Architectural History

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa...

This book offers the first study of how architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere. Depicting architecture's passage into a mediatized public culture as an historic turning point, and interrogating it as a s..

Architecture, Travellers and Writers..

Through an international range of case studies from the 1870s to the present day, this volume analyses strategies of display in department stores and modern retail spaces...

Focusing on Paul Klee’s Persian-inspired miniature series and Louis Kahn’s unbuilt blueprint for a democratic public space in Tehran, this book traces the architectonics of the present as a way of moving beyond universalist and nationalist accounts of modernism...

Starting with the broader edges of Francesco’s written work and steadily penetrating into the fantastic world of his drawings, the book examines his singular formulation of the act of drawing and its significance in the context of the Renaissance...

Starting with the broader edges of Francesco’s written work and steadily penetrating into the fantastic world of his drawings, the book examines his singular formulation of the act of drawing and its significance in the context of the Renaissance...

Starting with the broader edges of Francesco’s written work and steadily penetrating into the fantastic world of his drawings, the book examines his singular formulation of the act of drawing and its significance in the context of the Renaissance...

International scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design here reappraise modern life in the context of practices of dwelling over the span of the postwar period. Reassessing culture and the economic and political effects on civilian life, this collection looks at what ro..

International scholars from architecture, design, urban planning, and interior design here reappraise modern life in the context of practices of dwelling over the span of the postwar period. Reassessing culture and the economic and political effects on civilian life, this collection looks at what ro..

This original study brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus – tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. _x005F_x000D_ Written for those in the fields of architectural and design education, architectural history and crit..

This original study brings critical social theory to bear on the ideas of architectural and design education at the Bauhaus – tracing the spread and influence of these ideas worldwide. _x000D_ Written for those in the fields of architectural and design education, architectural history and critical p..