Public Buildings: Civic, Commercial, Industrial, etc

Louis Kahn' National Assembly building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is regarded by many as his greatest masterpiece and one of the wonders ...

Thirty years ago, few residents of Asian cities had ever been on a plane, much less outside their home countries. Today, flying, and flying abroad,...

Plymouth has been a major port for centuries. Famous Elizabethan maritime traders sailed from the port and its position on the Devon coast enabled ...

Explore Historic Homes of Famous WomenAdd to your travel bucket list with A Room of Their Own, the history guide to famous ladies and their estates...

In preRevolutionary War America, libraries were member-driven collections for the elite; it was not until 1790 that Benjamin Franklin helped to es...

Design That Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors, 3rd Edition is the award-winning, essential textbook and guide for underst...

 Theatre in Passing explores spaces of performance in contemporary Moscow. Inspired by French philosopher Michel de Certeaus model of a second, poe...

This book discusses spaces of performance from formal opera houses to parks and graffiti around the world and is a companion to Theatre in Passing:...

This is the eighth set in an ongoing series of books. Each of the titles tells the story of a single building. It is our hope that as these books a...

Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (18871965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private vil...

Rouge Lointain is first and foremost a book of photographs that is in line with the resolutely contemporary trend of preserving traces of places an...

After years of absence, the Federal Constitutional Court building is once again making an appearance on television screens, in reports about the ac...

The extraordinary Watts Towers were created over the course of three decades by a determined, single-minded artist, Sabato Rodia, a highly remarkab...

Daniela Keiser ranks among the most renowned contemporary artists in Switzerland. In 2017 she was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim as well as a stu...

The first modern history of St Jamess Palace, shedding light on a remarkable building at the heart of the history of the British monarchy that rema...

In post-Soviet Russia, there is a persistent trend to repress, control, or even co-opt national history. By reshaping memory to suit a politically ...

The story of internationally renowned architect I. M. Peis life and work, including such instantly recognisable buildings as the glass pyramid at t...