History of Architecture
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The Victorian Art School: Architecture, History, Environment
Ranald LawrenceCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99The Victorian Art School documents the history of the art school in the nineteenth century, from its origins in South Kensington to its proliferati...
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Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture, to honour the work of renown...
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The Architect and the Academy: Essays on Research and Environment
Dean HawkesCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book presents an expansive overview of the development of architectural and environmental research, with authoritative essays spanning Dean Ha...
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Roman Architecture
Frank SearCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99In this fully updated new edition, Frank Sear offers a thorough overview of the history of architecture in the Roman Empire.Arranged logically in s...
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Libraries of Light: British public library design in the long 1960s
Alistair BlackCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles. This bac...
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Architecture and Spectacle: A Critique
Gevork HartoonianCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book ...
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Camera Constructs: Photography, Architecture and the Modern City
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €135.14Original price €158.99Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most comp...
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East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road: Sharing St. Peter''s
Christiane Esche-RamshornCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the Christian Oriental fringes of Europe, especially Armenia.It starts with the architecture,...
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The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India: The Cultural Expression of Changing Ways of Life and Aspirations in the Domestic Architecture of Colonial and Post-colonial Society
Madhavi DesaiCurrent price €151.04Original price €158.99The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the ...
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Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time: Reflections around Anachronistic Drawings
Anne BordeleauCurrent price €45.99Original price €49.99Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and s...
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House and Home: Cultural Contexts, Ontological Roles
Thomas BarrieCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives. This book challenges predominant definitions and argues that domestici...
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Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism
Miles David SamsonCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, ...
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Theatres of Architectural Imagination
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €127.87Original price €138.99This volume explores connections between architecture and theatre, and encourages imagination in the design of buildings and social spaces.Imaginat...
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Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain
Anandi RamamurthyCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...
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The Digital Bespoke?: Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization
ginger coonsCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies, and the step towards digitally built objects made to individual specif...
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Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 5001450
Claudia BolgiaCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church of Rome to...
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A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture: 1960-2010
David RifkindCurrent price €68.39Original price €71.991960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by se...
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The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston
Maurie D. McInnisCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth ...
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Postmodern Architecture in Socialist Poland: Transformation, Symbolic Form and National Identity
Florian UrbanCurrent price €42.31Original price €45.99Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenementsthis book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland betw...
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Neocolonialism and Built Heritage: Echoes of Empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colon...
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William Lethaby, Symbolism and the Occult
Amandeep Kaur MannCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (18571931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in partic...
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Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99This edited collection gathers contributions from a diverse range of renowned scholars and professionals to uncover the unique relationship between...
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American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979
Susanneh BieberCurrent price €141.67Original price €153.99This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960sfrom minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-spe...
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Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes
Nnamdi EllehCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urba...
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