This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners to share knowledge on growth, new technologies, and the environment. It will appeal to academics, professionals, and students in urban design, planning, architecture, and engineering.
This book addresses various aspects of tourism development, from sustainability to alternative products. Featuring practical case studies from a wide range of countries, it is useful for academics and practitioners seeking to update their current knowledge.
Unbounded
Technology and diverse cultures are challenging the traditional boundaries between interior and exterior, private and public. This book explores the shifting understanding of the interior through global case studies of real and virtual places.
Doctoral Education in Architecture
Doctoral Education in Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities deals with a topic on which there is currently little literature available. Containing data from a pilot study and contributions on European schools, this volume provides insight for future challenges.
PERCEPTION in Architecture
Definitions of space are often simplified, denying access to ‘new spaces’. This volume brings together contributions by academics, artists, and architects to reflect upon new spatial concepts and access ‘new spaces’ of perception in architecture.
Harbour cities are revitalizing abandoned port districts to create a new “face”. This book explores the opportunities and challenges of waterfront regeneration, from Western Europe to the Mediterranean, through a wide range of international case studies.
These essays investigate the influences of 20th-century political and social ideologies on the urban development and architecture of various European cities. Written by European professors, researchers, and practitioners for professionals and students alike.
Surface and Deep Histories
This volume positions surface in architecture within the scholarship of critical theory and design-based approaches, and invites academics and designers, and art and architectural historians based in Australia to consider the uses, figurations, scales, and typologies of surfaces.
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
This book re-reads the historiography of early modern architecture through post-war theory. It examines architectural history’s autonomy from art history, offering a critical understanding of the canon established by Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion.
Urban Design
This book defines and analyzes three types of continuity in urban planning and design: urban conservation, cultural tourism, and persistencies of form. It cites international examples from the author’s work, illustrated with numerous original drawings.
Evolving Transcendentalism in Literature and Architecture
This book shows how architects Frank Furness, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright read Transcendentalists like Emerson and Whitman and transformed their philosophy into physical substance. It is the first to analyze their iconic work from this perspective.
This book examines the psycho-social factors of depression in the elderly: sudden retirement, loss, poverty, and social isolation. It will appeal to professionals and families willing to help their ageing relatives avoid depression.
MIMED Forum IV
This book explores the vital debate on flexibility in architectural education. As globalization risks making curricula uniform, a critical question arises: If the discipline’s autonomous nature resists, how will this occur and what will the impact be?
Rediscovering the Hindu Temple
This volume examines the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban form. Going beyond stereotypes, this study reveals the temple as a complex cultural entity: both monumental and modest, historic and modern, and deserving of a far deeper understanding.
Housing the Environmental Imagination
For writers like Thoreau, Jeffers, and Snyder, the writing project is inseparable from the living project. This book examines how their houses shaped their work, asking a larger question: How shall we live the best lives we can, every day?
Architecture
The author’s writings are based on his 1968 Yale University lecture series, “Architecture: The Making of Metaphors”.
Compelling Form
Compelling Form argues that architecture is as capable of social influence as speeches or advertisements. The book demonstrates how the visual design of diverse structures—from cathedrals to skyscrapers—affects the viewer and has lasting social impact.
Theorising the Project
This book explores a thematic approach to architectural design. It argues design is not the expression of meaning, but the framing of strategic conditions for emergent sense. For students and practitioners, it offers a framework to widen their creative scope.
This book helps students and professionals understand the language of architecture and civil engineering and improve their linguistic skills. It includes practical exercises, a compilation of technical terms, and is written in an accessible yet rigorous style.
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
A critical re-reading of early modern architectural history. Through post-war theory, this book unpacks the canon of Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion, extending the critical historiography of Frampton and Tafuri.