History of Architecture

This fourth volume in the European Festival Studies, 14501700 series breaks with precedent in stemming from a joint conference (Venice, 2013) betwe...

This title was first published in 2002: 'This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. I am sure it will be required reading for anyone in...

This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Throug...

Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective....

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century Gothic villa and garden beside the Rive...

This book sheds light on a particular facet of the link between politics and Islam through the analysis of the relationship between Islamism and th...

Visioning Technologies brings together a collection of texts from leading theorists to examine how architecture has been, and is, reframed and rest...

Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux arts trained African American architects. Overcoming racial ...

In the midst of Europes nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan a land of fas...

This book presents a case study of one of Latin Americas most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic e...

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultu...

The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferati...

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...

This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Ha...

In this fully updated new edition, Frank Sear offers a thorough overview of the history of architecture in the Roman Empire.Arranged logically in s...

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This bac...

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book ...

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most comp...

This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the Christian Oriental fringes of Europe, especially Armenia.It starts with the architecture,...

The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the ...

Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and s...

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domestici...

The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, ...