Architectural History

Reckoning with Colin Rowe is a thought-provoking discussion of key schools, places, concepts and people of architectural theory since the post-war years, illustrated with over forty beautiful black and white drawings and photographs...

Reckoning with Colin Rowe is a thought-provoking discussion of key schools, places, concepts and people of architectural theory since the post-war years, illustrated with over forty beautiful black and white drawings and photographs...

In 1944 Le Corbusier predicted the coming of a redemptive synthesis of the arts. This book is a scholarly introduction in English to overlooked debates on modernism, abstraction and the synthesis of the arts in mid-twentieth century France...

Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503–13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the principal architect, Donato Bramante, and his ambition to create a unified urban/architectural scheme...

Written by a group of international scholars, this illustrated collection of essays investigates the current state of architectural historiography, looking at changes across the broad field of methodological, theoretical and geographical plurality...

This title explores Piano+Rogers’ phenomenal project for a new type of major cultural building in Paris. You can hear Richard Rogers’ description of the project, see the images and join in the crit. Highly illustrated this innovative and compelling book is an invaluable resource for any architecture..

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown revisit their 'infamous' book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can get involved, hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit...

Using the example of Durham Cathedral, this book sets out to explore wherein the appeal of historic churches lies today and considers questions of how and why their preservation into a post-Christian era should be secured...

Using the example of Durham Cathedral, this book sets out to explore wherein the appeal of historic churches lies today and considers questions of how and why their preservation into a post-Christian era should be secured...

This is the first history of Stockholm’s development from the city’s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. For much of the mid-twentieth century Stockholm was the planning model for Europe and elsewhere. Written by an acknowledged a..

Kay Bea Jones’ illuminating study of selected works by Studio Albini will reintroduce his contributions to one of the most productive periods in Italian design. Suspending Modernity follows the evolution of Albini’s most important buildings and projects, even as they reveal his apprehensive attitude..

This book looks at  the relationship between information and its representation. The organization of digital information has relied on metaphors from a pre-digital era – architectural ideas in particular, from the urbanisation of cyberspace in science fiction, through to the adoption of spatial visu..