History of Architecture

Home to over 4,000 constructions built in a modernist style influenced by the Bauhaus, Tel Avivs White City is a world-renowned UNESCO World Herita...

The Complex History of a Building With the temporary exhibition pavilion of the German Reich at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona,...

Modernist architecture in Britain brought honesty to the structure of buildings and clean lines free of historical ornament to the style, establish...

The architecture of Ahmedabad ranges from the ancient to the very modern, from the Mughals to the last works of the contemporary Indian architects,...

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New...

Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-FictionMoving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements o...

An essential and handy visual vocabulary of modern architecture. How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide to understand...

The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1...

Upon setting foot in Dhaka, with its beautifully landscaped gardens adorning ancient mosques and monuments, it becomes clear that this is a city st...

The prevalence of sharing economy generates different consuming patterns. It is also possible to share working space. This book collects latest co-...

From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of ...

500 years ago in Venice, the first ghetto was born. It was the first of many 'Jewish enclosures' ordained by political powers, such as the Venetian...

Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the...