History of Architecture

This book focuses on the life and artistic activities of Emilio Sanchez (19211999) in New York, and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s. More spec...

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...

In architectural terms, rehabilitation is all about breathing new life into an old building using modern materials and designs that both compliment...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

This book introduces architectural applications of parametric methods in design, drawing direct connections between each phase of the architectural...

During his lifetime, the work of architect George Hadfield (1763-1826) was highly regarded, both in England and the United States. Since his death,...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic...

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrat...

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglect...

***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...

***Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize 2022 and selected at the FAD Awards 2023***After World War II, a wave of Itali...

Why was it that, across Scotland over the last two and a half centuries, architectural monuments were raised to national heroes? Were hero building...

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...

This book deals with the city of Rome and its buildings in the period between Bernini's death in 1680 and the year 1797, when Thorvaldsen came to t...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***It is a common enough assumption that good buildings make us feel good just as poor ones ca...

Reconstruction and the Synthesis of the Arts in France, 19441962 considers the artistic, architectural and bureaucratic shifts that emerged in the ...

Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) who emerged from the Architectural ...

In the age of post-digital architecture and digital materiality, This Thing Called Theory explores current practices of architectural theory, their...

In the midst of Europes nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan a land of fas...

In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned ...

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

***Winner of the 2023 BTES Book Award*** Architectural Terra Cotta examines the evolution of terra cotta and prepares architects and builders to ma...

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New Yorks World Trade C...