History of architecture books

This volume is a history of monuments, primarily exploring Kinkakuji, the Golden Pavilion of Japan. It adopts a...  Read More >>

After the First World War, Interior Design emerged in Britain as a distinctive profession, one that used fresh eyes...  Read More >>

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

Wie sahen die mittelalterlichen Rathäuser aus und woher stammten ihre architektonischen Formen? Wie wurden sie benutzt?...  Read More >>

This publication, the second volume of a broader project, presents the immured glazed vessels (the bacini) located...  Read More >>

As a subject, Waterloo Bridge fascinated writers and artists such as Dickens, Constable, Monet and Derain. This...  Read More >>

During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and...  Read More >>

This volume offers multiple perspectives on the study of the 'petrification of wealth' during the central Middle...  Read More >>

During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and...  Read More >>

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

Discover how an iconic modernist home was brought back to life through an ambitious restoration grounded in historical...  Read More >>

Between 1950 and 1971 in Germany, 26 new synagogues were built. The consecration of the synagogues in Saarbrücken...  Read More >>

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 >>

This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in...  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 >>

First published in 1976 Architecture and the Environment gives a comprehensive account of the role of architecture...  Read More >>

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

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This book offers new scholarly perspectives on diverse roles that gardens played in Italian Renaissance culture...  Read More >>

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

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