Prof. Joseph Rykwert, architecture and art history, University of Pennsylvania, spoke to a crowd of architecture students about the evolution and role of theory in modern architecture in Lewis ...

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...

The discipline of Architectural History, Theory and Criticism examines the evolution of built environments through a multifaceted lens that integrates historical analysis, theoretical frameworks and ...

1. The Emperor's New Paint -- 2. The Fashion Police -- 3. Scratching the Surface -- 4. Redressing Architecture -- 5. The Antifashion Fashion -- 6. White Lies -- 7. Deep Skin -- 8. Machine-Age ...

Prelude -- The enlightenment and neoclassical theory -- British theory in the eighteenth century -- Neoclassicism and historicism -- The rise of German theory -- Competing directions at midcentury -- ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito-the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environment-stands as a testament to architectural ...

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 ...