History of architecture books

Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople...  Read More >>

The Optimum Imperative examines architecture's multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle...  Read More >>

Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant...  Read More >>

As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar's years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive...  Read More >>

Combining transgender studies with the 'neomodernist' architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller...  Read More >>

As elite communities in medieval societies the Military Orders were driven by the ambition to develop built environments...  Read More >>

The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the twentieth...  Read More >>

Both architecture and anthropology emerged as autonomous theoretical disciplines in the 18th-century enlightenment....  Read More >>

Marie Antoinette at Petit Trianon challenges common perceptions of the last Queen of France, appraising the role...  Read More >>

This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity. Bringing...  Read More >>

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Master Carver Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) is famous for his breathtakingly delicate, intricate and realistic carvings,...  Read More >>

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy...  Read More >>

The Architect as Magician explores the connection between magic and architecture. There is a belief that a greater...  Read More >>

Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects,...  Read More >>

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations...  Read More >>

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Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects,...  Read More >>

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The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how...  Read More >>

This new publication, illustrated with specially commissioned photography, draws on archaeology, archives and imagery...  Read More >>

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