History of Architecture

Originally published in 2014, The Shaping of London chronologically examines the likely impact of wars, dynastic struggles, demographic change and ...

Die Architektur der Nachkriegsmoderne stellt besondere Anforderungen an Bauforschung und Denkmalpflege. Müssen ihre Methoden dem oft seriellen Char...

This volume uses the travels of Roman governors to explore how authority was defined in and by the public places of Greek cities.By demonstrating t...

The church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, also called San Carlino, is an architectural artefact that continues to attract numerous hypotheses a...

This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in ...

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and arc...

A Cultural History of the Home presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2800 years of...

During the period of the Enlightenment, the word ‘home’ could refer to a specific and defined physical living space, the location of domestic life,...

The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1450, was one of enormous change in the way people lived in their houses. Medieval people could call...

This volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late...

Between the two World Wars, there was an unprecedented need for new houses in Britain which resulted in a building boom. While only a small percent...

The fortifications of Pompeii stand as the ancient city’s largest, oldest, and best preserved public monument. Over its 700-year history, Pompeii i...

This title was first published in 2002. This really is a text that will fill a long-felt want. A key figure in that history is Amédée Ozenfant, pai...

Vilified by leading architectural modernists and Victorian critics alike, mass-produced architectural ornament in iron has received little sustaine...

Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le...

Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from £3.4 million...

This title was first published in 2003: Modernist architecture claimed to be the 'international style' but the relationship between modernism and t...

A celebration of a unique culture and its experience of design, this sensitive text is a timely examination of Japanese design at the start of a ne...

Towards Tate Modern provides a new interdisciplinary account of Tate’s shifting position as a national arts institution. The book examines how earl...

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries dur...

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries dur...

This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pev...

The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise "blueprints" with...