In Architecture and the Right to Heal, Esra Akcan calls for architecture to take an active role in healing communities affected by socioeconomic, political, and environmental disasters. Akcan frames these processes by discussing buildings and spaces in...

An architect generally works to a client's brief when designing a new home or renovating an existing dwelling. However, the opportunity for an architect or a designer to create their own home, without the constraints of a client, must certainly be at the...

A groundbreaking history of Africa’s looted architectural heritage—and a bold proposal for the repatriation of the continent’s stolen cultural artifactsBetween the nineteenth century and today, colonial officials, collectors, and anthropologists...

A thought-provoking essay collection about how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven—from Ancient Greece to present-day New York City.Illnesses, wellness, and architecture are inseparable. Medical professionals and architects have always...

First published in 1948, Mechanization Takes Command is an examination of mechanization and its effects on everyday life. A monumental figure in the field of architectural history, Sigfried Giedion traces the evolution and resulting philosophical...

From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the...

Lost Synagogues of Europe chronicles and recreates in vivid color paintings the life stories of nearly 80 majestic--and destroyed--European synagogues, each one a testament to the approximately 17,000 synagogues decimated during the Third Reich and early...

Michael Graves's career has been one of the most remarkably creative and successful of any American architect practicing today. His extensive oeuvre includes such renowned projects as the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel and the Walt Disney World Swan...

Concrete Colonialism Is A History Of The Us Colonial Project In The Philippines Told Through The Lens Of Reinforced Concrete Construction. Though Still A New Technology In The Early Twentieth Century, The Us Colonial Government Used It To The Virtual...

The Labor of Architecture examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the “working class” and the “creative class.” In popular imagination, as author C.G. Beck observes, the architect is a singular genius,...

A handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design, featuring over 100 of the world's most significant residential buildings. The Iconic House features over 100 of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900...

What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture.Capital’s voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of “never enough.” The current realities of building...

Investigates the history of the Villa dall'Ava in the playful style of a detective novel. Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of...

How recent shifts in social politics have dramatically changed our relationship to monuments.For centuries, monuments have telegraphed the values and origin myths of dominant culture in public space and on massive scale. They have signaled both who is...

George Everard Kidder Smith (1913–1997) was a multidimensional figure within the wide-ranging field of North American architectural professionals in the second half of the twentieth century.Although he trained as an architect, he chose not to practice...

[edited By] Karin Hindsbo, Mai Britt Guleng, Claudia Conforti. Series Number Appears On Half Title And Spine. Guicciardini & Magni Architetti Is An Architectural Firm Based In Florence, Italy, With A Vast Experience In Cultural Heritage Projects At...