History of Architecture

Architecture matters. To our cities, to our planet, to our personal lives. How we design and what we build has an impact that usually lasts for gen...

Ottoman Architecture is the first modern history of Ottoman architecture written by Ottomans themselves, yet it is little known outside the field o...

An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that...

A fully illustrated archaeological and art historical analysis of one of the most important artworks of Angkor, rewriting the chronology of the roy...

A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, m...

Architecture - the status of its institutions, the relevance of the teaching curricula and the fragmentation of the role of architects in practice ...

Academic architectural education started with the inauguration of the Académie d'Architecture on 3 December 1671 in France. It was the first instit...

Migrant Housing, the latest book by author Mirjana Lozanovska, examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Hou...

An important resource for scholars of contemporary art and architecture, this volume considers contemporary art that takes architecture as its subj...

Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and s...