History of architecture books

Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, this book unpacks postmodernism...  Read More >>

Winner, 2020 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture In this thoughtful tour...  Read More >>

An examination of how immersive colonial revival projects contributed to the formation of a White nationalist identity...  Read More >>

Celebrate the beauty of American design with this stunning hardcover coffee table book that explores traditional...  Read More >>

A stylish exploration of one of the greatest cities for Modernist architecture in the world. Modernism, characterized...  Read More >>

Exquisitely illustrated with new photography, providing comprehensive coverage of Prior's architectural work, as...  Read More >>

This book presents a critical vision of the role of architecture and design in constantly changing cities, territories...  Read More >>

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

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

The history of Britain told through the stories of twenty-five notable buildings, from the Iron Age fortification...  Read More >>

A devastating, meticulous account of the history of Israel's destruction of Gaza from an acclaimed architect and...  Read More >>

This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons, who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s...  Read More >>

This book considers the motives, and ambitions of writing architectural history during the 1900s. In reference to...  Read More >>

Landmarks with great historical, architectural, and cultural value are often demolished in the name of progress,...  Read More >>

Long before telescopes, observatories, or written calendars, human beings were already studying the sky. Across...  Read More >>

For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later...  Read More >>

The thrilling true story behind the Allies’ mission to take back Venice from the Germans – and save its artistic...  Read More >>

The first in-depth study of the history of Scottish new towns – their architecture, planning and communities.  Read More >>

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

An illustrated love letter to Perth’s heritage buildings—Building Stories: Perth reveals their gossipy pasts, surprising...  Read More >>

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

Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed...  Read More >>

Architects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries that Rome is rightly called the »eternal city«....  Read More >>

A lavishly illustrated guide to one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important residential buildings Completed in 1910,...  Read More >>

Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined...  Read More >>