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Presenting a wide range of printed media, from travel guides and collected travel letters to albums, picture postcards t......more

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How human beings shaped the urban and natural landscapes of the Netherlands over eight centuries From Amsterdam’s ring o......more

Targeting an important gap in design history, Another Modernism examines how domestic space was conceived by the US home......more

Modern English translations of several of the most important essays of Winckelmann, one of the fathers of art history an......more

By the end of the twentieth century, US architecture and engineering firms held more capital than entire countries, empl......more

Models of disaster preparedness Across the globe, few sites have faced as many environmental disasters as the islands of......more

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Steam trains half-buried in the desert, roller coasters entangled in trees, hulks of ships perched high and dry miles fr......more

Built to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatiou......more

A novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes’ creativity and spectato......more

As a world heritage site and one of the most visited cities in the world, Edinburgh boasts a huge range of buildings fro......more

Industrial Design in Britain (1976) describes the industrial design movement in Britain from its origins, when it broke ......more

21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupi......more

This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed......more

Topics cover the ways in which French and Francophone histories shape various themes, including transnational scientific......more

The book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key pla......more

The Ottoman Empire’s rule in the Balkans began in the late 14th century and continued until the late 19th century, and i......more

This is not a book about Vittorio Gregotti’s projects and works, but rather a historical-critical analysis of his peculi......more

The Evolution of the English House (1933) discusses the popular and native art in domestic English architecture, tracing......more

Explores the commemoration and memorialisation of the Canterbury martyr in visual and material culture. In life, and esp......more

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

Generously illustrated, definitive guide to the built world of Missouri A nineteenth-century traveler once described Mis......more

A glorious history of sixteen of the world’s greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the extraordinary stories of the peopl......more

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In the broad field of architectural history, many different approaches are possible. The collection of articles in this ......more

Vom Abriss bedroht, als Ikonen des Brutalismus gefeiert: Der Mäusebunker von Gerd und Magdalena Hänska und das ehemalige......more

A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun’s city that became modern Tokyo. Tokyo today is one of the world’s mega-c......more

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Designed for Life: Architecture and design in Cork city, 1900-90 is the first detailed study of twentieth century design......more

The battle in architecture between the internationalist voices of modernism and the localized resistance, which favored ......more

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This book elucidates the continuing conflict between the conservation of the townscapes and associated lifestyles that h......more

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Highly illustrated, the book celebrates renovation of textile mills in the North of England. Case studies from interview......more

An exploration of the architecture design process through the persistent spirit of beginning. Begin Again. Fail Better: ......more

Found scattered among his numerous manuscripts, Leonardo’s studies on architecture were conceived during an artistic jou......more

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

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Who really built Europe’s finest Romanesque monuments? Clergymen presiding over holy sites are credited throughout histo......more

As the capital of a country that has been colonized the longest and among the earliest, -Manila’s cityscape is the refle......more

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The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, politi......more

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography. Each chapter probes the state of contem......more

First Published in 1986 The Architectural History of King’s College Chapel provides a complete picture of how and why Ki......more

Tour the world and discover the most exciting and innovative brick buildings! This volume features new talents as well a......more

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists, sculptors, ......more

The shifting meanings, from practical to tragic, associated with the structure of a barrack. The Barrack, 1572-1914 tell......more

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