History of Architecture

Beer has been brewed in England since Neolithic times, and this book combines a thoroughly enjoyable exploration of beers history and built heritag...

This scenic stretch of estates along the Hudson offers some of the finest examples of American architecture and landscape design. The edition's thi...

In this remarkable and gorgeously illustrated book, Neil Jackson presents a vibrant profile of the Los Angeles architect Pierre Koenig, who Time ma...

Yigal Gawzes photographs capture the abstraction, the simplicity and the optimism of early modernism in Tel Aviv. He distils the essence of the Bau...

The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture ...

Ahmad ibn Tulun (835-84), the son of a Turkic slave in the Abbasid court of Baghdad, became the founder of the first independent state in Egypt sin...

Minarets have defined Cairo's skyline since its early history: they are one of the most characteristic features of Islamic architecture. In Egypt, ...

Now in its fourth edition, this classic bestselling book has been updated with brand new chapters and hand-drawn illustrations. Using a highly ac...

The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives...

As managing director of the London Underground in the 1920s and the first chief executive of London Transport, Frank Pick (1878-1941), had more inf...

Antoni Gaudí has a reputation as monastic, mad and hermetic. But the architect of many of the buildings that define Barcelonas cityscape was no mad...

The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century. Pu...

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Villa Foscari in Venice, better known as La Malcontenta, became a meeting place for intellectuals, artists, and members...