History of Architecture

Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban ...

This beautifully illustrated book showcases the Hindu and Jain temples of Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka built prior to the i...

The Architectural Developemnt of the Greek Stoa

Following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the United States constructed federal buildings in its newly acquired territories, including Cuba, Puerto ...

Frauen in der Architektur sicht- und hörbar zu machen, ihnen eine Bühne zu geben, ihre Leistungen zu zeigen – das war das Anliegen des Women in Arc...

The theme of “modernity” was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionising our way of life. By...

The Soviet avant-garde architecture of the 1920s to the mid-1930s has increasingly been attracting attention from researchers worldwide. Yet, in sp...

Building Toys: An Architect’s Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author’s collection, from the mid-1800s to the pre...

This book is the first comprehensive study of Mormon architecture. It centers on the doctrine of Zion which led to over 500 planned settlements in ...

In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to severa...

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy fr...

This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism that first emerged in late nineteenth-century Germany and remained influential throughout the i...

In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to severa...

Whether determining the style of its embassies or the design of overseas cemeteries for Americans killed in battle, the U.S. government in its rise...

This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process r...

Since time immemorial, cooking and building have been among humanity’s most basic occupations. Both of them are rooted in necessity, but both of th...

Jeanne Halgren Kildes survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic c...

An authoritative and magnificently illustrated survey of Mesoamerican architecture from pre-Olmec times to the Spanish conquest. This important bo...

Architectural historian Roger W. Moss and photographer Tom Crane set out to celebrate the surviving accessible historic architecture of Philadelphi...

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, durin...

Houses and Domestic Space in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hospitaller Malta is a study concerned with a wide spectrum of early modern dwellin...

The reemergence in the early eighteenth century of the technology and use of concrete provide the starting point for this first volume of the Treat...

Architecture and Urbanism in Viceregal Mexico presents a fascinating survey of urban history between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It chr...

German architecture prior to the modern period has received less systemic, analytical study than that of Italy, France, and Britain. Scholarly disc...

Gathering his most compelling essays and addresses from the last fifty years in one accessible volume, this book looks at the pioneering ideas that...

This book investigates the relationship architecture has with the underground. It provides a broad ranging historical and theoretical survey of, an...

This early history of Team 10 and the group's emergence from CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture ) shifts the locus of the group's ...

This early history of Team 10 and the group's emergence from CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture ) shifts the locus of the group's ...

This book is a superbly written history of Boston’s built environment, filled with insider details and engaging anecdotes about more than 600 build...

At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Poland’s 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct state whose territory had been ...

Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials soug...

This extensive text investigates how architects, planners, and other related experts responded to the contexts and discourses of “development” afte...

This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imaginat...

Increasingly the world around us is becoming ‘smart.’ From smart meters to smart production, from smart surfaces to smart grids, from smart phones ...

Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse o...

A comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement.We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegate...

Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remain...

Westminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built...