History of architecture

Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture delves into the intriguing world of ancient Chinese art, exploring portraits that transcend physical likeness to embody deeper societal and aesthetic values.

WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural HistoriansWINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible.

This volume provides an in-depth historical overview of graphic and visual communication styles, techniques, and outputs from key landscape architects over the past century.

"e;Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2018"e;The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, led by local agencies and actors.

The main focus of this unique book is an in-depth examination of the polygonal technique; the primary method used by master artists of the past in creating Islamic geometric patterns.

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War.

Each year, millions of visitors travel to Florence to admire the architectural marvels of this famous Renaissance city.

This book examines the idea of organism in the work of Louis I.

The inimitable, haunting films of Alfred Hitchcock took place in settings, both exterior and interior, that deeply impacted our experiences of his most unforgettable works.

This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere.

Este libro constituye la obra póstuma de Colin Rowe, uno de los historiadores y críticos de arquitectura más destacados de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progressive reform movement, Feminist discourse, and International Modernism-and its continued relevance.

While most books on architecture concentrate on spatial themes, this book explores architecture's temporal dimensions.

In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design.

This book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and complementary perspectives and, by doing so, it helps researchers and practitioners alike, among them reconstruction managers, urban governance and professionals.

This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut's early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown).

This book enables scholars and students to rediscover Giotto''s Arena Chapel and to see it with new eyes.

A history of Rome in the critical eighth century CE focusing on the evidence of material culture and archaeology.

The first study in English of Vitruvius'' De architectura to take the work seriously as a literary and cultural product.

Fascism, Architecture, and the Claiming of Modern Milan, 1922–1943 chronicles the dramatic architectural and urban transformation of Milan during the nearly twenty years of fascist rule.

Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity.

The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice.

Zeynep Celik examines the changing face of Istanbul during the period when European cultural and economic influence intensified, integrating architectural analysis with discussion of broader issues of urban design and historical change.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

This major new text presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times.

For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s.

With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house.

This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands.

Models of disaster preparedness Across the globe, few sites have faced as many environmental disasters as the islands of the Japanese archipelago.

El presente libro tiene por objeto hacer un recorrido a traves de los ultimos 30 anos de desarrollo del sistema constructivo con perfiles de acero galvanizado liviano Steel Framing en la Argentina.

This anthology of selected works outlines three critical instigators of architecture, all tied directly to the tectonic makeup of our built environment - place, material, and assembly.

Forty-five key women of the Bauhaus movement.

The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "e;Other"e; figures to the canon, and views that reject the canon itself.

A fascinating, illustrated history of forts and castles from their earliest origins to the 20th century.

This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places.

The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design.

The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety.

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse.

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment.

The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

Ancient Monuments and Modern Identities sets out to examine the role of archaeology in the creation of ethnic, national and social identities in 19th and 20th century Greece.

El libro "Dirección de ventas" aborda aspectos a tener en cuenta para todo aquel que busca profesionalizar sus tareas y funciones en obtener objetivos comerciales de alta performance dentro de una empresa mediana o grande.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.