This volume brings together core writings on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorists of the 20th century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer perspectives on the questions of architecture and rethinks many of the accepted tenets of architectural theory from a broader cultural perspective. The book offers a selection of the theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and our experiences of architecture.

Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned architects, philosophers and cultural theorists from both the East and the West. They explore the questions over the built environment that now face architects, planners and politicians in the region. They examine the problems of buildings inherited from the communist era: some are environmentally inadequate, many were designed to serve a now redundant social programme and others carry the...

This study explores the consequences of the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents a series of essays which offer views on some of the pressing questions that now face architects, planners and politicians alike in Central and Eastern Europe as they consider how best to formulate the new architecture for a new Europe. A fundamental part of the problem for Central and Eastern Europe as it struggles to adapt to the West has been the issue of the built environment. The buildings inherited from the communist era have brought with them a...

An edited volume containing contributions from eminent theorists across visual culture, architecture, sociology, art, philosophy and American studies - including Andrew Benjamin, Barry Curtis, Neil Leach, Steven Pile and David Frisby. Part one covers reading the city as a visual text, while part two discusses treating the city as a space to be experienced.

'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered?
Hieroglyphics of Space addresses this question with a series of insightful essays on some of the great metropolitan centres of the world. From political interpretations to gendered analyses, from methods of mapping to filmic representations, and from studies in consumption to economic surveys, the volume...

Guest-edited by Neil Leach

What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound impact of computer-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools and parametric modelling, digital technologies have come to play a major role in architectural production. But how are they helping architects and designers to operate at the urban scale? And how might they be changing the way in which we perceive and understand our cities?...