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Book SynopsisPrologue: 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.
