Views more than five thousand years of architecture by examining great buildings and monuments from the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the Pompidou Centre--built in Paris during ...

Now in its second edition, 'A history of interior design' delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is ...

A wide-ranging study of architectural and cultural preservation in the world's great urban centers examines the devastating impact of war, economics, and indifference on the ...

This comprehensive architectural encyclopedia features essays on more than five hundred architects and hundreds of photographs, drawings, and plans of world-famous structures

Discusses different kinds of bridges, from train bridges to fortified castle bridges, and provides an example of each.