History of architecture books

Plongez au coeur d'une analyse architecturale d'une profondeur inégalée avec Décadence de l'Architecture à la fin...  Read More >>

An insightful, hugely engaging new history of elite women and the country house from the sixteenth to the twentieth...  Read More >>

An insightful, hugely engaging new history of elite women and the country house from the sixteenth to the twentieth...  Read More >>

This will be the first book to focus on the African patrons, who commissioned grand family mansions from the 1860s...  Read More >>

This book considers the motives, and ambitions of writing architectural history during the 1900s. In reference to...  Read More >>

Professional architects first began to arrive in California in the 1880s. These architects wanted to practice their...  Read More >>

""The ABC Architecture"" serves as an accessible and comprehensive primer on the art and science of building. Written...  Read More >>

Can the silent stones of an ancient cathedral speak the secrets of the Divine? For centuries, the Cathedral of...  Read More >>

Can a mountain peak hold the weight of a king's desperate vow and the soul of a nation? Standing atop the jagged...  Read More >>

""The ABC Architecture"" serves as an accessible and comprehensive primer on the art and science of building. Written...  Read More >>

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First published in 1990, this book was not meant to represent one view or approach. The only unifying element is...  Read More >>

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From Prairie to Mountain traces the career of architect Neil Astle, whose inventive modernism emerged from the landscapes...  Read More >>

This extraordinary book celebrates this luminous jewel of a church which once again welcomes both the Greek Orthodox...  Read More >>

Because you delayed for so long in awakening the truths slumbering within the pinnacle stone, the Chola kingdom,...  Read More >>

This coffee table book is not intended for a history or archaeological treatise, but to assist those who visit,...  Read More >>

Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs as well as the visitors' book it uses the...  Read More >>

Figure essentielle de l'architecture moderne, Alvar Aalto occupe une place singulière dans l'histoire du XXᵉ siècle....  Read More >>

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.  Read More >>

A beautifully illustrated, detailed account of all 56 parish churches recorded in Norwich by AD 1200, of which 31...  Read More >>

建築家ジェームズ・ストラットは、バックミンスター・フラーとフランク・ロイド・ライトの影響を受けています。1959年、35歳だった彼は、クライアントのために一連の住宅を設計しました。それは、一戸建て住宅を革新的に再解釈したものでした。三角形の中に円、その中に六角形、そして双曲放物面屋根という構成です。壮大なものではありませんでしたが、「低コスト住宅」を実現するために、空間と材料をいかに効率的に活用するかを追求したものでした。私たちは、新しい住宅を建てることが......  Read More >>

This volume engages the subject of Gothic space from multiple perspectives inspired by Stephen Murray’s prolific...  Read More >>

What does it mean for a stone to hold a secret for sixteen hundred years? In the heart of Milan stands a sentinel...  Read More >>