History of architecture books

13226 books were found.

60 Remarkable Rooms of the National Trust

60 Remarkable Rooms of the National Trust

Author: Elizabeth Green ,  Lucy Porten
ISBN: 9780707804729
Format: Hardback
$29.99

This beautifully illustrated book showcases a selection of 60 remarkable interiors selected from the thousands cared...  Read More >>

Brutalist Korea: A Photographic Tour of Post-War Korean Architecture

Brutalist Korea: A Photographic Tour of Post-War Korean...

Author: Paul Tulett
ISBN: 9783791376554
Format: Hardback
$120.00

In this elegant follow-up to the bestselling Brutalist Japan, Paul Tulett brings his distinctive eye to South Korea's...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture

Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture...

Author: Jane King Hession
ISBN: 9781517922221
Format: Paperback
$62.99

An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota's first modern architect 2024 Docomomo US Modernism in...  Read More >>

Country Houses: The Architecture of Mark P. Finlay

Country Houses: The Architecture of Mark P. Finlay

Author: Mark P. Finlay
ISBN: 9781923094123
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Country Houses: The Architecture of Mark P. Finlay grants exclusive access beyond the stone walls and the guardhouses...  Read More >>

The Houses of Guadalajara: Ghosts of Modernity / Ghosts of the Past

The Houses of Guadalajara: Ghosts of Modernity / Ghosts...

Author: Jesús Vassallo ,  Jorge Muñoz
ISBN: 9783035629927
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Mexican architecture of the 20th century was influenced by two generations who were active in Guadalajara in the...  Read More >>

Victorian Architecture

Victorian Architecture

Author: G.A. Bremner (Professor of Architectural History, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198835394
Format: Paperback
$58.95

A new, concise history of buildings erected all over Britain and its colonial empire during the long nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Writings of Steen Eiler Rasmussen: Northern and Central European Architecture and Urbanism Until 1945

The Writings of Steen Eiler Rasmussen: Northern and...

Author: Michael Asgaard Andersen
ISBN: 9788712072799
Format: Hardback
$174.90

Explore rich insights into architecture and urban design that challenge conventional paradigms. Incisive analyses...  Read More >>

Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project

Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan...

Author: Dr Ana Bonet Miró
ISBN: 9781350345409
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893–1915

Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture...

Author: Elizabeth R. Macaulay (City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781009407106
Format: Paperback
$98.32

World's fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture...  Read More >>

Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban

Author: Taschen
ISBN: 9783754404560
Format: Hardback
$32.99

From a cardboard cathedral to emergency shelters in paper tubing, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has...  Read More >>

Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893–1915

Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture...

Author: Elizabeth R. Macaulay (City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781009407137
Format: Hardback
$284.63

World's fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture...  Read More >>

Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon

Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon

Author: Eleanor Jolliffe ,  Sandy Rattray
ISBN: 9781858947211
Format: Hardback
$103.37

With specially commissioned photography and written by architects, musicians, historians, technicians and cultural...  Read More >>

Wrexham in 50 Buildings

Wrexham in 50 Buildings

Author: Christopher Davies
ISBN: 9781398124530
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Explore the rich history of Wrexham in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings....  Read More >>

Windmills of Essex

Windmills of Essex

Author: Ian Yearsley
ISBN: 9781398125773
Format: Paperback
$41.37

A fascinating exploration of the windmills of Essex, including those still standing today and those lost in the...  Read More >>

Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens

Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of...

Author: David Stuttard
ISBN: 9780674258471
Format: Hardback
$51.95

The so-called Golden Age of Athens, during and after the primacy of Pericles, was in fact a time of ruinous culture...  Read More >>

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 >>

Intersections: Interdisciplinary Research on Architecture, Design, City and Territory

Intersections: Interdisciplinary Research on Architecture,...

Author: Magdalena Vicuña ,  Emanuele Giorgi
ISBN: 9783031764042
Format: Paperback
$527.97

This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories...  Read More >>

Global—Neutral: Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989

Global—Neutral: Architecture from Austria in Africa...

Author: Monika Platzer ,  Susanne Rick
ISBN: 9783038604730
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Lavishly illustrated, this is the first book on the global and postcolonial entanglements of Austrian architecture...  Read More >>

New Schools on the Block: School Buildings—A Typological Inventory

New Schools on the Block: School Buildings—A Typological...

Author: AFF Architekten
ISBN: 9783038604709
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Offers a survey of a decade of school building design by Berlin- and Lausanne-based AFF Architekten, a collective...  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 >>

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 >>

African Mansions on the Gold Coast: How the Elites Resisted Colonialism with Status and Modernity

African Mansions on the Gold Coast: How the Elites Resisted...

Author: Courtnay Micots
ISBN: 9781032733098
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons, who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s...  Read More >>

Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia and the Works of Geoffrey Scott and Bernard Berenson

Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia...

Author: Mark Campbell
ISBN: 9781032381886
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book considers the motives, and ambitions of writing architectural history during the 1900s. In reference to...  Read More >>

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