A Philosopher Looks at Architecture
What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction, func...
A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
A Philosopher Looks at Friendship
A Philosopher Looks at Clothes
A Philosopher Looks at Clothes
A Philosopher Looks at Work
Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary. G...
A Philosopher Looks at Science
What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the na...
A Philosopher Looks at Sport
Why is sport so important among participants and spectators when its goals seem so pointless? Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, and argues that sports activities reflect diverse human ex...
A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings
Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy. Some people think that the world is an organism - and that humans, as its h...
Philosophy Looks at Chess
Chess, the ancient strategy game, meets the latest, cutting-edge philosophy in this unique book. When 12 philosophers weigh in on one of the world's oldest and most beloved pastimes, the results are often surprising. Philosophical concepts as vari...
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life
A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life
History of Philosophy Volume 5
This volume of Copleston's A History of Philosophy looks at the British philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In particular, it deals with the political philosophies of Hobbes and Locke that developed in response to the English...
Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'
The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having sh...
Creative Ecologies
Architect and philosopher Hlne Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects to iconic buildings and big-name architects she ins...
Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture
The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has...
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The Ten Books on Architecture: de Architectura
Tracing Architecture
Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before t...
Architecture for a Free Subjectivity
Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them. For Deleuze and his...
A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication
A Philosopher Looks at Digital Communication
Environment, Technology and Sustainability
This second volume in the Technologies of Architecture series - the only series of books tuned to the architectural technology syllabus - explores the environmental influences on building design. Looking particularly at sustainable building, a hol...
Materials and Meaning in Architecture
Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied wit...
Laughing at Architecture
Laughing at Architecture
Expression Architecture and the Arts: A Pedagogical Interaction
'Architectural Papers' is a series of books published by the Chair of Josep Lluis Mateo, department of architecture (D-ARCH) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Established in 2005, the series covers...
From Control to Design
A Synthetic Look at the Impact of Parametric and Algorithmic Design on Architectural Practice. Parametric and algorithmic design are two of the fastest emerging and most radical technologies reshaping architecture today. Based on consistent relati...
Reality Modeled After Images
Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture. It looks closely at how changes produced through technologies of mediation alter disciplinary c...
Doctor Who and Philosophy
In Doctor Who and Philosophy, a team of mostly human philosophers (who are also fans) looks at the deeper issues raised by the Doctor's mind-blowing adventures. They discuss, among other topics, the Doctor's philosophy of science, the ethics of a ...
Middle East - Territory, City, Architecture
'Architectural Papers' is a series of books published by the Chair of Josep Lluis Mateo, department of architecture (D-ARCH) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Established in 2005, the series covers a wide range of t...
Designing Software Architectures
Learn how to create successful architectural designs and improve your current design practices! Designing Software Architectures, 2nd Edition, provides a practical, step-by-step methodology for architecture design that any professional soft...
Agile Architecture Revolution
A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision for achieving business agility through agile architectures The Agile Architecture Revolution places IT trends into the context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise...
English Country House
The English Country House¿takes a look at the architecture and interiors of sixty-two stunning houses in a range of architectural styles spanning seven centuries-from the medieval Stokesay Castle to the newly built, Lutyens-inspired Corfe Farm-bro...
How to Read Buildings
A practical primer to looking at architecture and all the elements that are included in buildings. How to Read Buildings is a practical introduction to looking at and appreciating architecture which guides you through the historical and architectu...
Architecture For Dummies
* Just the essential information for readers on the go who want to understand architecture. * Covers the highlights of architectural history, from the Great Pyramids to Frank Gehry's Guggenheim museum in Bilbao. * Explains how to look at a buildin...
Horror in Architecture
A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues ¿ Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, desi...
Concrete Concept
This compelling and in-depth study looks at some of the most inspiring and iconic brutalist buildings, in a quest to find the soul of one of modern architecture's most misunderstood movements. No modern architectural style has aroused so ...
Latin American Modern Architectures
Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region's rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major project...
History of Philosophy Volume 7
This volume of Copleston's A History of Philosophy looks at the idealist philosophies, and the reactions against them, that developed mainly in Germany in the nineteenth century. Frederick Copleston was Professor of the History of Philosophy and D...
The architectural competition : research inquiries and experiences
The Architectural Competition: Research Inquiries and Experiences gathers 26 papers presented October 2008 at a conference on architectural competitions organised by KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institut...
Perfect Scale
Architectural Design and Construction Perfect scales for architectural design and construction Thinking and working in a variety of scales lies at the heart of architecture. What scale should be selected for which design decision? At what point is...
The Best Things in Life
For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions...