After 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects, evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to distant places ...
Continue Reading βThis collection of essays is the first-ever English anthology of her writings. It includes texts written when she was still living in Italy ...
Continue Reading βA beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to ...
Continue Reading βThe theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is ...
Continue Reading βFrom the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts ...
Continue Reading βThesis (Ph. D.)–Columbia University, 1934 Submitted in compliance of Mr. Bardbury’s Ph.D. The thesis is centered on the Vitruvian School of Architecture in ...
Continue Reading βThe famous American architect’s fascinating look at the early years of his pioneering work, which led to his being called the “father of ...
Continue Reading βJulian-David Le Roy’s The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758; 2d ed., 1770) forms part of a trilogy of books ...
Continue Reading βA visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Considered among the ...
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