The East

Buddhists, Hindus and the Sons of Heaven

By Christopher Tadgell

Continuing the Architecture in Context series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent...

Published November 6th 2007 by Routledge.

Winning the Right to Protect a City’s Landmarks

By Anthony Wood

Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City’s nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind...

Published October 25th 2007 by Routledge.

On Span and Space

Exploring Structures in Architecture

By Bjørn Normann Sandaker

In this richly illustrated book with many practical examples, Bjorn Sandaker provides readers with a better understanding of the relationship between technology and architecture.

As...

Published October 19th 2007 by Routledge.

Form Follows Fun

Modernism and Modernity in British Pleasure Architecture 1925–1940

By Bruce Peter

Authoritative and readable, this excellent text, illustrated by a unique pictorial record of period architecture, surveys and examines how and why the architecture of pleasure...

Published September 27th 2007 by Routledge.

The Picturesque

Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

By John Macarthur

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with...

Published September 18th 2007 by Routledge.

The Environmental Imagination

Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment

By Dean Hawkes

This title, from a well-regarded and established expert, explores the changing relationship between the poetic intentions and technical means of environmental design in architecture. Working...

Published August 8th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

Desire Lines

Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City

Edited by Noëleen Murray, Nick Shepherd, Martin Hall

This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of...

Published July 19th 2007 by Routledge.

The Practice of Modernism

Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972

By John R. Gold

In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning...

Published June 14th 2007 by Routledge.

Antiquity

Origins, Classicism and the New Rome

By Christopher Tadgell

The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its...

Published May 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

Japanese Love Hotels

A Cultural History

By Sarah Chaplin

Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels...

Published April 26th 2007 by Routledge.