History of architecture

During the last 30 years, technological, social, economic and environmental changes have brought about the most dramatic evolution to architectural practice that has taken place since the profession emerged during the Italian Renaissance.

During the last 30 years, technological, social, economic and environmental changes have brought about the most dramatic evolution to architectural practice that has taken place since the profession emerged during the Italian Renaissance.

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

The importance of design has often been neglected in studies considering the history of structural and civil engineering.

The importance of design has often been neglected in studies considering the history of structural and civil engineering.

This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant 'high-technology' material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry.

This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant 'high-technology' material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry.

This volume covers the second great period of developments in iron construction from 1850, following its establishment as a structural material described in volume 9 of this series.

This volume covers the second great period of developments in iron construction from 1850, following its establishment as a structural material described in volume 9 of this series.

The great cathedrals and churches of the medieval West continue to awe.

The great cathedrals and churches of the medieval West continue to awe.

The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design.

The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design.

Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city.

In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition.

In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition.

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

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

This new facsimile edition of the Portfolio of the 13th-century Picard artist Villard de Honnecourt is the first ever to be published in color.

This new facsimile edition of the Portfolio of the 13th-century Picard artist Villard de Honnecourt is the first ever to be published in color.

Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism?

Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism?

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

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

Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A.

Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A.

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy.

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy.

This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media.

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints.

Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture presents a communicable and useful definition of organic architecture that reaches beyond constraints.

This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA.

This book offers a detailed insight into the desire for, and consequences of, precise communications in the daily life of contemporary architectural practice through close readings of constructed architectural details by Sigurd Lewerentz, Caruso St John Architects, Mies van der Rohe and OMA.

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture.

The Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture.

A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative.

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis.

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis.

A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative.

**Finalist for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lonberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s.

**Finalist for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lonberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s.

Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital technology can play in re-creating aspects of the sensually rich performance of the divine word.

Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Rome and Armenia, and reflects on the role digital technology can play in re-creating aspects of the sensually rich performance of the divine word.

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

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

This title was first published in 2002.

This title was first published in 2002.

Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity, space, power, and culture in Iran.

Architectures of Transversality investigates the relationship between modernity, space, power, and culture in Iran.