Architectural History

The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis...

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system...

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of im..

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken place over the last 5 centuries to develop the site from a small Caribbean enclave to a fully-fledged working city...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken place over the last 5 centuries to develop the site from a small Caribbean enclave to a fully-fledged working city...

Analyzes ten buildings embodying the human experience and clarifies that function in architecture is a generative force in determining built form...

Analyzes ten buildings embodying the human experience and clarifies that function in architecture is a generative force in determining built form...

The German interwar avant-garde was one of the primary forces driving European cultural innovation and modernism between 1918 and 1933, innovations that still influence artistic practice, theory, and arts education today, almost 100 years later. This study will pursue several important, interrelated..

Buildings surround and affect us all. In this clear and concise introduction to buildings Thom Gorst demystifies the culture of architecture and shows how an interest in our environment - whatever our cultural position - can be of great value to us...

Buildings surround and affect us all. In this clear and concise introduction to buildings Thom Gorst demystifies the culture of architecture and shows how an interest in our environment - whatever our cultural position - can be of great value to us...

During Denmark’s ’Golden Age’ (c. 1800 to 1850), Copenhagen came into being as a modern city on the urban-cultural level. This book examines this period in the city’s history, just before the establishment of some of the main features of the modernisation of cities associated with industrialisation,..

During Denmark’s ’Golden Age’ (c. 1800 to 1850), Copenhagen came into being as a modern city on the urban-cultural level. This book examines this period in the city’s history, just before the establishment of some of the main features of the modernisation of cities associated with industrialisation,..