History of Architecture

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, ...

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imaginat...

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies, and the step towards digitally built objects made to individual specif...

Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church of Rome to...

1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by se...

At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth ...

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenementsthis book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland betw...

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colon...