History of architecture books

The definitive illustrated guide to modern British architecture Modernism is now a century old, and its consequences...  Read More >>

Step into the captivating history of California's iconic Franciscan missions with George Wharton James. In this...  Read More >>

"""This book situates and reappraises Thorstein Veblen's famous Theory of the Leisure Class in the time and especially...  Read More >>

The untold story of America’s first independent female architect  Read More >>

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""An interpretation of architecture and urbanism in seventeenth-century Isfahan, Iran, through the analytical lens...  Read More >>

In a well-known debate with Geraldo Ferraz in 1948, Lúcio Costa argued that modern architecture as practiced in...  Read More >>

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The rediscovery of who we are and where we live has urged us to reconsider our passive attitude. However, there...  Read More >>

As I sketched, I often thought of George Santayana’s words: “Great weathered works of architecture become part of...  Read More >>

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described...  Read More >>

This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language...  Read More >>

This book is part of the 'Everything without Content' series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis,...  Read More >>

Artistic Migration investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer,...  Read More >>

This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language...  Read More >>

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Förster chronicles the expansion of architecture as a profession and discipline in the postmodern era.  Read More >>

This book is a rigorous account of architecture’s theoretical and technological concerns over the last decade. The...  Read More >>

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This book brings together a number of important older texts and three new, unpublished essays on the work and reception...  Read More >>

An American farmer shoots an English pig, sparking a war over an international boundary. Explore the disputed islands...  Read More >>

The theme of the book is the interpretation of Italian Renaissance art by French artists as of the final decades...  Read More >>

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In the preface to the Spanish edition of Survival Through Design, Neutra states that he felt culturally ""familiar...  Read More >>