History of Architecture

'60 fantastical structures described and illustrated in this colourful and highly entertaining book.' The Sunday Times 'If you can’t think of a pre...

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet—and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, a...

Architecture is distinguished from other art forms by its sense of function, its localized quality, its technique, its public and nonpersonal chara...