History & Periods Books


Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral Best Price: $15.04 The author sets the bar high: a book that describes the design and building of the cathedral at...	Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture Best Price: $6.30 No, this isn't a book about an Italian guy with a big head, although Filippo Brunelleschi...	Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises Best Price: $23.08 Okay, so I havent actually read the book but Cameron Sinclair came to my school a month ago to...	Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus (Taschen Basic Architecture) Best Price: $7.48 I think this book is an incredible value. Wonderfully satisfying photos for the price. The...	Buildings across Time Best Price: $83.74 I'm one of those "stodgy" old professors (who chose this book as a text before it...



Hunt Country Style Best Price: $33.62 Beautifull book. This book explores some of the "beautifull" homes in the Middleburg...	A Global History of Architecture Best Price: $41.20 i agree with all the previous reviews, this book is a must be and worth every penny you spend on...	Modern Architecture Since 1900 Best Price: $23.97 I gave up in trying to read this book. The language is too advanced for someone simply studying...	How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles Best Price: $10.57 This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building’s style, history, and...	Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, And Meaning (Icon Editions) Best Price: $38.22 This book is one of the seminal readings for architectural history, and the reason is that the...



Atlas of Novel Tectonics Best Price: $15.00 maybe I was once again fooled by how sexy this book is, but I pandered to every word Jesse and...	The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series) Best Price: $6.84 I became interested in the Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893 through a friend and I bought this book...	A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals Best Price: $46.60 I was very happy with the purchase, mainly because it was $50 off retail price and was free to ship.	Chinoiseries Best Price: $36.14 Chinoiseries This book is full of so many architectual chinoiseries that I never knew existed. ...	Modern Architecture, Fourth Edition (World of Art) Best Price: $14.47 "One of the most important works on modern architecture we have today."...

The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History Of Architecture Best Price: $15.00 As an Art History major, and a former Architectural student, I was skeptical when I found this...	Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-Century Architecture Best Price: $12.00 This book is mandatory for the library of any architect or student of architecture. It is the...	Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice Best Price: $16.87 "What thou lovest well remains . . . is thy true heritage . . . shall not be reft from...	Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies Best Price: $12.99 Los Angeles. There were a few years there when Los Angles was the center of the world....	A World History of Architecture Best Price: $40.95 This 2nd edition was published in 2003 under ISBN: 1856693538 [Hb] and ISBN: 0071417516 [Hb], in...

Great Lodges of the National Parks: Volume Two Best Price: $21.70 Fun reading if you are an explorer of the National Parks, which I am. Certainly the most...	European Architecture 1750-1890 (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $15.74 took far too long to recieve the requested item. Was told it would be 1-2 weeks but recieved...	How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Best Price: $15.00 The book addresses another one of these important but rarely discussed architectural issues,...	Italian Villas and Their Gardens: The Original 1904 Edition Best Price: $21.53 Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is...	Mies Van Der Rohe: 1886-1969 (Basic Architecture Series) Best Price: $5.76 it' nice to have it in your colection or a travelling pack. you can starts to explore his works...

Great Lodges of the National Parks: The Companion Book to the PBS Television Series Best Price: $21.88 This book makes a wonderful gift or a reference to pour over time and time again as it is packed...	One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity Best Price: $12.74 This is a helpful survey of the related issues of site specificity and institutional critique. ...	Pamphlet Architecture 27: Tooling (Pamphlet Architecture) Best Price: $11.20 Aranda/Lasch provide a glimpse of what algorithmic techniques in architecture are capable of...	Story of Architecture Best Price: $14.81 I was looking for a readable inroduction to varied styles and history of architecture that was...	Atmospheres: Architectural Environments - Surrounding Objects Best Price: $24.00 The book is written as a dialogue taken from a lecture, which has had minimal editing. This...

Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties Best Price: $39.63 This is a very well written look back at the "Psychedelic Sixties" with fantastic...	Forgotten Modern Best Price: $23.68 Modern is not new. It has a history and this book remind us about it. The language of Modern...	Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (Writing Architecture) Best Price: $14.40 Architecture, at least since the beginning of the twentieth century, has suspended historical...	The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Best Price: $14.97 Spiro Kostof's book is a fantastic and intelligent foray into urban form. What I found most...	The Ten Books on Architecture Best Price: $6.00 Vitruvius's 10 books (or chapters) on architecture lets you view life through the lens of the...

Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture:: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995 Best Price: $16.79 An excellent collection of readings covering a wide variety of philosophical architectural...	The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture Best Price: $88.55 I bought this book as a gift for an architecture student, couldn't be more perfect.Its size may...	Ancient Rome: Monuments Past and Present Best Price: $17.14 This is a wonderful book. It really fleshes out the remains of Rome's ancient monuments	Architecture: From Prehistory to Postmodernity, Reprint (2nd Edition) Best Price: $85.00 The book arrived earlier than expected. It is a book I needed and could only find on Amazon. I...	Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis Best Price: $11.47 This was a gift for a very dear friend of mine. I am very satisfied with the book and with the...

The Elements of Style: An Encyclopedia of Domestic Architectural Detail Best Price: $47.25 This book is an invaluable resource for restoration work and new construction, where clients...	History of Interior Design and Furniture: From Ancient Egypt to Nineteenth-Century Europe Best Price: $64.70 I purchased this book as a requirement for an Interior Design History class at Parsons School of...	10 X 10 _ 2 100 Architects 10 Critics Best Price: $45.00 The publishers did a fine job on the quality of this book. Although 10x10 was not at all what I...	Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $16.00 It is a little biased but a critical reader will have no problem discerning what is fact and...	Storybook Style: America's Whimsical Homes of the Twenties Best Price: $17.44 This is probably the best book that explains what "STORYBOOK STYLE ARCHITECTURE"...

Red-Tile Style Best Price: $16.88 This book is great....if you're interested in this style in California. The authors almost...	Modern Architecture (Oxford History of Art) Best Price: $13.99 This book provides a much easier way to view modern architecture than the usual method-To study...	The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250-1800 (The Yale University Press Pelican Histor) Best Price: $28.00 Simply a spectacular book. The text is fascinating and the images are first rate. The art and...	From Bauhaus to Our House Best Price: $8.46 This is an amusing, long essay about the rise of Bauhaus architecture. Wolfe adopts a sarcastic...	Strange Details (Writing Architecture) Best Price: $12.95 There is no better argument for the reexamination of "architectural language" than...

Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture Best Price: $11.98 Who could not fall for the enthusiasm of Mr. Skrdla? He expertly details the rise and fall of...	Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House Best Price: $26.18 I enjoyed this book, and the details of his life relating to the building of this wonderful...	Architectural Theory: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 Best Price: $54.95 This second volume of the landmark Architectural Theory anthology surveys the development of...	Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250 Best Price: $24.50 This book contains the 'nut shell' of Islamic Art and Architecture. There are some plans, and...

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