"This is a stimulating book and should be compulsory reading for all students of Roman art." ---Classical Review "For all the authors, attention to the ensemble, a sense of the relation between the...

Cyprus has always shown a remarkable openness to divergent cultures--at no time more than in the Middle Ages, when successive Byzantine and Latin conquerors settled on the island and dominated its...

Crumbled shells of mosques in Iraq, the bombing of British cathedrals in World War II, the fall of the World Trade Center towers on September 11: when architectural totems such as these are destroyed...

The Geometry of Environment: An Introduction to Spatial Organization in Design Paperback by Lionel March(Author), Philip Steadman(Author)

Now in an easy-to-carry format, this award-winning pictorial tribute to the world's most vertical city offers a unique introduction to New York's spectacular architecture. Using a vintage panoramic...

Frank Greenagel delves into the history of Somerset County's religious buildings, covering all of the churches and meetinghouses that existed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This...

An account of eminent women landscape architects who flourished in the golden age of country estates.This beautiful book covers in depth the work of six designers Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson,...

A showcase of twenty-five houses from across the globe offering creative solutions for planet-friendly home design. Designing with the environment in mind is not new. What is new is the increasing...

"The Yongle emperor (r. 1402-24), one of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, is perhaps best known as the builder of Beijing's magnificent Forbidden City and for reconstruction of the Grand...

"In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court's Inner Mongolian allies...

A classic history of the creation of modern Paris by Napoleon III and HaussmannBetween 1850 and 1870, Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out...