History of architecture books

beginning in the 1960s, Horst W.J. Rittel (1930 1990) focused his research on the problems and problem-solving behavior...  Read More >>

New Architecture on Indigenous Lands takes readers on a virtual tour of recent Native building projects in Canada...  Read More >>

Starting with the question concerning the discursive formation of architectural history, the chapters compiled in...  Read More >>

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Since the early seventeenth century, when the cultivation of exotic plants and fruit became fashionable in northern...  Read More >>

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Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east from Washington Park to the lakeshore, the historic...  Read More >>

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Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde...  Read More >>

A charming compilation of work from this keen observer of the Virginia Peninsula scene includes his line-drawings...  Read More >>

In Pedestrian Modern, David Smiley reveals how the design for places of consumption-stores and shopping centers-informed...  Read More >>

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Visegrád stands out among the medieval sites of Hungary and the royal palace complex can be regarded as one of the...  Read More >>

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James Fergusson (1808–86) became one of the most respected architectural historians of India. His 1876 account was...  Read More >>

Mit der fruhen Entwicklung des Festungsbaus in Hessen, der im Anschluss an den mittelalterlichen Burgenbau erfolgte,...  Read More >>

Die Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar zählt zu den ältesten Bibliotheksgebäuden im deutschsprachigen Raum....  Read More >>

Megalithism, or the art of using huge boulders to create sacred, pagan monuments and sites, still fascinates us...  Read More >>

One of interior design's most important and influential titles. Created in 1897 by a distinguished author and an...  Read More >>

It can be said that those who know he works of Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841), Ludwig Persius (1803–1845) and...  Read More >>

"This ""must read"" book makes a well-versed companion for the historian, informed traveler or keen expatriate wanting...  Read More >>

A synthesis of recent English Heritage research on the vernacular buildings of the parish of Alston Moor, Cumbria,...  Read More >>

This fascinating survey ranges from the communal buildings of the early 19th-century political radicals, Owenites...  Read More >>