The question is often raised—such as in the recent Theory’s Curriculum program hosted by e-flux Architecture: why teach architectural theory? While theory was part of most architecture programs from ...

Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy, by Mark Foster Gage. Routledge, 131 pages, $44.95 (paper). Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, ...

Building on the success of the first edition, an engaging and reader-friendly work on complex ideas, Introducing Architectural Theory: Expanding the Disciplinary Debate, broadens the range of themes, ...

I am tired of design magazines and paint companies trying to sell me on dull “neutral” colors. They claim ”Beige Is Back,” that there is a historical elegance and calming effect to monochromatic ...

The bold promise of Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, a sprawling volume edited by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder, is written across its spine in inch-tall lettering: “A theory of ...

Paul Rudolph, Rudolph Apartment at 23 Beekman Place, New York (1977-1997). Perspective Section, 1997. Digitized drawing | 4732 x 3416 px. The Paul Rudolph Archive, Library of Congress, Print and ...

School of Architecture faculty Dr. Ruo Jia’s book Chinese Experimental Architecture Or French Poststructuralist Theory: Different Patches of the Concrete is available for pre-order. The book starts ...

He reached beyond conventional history to bring in perspectives from literary theory, philosophy and psychoanalysis. By Clay Risen Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who, beginning in the ...