Architectural History and Styles

The new sourcebook for designers.

Collecting the majority of William Morris's wallpaper designs in one volume, this lavishly illustrated volume is by the leading authority, Mary Schoeser.

This book will be of interest to those who know little about medieval gardens and to those with more knowledge.

Reflections on 30 years of European architecture.

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.

This book delves into the life and work of architect William Richard Lethaby (1857 - 1931) and his relationship with the occult and alchemy, in particular.

Argues that buildings in early Italy serve as windows into the minds and lives of those who made and used them, and demonstrates that architecture was closely connected to communities, to the natural world, and to the cosmos, and had the power to shape society as much as reflect it.

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family's villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty.