History of architecture books

Presenting striking images from an amateur photographer’s album depicting a changing Broadway, this book offers...  Read More >>

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Choosing Architecture traces the history of arguments about architecture in the West via analyses of key documents...  Read More >>

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

Explore the rich history of Wrexham in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings....  Read More >>

A fascinating exploration of the windmills of Essex, including those still standing today and those lost in the...  Read More >>

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

Manfredo Tafuri was one of the most important historians of architecture in the 20th century, and his work continues...  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 >>

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

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

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

An essay that deftly deconstructs the history of 'Islamic architecture', challenging colonial narratives and promoting...  Read More >>

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

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

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