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Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture
Dan Cruickshank
Hardcover - $372.95
"Banister Fletcher" has been the standard one-volume architectural history for 100 years and continues to give a concise and factual account of world architecture from the earliest times. All the chapters of the previous edition have been amended and ...
Classical Architecture : An Introduction to Its Vocabulary and Essentials, with a Select Glossary of Terms
James Stevens Curl
Paperback - $49.95
THIS RICHLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK illuminates the principles and elements of classical architecture, which have been at the heart of the Western experience for over two millennia. It explores Greek and Roman architecture and the architecture of eras that ...
Skyline : The Narcissistic City
Hubert Damisch
Paperback - $41.95
One of today' s foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. In engaging a subject that has been of continuing interest to Damisch ...
Anything
Cynthia C. Davidson
Paperback - $65.95
Architects, theorists, historians, and others explore architectures that are open to "anything."
Eisenman/Krier : Two Ideologies
Cynthia C. Davidson
Paperback - $54.95
In November 2002, the Yale School of Architecture hosted the symposium "Eisenman/Krier: Two Ideologies," a two-day analysis--both celebratory and critical--of architects Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier. Eisenman, with an office in New York, and Krier, ...
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
Hardcover - $42.95
With his trademark lucidity and humor, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cheris ...
