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The writings of the architect and engineer Vitruvius (c. 90-c. 20 BC) provide a fascinating picture of how the Romans planned and built their great ...
From snow-blanketed Siberia in winter, to the mountains of the Caucasus in summer, these images show how a once powerful, utopian landscape has been affected ...
The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural ...
Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But this legacy lives on in some ...
The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into the master architect of St. Peter's Basilica
As he entered his seventies, Michelangelo ...
Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture.
This ...
An accessible guide to the most important and spectacular buildings on the planet, and the people behind them
Explore the world's most incredible buildings ...
In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a wealth of buildings was realized prior to the revolution 1959 and in its wake ...
A celebration of communal bathing--swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more--viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape.
We enter the public ...
This highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has become a classic since it first appeared in 1980, and has helped to shape ...
Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world ...
