Architectural theory

Chinese system of harmonizing everyone with the surrounding environment

decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object

type of architecture

20th-Century architectural style

design of buildings, products or environments to make them accessible to all people

the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture

organization, network and series of congresses about the Modern Movement in architecture

Architecture and design-related texts of India

proceedings of a conference

architectural style

thumbnail|Commemorative Swiss coin showing the modulor. The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).

organization of architect

approach to architecture

principle of architectural theory that describes the relationships between elements of a design

design philosophy of 19–20th centuries

series of experimental homes

in ancient Roman and neoclassical architecture, the radius of the column at its base, used as a unit to determine the relative proportions of the various parts of the Classical orders

method of describing good design practices

Post-postmodernism is a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from, and reacting to, postmodernism and its antecedent, modernism. While there are varied definitions of post-postmodernism, common themes include a focus on sincere reconnection with the world that modernism had positioned the observer above, or postmodernism had alienated them from. In contrast to the ironic and unstable belief systems endemic to postmodernism, common themes of post-postmodernism include sincerity, trust, faith, immersion and

overview about the correlation of mathematics and architecture

sustainable construction practice

thumb|upright|Show, The Stuckists: The First Remodernist Art Group, to launch the book of the same name. London EC1, March 2001. Remodernism is a stuckist philosophical movement aimed at reviving aspects of modernism, particularly in its early form, in a manner that both follows after and contrasts against postmodernism. The movement was initiated in 2000 by stuckists Billy Childish and Charles Thomson, with a manifesto, Remodernism in an attempt to introduce a period of new "spirituality" into art, culture and society to replace postmodernism, which they said was cynical and spiritually bankr

Essay on architecture by John Ruskin

classification of buildings and urban places, according to their characteristics and association with different categories

In philosophy, architectonics is used figuratively (after architecture) to mean "foundational" or "fundamental", supporting the structure of a morality, society, or culture. In Kant's architectonic system there is a progression of phases from the most formal to the most empirical C. S. Peirce adapted the Kantian concept as his blueprint for a pragmatic philosophy. Martial Gueroult wrote of "architectonic unities". Michel Foucault adapted the concept in his treatise The Archaeology of Knowledge.

set of theories and techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations, useful in architecture and urban planning

architectural principle

contemporary architectural style

Elements that reflect a building's structure

generative art in which complex shape development, or morphogenesis, enabled by computation

academic discipline; field of study that focuses on the discovery and identification of meaningful patterns in architecture

primitive Hut

specific class of production systems that generate geometric shapes; consists of shape rules and a generation engine that selects and processes rules

book by Christopher Alexander

Oppositions was an architectural journal produced by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies from 1973 to 1984. Many of its articles contributed to advancing architectural theory and many of its contributors became distinguished practitioners in the field of architecture. Twenty-six issues were produced during its eleven years of existence.

architecture that exists only on paper or which has visionary qualities