History of architecture books

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

An engaging, beautifully illustrated history of London told through twenty-five lost buildings  Read More >>

A richly illustrated survey of over 50 Brutalist buildings across London, combining sharp architectural insight...  Read More >>

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

A personal investigation on Havana Deco’ architecture carried out by Duccio Malagamba, an architect and architectural...  Read More >>

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

A sweeping history of humanity’s most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities and people...  Read More >>

Rare architectural drawings from the Gothic period uncover a flourishing tradition of design and draftsmanship,...  Read More >>

The story of the hundred-year evolution of Portmeirion, a unique and captivating Italianate village on the coast...  Read More >>

From Toledo to Moscow and Stockholm to Seville, discover the continent's finest architecture with the Sunday Times...  Read More >>

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

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

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

The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity...  Read More >>

This book collects thirteen exhibitions that read architecture as a field coordinated by documents with distinct...  Read More >>

Out There is a critical survey of 50 architectural firms working across America's regional cities and small towns....  Read More >>

A provocative and personal investigation into the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment.  Read More >>

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

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

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

A remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick.   By the late 1920s, at...  Read More >>

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This selected essays volume includes all of Wolfgang Schenkluhn's important works on the history of medieval church...  Read More >>