History of architecture

Wallpaper's spread across trades, class and gender is charted in this first full-length study of the material's use in Britain during the long eighteenth century.

Materialitat und Stofflichkeit von Gebauden und Konstruktionen sind ein wichtiger Aspekt des architektonischen Entwerfens.

This edited collection explores disease transmission and the ways that the designed environment has promoted or limited its spread.

Julian Abele, Architect and the Beaux Arts uncovers the life of one of the first beaux arts trained African American architects.

This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas.

Architecture is more than buildings and architects.

Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu.

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve.

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.

This title was originally published in 1996.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

This book examines the interchange of architecture and ritual in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constantinople (ninth to fifteenth centuries).

With contributors drawn from a broad range of disciplines, The Modern Period Room brings together a carefully selected collection of essays to consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstructions from a variety of different viewpoints.

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 .

The typical town springs up around a natural resource-a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor-or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town.

Die globale Erfolgsgeschichte der Basler Architekten Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron hat ihre lokalen Wurzeln.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the relationships between women and built space in England between the 1870s and the 1940s.

This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, Jorn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the manner of').

The former American History editor explores the creation and restoration of an essential part of a twentieth-century home's identity-the American porch.

Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form.

Noch wird in der wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Beschäftigung mit dem Islam unterschieden zwischen unscheinbaren "Hinterhofmoscheen" und den sichtbaren "Moscheeneubauten".

This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first synthetic study of Gothic ivory sculpture in its historical, social, and artistic contexts.

The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the site of one of the most tragic and memorable battles of the twentieth century, with the Turks fighting the ANZAC (Australian New Zealand Army Corps) and soldiers from fifteen other countries.

This new text on the subject of conservation in the built environment provides a unique holistic view on the understanding of the practice of conservation connecting it with wider societal and political forces.

After 1945 it was not just Europe's parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new democratic attitudes and feelings.

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

Material Modernity explores creative innovation in German art, design, and architecture during the Weimar Republic, charting both the rise of new media and the re-fashioning of old media.

Radical Functionalism: A Social Architecture for Mexico provides a complex and nuanced understanding of the functionalist architecture developed in Mexico during the 1930s.

Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today.

Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture.

A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years.

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans.

Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon of mid-fifth century Athens, which was constructed of pentelic marble, to Justinian's Hagia Sophia in Constantinople and the Renaissance and Baroque basilica of St.

Provides an innovative examination of heritage politics in Japan, showing how castles have been used to re-invent and recapture the past.

na broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of images Irather than of words.

The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives.

Part-Architecture presents a detailed and original study of Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre through another seminal modernist artwork, Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass.

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted "e;gateways"e; of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy.

Technisches Zeichnen beschaftigt sich mit der Darstellung von Planungen in allen Projektphasen.

La atmósfera nos hablaría de ambientes arquitectónicos en los que la materialidad, o la consciencia de materialidad, pasan a un segundo plano para que el protagonismo del espacio lo recupere el visitante-espectador a través de sus experiencias y acciones, las interacciones y las sensaciones que experimentan.

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life.

The classic work on Gothic religious architecture, now with added illustrations and a new section by the author on rose windowsNo other monument of a culture so radically different from our own is as much a part of contemporary life as the Gothic cathedral.

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume analyses the impact John Ruskin has had on architecture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Through a close study of local demographies and topographies, this study considers patterns of piety, charity and patronage, and by extension, the development of art and architecture in Siena's southern contado during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, Jorn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the manner of').

What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world?

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "e;technics"e; and the codes that regulate it.

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements-this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest.