Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities - submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined and salvaged - this book teases out the links between ...
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown is often thought of as an innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, 'naturalistic' style of landscape design. But he was ...
The remains of antiquity define Greek architecture in the popular imagination, but Greek edifices encompass far more than these ancient structures. Offered here is ...
The twentieth-century architect Mies van der Rohe once declared that 'Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together'. In "Travels in the History ...
Is architecture art? This vexed question has been posed since the 1700s, when breaking from earlier centuries in which there were no divisions between ...
Sovereign City examines the nature of the city-state's changing role and traces the evolution of the city as a political entity from ancient times, ...
From its beginnings in the 17th century, the Baroque embraced the whole of Catholic Europe and infiltrated Protestant England, Orthodox Russia and even Muslim ...
In "Terminal Architecture", Martin Pawley argues that nearly all modern architecture is misconceived. Focusing as they do on form, not function, the buildings we ...
