An unprecedented look at the architect's storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called "the most charming city in America". Paul V. Turner looks at the archi...

This book examines a number of European terriories that are both fragile and affected by climate change. These characteristics – one inherent to the regions under study, the other caused by their transformation over time – produce significant effects...

Architectural bookmaking has been exposed to disciplinary debates, just as building construction has been exposed to the charms of book culture. Examining the crossovers between book culture and building culture makes visible the axes along which arc...

The south London parish of Battersea has roots as a working village, growing produce for London markets, and as a high-class suburb, with merchants' villas on the elevated ground around Clapham and Wandsworth Commons. Battersea enjoyed spectacular gr...

Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake". Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a b...

"The Survey of London" offers this fully illustrated, comprehensive record of London's medieval Charterhouse, including original research, new photography, and previously unpublished inventories. Founded as a Carthusian priory in the fourteenth centu...

This ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture – yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is consigned to oblivion. In pre-modern Europe, the archi...

Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as "half home county, half West Country". This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in...

Karel Teige (1900-1951) was a graphic designer, critic, and Czech partisan who in 1920 founded a group to promote modernism in the international sphere through polemics and manifestos. This is a translation of Karel Teige's 1930 publication that brou...

Since the 1970s sustainability has evolved as a significant mode of thought in nearly every field of intellectual activity. In 1992 the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro brought the ideas of sustainability and...