"Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, huma…
What is more important in architectural works―their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent …
Architectural Papers is a series of books published by Josep Lluís Mateo of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich. Established in 2005, the series covers a wide range of topics related…
Exploring the American city as a metropolitan landscape, the book brings together well-known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice to examine roles designers play as professionals…
The book has two aims. First, to examine the extent and significance of the connection between Hume's aesthetics and his moral philosophy; and, second, to consider how, in light of the connection, …
Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies & the Visual Arts examines philosophical structures of Plato in their structural, spatial, and architectonic implications. It examines elements of Pla…
The idea of place—topos—runs through Martin Heidegger's thinking almost from the very start. It can be seen not only in his attachment to the famous hut in Todtnauberg but in his constant deplo…
Aristotle's Politics is widely acknowledged as a classic and one of the founding texts of political theory and philosophy. Written by a leading expert in ancient philosophical thought, Aristotle an…
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard is a phenomenological exploration of how we experience intimate spaces, such as houses, drawers, and corners, and how they shape our emotions, memories, and…