History of Architecture
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Housing, Architecture and the Edge Condition: Dublin is building, 1935 - 1975
Ellen RowleyCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99This book presents an architectural overview of Dublins mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporat...
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Equity in Heritage Conservation: The Case of Ahmedabad, India
Jigna DesaiCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...
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Building Paradise: Episodes in Paradisiacal Thinking
Harry Francis MallgraveCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99A sweeping historical study, Building Paradise seeks to construct a garden ethic for the design arts. It is an ethic predicated on the idea that, w...
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Louis I. Kahn in Rome and Venice: Tangible Forms
Elisabetta BarizzaCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project for Venice. It presents an orig...
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The Latent World of Architecture: Selected Essays
Dalibor VeselyCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (19342015). Vesely was a leading authority on phil...
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Hans Hollein and Postmodernism: Art and Architecture in Austria, 1958-1985
Eva BranscomeCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book inv...
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The Poetics of Arabian Sqs: A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present
Jasmine ShahinCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99This book investigates the history of Arabian sqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, ...
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A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture: 1700-2014
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from th...
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The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind
Kevin NuteCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and ...
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Modernising Post-war France: Architecture and Urbanism during Les Trente Glorieuses
Nicholas BullockCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...
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The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940
Julie CollinsCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmac...
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Radical Marble: Architectural Innovation from Antiquity to the Present
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon ...
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Open Architecture for the People: Housing Development in Post-War Japan
Shuichi MatsumuraCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018. Chan...
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An Analysis of Yasser Tabbaa''s The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival
Bilal BadatCurrent price €23.91Original price €25.99Tabbaas Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the oft...
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Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence
Pablo Lorenzo-EiroaCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...
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Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence
Pablo Lorenzo-EiroaCurrent price €43.69Original price €45.99This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architect...
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Architectural Anthropology: Exploring Lived Space
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...
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The Architecture of San Juan de Puerto Rico: Five centuries of urban and architectural experimentation
Arleen Pabón-CharnecoCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...
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An Architecture of Care in South Africa: From Arts and Crafts to Other Progeny
Nicholas CoetzerCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Moveme...
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Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This v...
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Post-Western Histories of Architecture
Marco BiraghiCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical a...
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Architectural Colossi and the Human Body: Buildings and Metaphors
Charalampos PolitakisCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for th...
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Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture, and Design
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €126.64Original price €148.99Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wid...
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Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous
Phillip James TabbCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary? Why are some urban spaces more vital and restorative? Wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of arch...
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