History of Architecture

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance...

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

Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal th...

Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundari...

Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies.Divi...

Through a multidisciplinary collection of case studies, this book explores the effects of the digital age on medieval and early modern studies.Divi...

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...

The Optimum Imperative examines architectures multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia. Situ...

For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emergi...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with ...

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most comp...

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church ...

This edited book examines architectural representations that tie water, as a physical and symbolic property, with the sacred. The discussion center...

Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture. A topic often consid...

Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon ...

A complete history of Bohemian architecture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries fo...

Interpreting the monuments of Athens in light of literature, R. E. Wycherley brings before us the city the ancients knew. Philosophers, statesmen, ...

2016 marks the 300th anniversary of Lancelot Capability Brown with a national Capability Brown 300 celebration and festival. This report attempts ...

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned ...

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provi...

Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Ken...