"An inspirational guide to introducing character into your home, full of ideas and tips on how to create a personality-packed space that reflects who you are and how you live"--Page 4 of cover.

"How do we formulate alternative approaches to the world's unresponsive or intractable dilemmas - from climate cataclysm to inequality to concentrations of authoritarian power? Easterling argues that...

A Life in Pattern is the highly anticipated interior design monograph of Anna Spiro, master of the showstopping interior. Anna Spiro is the founder of Anna Spiro Design and co-founder of Anna Spiro...

"By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome--celebrated both as the Eternal...

"In Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit, architect Amy Hetletvedt unfolds a revolutionary-but-simple vision for re-thinking building conservation in vulnerable...

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of ArchitecturalTheory collects in a single volume the most significant essays on architectural theory of the last thirty years.A dynamic period...

"The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is widely recognized as among the most iconic urban landmarks of the twenty-first century. It has...

"Why, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the problem of laying their dead to rest? Roger Luckhurst sets out in search of answers in this arresting...

A classic account of the villa-from ancient Rome to the twentieth century-by "the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture" (Architect's Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman...

The Invention of the Future is a historical and analytical study of urban planning over the past three centuries. Bruno Carvalho examines visionary designs, technological innovations, and key urban...

"The first comprehensive history of the role of women architects within the history of American modernism"--

The complete and unabridged full-color editionFirst published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones...

A groundbreaking book by one of the world's leading historians of Chinese architectureTranslated by Alexandra Harrer.Fu Xinian is considered by many to be the world's leading historian of Chinese...

Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their...

Available again in paperback, this first survey of building types ever written remains an essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the...

Contrasting intimate visits to artist's studios, intended to evoke the particular elements of their own interior landscapes, with explorations of the USA's sweeping landscapes of light and form,...

Devoted to all-white houses, this book celebrates the ever- popular ”non-color” as a perfect backdrop for contemporary lifestylesSometimes seen as an absence of color, white in fact reflects the...

"Growing numbers of us work not only from home, but from anywhere; job flexibility has become key for employers and workers alike. This, in turn, has created new challenges for architects and...

The first fully comprehensive publication on the history of plywood, from the nineteenth century to the present dayPlywood is an astonishingly versatile material, made by gluing together layers of...

The Victorians suffered from `fern madness'; the 1970s was the age of the macrame plant hanger; the Japanese believe that where there are plants, life energy flows well. For centuries and across...