History of architecture books

Outlines the nature of changes in key areas such as materials, communications and goods and examines the new ideologies...  Read More >>

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Some of the highest and widest vault constructions produced in the Middle Ages are located in the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

The volume contains the contributions on the bicentennial of the beginning of the restoration of Malbork castle....  Read More >>

From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces uses stunning...  Read More >>

A landmark text in design discourse for a world desperately in need of redesign-back in print What good is design?...  Read More >>

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A monthly calendar celebrating Brutalist architecture across the world. Large format photographs of buildings by...  Read More >>

Part-hands-on archaeological history of Britain, part-deeply personal insight into this ancient craft by a stonemason...  Read More >>

An essential new look at the Italian architect, writer, and designer whose work paved the way for the postmodern...  Read More >>

Organized chronologically, this volume analyzes the dynamics, convergences, and ideological clashes that have given...  Read More >>

This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the...  Read More >>

A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into...  Read More >>

With Art Nouveau there developed a new, international style under various names in the architecture and handicrafts...  Read More >>

In this book the variety of prefabricated construction systems in modern architecture is illustrated.  Read More >>

The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, theorized by artists such as Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista...  Read More >>

This book shows a compilation of fantastic residential projects with interior and exterior views, descriptions and...  Read More >>

This monograph is a study of the artistic production that formed part of the various lists of the Seven Wonders...  Read More >>

House design is evolving fast, following trends and the needs of our society. There is always a myriad of design...  Read More >>

In 1980, David Dillon launched his career as an architectural critic with a provocative article that asked Why...  Read More >>

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided...  Read More >>

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This book explains and celebrates the richness of English churches and cathedrals, which have a major place in medieval...  Read More >>

Carl Larsson (1853-1919) emerged from poor beginnings to earn an esteemed place in the hearts and minds of his countrymen....  Read More >>