University Architecture

This well-illustrated, accessibly written book examines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representati...

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been dr...

A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy This groundbreak...

This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and t...

The first comprehensive account of space's centrality to confronting state-endorsed violence, this volume draws upon ethnographic research gathered...

A nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art's carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and ...

Reducere. A celebration of the art, architecture, and timeless human passion of the Eternal City, Rome Is Love Spelled Backward explores Rome's best-known tr...

Reducere. Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural...

Investigating the rich architecture of post-Mao China and its broad cultural impactPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Cole RoskamNumber of ...

DescriptionIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with ...

DescriptionThe publication captures the work done at the University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design while showcasing stude...

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai...

A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of ArtPublisher: Yale Univers...

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

Addresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in th...

Reducere. This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in wh...

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since citie...

Gottfied Semper was the most important German theorist of the nineteenth century. From his first published essay on Greek polychromy in 1834 to his...

Reducere. Anasazi Architecture and American Design is a journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, arc...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitalit...

Reducere. A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwa...

Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.Publisher: University of M...

Reducere. November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After co...

DescriptionHow socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn...

Japan's postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors The devastation of the Second ...

There is new content in this revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. All the original exercises have been ...

Reducere. It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Du...

The Iranian Expanse explores how kings in Persia and the ancient Iranian world utilized the built and natural environment to form and contest Irani...

Reducere. The description for this book, The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order, will be forthcoming.