civilization...

    To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Rationalist Reader

    Architecture and Rationalism in Western Europe 1920-1940 and 1960-1990

    Edited by Andrew Peckham, Torsten Schmiedeknecht

    The first reader to consolidate rationalism into an accessible primer, providing a survey of documents, invited contributions from leading theorists and an engaging and accessible editorial....

    To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Skins, Envelopes, and Enclosures

    Concepts for Designing Building Exteriors

    By Mayine Yu

    Integrate the best building envelope construction methods, materials science, and structural principles in your work using this book as a resource to help you… With more than seventy significant case studies located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia from prehistory to the present,...

    To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Use Matters

    An Alternative History of Architecture

    Edited by Kenny Cupers

    From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays...

    To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Theories of the Digital in Architecture

    Edited by Rivka Oxman, Robert Oxman

    A comprehensive volume exploring theories of the digital in architecture, highlighting important thematic connections across design, architecture, digital models, techniques and technologies....

    To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  6. Goodman for Architects

    By Remei Capdevila-Werning

    Series: Thinkers for Architects

    American philosopher Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) was one of the foremost analytical thinkers of the twentieth century, with groundbreaking contributions in the fields of logic, philosophy of science, epistemology, and aesthetics. This book is an introduction to the aspects of Goodman’s philosophy...

    To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  7. Landscape, Well-Being and Environment

    Edited by Richard Coles, Zoe Millman

    Well-being is now firmly established as an overarching theme of key concern to all professionals that work, manage or design the environment. However, well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue rooted in the ways that we encounter, perceive and interpret the environment. No single discipline...

    To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Culture, Architecture and Nature

    An Ecological Design Retrospective

    By Sim Van der Ryn

    Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that underpin Sim Van der Ryn’s ecological design philosophy. It offers a unique decade-by-decade retrospective of the key issues in environmental design,...

    To Be Published October 16th 2013 by Routledge

  9. The Territories of Identity

    Architecture in the Age of Evolving Globalisation

    Edited by Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, Guillermo Garma Montiel

    The expedited globalised process of exchange and new forms of cultural production have transformed old established notions of identity, calling into question their conceptual foundations. This book explores the spatial and representational dimension of this phenomenon, by addressing how the...

    To Be Published November 13th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence

    Edited by Ines Weizman

    Series: Critiques

    Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept of dissent within the architectural field. It expands the notion of dissidence to other similar practices and strategies of resistance, in a variety of...

    To Be Published November 13th 2013 by Routledge