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Bhabha for Architects

By Felipe Hernandez

The work of Homi K. Bhabha has permeated into numerous publications which use postcolonial discourse as a means to analyze architectural practices in previously colonized…

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February 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47746-8 (Routledge)

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Quality Out of Control

Standards for Measuring Architecture

Edited by Allison Dutoit, Juliet Odgers, Adam Sharr

Formerly grounded in values of craftsmanship, in the skilled making of products, ‘quality’ is now associated with the management of administrative or technical processes. Its…

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January 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55366-7 (Routledge)

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Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier

Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity

By Lorens Holm

This well-argued, analytic text provides a greater understanding of spatial issues in the field of architecture. Re-interpreting the fifteenth century demonstration of perspective, Lorens Holm…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41969-7 (Routledge)

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Agency

Working With Uncertain Architectures

Edited by Florian Kossak, Doina Petrescu, Tatjana Schneider, Renata Tyszczuk, Stephen Walker

While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural community this also…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56602-5 (Routledge)

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Rural and Urban: Architecture Between Two Cultures

Edited by Andrew Ballantyne

Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55213-4 (Routledge)

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Walter Benjamin and Architecture

Edited by Gevork Hartoonian

The essays compiled in this book explore aspects of Walter Benjamin’s discourse that have contributed to the formation of contemporary architectural theories.

Issues such as…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48292-9 (Routledge)

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Architecture, Participation and Society

Edited by Paul Jenkins, Leslie Forsyth

How can architects best increase their engagement with building users and wider society to provide better architecture?

Since the mid 1990s government policy has promoted the…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54724-6 (Routledge)

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Architecture, Ethics and Globalization

Edited by Graham Owen

Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32374-1 (Routledge)

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The West

From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of Reformation

By Christopher Tadgell

Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the 9th and 10th centuries, built on the legacy…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40754-0 (Routledge)

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Curating Architecture and the City

Edited by Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara

Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48983-6 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture
By Thomas Barrie
To be published April 7th 2010

The Universe of Design: Horst Rittel's Theories of Design and Planning
By Jean-Pierre Protzen, David Harris
To be published May 6th 2010

Bourdieu for Architects
By Helena Webster
To be published July 15th 2010

Cities and Design
By Paul L. Knox
To be published July 21st 2010

Benjamin for Architects
By Brian Elliott
To be published September 1st 2010

Decoding Theoryspeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory
By Enn Ots
To be published September 1st 2010

New Directions in Sustainable Design
Edited by Adrian Parr, Michael Zaretsky
To be published September 15th 2010

Urban and Regional Planning
By Peter Hall, Mark Tewdwr-Jones
To be published September 30th 2010

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis
By Letizia Modena
To be published October 1st 2010

Merleau-Ponty for Architects
By Jonathan Hale
To be published October 1st 2010

Richard Rogers: Centre Pompidou: Supercrit #3
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
To be published January 1st 2011

Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette: Supercrit #4
Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham
To be published January 1st 2011

Spatial Agency: Other ways of Doing Architecture
By Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till, Nishat Awan
To be published January 15th 2011

Architecture and Climate
By Dean Hawkes
To be published January 15th 2011

Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing: Slow-Food for the Architect's Imagination
By Marco Frascari
To be published January 15th 2011

From Organisation to Decoration: An interior design reader
Edited by Graeme Brooker, Sally Stone
To be published February 1st 2011

Derrida for Architects
By Richard Coyne
To be published March 1st 2011

Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The architecture of professional hospitality
Edited by Anne Massey, Tom Avermaete
To be published March 1st 2011

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