History of Architecture

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...

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

This book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest-surviving churches from Goas Portuguese colonial era. In t...

This book chronicles the visual history of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, one of the longest-surviving churches from Goas Portuguese colonial era. In t...

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for int...

For more than three thousand years, Chinese life from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home was configu...

Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reasses...

Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new m...

For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the ...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our mindsand of all those who...

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has l...

One of the most enduring and pervasive myths about modernist architecture is that it was whitepure white walls both inside and out. Yet nothing cou...