This text is an attempt to deal comprehensively with all the various theories and ideas which, during the course of the last two hundred years, have made modern architecture what it is today.
Demonstrating a concern with on-going modernism, Masheck's essays guide the reader through the anti-modernist polemics of the 1970s and 1980s.
An examination of the theoretical work of Christopher Wren.
An international forum for practitioners and academics, publishing research covering all aspects of architectural endeavour.
A comprehensive analysis of the masonry, the design, and the abundant ancient literary evidence.
An examination of the theoretical work of Christopher Wren.
In this suggestive inquiry into the operations of linearity in architectural theory and practice, the author investigates the line as both a conceptual and literal force in architecture. She approaches the subject from philosophical, theoretical, practical and historical points of view.
Illustrates the connection between brain and hand in conceiving structural concepts and details as possible solutions to structures in architecture. This edition features 100 sketches, which illustrate alternative structural concepts, ideas and details developed by Tony Hunt for over one hundred projects throughout his professional life.
In this classic title, the thinking and ideas that have informed, and continue to inform the architecture and urban design around us today, is presented as a compilation of writings by the most important architects, urbanists, and theorists of the second half of the 20th century.
It is easy for even the most accomplished of designers to lose sight of their higher creative goals, once they are in ensconced in practice and burdened by the everyday concerns of running an office and overseeing complex projects.