Architectural History

A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative...

This book examines the relationship between design institutes, the state and the market economy through a discussion of significant theoretical and historical issues...

Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science...

Focusing on the design and building practices developed in the Portuguese region of the Algarve over four decades from the first signs of modern movement influence to the eve of mass-tourism development, this book looks at three essential themes in twentieth-century architecture - modernism, regiona..

Focusing on the design and building practices developed in the Portuguese region of the Algarve over four decades from the first signs of modern movement influence to the eve of mass-tourism development, this book looks at three essential themes in twentieth-century architecture - modernism, regiona..

_x005F_x000D_ American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better...

This book presents a collection of recent writings on architecture and urbanism in the United States, with topics ranging from colonial to contemporary times...

Le Carmel de la Paix, set on a hillside near Cluny is a convent designed by Jose Luis Sert, which is virtually unknown and little visited. This book sets out the reasons for its neglect and in doing so, not only offers valuable and important new insights into Sert's architecture, but also provides i..

Le Carmel de la Paix, set on a hillside near Cluny is a convent designed by Jose Luis Sert, which is virtually unknown and little visited. This book sets out the reasons for its neglect and in doing so, not only offers valuable and important new insights into Sert's architecture, but also provides i..

Using analysis of visual, oral and documentary material An Architecture of Parts offers a compelling analysis of architecture, construction and the uneasy relationship between them in post-War Britain...

Using analysis of visual, oral and documentary material An Architecture of Parts offers a compelling analysis of architecture, construction and the uneasy relationship between them in post-War Britain...

Using analysis of visual, oral and documentary material An Architecture of Parts offers a compelling analysis of architecture, construction and the uneasy relationship between them in post-War Britain...