History of architecture books

This volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built...  Read More >>

The air in the villa is thick with the scent of lime and damp stone, but mosaic artist Lyra can only feel the cold...  Read More >>

Explore the exceptional interiors of central Melbourne, from the iconic to the hidden, some rarely accessible to...  Read More >>

Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist eine Reise voller Entdeckungen, Erfindungen und Wendepunkte. Nach den Grundlagen...  Read More >>

In a century that worshipped progress, no art form embodied faith and failure more completely than architecture....  Read More >>

The overlooked history of modern church architecture in post-war Australia Over 1,650 churches were built in Queensland,...  Read More >>

This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different...  Read More >>

Para-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial entanglements in South Pacific architecture. Knowledge of colonial architecture...  Read More >>

An exploration of the incredible career and legacy of Herbert Simms, Dublin’s first dedicated housing architect....  Read More >>

This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi-colonial power...  Read More >>

For decades, María Cordova (1895-1975) lived in an adobe house in Tucson, Arizona. In 1972, she and her family were...  Read More >>

A trove of insights into and images of an important, little-known Frank Lloyd Wright building The house that Frank...  Read More >>

While pubs exist primarily to sell alcohol, it's where friends meet and enjoy the entertainment on offer, whether...  Read More >>

Across the high Andes, the Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, and beyond, there stand stones that refuse to fall. Colossal...  Read More >>

This book provides a fresh look at Alvar Aalto’s regional and community planning work, particularly the ways in...  Read More >>

This book provides a fresh look at Alvar Aalto’s regional and community planning work, particularly the ways in...  Read More >>

Step into the shadows of the world's most infamous cursed locations, where history, tragedy, and misfortune have...  Read More >>

In Sushma Yonzon, author Joy delivers a deeply emotional story of love, heartbreak, and self-reflection through...  Read More >>

Before there was a Los Angeles or a San Francisco, there was Spain's first colony in upper California, El Presidio...  Read More >>

Storia delle case di tolleranza di Lugo, nel mezzo della Romagna estense, dal 1946 al 1958.Fotografie di Paolo Guerra...  Read More >>

An in-depth look at the iconic mid-nineteenth-century building and its construction during a period of revolution...  Read More >>

""First comprehensive, global look at how architecture and sickness are tightly intertwined from ancient Greece...  Read More >>

A standard reference on the typology of the urban high-rise, now available in English for the first time in a revised,...  Read More >>

This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural...  Read More >>

Monuments are sites of collective memory – and increasingly, the subject of controversy. Their existence is questioned,...  Read More >>