History of Architecture

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contemporary theorization of arch...

In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining form-givers of the 20th century. Today, Marcel Breuer (19021981) remains a locus classicus of...

The mosaics in the Rotunda in Thessaloniki are the most significant decorations that remain from the early Byzantine period. Th is richly illustrat...

As slums were cleared after the Blitz, there was a pressing need for housing. Successive governments championed prefabrication as a speedy solution...

At around 100 years old, Burgenland is the youngest province in Austria, even though it was already developed by the Celts and Romans. The climate ...

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically...

Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El ...

Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagog...

As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians about her books on lost mansions and landmarks, enthusiasts brought her more storie...

This is a book about urban complexity how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin citie...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France   The massive reshaping of French ...

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

Think of the Renaissance and you might only picture the work of fine artists such as Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Van Eyck. Or architecture ...

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass publ...