History of architecture books

This Very Short Introduction presents an original and engaging overview of the architecture of Britain, from medieval...  Read More >>

From Paper Tube Emergency Shelters and his Nomadic Museum built with containers to the Swatch/Omega Campus and the...  Read More >>

A generously illustrated, definitive guide to the built world of Missouri. Includes substantive guides to the major...  Read More >>

A comprehensive global survey of more than 300 extraordinary unbuilt architecture projects from the 20th century...  Read More >>

"""Retro-Futurism: The Golden Age of Future Possibilities"" is an enthralling book that invites readers to embark...  Read More >>

""Explores the foundation and development of Marrakesh during the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, drawing upon...  Read More >>

A comprehensive volume on Swiss-American architect Albert Frey, whose ""simple but severe"" style of Desert Modernism...  Read More >>

This first English-language biography of Hermann Mattern (1902–1971), one of Germany’s principal twentieth-century...  Read More >>

This book introduces readers to an important but largely unknown strand of European modernism in Vienna--defining...  Read More >>

Why did artists include prominent architectural settings in their narrative paintings? Why did they labour over...  Read More >>

The architectural work of Hans and Wassili Luckhardt (1890–1954/1889–1972) is not yet adequately appreciated. As...  Read More >>

Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred. The colored light projected...  Read More >>

"Two rivers, the Delaware and the Schuylkill, shape the city of Philadelphia. The Schuylkill by flowing into the...  Read More >>

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When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a programme of transforming Germany from a democracy into...  Read More >>

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A revealing history of Islamic architecture's influence on Europe's cathedrals, palaces and public buildings.  Read More >>

The ideas that became the blueprints for the world we live in.  Read More >>

The ideas that became the blueprints for the world we live in.  Read More >>

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The Hypospace of Japanese Architecture pushes past clichés of an exotic Japan to confront the modernity of an island...  Read More >>

The ultimate book of concrete architecture, featuring 300 buildings of every type and style from the past 100 years...  Read More >>

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This book explores the transformation of the window during the Early Modern Period in Europe. Following the Italian...  Read More >>

"Death of Hope: Israel-Palestine"" by Ali Azam is an introspective examination of the enduring conflict between...  Read More >>