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, ...

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, ...

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 “theory” that Michael Speaks addresses is not theory, but a recent bias of ideology: neo-Marxist criticism. At best, it’s at the extreme end of theory. We need to distinguish the difference ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Architecture is commonly considered the most public of the arts, as if inherently, even though the concept of the public only began to acquire ...

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 ...

I was worried there for a minute. Who’d kidnapped K. Michael Hays and what had they done with him? I was watching a man on my computer screen who looked a lot like Hays as he gave the introductory ...

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 ...