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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

This course is an introduction to the unique character of the modern architectural discourse. It maps the different ways in which architectural theory was developed and transformed from the late ...

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 ...

The science and art of color theory is divided by a wheel or chart into three main categories: primary, secondary and tertiary. Color is something we perceive through a combination of wavelengths ...

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 ...