Public Buildings: Civic, Commercial, Industrial, etc

A new perspective on a beloved cultural icon, its place in our history, and its meaning in the American imagination This elegantly written apprecia...

The story of one of Minnesota’s most famous and most mourned buildings, set against the history of downtown Minneapolis When it opened in 1890, the...

The book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography. It is a listing of select pairs of building...

Over the past ten years, the Library of Congress has cataloged more than forty thousand drawings, prints, and photographs that capture important de...

The book documents the most exciting projects in Amsterdam's current architectural scene, including floating houses, hotels in former bridge keeper...

Das Buch dokumentiert die spannendsten Projekte von Amsterdams aktueller Architekturszene – darunter schwimmende Häuser, Hotels in ehemaligen Brück...

This is a compilation of the full year's information, including: the "Discussion" section, where well-known architects and critics as well as speci...

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid an...

Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geogr...

Today, universities serve as the economic engines and cultural centers of many U.S. cities, but how did this come to be? In Building the Ivory Towe...

Even before the upheaval of the Revolution, France sought a new formal language for a regenerated nation. Nowhere is this clearer than in its tombs...

The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the ...

This book is an experiment on constructing a text starting — exclusively and strictly — from the materials of an architectural project. As in an ar...

The study Reimagining the Library of the Future investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library...

Since its beginnings, tourism has inspired built environments that have suggested reinvented relationships with their original architectural inspir...

This publication documents Trajan's Hollow, a transformative reproduction of Trajan's Column in Rome, to address issues of critical importance in c...