History of Architecture

A celebration of some of Britain's most important and beloved buildings – its sheds. From the humble to the not so humble. ‘...

From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale arc...

The 19th-century German architect and artist, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, was among the great personalities in the world of architecture. Classicism ...

The Wallace Collection has one of the most important collections of French eighteenth-century gilt bronze in the world.The Wallace Collection has a...

American Homes is the classic work of American house architecture. From the Dutch colonial, to the New England Salt Box, to the 1950s prefab, this ...

Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. In recent years the idea of ’baroque’ or ’the baroque’ has been seized upon by scholars from a range of ...

Victorian Sunderland developed a unique form of housing to accommodate its hardworking population. Resembling a terraced bungalow, the distinctive ...

There are some 22.4 million homes in England, housing 52 million people. They range from the smallest studio flat to the largest palace, and vary i...

Isaac Newton published little but wrote hundreds of manuscripts, the bulk of them on alchemy, prophecy and theology. His writings on the Temple ...

This book is about the design of the facade of 51 of America's most extravagant early skyscrapers. Included are the biographies of noted archite...

The Bauhaus was distinguished neither by function nor by use but rather by symbolism. Whether square, triangle, or circle; whether Wilhelm Wagenf...