History of Architecture

English architect and designer Halsey Ricardo (1854-1928) was a champion of craftsmanship and the Arts & Crafts movement as well as an influent...

Lavishly illustrated and accessibly written, Classical Architecture takes the reader on a journey through the history of this iconic architectural ...

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a l...

Walk down any street in London and pause for a moment. To your left and right is an array of doors in different styles and colours. Craftsmen acros...

Claesson Koivisto Rune is one of Sweden s most internationally recognized and awarded architecture and design offices today. Their work has heavily...

In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book ...

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 ...