History of architecture books

13189 books were found.

Inner Empire: Architecture and Imperialism in the British Isles, 1550-1950

Inner Empire: Architecture and Imperialism in the British...

Author: Daniel Maudlin ,  Alex Bremner
ISBN: 9781526194831
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood...  Read More >>

Excavate, Accrete, Stratify: An Ecology of Ideas

Excavate, Accrete, Stratify: An Ecology of Ideas

Author: Nisha Mathew Ghosh
ISBN: 9781032966755
Format: Paperback
$98.30

This book offers one of the first critical, research-oriented biographies of an architectural practice from the...  Read More >>

Modern Architecture of Quito: Global, Local, and the In-Between

Modern Architecture of Quito: Global, Local, and the...

Author: Christian Parreno (San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador)
ISBN: 9781350454934
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A historical study of Latin American modernism, foregrounding Quito, Ecuador as a point of encounter between local...  Read More >>

Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a Cultural Project

Architecture, Media, Archives: The Fun Palace of Joan...

Author: Dr Ana Bonet Miró
ISBN: 9781350345409
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A critical investigation of the 1960s Fun Palace that focuses on its ambitious cultural agenda and emphasises the...  Read More >>

Choosing Architecture: Criticism, History and Theory since the 19th Century, Second Expanded Edition

Choosing Architecture: Criticism, History and Theory...

Author: Christophe Van Gerrewey
ISBN: 9782889156504
Format: Hardback
$132.95

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

Excavate, Accrete, Stratify: An Ecology of Ideas

Excavate, Accrete, Stratify: An Ecology of Ideas

Author: Nisha Mathew Ghosh
ISBN: 9781032966748
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book offers one of the first critical, research-oriented biographies of an architectural practice from the...  Read More >>

Neutra. 45th Ed.

Neutra. 45th Ed.

Author: Barbara Lamprecht ,  Peter Gössel
ISBN: 9783754400043
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Meet the structures of Austrian-American Richard Neutra, master of postwar architecture, whose cool, sleek style...  Read More >>

States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French Colonial Continuum

States of Emergency: A Spatial History of the French...

Author: Léopold Lambert ,  Lara Vergnaud
ISBN: 9781941332870
Format: Paperback
$60.72

States of Emergency navigates the temporal and spatial dimensions of France’s states of emergency across three colonial...  Read More >>

Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture at American World's Fairs, 1893–1915

Ancient Fantasies and Modern Power: Neo-Antique Architecture...

Author: Elizabeth R. Macaulay (City University of New York)
ISBN: 9781009407137
Format: Hardback
$284.63

World's fairs are among the most significant modern phenomena. Between 1893 and 1915, classical and Egyptian architecture...  Read More >>

Berkhamsted in 50 Buildings

Berkhamsted in 50 Buildings

Author: Paul Rabbitts ,  Peter Jeffree
ISBN: 9781398128385
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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

Evesham in 50 Buildings

Evesham in 50 Buildings

Author: Stan Brotherton
ISBN: 9781398126558
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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

The Roman Arch: Architecture, Politics, and the Commemoration of Victory in Rome (196 BCE to 43 CE)

The Roman Arch: Architecture, Politics, and the Commemoration...

Author: Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta (Research Associate, Research Associate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
ISBN: 9780197815076
Format: Hardback
$245.95

The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Colonial Heritage in West African Cities: Urban Space in Cape Verde, Senegal and The Gambia

Reconsidering Colonial Heritage in West African Cities:...

Author: Krzysztof Górny
ISBN: 9781032531786
Format: Paperback
$119.00

This book discusses the varying responses to colonial heritage in West African cities, with a focus on Praia in...  Read More >>

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto

Author: William Kergroach
ISBN: 9798233315749
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Figura esencial de la arquitectura moderna, Alvar Aalto ocupa una posición singular en la historia del siglo XX....  Read More >>

Ancient art of dowsing

Ancient art of dowsing

Author: Duane Arthur Ose
ISBN: 9781968059187
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This book answers all the questions on dowsing, informing the reader as to why and how dowsing works. Moreover,...  Read More >>

Legenda di Balik Monumen

Legenda di Balik Monumen

Author: Dayat Suryana
ISBN: 9798233901850
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Setiap monumen adalah harta berharga, bukan sekadar batu atau bangunan, tetapi saksi sejarah, penjaga legenda, dan...  Read More >>

University College London: The Bloomsbury Campus

University College London: The Bloomsbury Campus

Author: Amy Spencer ,  Colin Thom
ISBN: 9781806550760
Format: Hardback
$194.06

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Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto

Author: William Kergroach
ISBN: 9798233956577
Format: Paperback
$21.09

holds a singular position in the history of modern architecture. Neither marginal nor strictly doctrinal, his work...  Read More >>

Norman Foster. Networks

Norman Foster. Networks

Author: Norman Foster
ISBN: 9783754406823
Format: Hardback
$175.00

In richly visual essays, written and curated by Foster himself, the internationally celebrated architect examines...  Read More >>

Black Architect

Black Architect

Author: Sekou Cooke
ISBN: 9783038603825
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A provocative and personal investigation into the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment.  Read More >>

African Mansions on the Gold Coast: How the Elites Resisted Colonialism with Status and Modernity

African Mansions on the Gold Coast: How the Elites Resisted...

Author: Courtnay Micots
ISBN: 9781032733098
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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

Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia and the Works of Geoffrey Scott and Bernard Berenson

Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object: Neurasthenia...

Author: Mark Campbell
ISBN: 9781032381886
Format: Hardback
$401.06

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

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