History of architecture books

13145 books were found.

La restauración monumental: síntesis histórica, teoría y praxis

La restauración monumental: síntesis histórica, teoría...

Author: J Hernán Aráoz Becerra
ISBN: 9798897271290
Format: Paperback
$192.59

Este libro tiene como propósito contribuir al conocimiento y difusión de la disciplina relacionada a la conservación...  Read More >>

Form Follows Fuel: 14 Buildings from Antiquity to the Oil Age

Form Follows Fuel: 14 Buildings from Antiquity to the...

Author: Florian Urban ,  Barnabas Calder
ISBN: 9781032639888
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is the first to quantify energy inputs for a range of buildings worldwide and across the historical record....  Read More >>

Dead Mall Rising: The Story of El Con Mall

Dead Mall Rising: The Story of El Con Mall

Author: Jon Paul Callahan ,  Joya Stevenson
ISBN: 9798999200303
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Remember the mall? The smell of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies and soft pretzels in the food court. The...  Read More >>

The Hôtel Solvay: Victor Horta’s Art Nouveau Masterpiece

The Hôtel Solvay: Victor Horta’s Art Nouveau Masterpiece...

Author: Françoise Aubry
ISBN: 9782390253501
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, The Hôtel Solvay is widely acclaimed as the pinnacle of Victor Horta's...  Read More >>

California Crazy. American Pop Architecture. 45th Ed.

California Crazy. American Pop Architecture. 45th Ed....

Author: Jim Heimann
ISBN: 9783754400180
Format: Hardback
$54.99

In this vivid examination of a rogue architectural style, discover the roadside structures of California. Fresh...  Read More >>

Medieval Dublin: An Illustrated History

Medieval Dublin: An Illustrated History

Author: Pat Dargan
ISBN: 9781916742666
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Explores the architectural heritage of Medieval Dublin in an accessible, illustrated volume for general readers....  Read More >>

Grundrisse gegen die Krise: Die Entwurfsmethode Alexander Kleins und die Zukunft des Wohnens

Grundrisse gegen die Krise: Die Entwurfsmethode Alexander...

Author: Angelika Hinterbrandner
ISBN: 9783986121082
Format: Paperback
$72.45

The poor living conditions of 1920s Berlin were driven and compounded by population growth, housing scarcity, and...  Read More >>

Was ist (und was ist nicht) das Tschechische an der Architektur in Böhmen?: Architekturgeschichte und Historiographie in Mitteleuropa

Was ist (und was ist nicht) das Tschechische an der...

Author:
ISBN: 9783035629866
Format: Hardback
$158.37

In this pointed collection of texts, Jindřich Vybíral questions national images of history and examines the architecture...  Read More >>

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 >>

Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable

Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable

Author: George Papamattheakis ,  Patrick Burke
ISBN: 9780300278279
Format: Hardback
$103.95

A vibrant presentation of Stanley Tigerman's imaginative architectural drawings and working methods  Read More >>

Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change 1870-1945

Panoramas of Lost London: Work, Wealth, Poverty and...

Author: Philip Davies ,  Dan Cruickshank
ISBN: 9781915143112
Format: Hardback
$103.50

Over 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive and other sources...  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 >>

Gothic Space: Studies in Celebration of Stephen Murray

Gothic Space: Studies in Celebration of Stephen Murray...

Author: Katherine M. Boivin ,  Lindsay Cook
ISBN: 9789004747173
Format: Hardback
$446.16

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

Retrospective Columns: Ionic Capitals and Perceptions of the Past in Greek Architecture

Retrospective Columns: Ionic Capitals and Perceptions...

Author: Samuel Holzman (Assistant Professor)
ISBN: 9780691262550
Format: Hardback
$115.00

An innovative study of how and why ancient Greek builders sometimes combined older and contemporary carving styles...  Read More >>

Die ersten Städte

Die ersten Städte

Author: Dominik Wörner
ISBN: 9798232761905
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Vor zehntausend Jahren lebten die meisten Menschen in kleinen Sippen, sammelten, jagten und zogen mit den Jahreszeiten...  Read More >>

Chetham’s Library

Chetham’s Library

Author: Chetham’s Library
ISBN: 9781836360377
Format: Paperback
$20.57

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

Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945–2020)

Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising...

Author: Bram De Maeyer (KU Leuven)
ISBN: 9789462704886
Format: Paperback
$87.98

How Belgium's decentralised embassy building programme highlights the collaborative nature and diplomatic significance...  Read More >>

Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of the British Isles

Church Going: A Stonemason's Guide to the Churches of...

Author: Andrew Ziminski
ISBN: 9781800818699
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An insightful and charming history of Britain's churches - by an author who spends his life working in them.  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 >>

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Author: Trans J Giles J a Ingram
ISBN: 9789373408019
Format: Paperback
$50.13

The Anglo-Saxon chronicle stands as a foundational record of early English history, tracing the transformation of...  Read More >>

Critical Strategies for Ecological Architectures: Pluriversal-Bioregional-Decolonial

Critical Strategies for Ecological Architectures: Pluriversal-Bioregional-Decolonial...

Author: Mathias Rollot ,  Mireille Roddier
ISBN: 9783032025210
Format: Hardback
$369.57

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

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