Architectural theory

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Xanadu Houses

The Xanadu Houses were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home…

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Wayfinding

Wayfinding encompasses all of the ways in which people (and animals) orient themselves in physical space and navigate from place…

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Vitruvian module

A module (Latin modulus, a measure) is a term that was in use among Roman architects, corresponding to the semidiameter…

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Visibility graph analysis

In architecture, visibility graph analysis (VGA) is a method of analysing the inter-visibility connections within buildings or urban networks. Visibility…

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Vastu shastra

Vastu shastra (vāstu śāstra) is a traditional Hindu system of architecture which literally translates to "science of architecture." These are…

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Typology in urban planning and architecture

Typology (in urban planning and architecture) is the taxonomic classification of (usually physical) characteristics commonly found in buildings and urban…

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Christopher Tunnard

Arthur Coney Tunnard (1910 in Victoria, British Columbia – 1979), later known as Christopher Tunnard, was a Canadian-born landscape architect,…

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Truth to materials

Truth to materials is a tenet of modern architecture (as opposed to postmodern architecture), which holds that any material should…

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Telesis

Telesis or "planned progress" was a concept and neologism coined by the American sociologist Lester Frank Ward (often referred to…

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Spatial network

A spatial network (sometimes also geometric graph) is a graph in which the vertices or edges are spatial elements associated…

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Space syntax

The term space syntax encompasses a set of theories and techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations. It was conceived…

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Space in landscape design

Space in landscape design refers to theories about the meaning and nature of space as a volume and as an…

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Shape grammar

Shape grammars in computation are a specific class of production systems that generate geometric shapes. Typically, shapes are 2- or…

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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

The Seven Lamps of Architecture is an extended essay, first published in May 1849 and written by the English art…

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Polite architecture

Polite architecture, or "the Polite" in architectural theory comprises buildings designed to include non-local styles for aesthetically-pleasing decorative effect by…

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