History of architecture books

11853 books were found.

Southwestern Ornamentation & Design: The Architecture of John Gaw Meem

Southwestern Ornamentation & Design: The Architecture...

Author: Anne Taylor ,  Lila Dewindt
ISBN: 9780865340695
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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Gropius

Gropius

Author: Gilbert Lupfer & Paul Sigel ,  Taschen
ISBN: 9783836544337
Format: Hardback
$38.81

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Breuer

Breuer

Author: Arnt Cobbers ,  Peter Gössel
ISBN: 9783836544702
Format: Hardback
$52.80

A defining form-giver of the 20th century, Marcel Breuer is a modernist locus classicus. From his landmark tubular...  Read More >>

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier

Author: Jean-Louis Cohen ,  Peter Gössel
ISBN: 9783836560337
Format: Hardback
$38.81

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Gropius

Gropius

Author: Gilbert Lupfer & Paul Sigel ,  Taschen
ISBN: 9783836544320
Format: Hardback
$38.81

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Re-Humanizing Architecture: New Forms of Community, 1950-1970

Re-Humanizing Architecture: New Forms of Community,...

Author: Ákos Moravánszky ,  Judith Hopfengärtner
ISBN: 9783035610154
Format: Paperback
$89.50

After the WWII, the need for reconstruction influenced the architectural style in Europe. This volume illustrates...  Read More >>

Re-Scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980

Re-Scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design,...

Author: Ákos Moravánszky ,  Karl R. Kegler
ISBN: 9783035610161
Format: Paperback
$89.50

Between 1960 and 1980, both eastern and western Europe experienced a construction boom of hitherto unknown dimensions....  Read More >>

Re-Framing Identities: Architecture's Turn to History, 1970-1990

Re-Framing Identities: Architecture's Turn to History,...

Author: Ákos Moravánszky ,  Torsten Lange
ISBN: 9783035610178
Format: Paperback
$89.50

As a reaction to rationalism and functionalist Moderne, the post-modern style developed in the 1970s; the idea was...  Read More >>

City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning...

Author: Michael J. Lewis
ISBN: 9780691171814
Format: Hardback
$79.99

The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning....  Read More >>

Southwestern Ornamentation and Design: The Architecture of John Gaw Meem

Southwestern Ornamentation and Design: The Architecture...

Author: Anne Taylor
ISBN: 9781632934130
Format: Hardback
$85.26

John Gaw Meem's substantial use of crafted ornamentation shows his sensitivity to the cultural environment he in...  Read More >>

Gothic Revival Worldwide: A. W. N. Pugin's Global Influence

Gothic Revival Worldwide: A. W. N. Pugin's Global Influence...

Author: Timothy Brittain-Catlin ,  Jan De Maeyer (KU Leuven)
ISBN: 9789462700918
Format: Hardback
$208.56

Beautifully illustrated with a large selection of new photography, Gothic Revival Worldwide, reveals how Pugin's...  Read More >>

Grand Hotels: Reflections on Timeless Architectural Treasures

Grand Hotels: Reflections on Timeless Architectural...

Author: Lynton Vinas
ISBN: 9781928183273
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Lynton Viñas explores 40 of the most iconic hotels in the world. They might not be the most familiar, but they are...  Read More >>

Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since...

Author: Daniela Sandler
ISBN: 9781501703171
Format: Paperback
$97.55

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Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since 1989

Counterpreservation: Architectural Decay in Berlin since...

Author: Daniela Sandler
ISBN: 9781501703164
Format: Hardback
$343.20

In Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday...  Read More >>

Times of Creative Destruction: Shaping Buildings and Cities in the late C20th

Times of Creative Destruction: Shaping Buildings and...

Author: Alexander Tzonis ,  Liane Lefaivre
ISBN: 9781472476449
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic...  Read More >>

An Architect's Guide to Fame

An Architect's Guide to Fame

Author: Paul Davies ,  Torsten Schmiedeknecht
ISBN: 9781138156548
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Provides an inquiry into the means by which architects get work and become famous. This book examines the mechanisms...  Read More >>

Towards a New Architect

Towards a New Architect

Author: Yasmin Shariff ,  Jane Tankard
ISBN: 9781138157972
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Medieval Heresy and the Inquisition: How the Vatican Got Away with the Murders of Millions of Innocent People

Medieval Heresy and the Inquisition: How the Vatican...

Author: Arthur S Turberville ,  William Garner
ISBN: 9781944855079
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Arthur S. Turberville details the Vatican's doctrine underlying the violent Roman Inquisition, which was used to...  Read More >>

An Africana Reader: An Anthology of Sociopolitical Thought and Cultural Resistance

An Africana Reader: An Anthology of Sociopolitical Thought...

Author: James Pope
ISBN: 9781516514663
Format: Paperback
$365.64

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Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016

Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a...

Author: Nnamdi Elleh
ISBN: 9781472465290
Format: Hardback
$326.00

By examining the creation of the modernist national public spaces of Abuja within a broader historical and global...  Read More >>

The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation and Agency

The Efficacy of Architecture: Political Contestation...

Author: Tahl Kaminer (University of Edinburgh, UK)
ISBN: 9781138909854
Format: Hardback
$378.00

A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years. Originating...  Read More >>

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