Architektur

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural ‚technics‘ and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define ’sustainability, ‚ and thus judge archit …

In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and urban space can be seen, …

Materials Science in Construction explains the science behind the properties and behaviour of construction“s most fundamental materials (metals, cement and concrete, polymers, timber, bricks and blo …

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 range of recognized theorists will …

An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. I …

The Familiar Past surveys material culture from 1500 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as: * the origins of modernity in urban …

This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both “lived“ and “imagined“ spaces. In New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gend …

Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned archite …

There have been such great changes in legislation, official guidance, the British Standards and the techniques used in landscape and external works since the third edition was written ten years ago t …

This highly illustrated text brings together two areas which have both grown in popularity in recent years: gridshells and bamboo. Bamboo is a fast-growing, naturally available, renewable resource wh …