Historians and critics of Adolf Loos have repeatedly noted the influence that Karl Friedrich Schinkel had on the Austria......more

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Im Architekturdiskurs zum Persischen Golf wird die Wüste als kontrastreiche Kulisse zu den mit Öl betriebenen Städten de......more

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If you’ve ever wondered what goes through architects’ minds when they design buildings, you’ll be happy to know that the......more

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

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A sweeping history of New York’s urban development that chronicles the making of one of the world’s great cities. Betwee......more

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This is a guidebook to Syria’s historical and archeological treasures. It is a new, revised and expanded edition in a tr......more

Architecture and Cultural Continuity explores a new way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best ......more

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

A retrospective on the influential career of Argentinian architect Jorge Silvetti. Jorge Silvetti looks back on a long c......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

In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction pract......more

Iconic architecture that shapes the American skylines. The development and expansion of cities in the United States over......more

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

A highly original exploration of the history of architecture in relation to fish, shedding light on the connection betwe......more

This highly ambitious volume addresses the idea of "Jewish art and architecture" by posing and responding to a series of......more

Point Line Plane is architectural theory, but written as narrative, full of intriguing vignettes, such as the fact that ......more

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

Author Iegeniiva Gubkina’s Architectural Guide Kharkiv is another title on Ukraine’s building tradition. In this 300-pag......more

A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain. On a wi......more

From one of today’s most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing......more

A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story......more

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In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embo......more

Featuring 26 of the most attractive and interesting historic town centres, this book analyses key routes and the urban o......more

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle cho......more

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

Known as ’the city of dreams’, a place where everyone is welcome and everything is possible, Mumbai is the second most p......more

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

"Although a good deal has been written about the voluminous intellectual exchange between Europe and the Americas in the......more

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring British Architecture: A Very Short Introduction presents an origin......more

While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Euro......more

Inner Empire explores the impact of imperial cultures on the landscapes and urban environments of the British Isles from......more

In May 2019, the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services warned that human activi......more

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention......more

In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention......more

"A critical and historical discussion of how various concepts of boredom simultaneously undermined and reshaped architec......more

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

Shortlisted for the History Book Award in Scotland’s National Book Awards, 2023 During the long 19th century, Scotland w......more

This book compiles a curated selection of texts authored by architects and scholars hailing from Asia, Europe, and North......more

A graphic history of how America’s most iconic symbol came to be. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most famous monume......more

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

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Roman Architecture casts new light not only on many familiar monuments of the city of Rome, but also on less well-known ......more

A thoughtfully curated collection in a stunning package that recognizes and celebrates the birthdays of famous, infamous......more

Challenging mainstream architecture’s understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that allow......more

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Diese erste englischsprachige Biografie zu Hermann Mattern (1902-1971), einer Schlüsselfigur der Landschaftsarchitektur ......more

A "thrilling" (Financial Times) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the m......more

The first book in English on this important archaeological excavation in the heart of Vietnam’s capital, now a World Her......more

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

- Explains the fundamental spatial and perceptual attributes of the elements of ’spacemaking’critical to effective desig......more

This companion investigates the ways in which designers, architects, and planners address ecology through the built envi......more

This book tracks the development of Marcel Breuer’s aesthetic clash between uniformity and singularity through the detai......more

This book charts the city of Tripoli’s rapid economic, environmental, and physical transformation, investigating how the......more

From the Arab conquest to the Arab Spring: in its capacity for architectural and social transformation and in its tensio......more

The architecture of the Albanian capital is pre-sented for the first time in this guide as a collection of 100 buildings......more

Graz is widely deemed Austria’s capital of architecture. The Alpine country’s second largest city boasts both an Old Tow......more

Through thousands of years of evolution, features of the natural environment helped to mold human behavior. As social be......more

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Julian Munby has gained a reputation over half a century in many branches of archaeological and historical knowledge, fr......more

Ajanta’s Evolution: From Savakayana to Bodhisatvayana amid Hunnic Turmoil offers a new scholarly exploration of the rock......more

A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves. We tend to think of architecture ......more

This book brings together a number of important older texts and three new, unpublished essays on the work and reception ......more

On the intersection of royalty and architecture throughout the ages This volume looks at the robust link between archite......more

Discover Oxford, one of the jewels of European architecture. Much loved and much visited, the city offers an unparallele......more

An engaging account of the cottages orné, exploring the history of this charming architectural form’s aesthetic values, ......more

A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen’s classic text The Theory......more

In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in ......more