Architectural History

This title addresses the groundbreaking public space with art installations. Supported by an extensive illustrated section, this innovative text is an invaluable resource for any architecture student and an inspiring record of this fascinating project...

An analysis of the far-reaching influence of Archigram, the journal published in London in the 1960s, and the group of the same name that created it...

Examining the contrasting, and often conflicting, sensibilities that converge into CAD and BIM discourses—globalism, utopianism, entrepreneurialism, and architects’ desires for aesthetic liberation—Builders of the Vision argues that software systems and numerically controlled machines are not merely..

Examining the contrasting, and often conflicting, sensibilities that converge into CAD and BIM discourses—globalism, utopianism, entrepreneurialism, and architects’ desires for aesthetic liberation—Builders of the Vision argues that software systems and numerically controlled machines are not merely..

This comprehensive guide provides planners, developers, architects and archaeologists with an analysis of the conflicts between the archaeological development and planning processes...

Building the Post-War World offers for the first time an overall account of Modern Architecture in the decade after the Second World War...

The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. This book peeks behind the gray façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent...

At the end of the Second World War, Italian architects began to pay increasing attention to examples imported from the United States, with the American model becoming a reference for many Italian designers, planners, and critics. This book questions how effective the circulation of US-originated kn..

At the end of the Second World War, Italian architects began to pay increasing attention to examples imported from the United States, with the American model becoming a reference for many Italian designers, planners, and critics. This book questions how effective the circulation of US-originated kn..

Extending the concept of British vernacular architecture to embrace buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and post-war mass housing, this book is of use to anyone with an interest in architectural history...

This first book in the unprecedented SuperCrit series examines Cedric Price’s groundbreaking Potteries Thinkbelt project from the 1960s. Highly illustrated and with contemporary criticism, this is a book not to be missed!..

Focusing on how an important nineteenth-century architect addressed the already shifting relation between architecture, time and history, this book offers insights on issues still relevant today-the struggle between imitation and innovation, the definition (or rejection) of aesthetic experience, the..