History of Architecture

The proceedings of the second Williams Symposium explore the phenomenon of curvature, together with other such "secrets" of classical refinement. D...

Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors  The devastation of the Second...

Domestic architecture at the site of Mycenae was systematically explored for the first time in a series of investigations sponsored by the Archaeol...

As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zan...

Exploring the ambiguities of how we define the word ‘culture’ in our global society, this book identifies its imprint on architectural ideas. It ex...

As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments that fulfilled monastic ne...

This book is unique in describing the history of post war reconstruction from an entirely new perspective by focusing on the changing relationship ...

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeco...

In the early nineteenth century, the most consequential developments in Ottoman architecture were taking place not in Istanbul but in the farthest ...

This book, a collection of studies by various different authors, approaches the Ottoman monuments of Greece as the heritage of a historical period ...

Mexico City’s latest and greatest residential buildings designed by the country’s leading architectural firms This volume brings together 10 resid...

The first survey of the many redesigned and imitation historical landmarks and objects that dot the globe“John Darlington shows . . . it is not jus...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A Country Life 'Architecture Book to Read in 2025' 'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly deta...

Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences  During the 1920s and 1930s, proponent...

In recent years, visual urbanism has emerged as a new research field. Photographers and researchers had been experimenting with critical visual met...

This book traces the historical identity of Kashmir within the context of Islamic religious architecture between early fourteenth and mid-eighteent...

Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often ove...

In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition s...

A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona ...