Between the ninth and fourteenth century, hundreds of architecturally exquisite Byzantine churches, many of them adorned with beautiful frescoes, were built in the area now known as the Republic of Macedonia. The condition of these buildings has been...

When "Friedrich Gilly" died in 1800 at the age of 28, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete. Nevertheless, his ideas so strongly influenced Berlin architecture of the next century...

This wide-ranging book explores the architecture, principally ecclesiastical, of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed from the hands of the Anglo-Nor...

London's modest eighteenth-century houses – those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London – can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survi...

"The Buildings of Scotland", founded by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) and Colin McWilliam (1928-1989), will, when complete, guide the reader to all buildings of significance in Scotland. In each volume, a gazetteer describes and interprets buildin...

This volume covers the vast area of the Highland region, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland and highlights buildings and monuments as varied as its landscapes: brochs, cairns and ceremonial settings of standing stones; cathedrals and abbeys, both...

The historic capital of Scotland is well known as a fortified medieval city with castle and crown-steepled church, its Royal Mile leading down to the Abey and Palace of Holyrood; as a merchant city of the Stuart period with Parliament House and close...