Architecture

This book helps readers understand the fundamental concepts of sustainable design and green building practices, which will soon become common pract...

200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successo...

This book looks deeper into the importance of the historical identity of a region, town or nation. It is clear that we have the necessity to look b...

Our energy system faces a fundamental transformation and renewable energies will play a dominant role in the future energy supply. One of the promi...

Designing and constructing load-bearing building elements Columns, walls and floors make up the skeleton of nearly every building. This third vol...

This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the c...

Climate change, increasing resource scarcity, and rising traffic volumes are forcing us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented...

This volume examines one of Rome's most influential churches: the principal basilica dedicated to St Paul. Nicola Camerlenghi traces nearly two tho...

The definitive monograph on the ideas and work of the Canadian-born (of Norwegian ancestry), Florence-trained, Ibiza-based architect. The fusion ...

An original account of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian architecture from the acclaimed architectural historianIn The Beginnings of Architecture, Sigf...

Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Afri...

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a c...

Blessed with a unique and pioneering vision, Antoni Gaudí is one of the most iconic architects of the 20th century. His distinctive modernist style...

The first complete revision of Pevsners original volume on the North Riding of Yorkshire, from the fells on the Westmorland border to the edges of ...

The Swiss Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale exhibits itself and the relations to its immediate surr...

A vivid account of the nature and significance of intense female spirituality in one of England's greatest medieval cities. The religious attachme...