History of Architecture

This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge research in the field of Russian and East European art hi...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Architectural modelmakers have long carried out their work hidden behind the scenes of architectural design, and in presenting a history of archite...

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer. In describing the life and times of ...

This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from the Aga Khan Documentation Center a...

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in todays world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consi...

This book presents the making of Mexican Modernist architecture through five power structures academic, social status, economic/political, gender,...

Buildings Used takes the reader on an exploration into the impact of use on buildings and users. While most histories and theories of architecture ...

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, pre...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the...

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

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing the Public Realm methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading the...

Architecture displays the values involved in its inhabitation, construction, procurement and design. It traces the thinking of the individuals who ...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts, social s...

During the twentieth century, an increasingly diverse range of buildings and spaces was used for theatre. Theatre architecture was re-formed by new...

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring p...

Histories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring p...