History of architecture

Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000.

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (1934-2015).

House and home are words routinely used to describe where and how one lives.

Kiel – eine Stadt, die Geschichte atmet.

Interdisciplinary study of the interrelationship of the literature, monuments, and urban landscape of Augustan Rome.

All Saints’ Church, Brixworth lies 7 miles north of Northampton.

This book focuses on the life and artistic activities of Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) in New York, and Latin America in the 1940s and 1950s.

An enthralling guide to the largely unrecognised treasures of England's remarkable Parish Churches, 'the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory'.

The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity.

The first comprehensive account of how and why architects learned to communicate through colorArchitectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished.

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

During the mid-nineteenth century a debate arose over the form and functions of the public art museum in Britain.

Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world.

Artists' Impressions in Architectural Design analyses the ways in which architects have presented their designs for clients and the public, both historically and contemporarily.

Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial 'subject' and an architectural 'object'.

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built environment by integrating ecological ideas and ecological thinking into discussions of urbanism, society, culture, and design.

The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish.

This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past.

However, behind the public face of design, architectural life in Canada during the 1880s and 1890s was in turmoil.

A unique collection of contemporary writings, this book explores the politics involved in the making and experiencing of architecture and cities from a cross-cultural and global perspectiveTaking a broad view of the word 'politics', the essays address a range of questions, including: What is the relationship between politics and the making of space?

For the first hundred years or so of their history, public libraries in Britain were built in an array of revivalist architectural styles.

In 1859, Dubliners strolling along country roads witnessed something new emerging from the green fields.

Drawing on the author's discovery of an unknown, long-forgotten collection of photographs in an Indian ashram, this book offers an exciting, new view of the international community of young architects who served as Le Corbusier's assistants in the inter-war years.

After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens.

What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'?

Rather than subscribing to a single position, this collection informs the reader about the current state of the discipline looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality.

Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image explores architecture's entanglement with contemporary image culture.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, weaving together art, philosophy, history, and literature, this book investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund.

Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe.

Examining the transformation of transparency as a metaphor in West German political thought to an analogy for democratic architecture, this bookquestions the prevailing assumption in German architectural circles that transparency in governmental buildings can be equated with openness, accessibility and greater democracy.

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse.

Reconstructing Modernism establishes for the first time the centrality of modernist buildings and architectural periodicals to British mid-century literature.

In the late-nineteenth century the circulation of pattern books featuring medieval church architecture in England facilitated an unprecedented spread of Gothic revival churches in Canada.

The last half of the twentieth century saw the emergence, evolution and consolidation of a distinct interior design practice and profession.

The Protected Vista draws a historical lineage from the eighteenth-century picturesque to present-day planning policy, highlighting how the values embedded within familiar views have developed over time through appropriation by diverse groups for cultural and political purposes.

Combines multiple theoretical perspectives and diverse media to examine the relation between music and memory in ancient Greece and Rome.

The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism.

Towards Tate Modern provides a new interdisciplinary account of Tate's shifting position as a national arts institution.

This volume traces the process by which reinforced concrete emerged during the 19th century as the successful building material of today.

The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858.

Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources?

Investigates Roman built environments from architectonic and planning perspectives, while celebrating the achievements of the provinces as well as Italy.

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 explores conceptions of Indian architecture and how the historical buildings of the subcontinent have been conceived and described.

The history of British architecture since 1930 has been one of frequently heated controversy between the old idiom and the new and between various social and technological viewpoints.

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event.

Historically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city.