History of architecture books

""A comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago's residential architecture and the stories that shaped it....  Read More >>

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The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment,...  Read More >>

This book starts with a paradox: how the Chinese Cultural Revolution—through its adaptation by French Theory and...  Read More >>

The first publication of artist and architect Frederick Kiesler s epoch-spanning history of human architecture,...  Read More >>

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Humanity didn't lose its history - we buried it. Forgotten Architects rips the dust sheets off humanity's oldest...  Read More >>

This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author....  Read More >>

New England Lighthouses There are over 200 historic Lighthouses surviving in New England and their natural setting...  Read More >>

This is the first study of the work of architect Sidney Colwyn Foulkes (1884-1971), one of Britain's most significant...  Read More >>

Das weitraumige, von Aschaffenburg im Westen bis nach Bayreuth im Osten reichende Gebiet der bayerischen Regierungsbezirke...  Read More >>

This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author....  Read More >>

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The Mechanized Landscape: Statecraft and Environment in the Tennessee Valley examines this comprehensive effort...  Read More >>

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization-from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos...  Read More >>

Using rarely published archival materials as well as new drawings produced by the book’s author, Oblique Experiments...  Read More >>

This book presents technical knowledge already available and identifies operational-methodological flows aimed at...  Read More >>

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Historic Vermont is a captivating visual journey through one of America's most beautiful and historically rich states....  Read More >>

How Was the Great Pyramid of Cheops Really Built? For centuries, theories have been repeated that, when examined...  Read More >>

This volume presents anew the influential 20th-century architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose reputation has...  Read More >>

This pioneering monograph on Shamsul Wares, Bangladesh’s acclaimed architect and educator, demonstrates architecture...  Read More >>

As the first English translation of Toshio Nakamura’s 2015 memoir, this expanded facsimile of “Architects in Memories”...  Read More >>

A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate,...  Read More >>

Esra Akcan explores architecture's role in the healing processes that take place following socioeconomic, political,...  Read More >>