History of architecture books

13139 books were found.

Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect

Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional...

Author: Despina Stratigakos ,  Elana Shapira
ISBN: 9780691263953
Format: Hardback
$69.99

The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern...  Read More >>

Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines

Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the...

Author: Diana Jean S. Martinez
ISBN: 9781478029014
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Diana Jean S. Martinez examines the US colonial project in the Philippines through the innovative use of reinforced...  Read More >>

Sleep in Renaissance Poland: Bartolomeo Berrecci’s Tomb Sculpture and Its Legacy in East Central Europe

Sleep in Renaissance Poland: Bartolomeo Berrecci’s Tomb...

Author: Marcin Fabiański
ISBN: 9789004724921
Format: Hardback
$472.56

This book discusses reclining sepulchral statues by Bartolomeo Berrecci in Poland, based on recent inventions by...  Read More >>

The Royal Dragon Court Inbred Britain: Dragon Bloodlines

The Royal Dragon Court Inbred Britain: Dragon Bloodlines...

Author: Abbe de Vere
ISBN: 9781919309811
Format: Paperback
$113.49

Social & Cultural History; European History: United Kingdom, Great Britain; Genealogy, Heraldry, Names & Honours...  Read More >>

Construct: Large Everyday Architecture

Construct: Large Everyday Architecture

Author: Iain Borden (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781032859866
Format: Hardback
$375.19

Construct introduces a new category of architecture and engineering in our cities. These structures are highly visible,...  Read More >>

Touring Belgium: A Nation's Patrimony in Print (1830-1920)

Touring Belgium: A Nation's Patrimony in Print (1830-1920)...

Author: Maarten Delbeke ,  Maarten Liefooghe
ISBN: 9782503612867
Format: Hardback
$248.16

Touring Belgium explores how the printed media occasioned by modern tourism described, reproduced and consecrated...  Read More >>

British Interior Design since 1925: A Critical History

British Interior Design since 1925: A Critical History...

Author: Bruce Peter ,  Drew Plunkett
ISBN: 9781848225626
Format: Hardback
$128.00

After the First World War, Interior Design emerged in Britain as a distinctive profession, one that used fresh eyes...  Read More >>

Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism

Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism

Author: Stephen J. Ramos
ISBN: 9781469690117
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements...

Author: Joseph Godlewski
ISBN: 9781032708232
Format: Paperback
$111.24

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress and domination in colonial...  Read More >>

Tributes to T.A. Heslop: From Miniature to Monumental: Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture

Tributes to T.A. Heslop: From Miniature to Monumental:...

Author: Lloyd De Beer ,  Helen Lunnon
ISBN: 9781915487186
Format: Hardback
$446.16

Ranging in subject from cathedrals and castles to seal matrices and illuminated manuscripts, these essays pay tribute...  Read More >>

Brutalist Berlin: A Photographic and Architectural Survey of Berlin's Brutalist Buildings

Brutalist Berlin: A Photographic and Architectural Survey...

Author: Felix Torkar ,  Blue Crow Media
ISBN: 9781912018253
Format: Paperback
$59.95

An authoritative survey of Berlin's Brutalist architecture, featuring over 50 key buildings. With in-depth texts...  Read More >>

Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain

Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation...

Author: Lucy Lavers ,  Judy Ovens
ISBN: 9780241661178
Format: Hardback
$51.75

A spectacularly beautiful gazetteer to some of the UK's strangest, most charismatic and most useful structures At...  Read More >>

A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Reconstructing the Abbey of Saint-Denis

A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture:...

Author: Jason Crow
ISBN: 9781041175056
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book reassesses the origins and significance of “Gothic” architecture and approaches the interpretation of...  Read More >>

The Origins of the Exhibition Space (1450-1750)

The Origins of the Exhibition Space (1450-1750)

Author: Pamela Bianchi (École Supérieure d'Art et Design Toulon)
ISBN: 9781041188599
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This book traces the origins of the exhibition space by studying its visual and written imagery in the early modern...  Read More >>

Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East

Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to...

Author: Susan Slyomovics (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781399517874
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Studies cross-cultural exchanges across the Mediterranean using new interdisciplinary methodologies.  Read More >>

Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of Preparedness

Design Before Disaster: Japan's Culture of Preparedness...

Author: Miho Mazereeuw
ISBN: 9780813950921
Format: Paperback
$91.99

In this practical, engaging text, Miho Mazereeuw - who has carried out ethnographic fieldwork and space-based analysis...  Read More >>

Architecture and the Environment

Architecture and the Environment

Author: Maxwell Fry ,  Jane Drew
ISBN: 9781032615486
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art, Architecture, and Design in Brazil

Artistic Migration: Reframing Post-War Italian Art,...

Author: Aline Coelho Sanches (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781032729275
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Artistic Migration investigates a selection of works by Italian artists and architects, and an art critic and dealer,...  Read More >>

Constructing Faith in the Antipodes: Modern Church Architecture in Queensland 1945-1977

Constructing Faith in the Antipodes: Modern Church Architecture...

Author: Lisa Marie Daunt
ISBN: 9789462704848
Format: Hardback
$152.66

The overlooked history of modern church architecture in post-war Australia Over 1,650 churches were built in Queensland,...  Read More >>

The Crinkle-Crankle Crew: Searching for Suffolk's Serpentine Walls

The Crinkle-Crankle Crew: Searching for Suffolk's Serpentine...

Author: Ed Broom
ISBN: 9781036929602
Format: Paperback
$44.85

A celebration of Suffolk's unique crinkle-crankle walls  Read More >>

Spatial Planning in the Netherlands: History of a Self-Made Land, 1200-Present

Spatial Planning in the Netherlands: History of a Self-Made...

Author: Len De Klerk ,  Ries Van Der Wouden
ISBN: 9789462088139
Format: Hardback
$224.40

How human beings shaped the urban and natural landscapes of the Netherlands over eight centuries From Amsterdam's...  Read More >>

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