History of Architecture

First ever detailed study of lost medieval shrines in English cathedrals. Almost all the great medieval shrines disappeared at the Reformation, ye...

Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation a...

Thomas Hardy is one of England’s greatest novelists and poets, whose part-real, part-imaginary realm of Wessex has taken on a life of its own. But ...

This book is the first detailed study of the Commonwealth Institute’s architecture and its exhibition galleries. It shows how the strikingly modern...

Art Nouveau presents a new overview of the international Art Nouveau movement. Art Nouveau represented the search for a new style for a new age, a ...

In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environmen...

Architects often employ design methods to help them find more creative forms. These methods make it possible to break free of the traditional canon...

An internationally acclaimed expert explains why Chinese-style architecture has remained so consistent for two thousand years, no matter where it i...

The volume, lavishly illustrated with many images previously unpublished in colour, presents articles by Bernard O'Kane on a wide variety of archit...

Persian cities are part of a corridor of civilisation with settlements straddling thousands of years. Taking Maibud as a case study, Eisa Esfanjary...

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

Kenneth Frampton: Conversations with Daniel Talesnik presents seven interviews with the architectural historian reflecting on the long arc of his r...

While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its rol...

Completed in 1931, New York’s Waldorf-Astoria towers over Park Avenue as an international landmark and a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture. A sy...