History of architecture books

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What elements constitute space? What's a solitaire and what makes a solitaire a monument? Why is a building profane...  Read More >>

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this bookexplains the manner in which the discipline of architecture...  Read More >>

The Alhambra's rich heritage of monuments and landscapes held a powerful fascination for early photographers and...  Read More >>

This newly updated and revised second edition of A Story in Stones explores the relationship between Portugal and...  Read More >>

Long considered lost beyond recall, the architecture of ancient Alexandria has remained mysterious. This book shows...  Read More >>

This volume, which includes a glossary, bibliography, and over 400 illustrations (photographs, maps, and drawings),...  Read More >>

Explores how French queens and noblewomen of early modern France, used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status,...  Read More >>

A book that charts the dazzling trajectory of Russian avant-garde architecture during the brief but intense period...  Read More >>

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.  Read More >>

Bandstands are a distinctive feature of public parks and seaside promenades all over Britain. But what do we actually...  Read More >>

The Historical Dictionary of Neoclassical Art and Architecture provides an overview of Neoclassicism, focusing on...  Read More >>

This non-fiction book is a description of the life of Afro-Americans in a typical small town in West Texas beginning...  Read More >>

<p>Here is a guide to innovative architectural design for those working with biophilic and bioclimatic architectural...  Read More >>

Features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). In...  Read More >>

With in-depth, scholarly essays and opulent photographs and plans, this book traces the multifaceted development...  Read More >>

The rise and fall of identical copies: digital technologies and form-making from mass customization to mass collaboration....  Read More >>

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Introduces the traditional houses, barns, watermills and chapels of the Lake District and the surrounding hills...  Read More >>

A study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome. It offers a fresh understanding of how technological and...  Read More >>

A detailed study of an architectural treasure, one of the only plantation houses surviving from Louisiana's Spanish...  Read More >>

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Unabridged English value reproduction of Utopia by Thomas More and translated by Gilbert Burnet, in this affordably...  Read More >>

By mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development...  Read More >>

The potential of electric light as a new building 'material' was recognized in the 1920s and became a useful design...  Read More >>