History of Architecture

Tabbaas Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the oft...

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...

Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Moveme...

Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This v...

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical a...

The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for th...

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wid...

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of arch...

The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their...

This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, an...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the naked power behind its operation. ...

This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lönberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish...

What kind of architectural knowledge was cultivated through drawings, models, design-build experimental houses and learning environments in the 20t...

After 1945 it was not just Europes parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new...

In the early twentieth century, Winston-Salem was hailed as the town of a hundred millionaires. Booming tobacco and textile manufacturing industrie...

The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academi...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (17641838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (17621853) designed interiors that responde...

In this first full-length study devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eightee...