History of architecture books

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential...  Read More >>

Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament explores the history of the UK Houses of Parliament in Westminster from an environmental...  Read More >>

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

Since the beginning of the eighteenth century- it has been customary to speak of the Scottish Highlanders as Celts....  Read More >>

First published in 1870, Lady Barker's enthusiastic description of three years spent on a sheep station in New Zealand...  Read More >>

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban...  Read More >>

Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India seeks to position the conservation profession within historical, theoretical,...  Read More >>

This book traces the development of John Hejduk’s architectural career, using the idea of ‘exorcism’ to uncover...  Read More >>

This book discusses architectural excellence in Islamic societies drawing on textual and visual materials, from...  Read More >>

This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I. Kahn, from the turning point of Rome to the project...  Read More >>

Icons of Space: Advances in Hierotopy brings together important scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture,...  Read More >>

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Written for postgraduate students, researchers and academics in architectural theory and urban studies, Griffiths...  Read More >>

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The book explains how the evolution of the computational perspective in architecture has been parallel to the construction...  Read More >>

Kenosis Creativity Architecture locates and explores creativity’s grounding in the concept of kenosis, an ‘emptying’,...  Read More >>

This book can lay no claim to unity of theme, since its subjects range from skyscrapers to symbols and soul states;...  Read More >>

This book represents a reflection on the policies of preservation that were established and interventions for restoration...  Read More >>

Burgen interessieren allgemein. Und in der eigenen Umgebung begegnen wir ihren. Der Autor hat sich ein Leben lang...  Read More >>

Guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant...  Read More >>

The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe This book, The gradual acceptance of the Copernican...  Read More >>

"Edward Gibbon's ""The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"" is a monumental six-volume work that...  Read More >>

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This book, a collection of studies by various different authors, approaches the Ottoman monuments of Greece as the...  Read More >>

A classic guide to the history and architecture of the historic manors and homes of the Hudson River Valley  Read More >>