Intelligent Systems in Buildings
This book explores how intelligent systems can enhance the performance of the traditional courtyard house. It identifies key features of these homes and shows how knowledge of intelligent systems is crucial to fulfilling occupants’ needs.
The Architecture of Jens Fredrick Larson
After becoming an ace with the Royal Flying Corps, Jens Fredrick Larson became an architect for more than thirty-five colleges. This text explores his major projects and the challenges faced late in his career when Modernism denigrated and misunderstood the Georgian style.
In the Place of Sound
This book presents thirteen essays and seven graphic works from a conference of artists, researchers, and architects. The chapters explore the fraught relationship between sound and space, presenting a provocative collection of ideas and designs.
This volume is a selection of papers sharing knowledge on growth, new technologies, the environment, and the concept of the cognitive city. It will appeal to academics, professionals, governments, and NGOs in urban design, planning, engineering, and the social sciences.
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 teaching of architecture and urbanism is in crisis, unable to respond to current problems like the human right to housing. This book of essays by international experts presents historical analyses, manifestos, and new objectives to address the challenge.
This work offers a holistic approach to landscape, agriculture, forests, and natural sciences. Featuring research from 50 expert contributors, it’s an excellent starting point for anyone looking to learn more about these topics.
This book promotes formal methods for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It presents theoretically driven techniques, from millennial geometry to current shape grammars, to produce better solutions with less testing time in direct confrontation with reality.
Richard Castle is one of Ireland’s most important 18th-century architects, yet this is the first book devoted to his life and career. Using extensive research, it uncovers his surprising personal history and refutes long-held misconceptions about his name, family, and religion.
Housing the Poor on the African Continent
This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to address low-cost housing in Africa. It argues that reciprocity and collective solidarity are key to housing rights, informing policy and practice while raising red flags about the challenges of implementing these ideals.
Current residential design is failing to meet new demands. In a world facing environmental, economic, and social change, this book argues that homes must offer greater choice, adaptability, and circularity. It explores innovative solutions and case studies for today’s challenges.
Responsible Pedagogies in Architecture
This book highlights how Manipal University Jaipur’s School of Architecture and Design is addressing climate change. Through its research, teaching, and community outreach, it pursues ‘responsible pedagogies’ for environmental, economic, and social sustainability.
A UNESCO World Heritage site, Hōryūji includes the world’s oldest wooden buildings and marked Buddhism’s introduction to Japan. These interdisciplinary essays shed new light on the complex, examining new materials and incorporating computer analysis.
Precedented Environmental Futures
This book addresses in a holistic manner the built environment through the lens of environmental architecture. It offers broad discursive messages, rather than narrow conclusions, and will have lasting luminance for new generations involved with the built environment.
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion
Western European Museums and Visual Persuasion assesses the visual persuasiveness of art museums. It demonstrates that museums are as capable of influence as speeches or advertisements through their architecture, collections, and exhibition designs.
Singing for Themselves
This collection offers new conclusions about how female artists have contributed to pop, rock, blues and punk. From Etta James and Patti Smith to Destiny’s Child, these essays suggest new ways to hear music that is already part of our culture.
Revisiting the Past through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia
This volume investigates how our memories of conflict are shaped by rhetoric. From the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, the authors examine how rhetoric acts as a catalyst not only for what we remember, but also for what we are made to forget.
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.
Broadening Horizons
‘Broadening Horizons’ presents multidisciplinary approaches to landscape research in the Mediterranean and the Near East. Highlighting diverse methods, it provides a significant contribution for specialists and beginning researchers alike.
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.