History of Architecture

In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been l...

Originally published in 1988, The Castles in England and Wales is a comprehensive treatment of the archaeology of the castles in England and Wales....

The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live...

Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s. This book is th...

In the East Falls neighbourhood of Philadelphia, just beyond the northern boundary of the Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus, stands t...

Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature. Towards a Public Space inste...

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19...

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York’s World Trade ...

Byzantine art has been an underappreciated field, often treated as an adjunct to the arts of the medieval West, if considered at all. In illustrati...

The new town of Milton Keynes was designated in 1967 with a bold, flexible social vision to impose "no fixed conception of how people ought to live...

Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east ...

During Manhattan’s crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city’s great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, an...

In The Story of Post-Modernism, Charles Jencks, the authority on Post-Modern architecture and culture, provides the defining account of Post-Modern...

At the height of the Gilded Age, America's wealthiest families began to build luxurious summer cottages away from the grit and grime of New York, B...

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand-drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process...

Sites Unseen examines the complex intertwining of race and architecture in nineteenth and early-twentieth century American culture, the period not ...

This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interi...

In the process of modernization, many North American cities have razed their residential neighborhoods to make way for apartment buildings, condomi...

Merrick juxtaposed just three simple materials when he built his iconic piece of residential architecture. Yet what emerged transcended any indivi...

Winner of the American Book Award San Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kind-an "insider's guide" to one of America's most celebrated e...