Scope of Architectural Theory

Jon Lang is an international consultant on architecture and urban design and is an emeritus professor of architecture at the University of New South Wales. Jon was educated in India, England, South Africa, and the USA. He was formerly a director of ERG, Inc., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and headed the joint MArch/MCP program at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a juror, including as chief juror, on international architectural competitions. He has authored books on architectural and urban design theory and practice and modern architecture in India. In 2010, he received the Reed and Malik Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers in London.

• 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.