Cambridge University Press

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.

This book provides an illustrated introduction to Chinese architecture, a reference for modern design and a window into China's history.

This innovative study of memorial architecture investigates how design can translate memories of human loss into tangible structures. It explores the purpose behind creating a memorial and its materialisation. The result is a distinctive contribution to the literature on history and memory, and on architecture as a space for remembering.

The most comprehensive and up-to date reference work on this topic, The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity will serve as a primary reference resource for scholars, practitioners, and students.

Guides policy makers through implementation of public-private partnerships, legal frameworks, institutional arrangements, and mobilizing public and private finance.

This book takes a fresh perspective on the Viking Age; it is a social archaeology of the Viking home. A highly charged architectural element - the door - is used as a gateway to generate new knowledge of households and society in Viking Age Scandinavia, fleshing out everyday life and domestic ritual.

This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.

This book is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, aesthetics, ethics, political thought, and religion.

An illustrated introduction to the history and meaning of Cambridge architecture.