History of architecture

In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson.

This book proposes that architecture can function as a true embodiment of generosity and examines how generosity in architecture operates within, and questions, current and historical socio-economic and political systems.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

This collection illustrates the evolving role of housing as a symbol of modernity, a tool for economic recovery and a response to societal transitions.

First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government.

During the post-war era, the emerging consumer economy radically changed both the discourse and practice of architecture.

After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'.

Development of the Playhouse: A Survey of Theatre Architecture from the Renaissance to the Present fills a significant gap in English-language studies by offering a comprehensive history of Western theater architecture from its roots to modern adaptations.

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

Der gefeierte Bestseller über die Kühnheit und das Scheitern, über das Leben und die Kunst, nicht nur für Architekturfans.

This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal arrangement of church buildings in Western Europe between 1500 and 2000, showing how these arrangements have met the liturgical needs of their respective denominations, Catholic and Protestant, over this period.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), his life and his work have been and continue to be the subject of an enormous number of scholarly works.

This title was originally published in 1976.

In the wake of an unparalleled housing crisis at the end of the Second World War, Glasgow Corporation rehoused the tens of thousands of private tenants who were living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in unimproved Victorian slums.

All buildings must stand.

The expedited globalised process of exchange and new forms of cultural production have transformed old established notions of identity, calling into question their conceptual foundations.

Homing the Machine in Architecture is a series of conversations on the ways designers, practitioners, historians, and theorists orient themselves within the world of architectural digital fabrication.

Kengo Kuma, one of Japan's leading architects, has been combining professional practice and academia for most of his career.

Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, 'modern' elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures.

The antebellum era and the close of the 19th century frame a period of great agricultural expansion.

The Optimum Imperative examines architecture's multiple entanglements within the problematics of Socialist lifestyle in postwar Czechoslovakia.

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

This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a special focus on India.

This work is the first systematic study of how monumental buildings were constructed in medieval Russia.

This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions.

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project.

In this masterful synthesis, Charalambos Bouras draws together material and textual evidence for Athens in the Middle Byzantine period, from the mid-tenth century to 1204, when it was conquered by Crusaders.

Originally published in 1990, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Vernacular Architecture: Paradigms of Environmental Response was not meant to be collection to represent one view or approach.

For the past 30 years, The Chinese journal Time + Architecture (Shidai Jianzhu) has focused on publishing innovative and exploratory work by emerging architects based in private design firms who were committed to new material, theoretical and pedagogical practices.

Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment.

During the post-war era, the emerging consumer economy radically changed both the discourse and practice of architecture.

Originally published in 2014, The Shaping of London chronologically examines the likely impact of wars, dynastic struggles, demographic change and economic growth on the physical fabric of London.

Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere.

From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany.

In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture.

Este libro intenta acompanar las nacientes investigaciones con las ya conocidas de la Filosofia como la madre que alberga y de la cual se desprenden la Ciencia como saber primero y luego a partir del Renacimiento como Ciencia Experimental y productiva que al mismo tiempo que comprende mejor el mundo natural, se cree en el deber y la responsabilidad de explotarla en beneficio del hombre y la humanidad sin medir las consecuencias.

November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan.

An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society.

For nearly eighteen centuries, two fundamental spatial plans dominated Christian architecture: the basilica and the central plan.

Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways.

Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.

Göttingen – eine Stadt, deren Geschichte so facettenreich ist wie die Epochen, die sie durchlebt hat.

Foreword by Adrian Forty.

This book presents the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2020, focusing on heritage - including architectural and graphic heritage as well as the graphics of heritage.

In this book, Deborah Vischak argues that localized communities are an important source of identity in ancient Egypt.

First published in 1976 Architecture and the Environment is based on the authors very successful Architecture of Children.

The American Construction Industry meticulously chronicles the evolution of the construction industry from its roots in the medieval guild system to the high-tech jobsite of tomorrow.

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.