Here we are, home at last

Nithurst by Adam Richards Architects is a much-lauded, multi-award-winning house designed by the architect for his family, and situated in the picturesque South Downs National Park. The building intentionally feels both ancient and contemporary and the character of the house is informed by Renais...

Designwise

DesignWISE introduces a 360-degree, regenerative approach to design development. Bringing together designers, thinkers and changemakers and moving beyond linear processes, combining design thinking, systemic leadership, and earth-based wisdom traditions to foster reflection, intentional action an...

Space in the image

Space in the Image is an intercontinental, interdisciplinary book exploring how still and moving images shape our experience of cities. At the intersection of architecture and digital media, it questions how representation and experience evolve in urban life amid rapid urbanization and digital im...

The tämpiṭavihāras of sri lanka

The Ṭämpiṭavihāras of Sri Lanka focuses on one distinctive Buddhist architectural practice from pre-modern Sri Lanka – the construction of Buddha image-houses on elevated wooden platforms supported by stone pillars. 

American-designed shopping malls in china

China’s remarkable journey from poverty to becoming the world’s second-largest economic power is marked by extraordinary urban growth and consumption capacity of its urban population. Central to this development fervor are multifunctional commercial complexes and shopping malls, now key features ...

Urban repair

Urban Repair addresses a growing imperative in architectural practice: how to rehabilitate, reintegrate and remake built environments in ways that honour heritage while supporting contemporary life. Drawing on the Pearling Path cultural heritage site in Muharraq, Bahrain, it contributes to curren...

Centro de arte moderna gulbenkian

This volume presents the Gulbenkian Foundation’s latest architectural landmark in Lisbon: the new Centro de Arte Moderna. Through the lens of photographer Erieta Attali it immerses readers in the architecture and landscape, complemented by interviews and texts that explore the vision, process and...

Charles correa architect (two volume set)

Celebrated as a visionary of modern architecture, Charles Correa ranks among the 20th century’s most influential architects, shaping India’s postcolonial built environment through a fusion of modernity and tradition. This richly illustrated 2-volume set documents more than 200 projects and includ...

Butabu remix

Reimagining the architectural landscapes of West Africa, James Morris presents more than 300 photographs revealing the expressive power of earthen architecture across Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, and Togo. The book includes texts by architects and writers on architecture from a new ge...

Manual for designing urban imaginaries: colombia

This book examines Colombia’s rapidly urbanizing regions, shaped by legacies of armed conflict and ongoing social and environmental pressures. It presents the “urban imaginary” as a design tool that explores where architecture and design meet the hopes, needs and perceptions of communities, demon...

Convivium

This book explores how food production shapes landscapes, cities and everyday life. It uncovers the architecture of global food systems; from greenhouses and fishing ports to agricultural enterprises and feed-crop fields, it traces how architecture and territory respond to the pressures of indus...

Architecture is transformation

This book celebrates the winners of the 2026 Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and their capacity to shape transformation in the built environment. Drawing on interviews with the award winners and in-depth project analyses, it offers insights into how architecture can drive urban renewal ...

Celebrating the city

Celebrating the City takes readers behind the scenes of early modern urban festivities. Ranging from magnificent coronations to modest courtyard bonfires, it offers the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Departing from existing scholarship, it draws on an...

Ancient athenian building methods (modern greek)

A new and updated edition of this insightful booklet provides a concise introduction to the remarkable engineering and artistry of ancient Greek architecture. Focusing on the Athenian Agora, an unparalleled site for studying building techniques, the authors reveal how monumental temples, public s...

Ancient athenian building methods: revised and updated edition

A new and updated edition of this insightful booklet provides a concise introduction to the remarkable engineering and artistry of ancient Greek architecture. Focusing on the Athenian Agora, an unparalleled site for studying building techniques, the authors reveal how monumental temples, public s...

Italy’s renaissance in buildings and gardens

This book looks at the major buildings and gardens of the Italian Renaissance.

The origin and development of dougong and zaojing in early china

This book inquiries about the origin of dougong and zaojing in Chinese Bronze Age, and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220), with an aim to remind people the rich cultural meanings embodied in these two important architectural elements in early China.

Multicriteria analysis for environmental decision-making

The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental imp...

Undisciplined: of architectural nomadism and the rebellious practice

Undisciplined is concerned with questions of the transformative effects of crisis in architecture as a discipline. This concern is addressed through the critical examination of a hybrid body of practice-based work, which, although founded on the discipline of architecture, results from its contin...

Fundamentals of planning cities for healthy living

The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.

Urban landscape priorities, opportunities and prospect

Urban Landscape Priorities, Opportunities and Prospect focuses on current planning and design priorities and opportunities for the enhancement of future urban landscape contexts. Current priorities include walkability, access, urban greening and climate mitigation. These and other priorities are ...

Architecture and the public good

The best chance for ethically grounding the architecture profession is in the public good that results from licensing but architects have done an unconvincing job of communicating the nature of this good. Architecture and the Public Good dissects the underlying tensions causing this situation and...

Disappearing cities

Disappearing Cities is a collection of short stories of invented cities, set in the not too distant future, destroyed by climate change impacts. The projected fictions are created from projected current climate facts. Inspired by Italo Calvino’s book Invisible Cities, the work aims to be a salien...

Affordable housing for livable cities

The book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable.

The creation of markets for ecosystem services in the united states

The Creation of Markets for Ecosystem Services in the United States provides an in-depth analysis of the most advanced efforts to create markets for ecosystem services in the United States. It explains why very few of these markets have succeeded even after close to twenty years of scholarly enth...

Early planning utopias

Interrogating canonical texts and plans written during the nineteenth and early twentieth century on both sides of the North Atlantic, this book explores the role of gender in the visioning of the ideal city.

Reading kenneth frampton

This book focuses on the first edition of Kenneth Frampton’s Modern Architecture: A Critical History, published in 1980. It searches for clues and positions that will provide the reader with an unprecedented insight into the significance of Frampton’s historiography of modern architecture. 

Iconoclasm in the public square

This book is the first theory-informed work in architectural conservation and historic preservation to examine the discordance among the public over controversial historic monuments in the historic landscape and how it should be addressed. It challenges architects, landscape architects, conservat...

Change in use of land

Change in Use of Land: A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong is a guide for professionals in real estate development in Hong Kong. This third edition provides an account of the concepts of the use and change in use of land, followed by an outline of the procedures for lease modifications ...

Messy urbanism

Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range ...

Enclave to urbanity

Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city’s predominantly Chinese population. ...

Asian revitalization

Adaptive reuse refers to reusing an old building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed. This conservation approach has become increasingly popular around the world. However, there are few publications that focus on its application in Asia. This book fills this gap by ...

The first estates

The First Estates shows the impact on Hong Kong’s urban history of Fairview Park and Hong Lok Yuen, the earliest examples of private estates provided in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Completed in the 1970s and 1980s, both are examples of land development projects built as low-density, America...

Ultra-modernism

The first half of the twentieth century was fraught with global tensions and political machinations. However, for all the destruction in that period, these geopolitical conditions in Manchuria cultivated an extraordinary variety of architecture and urban planning, which has completely escaped int...

The placemakers of hong kong

The Placemakers of Hong Kong pays homage to what local development companies, charitable organizations, as well as the government have been able to achieve in contributing to the enhancement of Hong Kong’s evolving urban and rural landscape. Far from being solely profit-driven, developers and urb...

Asian revitalization

Adaptive reuse refers to reusing an old building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed. This conservation approach has become increasingly popular around the world. However, there are few publications that focus on its application in Asia. This book fills this gap by ...

Water driven

Water Driven presents stirring tales from around the world recounting humankind’s endeavours to solve water crises. Our creative solutions in the face of adversity have driven agricultural, industrial, and technological revolutions, creating some of the most iconic cultural landscapes, ranging fr...

Landscapes lost and found

Hong Kong’s approach to heritage conservation has focused mainly on saving an old building here and there with little or no regard to its surroundings. Recent public debates challenging proposals to demolish the former Central Government Offices have highlighted this problem and, for the first ti...

Revitalization in asia

Revitalization in Asia: Adaptive Reuse in Macao, Mumbai, and Penang offers a clear understanding of the value of sustainable adaptive reuse within an Asian context. Three highly urbanized places (Macao, Mumbai, and Penang) are considered in detail from conservation and planning perspectives (with...

The classical gardens of shanghai

In The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens through their origins, changing fortunes, restorations, and links to a wider Chinese aesthetic. Shanghai’s classical gardens are as much text as space; they exist in art, poetry, and litera...

Structure, design and technique of the bamiyan buddhist caves

This monograph presents the English edition of the fifth volume of Recent Cultural Heritage Issues in Afghanistan, documenting ongoing international efforts to conserve the Bamiyan site following the destruction of the Giant Buddhas in 2001. Led by Japanese, German, and Italian specialists under ...

Holding it all together

A collection of papers that highlight the importance of understanding original construction and subsequent repairs for both curatorial interpretation and conservation practice. By examining ancient and traditional methods alongside evaluations of modern materials, the book offers insights into th...

The church of the archangel michael at kavalariana

Crete, a vital Venetian stronghold, saw cultural interaction between Greek Orthodox locals and Venetian colonists. This book delves into the case of the Archangel Michael church at Kavalariana, revealing a hybrid society's artistic development, with unique features like a pro-Venetian inscription...

Eastern turkey vol. ii

Eastern Turkey is a rich tapestry of diverse civilizations, from Hittite to Ottoman. Its historical sites, including fortifications and monasteries, offer a fascinating blend for archaeological and art-historical research. These four volumes form a comprehensive guide, detailing each site's histo...

Studies in english pre-romanesque and romanesque architecture volume i

These volumes include Dr Gem's main work over a period of quarter of a century. Taken together, these studies present an overview of the development of English Church architecture from the 7th century to the 12th.

Sustainable urban development

This research and reference text covers the most recent advancements in the implementation of sustainability principles to built environments. It engages the perspectives of a wide range of professionals, including architects, engineers, geographers, and more. Interdisciplinary in nature, it is i...

City in the cloud – data on the ground

Bringing together voices from architecture, media studies, technology, art and political theory, this book explores the elemental, spatial, and temporal dimensions of the architecture of data. The volume maps the costs of the data economy—ecological, social, and political—and opens up perspective...

Optimism and architecture

This book presents the awarded and shortlisted projects for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2025. The book explores the ways in which optimism and hope are linked to better design outcomes, highlighting architecture's capacity to serve as a catalyst for pluralism, social transformation, cultu...

Learning ecologies in architecture

Explores how educational buildings can actively shape, and be shaped by, their ecological contexts through processes of translation, research, innovation and collaboration. Good educational design has always extended beyond the boundaries of the building, fostering individual learners in the clas...

Reading visual investigations

This volume focuses on a new discipline—visual investigations—in which architecture intersects with advocacy, journalism, and law in the pursuit of justice and accountability. It illustrates this with intriguing case studies from around the world, highlighting the role of architecture as a key ar...

World heritage regensburg

To proclaim, to instruct and to discipline

The visual display of Scripture became common in Dutch Calvinist churches after the "Beeldenstorm" (the Great Iconoclasm): text panels and text paintings filled the lacunae left by the removal of images and altars. This richly illustrated volume shows how text decoration marked the Reformed appro...

Wilhelmshöhe park

Ostein’s niederwald and the niederwald monument

Wilhelmshöhe park

On 23 June 2013, »Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe« was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage list. Its Outstanding Universal Value was recognised to be the park’s orchestration of the primeval power of water as a representation of an Absolutist prince’s rule.

Protestant church architecture of the 16th–18th centuries in europe (4 volume set)

A comprehensive overview of Protestant church architecture of the 16th to 18th centuries in Europe. The four volumes feature entries on 1244 churches in 41 countries. The churches described include more than 100 in the UK, 387 in Germany, 57 in the Baltic countries, 59 in the Netherlands, 42 in F...

Obscured by walls

This study reveals the artistic and cultic arrangements in Cretan churches, before the crystallization of the Iconostasis as the »distinctive feature of churches of the Byzantine rite«. It provides material proof of cultural identity and religious consciousness of the Orthodox populace in Crete ...

The dovecotes of tinos (english language edition)

In 1955 a young student visited Tinos (an island in the Greek Cyclades archipelago). While exploring the island, he discovered about 800 dovecotes, which he recorded complete with detailed plans. Now a selection of this material becomes a book, enriched with introductory texts and many photograph...

Ancient egyptian architecture in fifteen monuments

An authoritatively written overview of ancient Egyptian architecture from the point of view of an archaeologist and architectural historianThe monuments of ancient Egypt have held scholars and tourists in their thrall for centuries. The sheer mass of the pyramids of Giza, the interaction of the t...

Ottoman monuments in greece (greek language)

This book, a collection of studies by various different authors, approaches the Ottoman monuments of Greece as the heritage of a historical period that lends itself to multiple readings. The authors approach the subject from a wide range of disciplines, including history of art, archaeology, arch...

Fenster für bewegtes licht // window for moving light

Olafur Eliasson is known for his spatial light installations. For the Greifswald Cathedral, he has designed a new east window inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's colour palette. Light, colour and pattern play with the impression of change and infinity. Text: parallel-text German and English

Sancian, gate to china

In 1552, St. Francis Xavier died on the island of Sancian without setting foot on mainland China. In 1700, the German Jesuit Kaspar Castner was sent to build a tomb for Francis Xavier on Sancian. Castner wrote a report on this period, which is presented here for the first time in a modern schola...

Basilica b’ of philippi (greek language text)

The Basilica B’ in the archaeological site of Philippi dates back to the middle of the sixth century AD and is an enigma in the history of architecture of the Justinian period of the Greek area. This book attempts to clarify key issues of conflicting opinions and to improve our knowledge on a num...

Recoveries and reclamations

The kinetic city & other essays

This book presents Rahul Mehrotra's writings over the last 30 years and illustrates his long-term engagement with and analysis of urbanism in India. This work has given rise to a new conceptualization of the city. Mehrotra calls it the Kinetic City, which is the counterpoint to the Static City, a...

Architecture of commonality

Architecture of Commonality. Grounds for Hope is an edited collection of essays expounding on the role of museums and cultural institutions in Palestine and the Arab world. The book is guided by reflections on the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, Palestine, which won the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Arc...

Studies in english pre-romanesque and romanesque architecture volume ii

These volumes include Dr Gem's main work over a period of quarter of a century. Taken together, these studies present an overview of the development of English Church architecture from the 7th century to the 12th.

Spectacle, entertainment, and recreation in late ottoman and early turkish republican cities

An analysis of entertainment, spectacle and recreation activities and spaces of late Ottoman and early Turkish cities, discussing their evolution, and significance for the urban life as well as their interaction with society’s modernization processes, through contributions of numerous authors por...

Studies in medieval islamic architecture, vol. i

Hillenbrand's writings cover Islamic architecture across regions and centuries, examining Iran's Saljuq period, Umayyad monuments and the iconographic significance of Muslim architecture. These two volumes present primary material, exploring historical periods and dynasties, and analyzing the con...

Romanesque architecture

Eric Fernie's research focuses on architectural development in England and France, spanning from Anglo-Saxon to Gothic periods. This volume compiles 30 studies, covering diverse buildings, sculpture, the St. Gall plan and architectural proportions in English churches, the pre-Conquest abbey at We...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 6. masclus i-balbus to oxittus (bics supplement 102.6)

Names on terra sigillata. volume 5. l to masclus ii (bics supplement 102.5)

The temple of ramesses ii in abydos (volume 2)

Volume 2, Pillars, Niches and Miscellanea, contains additional elements of the temple, as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple. Together with Volume 1, it forms a basis for a detailed analysis of the overall decorative programme of the temple and its symbolism.    

Aires mateus book of models

This poetic and minimalist anthology presents 10 years of heritage of AIRES MATEUS design studios at the Accademia di Archittettura di Mendrisio in Switzerland.100 images of large-scale models built by students of AIRES MATEUS are brought together to create a family portrait.

The propylaia to the athenian akropolis

The famous monumental gateway to the Akropolis is a successor to a Mycenaean building. But what did this Bronze Age gateway, in use up to the 5th century B.C., look like, and what did the architect Mnesikles tear down before he started his construction? This detailed architectural study explores ...

The architect's dream

The Architect's Dream draws on a broad range of subject areas, from philosophy to film to mathematics and economics, to show that the path to meaningful architecture practice is always based in a deep commitment to the idea that architecture is first and foremost an expression of the creative min...

The extramural sanctuary of demeter and persephone at cyrene, libya, final reports, volume viii

The petra church

The Petra Church offers detailed scholarship about the excavation of the church itself but also about the historical environment of the communities living in the Petra area, a historical and archaeological city, capital of the kingdom of the Nabataeans in southern Jordan. Illustrated throughout i...

Hagia sophia (russian language edition)

The thirteen-centuries-old church of Hagia Sophia, dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, has been the focus of scholarly interest and debate since the nineteenth century, generating a remarkably rich bibliography: Greek and foreign. Until now there was no publication addressed to the visitors to t...

Hagia sophia (greek language edition)

The thirteen-centuries-old church of Hagia Sophia, dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, has been the focus of scholarly interest and debate since the nineteenth century, generating a remarkably rich bibliography: Greek and foreign. Until now there was no publication addressed to the visitors to t...

The athenian walk and the historic site of athens (english language edition)

This book is a chronicle of visits made to the Acropolis by Greeks and foreigners in the 19th and 20th centuries, and looks at questions such as how successive generations of visitors experience the shrine of the Acropolis, and how was the new "Athenian Walk" created. English language edition. 21...

Architectural improvisation

Examines the work of a group of architects which converged in Vermont in the mid-1960s, tracing the development of this Design/Build movement from its roots in Bauhaus theory at Yale School of Architecture. It includes archival photographs and drawings and new architectural photographs. A stunnin...

The temple of ramesses ii in abydos, volume 1 wall scenes (parts 1 and 2)

Volume 1 "Wall Scenes" consists of of two books, with a total of over 400 illustrations and Preface. Volume 2, "Pillars, Miscellany, and Inscriptions", contains additional elements of the temple, as well as translations of the inscriptions found in the temple.

Names on terra sigillata. volume 3. certianus to exsobano (bics supplement 102.3)

Names on terra sigillata. volume 4. f to klumi (bics supplement 102.4)

Names on terra sigillata. volume 7 p to rxead (bics supplement 102.7)