History of Architecture

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...

Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea offers a critical assessment of architecture and urbanism constructed in Eritrea dur...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

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...