Architectural History Books

New and Published Books

1. Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe

   By Virag Molnar

   Series: Architext

   The built environment of former socialist countries is often deemed uniform and drab, an apt reflection of a repressive regime. Building the State peeks behind the grey façade to reveal a colourful struggle over competing meanings of the nation, Europe, modernity and the past in a divided continent...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Museum Architecture

   A New Biography

   By Suzanne MacLeod

   Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and...

   Published March 24th 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 March 21st 2013 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The City Rehearsed

   Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

   By Christopher Heuer

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Architecture and Embodiment

   The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design

   By Harry Francis Mallgrave

   In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. François Blondel

   Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

   By Anthony Gerbino

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Architecture Re-assembled

   The Use (and Abuse) of History

   By Trevor Garnham

   Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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 January 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. 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