History of architecture

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture.

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century.

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century.

This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregotti's projects and works, but rather a historical critical analysis of his peculiar figure.

Revolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty has led to the romanticizing of the past.

Revolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty has led to the romanticizing of the past.

This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity.

This book proposes alternative interpretations of broadly-debated concepts within architectural modernity.

First published in English in 1958, this book charts the history of the small states which emerged in Germany from the chaos of the Thirty Years War.

Political theorist Laurie M.

This book provides an integrated view of the Delhi Sultanate government from 1206 to 1526.

Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India.

First published in English in 1958, this book charts the history of the small states which emerged in Germany from the chaos of the Thirty Years War.

Political theorist Laurie M.

This book provides an integrated view of the Delhi Sultanate government from 1206 to 1526.

Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India.

The story of a secular Jewish family uprooted by the Nazi occupation of Austria and Czechoslovakia who flee Europe to reunite in post-war America to rebuild their lives.

This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focussing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capital's financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth century.

The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design-not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic arts.

The Bauhaus Ideal is both a picture book and a guidebook to the fascinating and enduring legacy of modernist design, and to the continuing influence of Bauhaus on interior design-not just on architecture, but also on furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the whole range of domestic arts.

Duluths majestic Glensheen Mansion, featuring thirty-nine ornate rooms and expansive landscaped grounds.

SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America.

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston's extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century.

Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience.

Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience.

Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years.

The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

Palermo the capital of Sicily is a destination with a difference.

Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious.

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition?

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.

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition?

Ernst L.

Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India's Mughal monuments-including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal-are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent.

Explores the evolution of houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (ca.

Winner of the American Book AwardSan Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kindan "e;insider's guide"e; to one of America's most celebrated ethnic enclaves by an author born and raised there.

The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale.

The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America.

Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black from white and Native American.

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity.

As complex societies emerged in the Maya lowlands during the first millennium BCE, so did stable communities focused around public squares and the worship of a divine ruler tied to a Maize God cult.

This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century.

Throughout Russian history, local craftsmen have shown remarkable skill in fashioning wood into items of daily use, from bridges and street paving to carts and boats to household utensils and combs.

In The Georgian Triumph, 1700-1830 (originally published in 1983), Michael Reed re-creates the ambience of eighteenth-century Britain, a period of astonishing change and, paradoxically, of massive stability.

Exploring the life and career of one of Florida's premier architectsThis well-illustrated book illuminates the life and career of one of Florida's premier architects, whose elegant homes and design aesthetic shaped the architectural character of Winter Park and influenced urban development throughout central Florida.

The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.

How Andrew Thomas Taylor advanced the quality of architecture in Canada.

By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical role in creating the first professional organization for Quebec architects.