History of architecture books

Lavishly illustrated, this is the first book on the global and postcolonial entanglements of Austrian architecture...  Read More >>

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

Offers a survey of a decade of school building design by Berlin- and Lausanne-based AFF Architekten, a collective...  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 >>

This book offers a window into history: to the most famous conflicts fought on American soil, the triumphant victories...  Read More >>

In 2025, the Vatican put Gaudí on the path to sainthood, in recognition not only of his architectural work but of...  Read More >>

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

A lavishly illustrated 200-year history of the University of Manchester. For the first time, the story is told in...  Read More >>

Out There is a critical survey of 50 architectural firms working across America's regional cities and small towns....  Read More >>

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

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

Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined...  Read More >>

The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity...  Read More >>

A facsimile of Le case ed i monumenti di Pompei, Fausto and Felice Niccolini’s extraordinary Pompeii publication,...  Read More >>

This book collects thirteen exhibitions that read architecture as a field coordinated by documents with distinct...  Read More >>

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Once regarded as a cheap and easy solution, prefab houses are now seen as synonymous with ambitious design and sophisticated...  Read More >>

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

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

This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or...  Read More >>

As the first monograph dedicated to Walter Gropius’s activity in Britain, this book provides a comprehensive account...  Read More >>

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 >>