History of Architecture

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This book brings together a number of important older texts and three new, unpublished essays on the work and reception of the Baroque architect J...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

While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architectures temporal dimensions. Through a series of close rea...

Poetic and political, Strayed Homes invites architects, interior designers, and urbanists to think again about common concepts in architecture pri...

Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academys venerati...

A gorgeous color depiction of every remaining structure designed by Louis Sullivan Louis Henry Sullivan (18561924) is a foundational figure in Amer...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impression...

Now available in a newly reduced trim size and at a lower price, this is the first volume to include all the existing work by Thomas Jefferson, the...

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in...

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis.The Earth That Modernism Built t...