History of architecture books

In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction...  Read More >>

Tour the world and discover the most exciting and innovative brick buildings! This volume features new talents as...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1958, A Guide to Western Architecture charts the origins of the system of architectural...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1964, The Englishman’s Chair is a history of English chairs, written as a continuous story...  Read More >>

First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of...  Read More >>

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The first in-depth publication of drawings that reveal the creative genius of H. H. Richardson, the greatest American...  Read More >>

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While...  Read More >>

""To what extent can a fish produce architecture? This book sets out to trace a socioecological history of North...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive monograph on the philosophy and works of architecture and design office Claesson...  Read More >>

This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important...  Read More >>

This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded...  Read More >>

Hong Kong's remarkable Brutalist architecture is compiled in this timely guide. This bilingual, two-sided map features...  Read More >>

Focused not on the making of architectural models but the visions they were made to communicate, this book examines...  Read More >>

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Co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses (1897) brought transatlantic...  Read More >>

With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions,...  Read More >>

First comprehensive monograph on the renowned Zurich-based architecture firm Steib Gmür Geschwentner Kyburz Partners....  Read More >>

An insightful and charming history of Britain's churches - by an author who spends his life working in them  Read More >>

Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers...  Read More >>

Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an interesting, diverse architectural...  Read More >>

The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings...  Read More >>

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well...  Read More >>