History of architecture books

In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies...  Read More >>

Collecting writings by a wide range of established scholars together with exciting new voices in architecture and...  Read More >>

This book investigates how and why modernist architecture became widely popular in midcentury Brazil, tracking how...  Read More >>

Experience 8 sacred earthworks of the ancient Hopewell culture with this breathtaking book featuring 250+ images...  Read More >>

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

From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the homes we live in, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this...  Read More >>

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The Louvre is more than a museum; it is an 800-year-old 'time machine' written in stone, glass, and mortar. This...  Read More >>

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of...  Read More >>

What building today tells us about tomorrow's Earth and our place on it.  Read More >>

This book is about the architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the buildings which...  Read More >>

From Brooklyn brownstones to Bauhaus blocks, Art Deco icons to towering skyscrapers New York's ever-evolving skyline...  Read More >>

A sweeping history of humanity’s most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities and people...  Read More >>

The Irvine Ranch: Fulfilling the Vision, 1977-2026 continues the story of the planning and development of the Irvine...  Read More >>

A stylish exploration of one of the greatest cities for Modernist architecture in the world. Modernism, characterized...  Read More >>

The Irvine Ranch: Fulfilling the Vision, 1977-2026 continues the story of the planning and development of the Irvine...  Read More >>

Exquisitely illustrated with new photography, providing comprehensive coverage of Prior's architectural work, as...  Read More >>

Look around the room you are in right now. Its dimensions, its layout, its relationship to light and to the street...  Read More >>

An expanded new edition of this fascinating and lavishly illustrated landmark volume offers a guided tour of Hamptons...  Read More >>

From Toledo to Moscow and Stockholm to Seville, discover the continent's finest architecture with the Sunday Times...  Read More >>

What transforms grief into one of the greatest architectural masterpieces ever created? The Taj Mahal: Eternal Beauty,...  Read More >>

By transporting waves of newly arrived immigrants along rail lines from both coasts, railway companies played an...  Read More >>

In this elegant follow-up to the bestselling Brutalist Japan, Paul Tulett brings his distinctive eye to South Korea's...  Read More >>

This study relates Art Deco architecture in Hong Kong with local socioeconomic and political contexts, and adopts...  Read More >>