| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The scope of architectural theory/ by Jon Lang. |
| Author: |
Lang, Jon T. |
| Published: |
Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore : : 2025., |
| Description: |
xxxviii, 296 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Prologue: The Domain of Architecture and the Scope of Architectural Theory -- Part One: Procedural and Substantive Declarative Theory: The Way Things Are -- Chapter 1: The Built Environment: The Nature of Behavior Settings and the Nature of Objects -- Chapter 2: Procedural Theory: The Nature of the Design Process -- Chapter 3: Functional Theory: The Purposes That the Built Environment Can Serve -- Chapter 4: Types and Typologies: The Basis for Much Design Thinking -- Part Two: Prescriptive Theories: The Way Things Ought to Be -- Chapter 5: Ends and Means: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Prescriptive Theories of Architecture -- Chapter 6: Prescriptive Theories in Changing Contexts: An Outline of the History of Architecture -- Chapter 7: Designing Ends and Means: Prescriptions for the Design Process -- Part Three: Architects, Their Prescriptive Theories, and Their Designs -- Chapter 8: Understanding Architects' Prescriptions and Their Designs -- Epilogue: Some Current Issues -- References and Bibliography -- Credits -- Index. |
| Contained By: |
Springer Nature eBook |
| Subject: |
Architecture - Philosophy. - |
| Online resource: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3690-7 |
| ISBN: |
9789819636907 |