History of Architecture

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, containe...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to ass...

Architecture and Affect is motivated by two questions: Why does dismissed affective evidence trouble us? What would it mean for architecture to ass...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term transgression and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios....

Architects care. It is foundational and germane to the discipline and practice of architecture. This book charts the way the Arts and Crafts Moveme...

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...

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag b...

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag b...

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

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select proj...

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in...

How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the soldiers, th...

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (17241803) and his impact on architectural theory and ped...

Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence maps out and expands upon the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorates the concept of dis...

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement, visibility, and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the ...

This book brings together a dozen of Philip Steadmans essays and papers on the geometry of architectural and urban form, written over the last 12 y...

Bringing together 12 original essays, Shaping the American Interior maps out, for the first time, the development and definition of the field of in...

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the foc...