History of architecture books

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 >>

A provocative and personal investigation into the intersection of race, identity, and the built environment.  Read More >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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

This book uses a wide range of textual, visual and material evidence to offer the first comparative, interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

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

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For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later...  Read More >>

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future –...  Read More >>

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future –...  Read More >>

Frank Lloyd Wright, America's most noted architect, crossed boundaries as he thought and as he designed. He discussed...  Read More >>