History of architecture

The book reviews scientific facts about the emergence of the universe and the planet, and talks about the role of a large number of scientists in reaching important scientific discoveries that changed the history of the world and our understanding of the nature around us.

Originally published in 1990, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Vernacular Architecture: Paradigms of Environmental Response was not meant to be collection to represent one view or approach.

This book offers a rigorous but graphically compelling narrative historic analysis of one of the most important civic buildings not only of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, or the State of Illinois, but arguably of the United States, Memorial Stadium.

Mit dem Fall der Qing-Dynastie im Jahr 1912 endete nicht nur eine Ära kaiserlicher Herrschaft, sondern begann eine Reise des Wandels für die Verbotene Stadt – das Herz des einstigen Kaiserreichs.

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century.

Der Kölner Dom ist mehr als nur ein architektonisches Meisterwerk – er ist ein Symbol des Glaubens, der Macht und der Ausdauer.

Vertrauen ist ein kostbares Gut.

Seit fast zwei Jahrtausenden thront die Engelsburg über dem Tiber und ist ein Symbol für die wechselvolle Geschichte Roms.

Entdecken Sie die Vielfalt und Tiefe der deutschen Kultur und IdentitätKulturelle Wurzeln und nationale Identitäten erlangen eine immer größere Bedeutung.

Die Instrumente eines Wirtschaftskrieges sind zahlreich.

The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture's obsession with domesticity.

This is the first book to comprehensively cover the evolution of airport design, from the start of commercial aviation in 1919 to the present day.

Im mittelalterlichen Europa prägten Burgen und Schlösser nicht nur die Landschaft, sondern auch die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Strukturen ihrer Zeit.

From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about ourselves and our world, from ideas about our evolutionary past to our conceptions of the vast expanses of space and the smallest particles of matter.

The architecture of social reform explores the fascinating intellectual origins of modern architecture's obsession with domesticity.

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth century.

This monograph presents a detailed analysis of the beginning and rapid establishment of blood group research in the first half of the twentieth century.

Verborgen in den fruchtbaren Tälern des nordperuanischen Lambayeque blühte eine Zivilisation, die ihrer Zeit weit voraus war: die Sicán-Kultur.

Originally published in 1994, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Architecture, Ritual Practice and Co-determination in the Swedish Office is a case study of Swedish office buildings and examines how they have been influenced by spatial aspects of traditional culture in Scandinavia.

With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions, these areas present one of the greatest urban challenges of our time.

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology.

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.

Die Akropolis von Athen – ein Monument von unvergleichlicher Schönheit und historischer Tiefe.

Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of the Egyptian pyramids and discover the secrets of their impressive construction.

Die Isaakskathedrale ist das unverkennbare Wahrzeichen Sankt Petersburgs und eine der größten Sakralbauten der Welt.

All buildings must stand.

A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily.

A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily.

This book provides readers an approach to overall fire and life-life design of high-rise buildings in a way that meets all stakeholders' objectives.

Originally published in 1994, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Architecture, Ritual Practice and Co-determination in the Swedish Office is a case study of Swedish office buildings and examines how they have been influenced by spatial aspects of traditional culture in Scandinavia.

Westminster – ein Name, der weltweit für Macht, Tradition und Geschichte steht.

Tief unter den Straßen von Paris, verborgen vor den Blicken der hektischen Metropole, erstreckt sich ein Labyrinth, das seit Jahrhunderten Zeugnis von der engen Verknüpfung von Geschichte, Geologie und Kultur ablegt: die Pariser Katakomben.

First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors which have made town planning one of the normal functions of government.

Se trata de las trayectorias de vida de tres emblematicos y singulares arquitectos: Fernando Castillo Velasco, Mario Perez de Arce y Hector Valdes Phillips, los tres Premios Nacionales de Arquitectura.

This book provides readers an approach to overall fire and life-life design of high-rise buildings in a way that meets all stakeholders' objectives.

La arquitectura doméstica cartagenera de los períodos colonial y republicano ha sido objeto de estudios que, separadamente, han mostrado sus características particulares.

Die Tower Bridge – mehr als nur eine Brücke, sie ist ein Symbol für Londons Ingenieurskunst, architektonische Schönheit und historischen Wandel.

Between 1926 and 1928, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed a house for his sister in Vienna (the Kundmanngasse).

The Central Synagogue of Sofia was built between 1905 and 1909 as a highly visible and monumental structure in the social, commercial, and religious center of the Bulgarian capital.

In the 21st century, the word detail appears constantly in discussions of building, and we use it in many different ways-yet just over 250 years ago, detail meant nothing at all particular to the work of architects, engineers, or builders.

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography.

Step into the captivating world of Ludwig II of Bavaria, a monarch whose life was as extraordinary as the castles he left behind.

Architecture is more than buildings and architects.

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today.

This book examines architecture, image, and media relationships as productive for architecture and architectural discourses.

Originally published in 1962, this book traces the main influences behind modern design in domestic architecture.