History of Architecture

McClean s second Rizzoli book explores sixteen ultra-modern residences completed over the past five years. Rigorous, elegant, and impeccably detail...

This is the first book on the world-renowned Chilean architect Cazu Zegers, who practices an intensely ecological form of architecture based on an ...

Traces the history of a magnificent landmark in the history of late medieval art and architecture. As the principal royal chapel in the medieval ...

First published in 2017 as Revisiting Postmodernism, this refreshed edition of a seminal text reflects on a design movement that changed our world....

A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect  “A balanced look at the ...

A reassessment of the career of architect Paul Rudolph, from his modernist Sarasota houses to his controversial Brutalist buildings and later inter...

Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia. Representing a transition in the ...

Ezequiel Farca looks to the work of the late design icon Luis Barragan for inspiration, blending tradition with modernity. He focuses on the import...

Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito—the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous yet understudied built environmen...

How conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all.Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist arc...

As seen in Fast Company, Wallpaper*, and Dezeen An innovative and original survey of the best Mid-Century Modern architecture from around the wor...

A collection of writings that sets out Kengo Kuma’s theories of architecture, but also a left field critique of where the architecture world finds ...

Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project – developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewo...

An extraordinary house and compound of buildings that complements the cactus-studded environs and rolling hills of the Scottsdale desert in Arizona...

At the turn of the 20th century, industrial manufacturing was expanding dramatically while factory buildings remained fire-prone relics of an earli...

How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy For almost seven years after World...