History of Architecture

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...

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

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germanys Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas fo...

After the success of Unbuildable Tatlin?!, a book is now available on Friedrich Kieslers visionary Endless House, which was only ever realized in t...

Early-20th-century explorations of the Roman Forum at Ancient Corinth revealed a massive early imperial building now known as the Julian Basilica. ...

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the pioneering works, events, and people that contributed to the paradigm shift defined by computa...

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the pioneering works, events, and people that contributed to the paradigm shift defined by computa...

This book takes a timely look at how Scotlands national politics have been expressed in its buildings, exploring the role the architecture of Scotl...

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britains built environment was ima...

The catalog for the 2015/16 exhibition at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) in Vienna is dedicated to Josef Frank (18851967), one of the most import...

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chr...

An insightful and engagingly narrated exploratory work on a pioneer of modern architecture from Switzerland The Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davo...

Modernism is the most defining architectural expression of the 20th century a movement that transformed built environments around the world in an ...

One of the largest and most important palatial houses of late 18th- and early 19th-century Damascus, Bayt Farhi belonged to the Farhi family, who s...

The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppli...

Did you know, Logical Positivists, that the late Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher whos very in with art worldings these days, was also...

The Prater a centerpiece of Viennese history as a reflection of changing times The Prater represents like no other place the history of Vienna a...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed an alliance for the transformation of inner-city districts of Sh...

The global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identify...

the global success story of the Basel architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has local roots. This book traces these origins while identify...

The Zacherlhaus is located in the heart of Vienna, just 180 meters from St. Stephen's Cathedral, and is one of the most important buildings created...

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2021 (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain)It will become the standard work...

News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (18851967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Ge...

Combining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotlands new towns.One of the mos...

This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the re...

Domicide = the systematic and deliberate killing of home. So much architectural response to war has focused on cultural heritage, the destruction ...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the YearSharp, revealing, funny.The GuardianAn original and even occasi...

Although it has long been accepted that America's most famous architect was influenced by Japanese culture, the nature of Frank Lloyd Wright's debt...

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, ps...

This project is born out of similar questions and discussions on the topic of organicism emergent from two critical strands regarding the discourse...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors b...