The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative
and significant history of architecture from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first century, in …

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the
relationship between an organism and its environment. Bracketed between texts on giraffe …

During the post-war era, the emerging consumer economy radically changed both the
discourse and practice of architecture. It was a time where architecture became a …

Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years,
nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and understood. However, the …

Architecture can be analogous to a history, a fiction, and a landscape. We expect a history or
a novel to be written in words, but they can also be cast in concrete or seeded in soil. The …

'Townscapes', like all 'scapes', are representations that make non-visual (eg, cultural, social
or psychological) aspects of reality appear in the framework of the 'spatial'. By 'spatial', we …

In his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two
iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the Third International and Borromini's dome for Sant'Ivo …

Peter Rayner Banham entitled his wry history of British architectural debates from 1945–65
'The Revenge of the Picturesque', and this article1 attempts to show that he was more …

Using archival evidence from Hastings' unpublished writings, as well as from representative
Townscape publications, this essay chronologically traces the genesis and development of …

The debate on context in architectural theory emerged as a response to how to integrate
modern and historical patterns in the reconstruction of European cities bombed during World …