History of Architecture

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new...

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring p...

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring p...

The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully ...

Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between B...

1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by se...

Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal resource for the spatial principles and techniques that shape traditional Chinese gardens. ...

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europes cu...

Four major communities, four buildings constructing their identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem.This book examines a fascinating and...

This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (15011722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action...

Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burfo...

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and th...

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out...

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical a...

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and polit...

Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are b...

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecol...

This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960sNelson Goodmans aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern architect...

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the disci...

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the disci...

Challenging mainstream architectures understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideas centrality, in a...

Challenging mainstream architectures understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideas centrality, in a...

This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.Taking a trans-cultu...

In 1908, the Exhibition Hall at the Mathildenhöhe Artists Colony in Darmstadtdesigned by the Jugendstil architect Joseph Maria Olbrichwas inaugurat...

In the architecture of Richard Neutra (18921970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek ...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, containe...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to ass...

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to ass...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...