History of architecture

How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's?

How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's?

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is bound up with our daily lives but, for most of us, it is experienced as a blur of habit.

Being a civil engineer is a fulfilling profession.

Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britain's built environment was imagined, and in drawing from the evidence provided by those models today, this book considers how architects, planners, and civil engineers thought about that future by presenting a history of yesterday's dreams of tomorrow, told through architectural models.

A beautifully illustrated celebration of Stourhead, featuring the legendary Georgian landscape garden in glorious autumn colour with essays by head gardener Alan Power.

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is bound up with our daily lives but, for most of us, it is experienced as a blur of habit.

One of the most remarkable men of the 18th century, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was known to many as 'The Omnipotent Magician' who could transform unpromising countryside into beautiful parks that seemed to be only the work of nature.

Like a parallel universe, an entire city could be formed with the lost buildings of New York Citys past.

Being a civil engineer is a fulfilling profession.

Lost San Francisco takes readers on a journey back to the buildings, parks, stadia, ferries - even cemetaries and prisoners - that time and progress have swept aside.

Invented History, Fabricated Power begins with an examination of prehistoric beliefs (in spirits, souls, mana, orenda) that provided personal explanation and power through ritual and shamanism among tribal peoples.

The railroads of the United States, now aggregating a hundred and fifty thousand miles and having several hundred different managements, are frequently spoken of comprehensively as the railroad system of the country, as though they constituted a unity in fact, and might be regarded and dealt with as an entirety, by their patrons and by the public authorities, whenever the conveniences they are expected to supply, or the conduct of managers and agents, come in question.

An examination of the importance of paper in the work of Soviet artist, designer, and architect El Lissitzky.

Invented History, Fabricated Power begins with an examination of prehistoric beliefs (in spirits, souls, mana, orenda) that provided personal explanation and power through ritual and shamanism among tribal peoples.

This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.

This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art, and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity, and the construction of reality.

The Joy of Sheds is a shed miscellany that chronicles man's need for a small space on his own.

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities.

Angesichts von Textsortenorientierung und allgemeinem Zeitdruck bedarf der literaturgeschichtliche Unterricht einer neuen Legitimation: Wie lässt sich Literaturgeschichte in heterogenen Klassen, in einer globalisierten Mediengesellschaft neu denken und unterrichten?

El Escorial en sus paisajes es un estudio sobre los cambios del entorno de esta localidad a lo largo de los años, y especialmente sobre cómo han afectado estos cambios a la percepción del Monasterio.

Tempel sind mehr als nur steinerne Monumente – sie sind Ausdruck einer tieferen Ordnung, die Raum, Symbolik und kosmische Energie miteinander verbindet.

Die vorliegende Lektüre ist eine Zusammenfassung der Kunstgeschichte in chronologischer Abfolge mit über 150 Abbildungen.

Desde su primera edición en 1980, la Historia crítica de la arquitectura moderna de Kenneth Frampton se ha convertido en un clásico imprescindible dentro de la bibliografía académica sobre historia de la arquitectura moderna.

La Alameda, protagonista de innumerables historias, pinturas, poemas y novelas, una vez más es escrutada a fondo.

This book engages readers in an enlightening exploration of cities' identities, sustainability, and urban development.

This book engages readers in an enlightening exploration of cities' identities, sustainability, and urban development.

This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action.

This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action.

Framing whiteness as a sensorial quality connate with ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, and ontological hierarchies, this edited volume examines how the category of whiteness shaped architectural theories and practices across the early modern period.

This book introduces interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated.

This book introduces interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BERGER PRIZEA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A Country Life 'Architecture Book to Read in 2025'Elegant, erudite and entertaining .

This book focuses on understanding how a megacity like Seoul can be read as a formal architectural composition and not an endless urban sprawl.

"e;Chicagoland Dream Houses is an engaging addition to the growing body of scholarship concerning Chicago's twentieth-century residential landscape characterized by a diverse group of architects and builders.

Vom Beginn seiner Geschichte an befasst sich der Mensch mit dem Thema Zeit.

With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions, these areas present one of the greatest urban challenges of our time.

This book presents practical, applicable solutions that contribute to built heritage conservation, discussing challenges like resource constraints, ineffective legislation, lack of coordination between different relevant bodies,  and absence of public awareness and involvement.

El patrimonio cultural, en sus múltiples manifestaciones, es un tema que se incorpora en los planes de estudio de distintas disciplinas, entre ellas la de la arquitectura.

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

Camps as a global and ubiquitous mass phenomenon of the present and a flexible isolation tool for/against specific socially, politically, or ethnically defined groups are at the centre of current policies and societal debates.

In ihrem zweibändigen Werk inklusive eines digitalen Online-Anhangs erarbeitet Nataliya Demir-Karbouskaya eine bauliche Aufstellung und kunsthistorische Zusammenfassung der Bauten der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

In ihrem zweibändigen Werk inklusive eines digitalen Online-Anhangs erarbeitet Nataliya Demir-Karbouskaya eine bauliche Aufstellung und kunsthistorische Zusammenfassung der Bauten der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Today, the demand for transparency is omnipresent.

In der aktuellen sprachphilosophischen Debatte um die Semantik/Pragmatik-Unterscheidung bezieht die Autorin gegen eine kontextualistische und zugunsten einer minimalistischen Position Stellung, der zufolge der genuin semantische Gehalt eines geäußerten Satzes nicht von Sprecherintentionen abhängt, sondern allein unter Rekurs auf die konventionelle Bedeutung der verwendeten Ausdrücke und die Regeln ihrer Komposition bestimmt wird.