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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.

Abadie, Daniel. Dubuffet as Architect. Paris: Editions Hazan, 2011. 192 pp.; 160 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300176612)

Aggregate (Group). Governing by Design: Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 304 pp.; 55 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780822961789)

Alfoldy, Sandra. The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012. 227 pp.; Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780773540033)

AlSayyad, Nezar. Cairo: Histories of a City. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. 352 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780674047860)

Ó Carragáin, Tomás. Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual and Memory. The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 400 pp.; 100 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300154443)

Bajou, Valérie. Versailles. New York: Abrams, 2012. 480 pp.; 280 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9781419700675)

Ballantyne, Andrew, and Andrew Law. Tudoresque: In Pursuit of the Ideal Home. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. 288 pp.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781861898111)

Benelli, Francesco. The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 312 pp.; 10 color ills.; 108 b/w ills. Cloth $99.00 (9781107016323)

Blauvelt, Andrew, ed. Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008. 336 pp.; 99 color ills.; 55 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780935640908)

Bork, Robert, William W. Clark, and Abby McGehee, eds. New Approaches to Medieval Architecture. AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art. Burlington: Ashgate, 2011. 258 pp.; 66 b/w ills. Cloth $119.95 (9781409422280)

Busquets, Joan, ed. Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project in Seoul. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2011. 86 pp.; 45 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $19.95 (9781934510315)

Cannon, Jon, and Beth Williamson. The Medieval Art, Architecture and History of Bristol Cathedral: An Enigma Explored. Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures series. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2012. 376 pp. Cloth $95.00 (9781843836803)

Chaix, Valérie. Les églises romanes de Normandie: Formes et fonctions. Paris: Picard, 2011. 360 pp.; 84 color ills.; 280 b/w ills. Paper $93.93 (9782708409132)

Chastel-Rousseau, Charlotte. Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 234 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754655756)

Cioccolini, Enrico, and Massimiliano Pinucci, eds. Fiabesque la citta delle fiabe: Il fantastico nella progettazione degli eventi. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2006. 96 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €16.00 (9788849211603 )

Clawley, Alan. John Madin. Twentieth Century Architects. London: RIBA Publishing, 2011. 160 pp.; 120 ills. Paper $40.00 (9781859463673)

Cohen, Jean-Louis. Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War. Exh. cat. Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2011. 448 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9782754105309)

Conn, Melissa, and David Rosand, eds. Save Venice Inc.: Four Decades of Restoration in Venice. New York: Save Venice Inc., 2011. 500 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780962336416)

Crane, Sheila. Mediterranean Crossroads: Marseille and Modern Architecture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 376 pp.; 13 color ills.; 104 b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9780816653621)

Crinson, Mark. Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2012. 352 pp.; 69 color ills.; 139 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300177282)

de Blaauw, Sible. Storia dell'architettura italiana: Da Costantino a Carlo Magno. Milan: Electa, 2011. 660 pp. Cloth €130.00 (978883705993 )

de Morentín, Rosario Lazcano Martínez, ed. Santa María de Ujué. Serie Estudios, vol. 2. Pamplona: Fundación para la Conservación del Patrimonio Histórico de Navarra, 2011. 363 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth €30.00 (9788461489909)

Dillon, Brian. Ruins. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011. 240 pp. Paper $24.95 (9780262516372)

Ferebee, Ann, and Jeff Byles. A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present: A Survey of the Modern Style in Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, and Photography. Second edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. 208 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $50.00 (9780393732726)

Flambard Héricher, Anne-Marie. Scribla: la fin d’un château d’origine normande en Calabre. Collection de l'École française de Rome, vol. 421. Rome: École française de Rome, 2011. 360 pp.; 550 ills. Paper €170.00 (9782728308613)

Foster, Hal. The Art-Architecture Complex. New York: Verso, 2011. 176 pp.; Many b/w ills. Paper $26.95 (9781844676897)

Friedman, Terry. The Eighteenth-Century Church in Britain. New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2011. 800 pp.; 185 color ills.; 520 b/w ills. Cloth $100.00 (9780300159080)

Gabbrielli, Fabio. Siena medievale: L'architettura civile. Siena: Protagon Editori Toscani, 2011. 344 pp. Paper €40.00 (9788880242802)

Grainger, Hilary J. The Architecture of Sir Ernest George. Reading, UK: Spire Books Ltd, 2011. 495 pp.; 267 color ills.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $130.00 (9781904965312)

Hart, Vaughan. Inigo Jones: The Architect of Kings. London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2011. 336 pp.; 100 color ills.; 130 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9780300141498)

Hildebrand, Grant. Gene Zema, Architect, Craftsman. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012. 176 pp.; 76 color ills.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780295991238)

Howard, Deborah. Venice Disputed: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 120 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300176858)

Inskip, Peter, Stephen Gee, and Constance Clement. Louis I. Kahn and the Yale Center for British Art: A Conservation Plan. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2012. 200 pp.; 212 color ills.; 32 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300171648)

Johnson, Mark J., Robert Ousterhout, and Amy Papalexandrou, eds. Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration: Studies in Honor of Slobodan Ćurčić. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 330 pp.; 109 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9781409427407)

Johung, Jennifer. Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 232 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816672882)

Kadish, Sharman. The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History. New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2011. 412 pp.; 80 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300170511)

Kahn, Louis I., Nell E. Johnson, and Eric M. Lee. Light Is the Theme: Louis I. Kahn and the Kimbell Art Museum. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 2012. 80 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Paper $15.00 (9780300179408)

Lambton, Lucinda. Palaces for Pigs: Animal architecture and other beastly buildings. Swindon, UK: English Heritage, 2011. 255 pp.; 200 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781850749899)

Lavin, Sylvia. Kissing Architecture. Point: Essays on Architecture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. 136 pp.; 33 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $16.95 (9780691149233)

Maak, Niklas. Le Corbusier: The Architect on the Beach. Munich, Germany: Hirmer Verlag, 2011. 208 pp.; 72 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9783777439914)

Masi, Antonio, and Joan Marans Dim. New York's Golden Age of Bridges. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. 132 pp.; 56 color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780823240654)

Maynard, W. Barksdale. Princeton: America's Campus. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 288 pp.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $44.95 (9780271050850)

Mercalli, Marica, ed. Mattia Preti, un ponte tra Italia e Malta: Il dipinto con San Giorgio e il drago dopo il restauro. Exh. cat. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2011. 96 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €14.00 (8849207875 )

Monteyne, David. Fallout Shelter: Designing for Civil Defense in the Col War. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 352 pp.; 11 color ills.; 129 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780816669769)

Moro, Laura, ed. Taihe Dian: The Hall of Supreme Harmony of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2011. 160 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €22.00 (9788849215571 )

Nilsen, Micheline. Architecture in Nineteenth–Century Photographs : Essays on Reading a Collection. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 216 pp.; 43 b/w ills. Cloth $104.95 (9781409409045)

Paul, Benjamin. Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice: The Architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its Decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. 344 pp.; 9 color ills.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9781409411864)

Pohjamo, Ulla. Esikaupunki moniäänisenä kulttuuriperintönä: Oulu Hietasaari. Ed. Johanna Vakkari. Helsinki: Kirjoittaja/Författare, 2012. 262 pp.; Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper (9789525533156)

Purdy, Daniel. On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 328 pp. Paper $35.00 (9780801476761)

Rault, Jasmine. Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 196 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $104.95 (9780754669616)

Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 448 pp.; 25 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169140)

Ryan, Zoë, ed. Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2011. 192 pp.; 140 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300167047)

Sapin, Christian. Saint-Étienne d'Auxerre: la seconde vie d'une cathedrale. Paris and Auxerre: Éditions Picard in association with Centre d'études médiévales, 2012. 526 pp.; Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth €76.00 (9782708409187)

Sbriglio, Jacques. Le Corbusier & Lucien Hervé: A Dialogue Between Architect and Photographer. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. 296 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $74.95 (9781606060889)

Seasonwein, Johanna G. Princeton and the Gothic Revival, 1870–1930. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2012. 128 pp.; 65 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780691154015)

Senseney, John R. The Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 262 pp.; 95 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (9781107002357)

Siry, Joseph M. Beth Sholom Synagogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Modern Religious Architecture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 736 pp.; 10 color ills.; 295 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780226761404)

Sorkin, Michael. All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities. New York: Verso, 2011. 320 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9781844673230)

Stern, Robert A.M. Tradition and Invention in Architecture: Conversations and Essays. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 208 pp.; 123 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300181159)

Strekow, Alan J. Cyril Colnik: Man of Iron. Milwaukee, WI: Friends of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, 2011. 200 pp.; 269 color ills.; 77 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780615481418)

Stringfellow, Kim. Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2012. 152 pp.; 45 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9781935195320)

Taegio, Bartolomeo. La Villa. Ed. Thomas E. Beck. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 352 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780812243178)

Tanner, Marie. Jerusalem on the Hill: Rome and the Vision of St. Peter's in the Renaissance. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, 60. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2011. 288 pp.; 59 color ills.; 113 b/w ills. Cloth €120.00 (9781905375493)

Tigerman, Stanley, and Emmanuel Petit. Schlepping Through Ambivalence: Essays on an American Architectural Condition. New Haven: Yale University Press and Yale School of Architecture, 2011. 192 pp.; 16 color ills.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300175417)

Tribert, Renée E., and James F. O'Gorman. Gervase Wheeler: A British Architect in America, 1847–1860. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012. 132 pp.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780819571458)

Van Zanten, David, ed. Marion Mahony Reconsidered. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 192 pp.; 4 color ills.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780226850818)

Welter, Volker M. Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home. Space and Place, vol. 5. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 230 pp.; 99 ills. Paper $39.95 (9780857452337)

Windsor Liscombe, Rhodri. Architecture and the Canadian Fabric. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2012. 536 pp. Paper $95.00 (9780774819398)

Wolke, Jay. Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2011. 80 pp.; 43 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781935195139)

Yorke, Trevor. Art Deco House Styles. Berkshire, UK: Countryside Books, 2012. 80 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $20.00 (9781846742477 )