'Narrative Architecture' reveals a stream of remarkable architectural and urban visions in the twentieth century that culminated in the construction of one of the ...
Projects with different levels of intervention are producing changes in two of America's Rust-Belt cities; the steel city of Pittsburgh and the iconic motor ...
Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel ...
According to urban academic myth, the first restaurants emerged in the wake of the French Revolution. From the very beginning in the elegant salons ...
Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It investigates how planning and policy help to ...
Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies ...
How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety ...
Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Canada. Indeed, reconstruction has ...
Louis I. Kahn was one of the most influential architects, thinkers and teachers of his time. This book examines the important relationship between his ...
Global Social Archaeologies contributes to the active engagement of contemporary social archaeology through addressing issues such as postcolonialism, community heritage, and Indigenous rights. It ...
Compiling nine authoritative essays spanning an extensive academic career, author Kenneth R. Olwig presents explorations in landscape geography and architecture from an environmental humanities ...
Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be ...
Adaptive reuse - the process of repairing and restoring existing buildings for new or continued use - is becoming an essential part of architectural ...
Heritage stones are those stones that have been used for many years, even centuries, to build the historic buildings and monuments of places around ...
