History of architecture books

13589 books were found.

Victorian Architecture

Victorian Architecture

Author: G.A. Bremner (Professor of Architectural History, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780198835394
Format: Paperback
$58.95

A new, concise history of buildings erected all over Britain and its colonial empire during the long nineteenth...  Read More >>

Design Strategies in Architecture: Collage, from Paper to Digital

Design Strategies in Architecture: Collage, from Paper...

Author: Anna Rosellini ,  Mariabruna Fabrizi
ISBN: 9782889154883
Format: Paperback
$82.95

A groundbreaking and interdisciplinary work on architectural collage.   Design Strategies in Architecture collects...  Read More >>

Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago

Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History...

Author: Will Quam
ISBN: 9780226828107
Format: Hardback
$71.28

A remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick.   By the late 1920s, at...  Read More >>

Family Portraits

Family Portraits

Author: Richard Stanford
ISBN: 9798258191656
Format: Paperback
$36.96

When you leave a house for the last time and take one last look around before closing the door, it is as if you...  Read More >>

When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect

When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and...

Author: Eva Hagberg
ISBN: 9780691284286
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim's life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world...  Read More >>

Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century: After Visibility

Architecture and the Image at the Turn of the 21st Century:...

Author: Sanja Rodeš
ISBN: 9781032790244
Format: Paperback
$119.00

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The Nine Races: The Forgotten Origin of Humanity

The Nine Races: The Forgotten Origin of Humanity

Author: Michael Vincent
ISBN: 9781971762869
Format: Paperback
$39.57

A sweeping narrative tracing the emergence and fate of each racial origin, follows the migrations that carried them...  Read More >>

Unlocking Khufu's Secret: Advanced Ancient Engineering & Construction Techniques

Unlocking Khufu's Secret: Advanced Ancient Engineering...

Author: Edward Arthur
ISBN: 9798258098894
Format: Paperback
$26.37

For over 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has stood as an unyielding sentinel, mocking the passage of time...  Read More >>

The Nine Races: The Forgotten Origin of Humanity

The Nine Races: The Forgotten Origin of Humanity

Author: Michael Vincent
ISBN: 9781971762852
Format: Hardback
$65.97

A sweeping narrative tracing the emergence and fate of each racial origin, following the migrations that carried...  Read More >>

From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's 1905 Photographic Survey of Broadway

From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower: C. G. Hine's...

Author: Professor Nick Yablon
ISBN: 9780231203524
Format: Hardback
$331.95

Presenting striking images from an amateur photographer’s album depicting a changing Broadway, this book offers...  Read More >>

Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid

Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid...

Author: Hilton Judin (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781041193074
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, this book unpacks postmodernism...  Read More >>

Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid

Postmodernism and Architecture at the End of Apartheid...

Author: Hilton Judin (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781041193081
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Set against a social and political urban landscape of segregation and forced removals, this book unpacks postmodernism...  Read More >>

Uncanny Revivals: Designing an American Identity

Uncanny Revivals: Designing an American Identity

Author: K. L. H. Wells
ISBN: 9780300282719
Format: Hardback
$171.60

An examination of how immersive colonial revival projects contributed to the formation of a White nationalist identity...  Read More >>

Veranda American Style: Timeless Interior Design

Veranda American Style: Timeless Interior Design

Author: Susan Hall Mahon ,  Steele Thomas Marcoux
ISBN: 9781958395622
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Celebrate the beauty of American design with this stunning hardcover coffee table book that explores traditional...  Read More >>

Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship

Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship...

Author: Femke Speelberg ,  Melanie Holcomb
ISBN: 9781588398086
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Rare architectural drawings from the Gothic period uncover a flourishing tradition of design and draftsmanship,...  Read More >>

Portmeirion: The Architecture of Pleasure

Portmeirion: The Architecture of Pleasure

Author: Sarah Baylis
ISBN: 9780300279856
Format: Hardback
$72.95

The story of the hundred-year evolution of Portmeirion, a unique and captivating Italianate village on the coast...  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 >>

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 >>

A Kamloops Neighbourhood Remembered

A Kamloops Neighbourhood Remembered

Author: Andrew Yarmie ,  Debbie Milner-Lively
ISBN: 9781038347701
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Urban revitalization often comes at the cost of history. A Kamloops Neighbourhood Remembered tells the story of...  Read More >>

Skywatchers of Prehistory, the Hidden Origins of Ancient Shamanic Astronomy

Skywatchers of Prehistory, the Hidden Origins of Ancient...

Author: Alistair Ravenhurst
ISBN: 9798232810993
Format: Paperback
$100.29

Long before telescopes, observatories, or written calendars, human beings were already studying the sky. Across...  Read More >>

Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice

Operation Bowler: The Audacious Allied Bombing of Venice...

Author: Jonathan Glancey
ISBN: 9781836431329
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The thrilling true story behind the Allies’ mission to take back Venice from the Germans – and save its artistic...  Read More >>

Building Modern Scotland: A Social and Architectural History of the New Towns, 1947–1997

Building Modern Scotland: A Social and Architectural...

Author: Alistair Fair (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Lynn Abrams (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781350401747
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The first in-depth study of the history of Scottish new towns – their architecture, planning and communities.  Read More >>

Social Housing: Definitions and New Design Exemplars

Social Housing: Definitions and New Design Exemplars...

Author: Abigail Batchelor ,  Paul Karakusevic
ISBN: 9781915722430
Format: Hardback
$116.44

A revised and expanded edition of the volume first published in 2017, showcasing the best affordable housing from...  Read More >>

Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad

Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: From Le Corbusier...

Author: Sarosh Anklesaria ,  Lily Chi
ISBN: 9781032973586
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Sanskar Kendra stands as one of Le Corbusier's lesser-known architectural achievements, a cultural center designed...  Read More >>

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