Architecture

This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to r...

Our world is full of lands, cities, buildings and artefacts, many of which are deposits and residues of colonial times and, more pervasively, colon...

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of th...

Robert B. Textor Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2000 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Awa...

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open ...

The seventh edition of this bestseller, celebrating 60 of the most beautiful houses and apartments from all over the world. The book contains exclu...

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Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of TexasBuilt to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New...

Dieses Buch präsentiert erstmals das Werk des Kurators, Kunstkenners und Kulturvermittlers Claus Friede als proaktiv schreibenden, überraschend vie...

In 1838, the Regents of the University of Michigan contracted with Alexander Jackson Davis, who provided landmark designs in the Gothic Revival sty...

A twenty-first century renaissance is emerging in architecture. After a century of building designs characterized by high energy demand, low qualit...

This book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer’s aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detailed examination of his semi...

Passive House in Different Climates introduces the seven Passive House principles, to help you create super-insulated, airtight buildings that requ...

Architectural Theory of Modernism presents an overview of the discourse on function-form concepts from the beginnings, in the eighteenth century, t...

A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect  The story of Louis H. Sullivan is considered one of the grea...

As the definitive study of the complex inspirations and cultural influences that were fused in the Shingle Style of wooden suburban and resort buil...

Originally published in 1995, Land and Property Markets in Sweden looks at the growing demand for an understanding of the urban land and property m...

A smooth ride through the golden age of car travel, looking at both its cultural and architectural impact on the world.The culture of road travel a...

The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "modernity" has been...

The User Perspective on Twenty-First Century Art Museums explains contemporary museums from the whole gamut of user experiences, whether users are ...

Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, w...

The Friendship Centre near the district town of Gaibandha, Bangladesh, is for an NGO which works with some of the poorest in the country and who li...

In a nineteenth century Chinese lacquer box, Joris Escher finds two drawings of his great-uncle, the world-famous graphic artist M.C. Escher. The s...

The redecoration of the exhibition spaces at the Borghese palace and villa, undertaken together with the reinstallation of the family's vast art co...

Spending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside – and sharing their beauty and unsung history across socia...

Fire and light have long symbolized the relationship of human beings to the universe and its creators. In South and Southeast Asia and the Himalaya...

Most studies of modern Gothic media assume that, beyond the 1830s, modern Gothic architecture and literature had very little in common. The work of...

Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in rel...

Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buil...

Re-using entire parts and components of existing buildings in the construction of new structures has become highly topical in European architecture...

This book is about a lost world, albeit one less than 50 years old. It is the story of a grand plan to demolish most of Whitehall, London’s histori...

The fields of design management and lean construction appear to be developing independently. This volume brings together authors from four continen...

Cultural property and its stewardship have long been concerns of museums, archaeologists, art historians, and nations, but recently the legal and p...

Photovoltaic systems (PVs) produce electricity directly from solar radiation and are becoming more widespread as their advantages become apparent. ...

Dust Free Friends is a series of designs for small pieces of domestic furniture, designed by London-based 6a architects, that can be made very simp...

A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings  For six months in 1961, Richard Nickel, John...

An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subj...

For the first time in this series, Quart presents architects from Belgium, where a consistently high standard of building culture was produced in t...

20 years after its completion, Civano remains a valuable model to emulate for environmentally appropriate growth accommodation, and creation of res...

Stan Allen is an architect and educator who has won global acclaim, primarily for his work in town planning and his influential 1996 essay Field Co...

The architecture by Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling is of outstanding importance for post-war modernism in Germany. The calibre of their projects, ...

Josep Lluís Mateo is one of Spain’s leading architects and one of Europe’s most influential intellectuals. He runs a firm called mateoarquitectura ...

In the nineteenth century New Haven was known as one of America’s most beautiful cities. This reputation rested partly on its once-famous elms and ...