Examining discomfort’s physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment.

In this book, Howard Davis uses historical, contemporary, and cross-cultural examples to describe the nature and influence of these cultures.

'Instead of tuning the consumer to the machine we can now tune the machine to the consumer' This edited collection of essays, now in its second edition, brings together the author's key writings on the cultural, technological and ...

What are these mechanisms?Focusing on answers to these and other questions, "Culture, Architecture, and Design" discusses the relationship between culture, the built environment, and design by showing that the purpose of design is to create ...

Both a sourcebook and a companion history of architecture, the volume traces the evolution of modern architecture from the midst of the Second World War to the student revolts of May '68.

... Architectural Education, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 91-95. Miyake, Riichi (1993) “Fuukei no Seisei”風景の生成 a.k.a. “Auto-Poietic Scenery,” Kenchiku Bunka 建築文化[Architecture Culture], vol. 48, no. 564 “Aimaimoko あいまいもく[Ambiguity] ...

The first book to reflect on the global consequences of concrete, Concrete and Culture offers a new way to look at our environment over the past century.

First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as “the world dominated by its phantasmagorias”. The chapters in this book focus on one such phantasmagoria, namely that of ‘modernity’ itself.