The Xanadu Houses were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home…
Wayfinding encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place…
A module (Latin modulus, a measure) is a term that was in use among Roman architects, corresponding to the semidiameter…
In architecture, visibility graph analysis (VGA) is a method of analysing the inter-visibility connections within buildings or urban networks. Visibility…
Vastu shastra (vāstu śāstra) is a traditional Hindu system of architecture which literally translates to "science of architecture." These are…
Typology (in urban planning and architecture) is the taxonomic classification of (usually physical) characteristics commonly found in buildings and urban…
Arthur Coney Tunnard (1910 in Victoria, British Columbia – 1979), later known as Christopher Tunnard, was a Canadian-born landscape architect,…
Truth to materials is a tenet of modern architecture (as opposed to postmodern architecture), which holds that any material should…
Telesis or "planned progress" was a concept and neologism coined by the American sociologist Lester Frank Ward (often referred to…
A spatial network (sometimes also geometric graph) is a graph in which the vertices or edges are spatial elements associated…
The term space syntax encompasses a set of theories and techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations. It was conceived…
Space in landscape design refers to theories about the meaning and nature of space as a volume and as an…
Shape grammars in computation are a specific class of production systems that generate geometric shapes. Typically, shapes are 2- or…
The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art…
Polite architecture, or "the Polite" in architectural theory comprises buildings designed to include non-local styles for aesthetically-pleasing decorative effect by…