History of architecture books

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Monumental: Great Buildings of the World Through the Hands and Eyes of a Stonemason

Monumental: Great Buildings of the World Through the...

Author: Simon Warrack
ISBN: 9780008658830
Format: Paperback
$36.99

'I loved this book. What a joy to read a craftsman so clearly in love with his craft' SIMON JENKINS 'A...  Read More >>

Monumental: Great Buildings of the World Through the Hands and Eyes of a Stonemason

Monumental: Great Buildings of the World Through the...

Author: Simon Warrack
ISBN: 9780008658823
Format: Hardback
$50.00

'I loved this book. What a joy to read a craftsman so clearly in love with his craft' SIMON JENKINS 'A...  Read More >>

Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live

Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines...

Author: Michael Murphy
ISBN: 9781668056554
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway

From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's...

Author: Professor Nick Yablon
ISBN: 9780231203531
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Presenting striking images from an amateur photographer’s album depicting a changing Broadway, this book offers...  Read More >>

The Poetry of Architecture: Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in Its Association With Natural Scenery and National Character (Cram Edition)

The Poetry of Architecture: Or, the Architecture of...

Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9781026116937
Format: Paperback
$55.31

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Faro Modernism: Buildings, heritage and culture through the lens of an artist

Faro Modernism: Buildings, heritage and culture through...

Author: Richard Walker
ISBN: 9781849949958
Format: Hardback
$95.00

A stylish exploration of one of the greatest cities for Modernist architecture in the world. Modernism, characterized...  Read More >>

The Architecture and Writings of E.S. Prior: Challenging the Arts and Crafts

The Architecture and Writings of E.S. Prior: Challenging...

Author: David Valinsky ,  Dan Cruickshank
ISBN: 9781848227224
Format: Hardback
$144.00

Exquisitely illustrated with new photography, providing comprehensive coverage of Prior's architectural work, as...  Read More >>

Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings

Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five...

Author: Steven Parissien
ISBN: 9781801108768
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable buildings, from the Iron Age fortification...  Read More >>

Robie House: A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece

Robie House: A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece

Author: Patrick F. Cannon ,  James Caulfield
ISBN: 9781517921774
Format: Hardback
$92.27

A lavishly illustrated guide to one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important residential buildings Completed in 1910,...  Read More >>

Lahore After Modernism: Architecture and Its Histories in Pakistan

Lahore After Modernism: Architecture and Its Histories...

Author: Chris Moffat
ISBN: 9781503646759
Format: Paperback
$69.99

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future –...  Read More >>

Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide

Author: Eyal Weizman
ISBN: 9781911717331
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel's destruction of Gaza from an acclaimed architect and...  Read More >>

Learning from Lahore: Architecture and Its Histories in Pakistan

Learning from Lahore: Architecture and Its Histories...

Author: Chris Moffat
ISBN: 9781503646254
Format: Hardback
$277.00

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future –...  Read More >>

Underground Shelters of Cappadocia, Turkey

Underground Shelters of Cappadocia, Turkey

Author: Ali Yamaç ,  Ezgi Tok
ISBN: 9783032160942
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book provides a comprehensive account of the underground shelters in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia....  Read More >>

The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City

The Aquatic Metropolis: Urban Design and Environmental...

Author: John F. López (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780271100418
Format: Hardback
$146.00

For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later...  Read More >>

Hopes and Fears for Art: FIVE LECTURES BY WILLIAM MORRIS (Cram Edition)

Hopes and Fears for Art: FIVE LECTURES BY WILLIAM MORRIS...

Author: William Morris
ISBN: 9781026106754
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Cram Edition)

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Cram Edition)

Author: Henry Adams
ISBN: 9781026107584
Format: Paperback
$73.79

This XpressRead Cram Edition of Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared...  Read More >>

Aalto and Nature

Aalto and Nature

Author: Tom Simons ,  Rainer Knapas
ISBN: 9783035628845
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Alvar Aalto's work is strongly influenced by his experience of nature – especially in the deep forests of his Finnish...  Read More >>

Crossing Boundaries: How Ornament Led to Architecture

Crossing Boundaries: How Ornament Led to Architecture...

Author: Sidney K Robinson
ISBN: 9781938938801
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Frank Lloyd Wright, America's most noted architect, crossed boundaries as he thought and as he designed. He discussed...  Read More >>

Gunung Padang Hidden Pyramid

Gunung Padang Hidden Pyramid

Author: Darius Arkwright
ISBN: 9798235228467
Format: Paperback
$36.93

What if the origins of civilization are far older than we've been told? Hidden beneath the lush highlands of West...  Read More >>

Gunung Padang Hidden Pyramid

Gunung Padang Hidden Pyramid

Author: Darius Arkwright
ISBN: 9798232806644
Format: Paperback
$26.37

What if the origins of civilization are far older than we've been told? Hidden beneath the lush highlands of West...  Read More >>

The Architectural Casino: Conversations about Modernism in Haifa

The Architectural Casino: Conversations about Modernism...

Author: Ines Weizman
ISBN: 9783035806878
Format: Paperback
$82.80

A French-language edition, which offers a new approach Weizman names ""documentary architecture,"" meaning that...  Read More >>

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings

Author: Dan Cruickshank
ISBN: 9781804941546
Format: Paperback
$35.00

Beyond the front door... Britain's leading house detective reveals the stories of eight extraordinary buildings...  Read More >>

Soviet Scientific Institutes

Soviet Scientific Institutes

Author: Eric Lusito ,  Paul Josephson
ISBN: 9781068294600
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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The Göbekli Tepe Enigma

The Göbekli Tepe Enigma

Author: Matrix Wisdom
ISBN: 9798235347724
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Beneath the rolling hills of southeastern Turkey lies a discovery that rewrites the story of human civilization....  Read More >>

The Göbekli Tepe Enigma

The Göbekli Tepe Enigma

Author: Matrix Wisdom
ISBN: 9798235809192
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Beneath the rolling hills of southeastern Turkey lies a discovery that rewrites the story of human civilization....  Read More >>

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