History of Architecture

In 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields. The Victorian house had arrived: wide red ...

Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and pr...

In 1908, the Exhibition Hall at the Mathildenhöhe Artists Colony in Darmstadtdesigned by the Jugendstil architect Joseph Maria Olbrichwas inaugurat...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...

Originally published in 1990, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

Discover dozens of underappreciated landmarks and the stories behind them in this unique history on New York City, written and photographed by Land...

Originally published in 1994, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

Religion in Britain after the Reformation was remarkably unstable and places of worship were the focus of dispute and regular change. This book i...

Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through ei...

The story of Frank Lloyd Wrights life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay,...

Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specif...

Trajectories in Architecture: Plan, Sensation, Temporality presents a compelling examination of underlying issues in late-twentieth-century archite...

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They...

This book brings together a number of important older texts and three new, unpublished essays on the work and reception of the Baroque architect J...

This is the first volume of the World History of Design, the definitive historical account of global design by pre-eminent design scholar Victor Ma...

This is the second volume of the World History of Design, the definitive historical account of global design by pre-eminent design scholar Victor M...

John Nash is universally recognised as one of the most important architects of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.  As the man r...

This is a clear, accurate, readable survey of the dramatic transformation of Chinese architecture from 1840 through 2020. It narrates the change fr...

This book examines the window in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 2000). It draws new attenti...