History of architecture books

The fascinating journey of one of the art world's great midcentury power couples The essays in this interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The fascinating journey of one of the art world's great midcentury power couples The essays in this interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The art of making things fit for use again goes back to the beginnings of human construction. In modernism's focus...  Read More >>

A French-language edition, which offers a new approach Weizman names ""documentary architecture,"" meaning that...  Read More >>

As a subject, Waterloo Bridge fascinated writers and artists such as Dickens, Constable, Monet and Derain. This...  Read More >>

Wie sahen die mittelalterlichen Rathäuser aus und woher stammten ihre architektonischen Formen? Wie wurden sie benutzt?...  Read More >>

An illustrated guide to Chetham’s Library, the oldest surviving...  Read More >>

During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and...  Read More >>

Between 1950 and 1971 in Germany, 26 new synagogues were built. The consecration of the synagogues in Saarbrücken...  Read More >>

First published in 2002, Germain Boffrand's Livre d'Architecture is one of the most original books on architecture...  Read More >>

This book makes an ethical appeal to architects and non-architects alike, proposing new strategies for thinking,...  Read More >>

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The air in the villa is thick with the scent of lime and damp stone, but mosaic artist Lyra can only feel the cold...  Read More >>

This book calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination...  Read More >>

Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist eine Reise voller Entdeckungen, Erfindungen und Wendepunkte. Nach den Grundlagen...  Read More >>

Explore the exceptional interiors of central Melbourne, from the iconic to the hidden, some rarely accessible to...  Read More >>

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In a century that worshipped progress, no art form embodied faith and failure more completely than architecture....  Read More >>

This book calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination...  Read More >>

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This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, between 1935-1975, exploring how it...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal...  Read More >>

This book explores the malleability of race as a construct, one subject to continuous redefinitions in different...  Read More >>

During the Hellenistic period, the North Aegean Sea was a dynamic and diverse area, linked by robust trading networks...  Read More >>

This book offers a novel twist, combining intra-/inter-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences...  Read More >>