History of Architecture

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage...

This book investigates the architectural history of China in the Mao era (19491976), focusing on the rise of modernism in the last seven years of t...

Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain ...

The first Pevsner volume to explore the Isle of Mans unique architectural inheritance The Isle of Man has had many incarnations a land of Celtic m...

Ohne Ornament, so schreibt Leon Battista Alberti in seinem für die Architekturtheorie der Neuzeit grundlegenden Traktat über die Baukunst, könn...

The period of Viennese Modernism is widely regarded as Europes cultural heyday. This was when Vienna, with a population of two million, was the cap...

How do you find out about historic buildings and places? A good place to start is with visual evidence. Original drawings, topographical views, sur...

Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (18871965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private vil...