History of Architecture

An unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth century to today...

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has mai...

What sort of home would you create for yourself if you could build whatever you wanted - if money, as they say, were no object? Over the course of ...

Nicknamed 'the French Borromini', Gilles Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) was born in Paris, the son of a royal cabinet maker. He was a royal pensioneer ...

Britain’s tiny Jewish community (about 263,000 people) is the oldest non-Christian minority in the country. In 1656 Jews returned to England after ...

Many people who live in and visit the Lake District are charmed by the traditional buildings that enhance the landscape. This book introduces t...

The railway station is one of England’s most distinctive and best-loved building-types. Yet over the past century the nation’s stations have oft...

An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world’s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history Some of the most outst...

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and featuring superb new pho...

A fascinating insight into Britain’s built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book showcases 1...

During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman antiquity played a...

While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was of...