History of Architecture

Four major communities, four buildings constructing their identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem.This book examines a fascinating and...

This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (15011722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action...

Dahomeys Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Pal...

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burfo...

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and th...

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out...

This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical a...

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and polit...

Architecture manifests as a space of concealment and unconcealment, lethe and alêtheia, enclosure and disclosure, where its making and agency are b...

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecol...

This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960sNelson Goodmans aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern architect...

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the disci...

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the disci...

Challenging mainstream architectures understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideas centrality, in a...

Challenging mainstream architectures understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allows the ideas centrality, in a...

This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.Taking a trans-cultu...

In 1908, the Exhibition Hall at the Mathildenhöhe Artists Colony in Darmstadtdesigned by the Jugendstil architect Joseph Maria Olbrichwas inaugurat...

In the architecture of Richard Neutra (18921970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek ...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...

Famed for his motto less is more, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (18861969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated ta...