History of Architecture

This book traces the evolution of the great palaces of the Louvre and Versailles, from Pierre Lescots designs for expanding the former in the mid-1...

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth-century writer and mathema...

Authored by two architects, Polish Architecture in Contemporary Innovation: Thoughts, Dreams and Places tells a story of buildings that were built ...

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...

We are all improvising. We are all making decisions. And we are all watching each other improvise. Together, we are improvising. Decisions become s...

Part of a generation that came to prominence in the 1860s, the rogue architects are a byword for Victorian Gothic at its most wayward and flamboyan...

The Dusk of Design explores the intersection of evolutionary theories and architectural design. Drawing inspiration from the concept of exaptation ...

Gumshoe is new series of architectural books, introducing a new approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architect...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond c...

This Must Be The Place is the first architectural history of popular music performance space, describing its beginnings, its different typologies, ...

The Architecture of the Facade provides a comprehensive study of the facade as both a physical and cultural artifact, highlighting its significance...

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. I...

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond c...

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case i...

The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The soaring beauty of Pier Luigi Nervi's visi...

This book examines the impact of space on the perception of art and visual culture in early nineteenth-century Paris. It turns its attention to the...

The publication rethinks climate control a key concern of the discipline of architecture through the lens of city climate phenomena over the cour...

Examining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhoodPlayhou...