This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had ...
This is the first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world. "Antiquity" traces architectural ...
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal ...
This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage. Contributors examine our fascination ...
The book focuses on the recent innovations in computational techniques, material and digital fabrication technology that are revolutionizing the design, analysis and construction of ...
The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role ...
These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects ...
In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque -when it was a risky term concerned with ...
Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private. Rather than focusing ...
