History of architecture

This compact, heavily-illustrated guide makes it a snap to identify period styles from the 17th century to the present day.

This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality.

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

We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live.

From the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it.

A comprehensive guide to Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings open to the public-with travel itineraries and information on seventy-four sites.

This book represents a reflection on the policies of preservation that were established and interventions for restoration that occurred in Iran before and in the years after the Khomeinist Revolution, as well as being an analysis of the impact that Italian restoration culture has had in the country.

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA's Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex.

The American Southwest possesses an extraordinary depth of cultural heritage and much of its history is preserved in its architecture.

The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wild headlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of California and America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spot commensurate with the human capacity for wonder.

Each chapter of this volume provides a window into the vibrant world of Middle and Late Byzantium, offering new insights into the complexities of Byzantine ecclesiastical spaces.

A pictorial and narrative tour of a historic landmark at the center of the university's original campusThe University of South Carolina was founded in 1801 on a modest parcel of land now called the Horseshoe.

It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines.

Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past.

A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together.

When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness.

Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory?

Kentucky emerged as a prime site for theatrical activity in the early nineteenth century.

Tokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II.

Architecture in Northern Ghana: A Study of Forms and Functions by Labelle Prussin offers a pioneering exploration into the relationship between architecture, culture, and the environment in Northern Ghana.

Near the end of the nineteenth century, Standard Oil millionaire Henry Morrison Flagler ventured to St.

Houses tell the human side of history.

Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails.

"e;[Continuity with Change] seeks to document and demonstrate that middle positions between Change and Continuity are possible and desirable.

The Monumental is an interdisciplinary collection of original, cutting-edge contributions by international researchers pursuing the epistemology and ontology of monuments over time and geography.

This book proposes a comparative reading between formal, or non-formal, structures of learning and individual agency abilities, highlighting influences and entanglements in different geographies from multiple spheres of knowledge and practices.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

Unleash both the historian and architect in your kids with this Ancient Roman Roads and Architecture History Book.

Let's go down the memory lane to see and appreciate the changes that have transpired since the start of this millennium.

Why is it important to go back to the past?

The Architecture of Colonial America sets forth a brief history and an analysis of the architecture of Colonial America, in such a way that they may be of interest and value both to the general reader and to the architect.

A tie-in to the acclaimed BBC television series.

Jonathan Parry presents a history of Liberalism that is organized around themes in British Liberal politics since the early nineteenth century.

Pairing archive and contemporary photographs of the same location side-by-side, Brooklyn Then and Now(R) provides a visual chronicle of the borough's past, full of rich history and culture.

"e;Cheshire - Its Traditions and History"e; is a fascinating account of the history of Cheshire, a county in North West England.

First published in 1892, this vintage book looks at religious, mystical, and mythological influences on architecture throughout history and from all over the world, exploring in detail similarities, design, purpose, and much more.

Filling an important gap in design history, Another Modernism examines how domestic space was conceived by the US home economics movement in the first half of the 20th century.

Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War.

Research on soldier settlement has to be set within the wider history of emigration and immigration.

Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville.

This substantive yet easy-to-use guide to selected French gothic churches and cathedrals provides profiles of fourteen important religious buildings.

Bension Varon is a Sephardic Jewa descendant of Jews expelled from Spain under the threat of conversion in 1492.

The Politics of Architectural Pedagogy in Iran explores the evolution of architectural pedagogy during two significant socio-political upheavals in Iran: The White Revolution (1963) and the Islamic Revolution (1979).

The Middle East is synonymous with internecine conflict.

This book has several subjects.

This book addresses the effects of the environment on Saint Petersburg's cultural heritage.

Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era.

„Tourismus und Reisen im Alten Ägypten“ ist ein neues, vom Tourismusfachmann Mohammed Ahmed geschriebenes Buch.

From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults puttering on plant-filled balconies.