History of Architecture

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Nowhere in the world is there a greater concentration of significant skyscrapers than ...

Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture....

Assuming no prior knowledge, this book introduces the reader to a selection of sites and temples, exploring them in detail and explaining all techn...

The book offers a wide perspective on the history of the capital of the Kingdom of Poland. The Kingdom was a small part of the Polish-Lithuanian Co...

Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture, reunifying architectural...

Through a series of case studies from the mid-eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, this collection of essays considers the historic...

More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the...

The book offers a new conceptual and historical framework for the study of Lawrence Kocher’s body of work that relocates it within the history of A...

Temples for a Modern God is one of the first major studies of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and...

This volume intends to foster a re-interpretation of the Nasrid architecture of the Alhambra in Granada and its post-Islamic appropriation and glob...

Distinguished by their lavish sculpture, metalwork or tile facades, Art Nouveau buildings certainly stand out. Art Nouveau buildings are unique, a...

Urban Modernity in the Contemporary Gulf offers a timely and engaging discussion on architectural production in the modernization era in the Arabia...

This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of...

How architectural monuments survived and historical preservation was reinvented during the destructions of the twentieth century.   The twentieth c...

In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the ph...

A growing flow of visitors in the 19th century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Wester...

There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St ...

Until recently the impact of the Lutheran Reformation has been largely regarded in political and socio-economic terms, yet for most people it was n...

Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category - the unbuildab...

Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and design...

This book is an exploration of how urban life in Copenhagen, in the period known as the Golden Age (c. 1800 to 1850), was experienced and structure...

This book traces the development of John Hejduk’s architectural career, using the idea of "exorcism" to uncover his thought process when examining ...

Narrative Architecture explores the postmodern concept of narrative architecture from four perspectives: thinking, imagining, educating, and design...

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the Ri...

Mid-Century Modernism in Turkey studies the unfolding of modern architecture in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s. The book brings together scholar...

While the first half of the 20th century in architecture was, to a large extent, characterized by innovations in aesthetics (accompanied by succinc...

Long before cities were scrambling to go green and eco-conscious commuters were sensibly strapping on their bike helmets, New Haven, Connecticut, w...

In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the United States. While the ph...

After World War I, architects around the world aspired to transcend national boundaries that had been devastated by conflicts. The result was a flu...

When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness...

The German-American architect Dirk Lohan began to record his conversations with his grandfather Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the summer of 1969. The...

A detailed tour, inside and out, of Chicago's distinctive towers from an earlier age For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some o...

Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to r...

The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of...

Towards Tate Modern provides a new interdisciplinary account of Tate’s shifting position as a national arts institution. The book examines how earl...

Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors  The devastation of the Second...

Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors addresses the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical implications...