The Evolution of Designs

Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

By Philip Steadman

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings....

Published May 29th 2008 by Routledge.

Islam

From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul

By Christopher Tadgell

This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its...

Published April 1st 2008 by Routledge.

Art of the Brooklyn Bridge

A Visual History

By Richard Haw

The Brooklyn Bridge is a pre-eminent global icon. It is the world’s most famous and beloved bridge, a "must-see" tourist hotspot, and a vital fact...

Published February 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt

Supercrit #1

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas

Supercrit #2

Edited by Kester Rattenbury, Samantha Hardingham

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

The Florentine Villa

Architecture History Society

By Grazia Gobbi Sica

Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

Festival Architecture

Edited by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy

With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.

Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

By Christopher Hight

A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.

Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

By Richard Wittman

This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a...

Published November 29th 2007 by Routledge.

New York Underground

The Anatomy of a City

By Julia Solis

Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath...

Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge.