History of Architecture

An essential and handy visual vocabulary of modern architecture. How to Read Modern Buildings is an indispensable pocket-sized guide to understand...

The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glass pavilions built between 1...

Upon setting foot in Dhaka, with its beautifully landscaped gardens adorning ancient mosques and monuments, it becomes clear that this is a city st...

The prevalence of sharing economy generates different consuming patterns. It is also possible to share working space. This book collects latest co-...

From the Rust Belt to Silicon Valley, the intersection between architecture and industry has provided a rich and evolving source for historians of ...

500 years ago in Venice, the first ghetto was born. It was the first of many 'Jewish enclosures' ordained by political powers, such as the Venetian...

Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the...

The Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin has carried out its task of promoting the arts in Germany since the year it was founded in 1696...

Edward Schroder Prior designed the cathedral of the Arts and Crafts Movement (St Andrew's Church, Roker), perfected the popular butterfly plan in h...

From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo ...

Founded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaicas north coast, Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it supported the rapidly e...

In 2019 it will be the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus. Prompted by this occasion, with project bauhaus ARCH+ has undertaken a...

Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and sc...

Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But this legacy li...

This sumptuously illustrated history presents, in an updated new edition, an in-depth account of Britain's most important buildings, from castles, ...

The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key...

A lavishly illustrated and meticulously detailed record of the historic Bayana region The architecture and monuments of Bayana in Rajasthan challen...

What happens when a monotheistic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has be...

One of the greatest and most in uential architects of Japan''s postwar generation, Shinohara Kazuo (1925-2006) has remained virtually unknown outsi...