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Architectural History/Historic Preservation

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.


Katsura: Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 38 color ills.; 34 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300163339)

Agnew, Neville, ed. Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of an International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites, Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, People's Republic of China, June 28–July 3, 2004. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010. 210 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Paper $89.00 (9781606060131)

Baron, Françoise, Sophie Jugie, and Benoît Lafay. Les Tombeaux des ducs de Bourgogne. Paris and Dijon: Somogy Éditions d’Art and Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon, 2010. 232 pp.; 185 ills. Paper €35.00 (9782757202944)

Barrie, Thomas. The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture. New York: Routledge, 2010. 288 pp.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780415779647)

Baxter, Denise Amy, and Meredith Martin, eds. Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe : Constructing Identities and Interiors. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010. 51 b/w ills. Cloth $114.95 (9780754666509)

Bhatia, Neeraj, and Jurgen Mayer H., eds. Arium: Weather and Architecture. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010. Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9783775725408)

Branfoot, Crispin. Gods on the Move: Architecture and Ritual in the South Indian Temple. London: Society for South Asian Studies and British Academy, 2007. 296 pp.; 17 color ills.; 217 b/w ills. Cloth £ 30.00 (9780955392412)

Buntrock, Dana. Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today. New York: Routledge, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $62.95 (9780415778916)

Caneva, Giulia, Maria Pia Nugari, and Ornella Salvadori, eds. Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodeterioration and Conservation. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010. 400 pp.; 169 color ills.; 107 b/w ills. Paper $70.00 (9780892369393)

Casotti, Maria Walcher. Vignola: nel quinto centenario della nascita. Mariano del Friuli, Italy: Edizioni Della Laguna, 2010. 176 pp.; Many b/w ills. Cloth €25.00 (9788883452833)

Cavi, Sabina de. Architecture and Royal Presence: Domenico and Giulio Cesare Fontana in Spanish Naples (1592–1627). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 530 pp.; 25 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $89.99 (9781443801805)

Considine, Brian, Julie Wolfe, Katrina Posner, and Michel Bouchard. Conserving Outdoor Sculpture: The Stark Collection at the Getty Center. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010. 132 color ills.; 81 b/w ills. Paper $75.00 (9781606060100)

Cuno, James, Paul Goldberger, and Joseph Rosa. The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2010. 168 pp.; 167 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300141122)

De Long, David G., ed. Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 192 pp.; 119 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780812241617)

Dhar, Parul Pandya. The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture. D. K. Printworld (P) Limited, 2010. 317 pp.; 359 ills. Cloth $140.00 (9788124605349)

Eggert, Paul. Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture, and Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 302 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $31.99 (9780521725910)

Gül, Murat. The Emergence of Modern Istanbul: Transformation and Modernisation of a City. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2009. 256 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9781845119355)

Goldberger, Paul. Why Architecture Matters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 296 pp.; 55 b/w ills. Cloth $26.00 (9780300144307)

Goode, Patrick, ed. The Oxford Companion to Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cloth $295.00 (9780198605683)

Goy, Richard. Venice: An Architectural Guide. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 100 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $28.00 (9780300148824)

Grigor, Talinn. Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs. New York: Periscope Publishing, 2010. Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9781934772782)

Guillaume, Jean, and Peter Fuhring. Jacques Androuet du Cerceau: un des plus grands architectes qui se soient jamais trouvés en France. Exh. cat. Paris: Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine and Picard, 2010. 352 pp.; 416 ills. Cloth €85.00 (9782708408692)

Hamadeh, Shirine. The City's Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 368 pp.; 8 color ills.; 97 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295986678)

Hiscock, Nigel. The Symbol at Your Door: Number and Geometry in Religious Architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 442 pp.; 191 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754663003)

Hornsey, Richard. The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 328 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780816653157)

Howard, Deborah, and Laura Moretti. Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 368 pp.; 20 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780300148749)

Hung, Wu. The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. 83 color ills.; 147 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780824834265)

Jacob, Mary Jane, and Michelle Grabner, eds. The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 69 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9780226389615)

Kafescioğlu, Çiğdem. Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. 346 pp.; 8 color ills.; 154 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780271027760)

Kelly, Jason M. The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 43 color ills.; 125 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300152197)

Lejeune, Jean-François, and Michelangelo Sabatino, eds. Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities. New York: Routledge, 2010. 320 pp.; 50 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $53.95 (9780415776349)

Levin, Miriam R., Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon, and Morris Low. Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. Paper $30.00 (9780262013987)

Levine, Neil. Modern Architecture: Representation and Reality. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 376 pp.; 30 color ills.; 311 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300145670)

Longstreth, Richard, ed. Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 76 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816650996)

Luescher, Andreas. The Architect's Portfolio: Planning, Design, Production. New York: Routledge, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780415779012)

Martin, Therese. Queen as King: Politics and Architectural Propaganda in Twelfth-Century Spain. Leiden: Brill, 2006. 398 pp.; 106 b/w ills. $169.00 (9789004152977)

Martin, Reinhold. Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2010. 272 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816669639)

McEnroe, John C. Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. 8 color ills.; 204 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780292721937)

Milwright, Marcus. An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology. The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. 320 pp.; 68 ills. Paper $32.95 (9780748623112)

Minor, Heather Hyde. The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 312 pp.; 36 color ills.; 112 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780271035642)

Neville, Kristoffer. Nicodemus Tessin the Elder: Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness. Architectura Moderna, vol. 7. Edited by Krista De Jonge and Piet Lombaerde. Turnhout: Brepolis Publishers, 2010. 146 b/w ills. Paper €85.00 (9782503528267)

Oshima, Ken Tadashi. International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010. 320 pp.; 20 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295989440)

Otero-Pailos, Jorge. Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2010. 356 pp.; 12 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816666041)

Ovenden, Mark. Paris Underground: The Maps, Stations, and Design of the Métro. New York: Penguin Books, 2009. 176 pp.; many color ills. Paper $25.00 (9780143116394)

Paletz, David L., ed. Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It. Media and Power. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2010. 240 pp.; 12 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9781594514654)

Pearson, Christopher E.M., ed. Designing UNESCO : Art, Architecture and International Politics at Mid-Century. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010. 37 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9780754667834)

Pericoli, Matteo. The City Out My Window: 63 Views on New York. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009. 132 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $21.99 (9781416569909)

Pevsner, Nikolaus. Visual Planning and the Picturesque. Ed. Mathew Aitchison. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2010. 232 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781606060018)

Henri Jova: An Architect's Life. Atlanta, Ga.: Atlanta History Center, 2009. 516 pp. Cloth $50.00 (9781883828028)

Sabatino, Michelangelo. Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Many b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780802097057)

Sacks, Oliver, and Christopher Payne. Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 216 pp.; 111 color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780262013499 )

Sammons, Tania June. The Owens-Thomas House. Savannah, Ga.: Telfair Museum of Art, 2008. 64 pp. Cloth $12.95 (9780933075108)

Savage, Kirk. Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 408 pp.; 126 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780520256545)

Schildgen, Brenda Deen. Heritage or Heresy: Preservation and Destruction of Religious Art and Architecture in Europe. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 288 pp.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780230603295 )

Sherman, Roger. L.A. under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Many b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780816649471)

Stern, Robert A. M. Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism: Collected Essays, 1964–1988. Ed. Cynthia Davidson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 216 pp.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300153972)

Stubbs, John H. Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2009. 448 pp.; 300 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780470260494)

Toker, Franklin. On Holy Ground: Liturgy, Architecture and Urbanism in the Cathedral and the Streets of Medieval Florence. The Florence Duomo Project, vol 1. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2010. 328 pp.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth €110.00 (9781905375516)

Trachtenberg, Marvin. Building in Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 400 pp.; 60 color ills.; 250 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300165920)

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Religion: From Place to Placelessness. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2010. 168 pp.; 42 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9781930066946)

Vinegar, Aron. I Am A Monument: On Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 208 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780262220828)

Wittman, Richard. Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France. New York: Routledge, 2007. 304 pp. Cloth $165.00 (9780415774635)

Wolf, Eric M. American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010. Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780393732801)

Ćurĉić, Slobodan, and Evangelia Hadjitryphonos, eds. Architecture as Icon: Perception and Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art. Exh. cat. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2010. 376 pp.; 185 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300122114)