Architectural History

Strongly interdisciplinary in its scope, this book situates Soane’s house-museum within the broader context of early nineteenth-century British aesthetics, theories of taste, and cultural currents, viewing it as a cultural and artistic product as well as an architectural and museological one...

Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture. This edited collection focuses on the woman architect in a position of equality with their male counterparts...

Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture. This edited collection focuses on the woman architect in a position of equality with their male counterparts...

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (1724-1803) and his impact on architectural theory and pedagogy...

This book is a critical, in-depth study of Kahn’s philosophy of education and his unique pedagogy...

This book is a critical, in-depth study of Kahn’s philosophy of education and his unique pedagogy...

Metabolism, the Japanese architectural avant-garde movement of the 1960s, profoundly influenced contemporary architecture and urbanism. This book investigates the Metabolists’ utopian projects of the city, which often envisioned the sea and the sky as human habitats of the future and proposed three-..

This book contains the first English-language translation of Propeadeutic Contribution to the Teaching of Architecture Theory, (Habitat, Ltd. São Paulo, 1957), a seminal text, published in Portuguese by the Italo-Brazilian Bo Bardi. It is arguably the first published writing on architecture theory b..

This book contains the first English-language translation of Propeadeutic Contribution to the Teaching of Architecture Theory, (Habitat, Ltd. São Paulo, 1957), a seminal text, published in Portuguese by the Italo-Brazilian Bo Bardi. It is arguably the first published writing on architecture theory b..

Extends recent attempts to re-think post-war architectural culture and its global effects beyond simplistic, canonical, and ontological definitions or explanations...

Extends recent attempts to re-think post-war architectural culture and its global effects beyond simplistic, canonical, and ontological definitions or explanations...

Drawing together imperial projects, modernist aesthetics, and fascist motives, this book examines how the merger of these three significant influences yielded a complex built environment that served to emulate, if not redefine, Italian colonial pursuits. Exploring discourses of modernity in Africa, ..