Architectural History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

   By John Shannon Hendrix

   Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation

   Antiquity to Modernity

   By Miles Glendinning

   In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable...

   Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   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 reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Biographies & Space

   Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

   Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

   Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographical methods of historical...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

   The Trouser Under the Cloth

   By Anoma Pieris

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
6. Peripheries

   Edited by Ruth Morrow, Mohamed Abdelmonem

   Series: Critiques

   Architects are now more than ever part of an interdisciplinary context. The emergence of creative art-based practices, film making, post-disaster designs and slum management, as part of the architecture discourse and curriculum, is an indication of how broad architecture has become, and the extent...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Florentine Villa

   Architecture History Society

   By Grazia Gobbi Sica

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   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 and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day....

   Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. Composition, Non-composition

   By Jacques Lucan

   In architecture, composition refers to the conception of a building according to principles of regularity and hierarchy, or according to the principles of obtaining equilibrium. However, it is not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that the notion of composition becomes truly associated...

   Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
9. Latin American Modern Architectures

   Ambiguous Territories

   Edited by Patricio del Real, Helen Gyger

   Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories has thirteen new essays from a range of distinguished architectural historians to help you understand the region’s rich and varied architecture. It will also introduce you to major projects that have not been written about in English. A...

   Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

    Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

    By Samuel Y. Liang

    Series: Asia's Transformations

    This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge