History of architecture books

Contrasts two types of neighbourhoods that transformed Michigan's mining frontier between 1875 and 1920: paternalistic...  Read More >>

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture...  Read More >>

Offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing...  Read More >>

The Bright Ages recasts the European Middle Ages for what it was, capturing this 1,000-year era in all its complexity...  Read More >>

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture...  Read More >>

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Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood...  Read More >>

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Die Veitskapelle ist eines der grossten Schmuckstucke mittelalterlicher Kirchenausstattung in Stuttgart. Sie birgt...  Read More >>

Glasgow's thirteenth-century cathedral is the city's oldest building and one of Scotland's top tourist destinations....  Read More >>

After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His...  Read More >>

Glasgow's thirteenth-century cathedral is the city's oldest building and one of Scotland's top tourist destinations....  Read More >>

After a trip to Japan in 1953, Werner Blaser published his landmark book on classical Japanese architecture. His...  Read More >>

Pietro Nobile (1776–1854), originally from Ticino in Switzerland, Director of the School of Architecture at the...  Read More >>

To this day, the oeuvre of Oskar Pixis has not received the recognition it deserves. This may initially seem unsurprising,...  Read More >>

Unter der Maxime „Wien im Aufbau“ wurden im Ständestaat ab Mitte der 1930er Jahre nicht nur gezielt Altbauten abgerissen,...  Read More >>

Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953) was one of the most versatile architects of the 20th century. His work reconciles the...  Read More >>

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A strikingly modern portrait of Chatsworth, the grandest of English country houses No house embodies the spirit...  Read More >>

From luxury apartment towers to offices, places of worship to museums, brutalist architecture is having a 21st-century...  Read More >>

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With a building tradition that spans more than ten centuries, the vault is one of the most characteristic elements...  Read More >>

This book documents the genesis and the architecture of David Chipperfield’s extension of the Kunsthaus Zürich from...  Read More >>