History of Architecture

This book traces the evolving relationship between the architecture and climate of Britain from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century. Throug...

The Neue Nationalgalerie, which was erected in 1965–68, is the only building by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany from after the Se...

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 edited collection examines the development of Atlantic World architecture after 1492. In particular, the chapters explore the landscapes of ex...

Ugly, Useless, Unstable Architectures traces productive intersections between architecture and the discourses of Post-Structuralism and New Materia...

Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workh...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) After its foundation in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus developed into an...

In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. T...

Construction de l'image de rituel – Ambiances rituelles – Iconographie d'objets rituels –Images rituelles dans le sanctuaire – Contextes et portée ...

This book investigates architecture as a form of diplomacy in the context of the Second World War at six major European international and national ...

Rekonstruktion bleibt ein Reizthema. Der Autor eröffnet eine pragmatische Sichtweise auf die polarisierende, oft polemisch geführte Diskussion. Erg...

From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led...

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires. One hitherto over...

A pioneer of architectural history Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) entered the modernist canon with her “Frankfurt Kitchen.” She is also co...

Whatever ‘ugliness’ is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics – alternately vilified and appropriated, used either to shock...

Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T-models, designed for mass prod...

By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found t...

The construction of high-rise buildings is often accompanied by highly emotional debate. On the one hand, this building type is seen as a solution ...

Noch immer erweist sich der Platz als Ort der gesellschaftlichen Selbstvergewisserung, an dem Denkmalsetzungen, Bilderstürze und andere soziale wie...

How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds—and of all those wh...

This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino’s (1521–1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of th...

Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and...

A richly illustrated exploration of the architecture of one of England’s hidden gems—Nottinghamshire This volume offers an enlightening introductio...

The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown pr...

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its...

This title offer an illustrated account of classical Greek buildings, sculptures and paintings, that are shown in 200 glorious photographs and draw...

For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the ...

Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychologica...

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we...

The firm of Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, which has been practicing for 25 years, entered upon a new phase of its career in 1992, when the architec...

Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one o...

This book tells the story of communal living forms from about 1850 until the present day. The projects featured in this book are divided according ...

Der Mittelrhein weist nicht nur eine reizvolle Landschaft auf, sondern auch eine außergewöhnliche Dichte an anspruchsvollen mittelalterlichen Kirch...

This publication collects many unpublished material from Otl Aicher, a legendary figure in contemporary design. The eighty unpublished drawings of ...

How the relationships between education and outer space have developed historically is exemplified in an incisive way by the decades that followed ...

This book offers a scholarly guide to the tangible and intangible heritage of the 19th- and 20th-century district of Downtown Cairo. For the first ...

If postmodernism is indeed 'the cultural logic of late capitalism', why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identit...