Architectural History Foundation Books
This series featuring distinguished works of architectural history by emerging and established scholars was distributed by the MIT Press for the Architectural History Foundation, a nonprofit publisher of scholarly books in this field, which operated from 1978 until 1994. This series is no longer active.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building
The Myths and the Facts
ISBN: 9780262670036
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 17, 1989
Bit by bit Quinan brings to life a key achievement of American architecture, from the saga of its creation to the inconsistencies of its reputation. He traces the elements of its exceptional structure,...
Mizner's Florida
American Resort Architecture
ISBN: 9780262530682
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 5, 1987
This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during...
The Paris of Henri IV
Architecture and Urbanism
ISBN: 9780262521970
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 5, 1994
Drawing on previously untapped notarial archives in Paris's Minutier central, Hilary Ballon provides a rich and original account of the crucial period between 1605 and 1610 when Paris was transformed from a medieval city decimated by war and neglect into a modern capital.
Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power
The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9780262140508
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 1992
Gülru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic otherness of...
The Paris of Henri IV
Architecture and Urbanism
ISBN: 9780262023092
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 21, 1991
Drawing on previously untapped notarial archives in Paris's Minutier central, Hilary Ballon provides a rich and original account of the crucial period between 1605 and 1610 when Paris was transformed from a medieval city decimated by war and neglect into a modern capital.
Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the Genesis of Neoclassicism
ISBN: 9780262132626
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 1991
Thomas McCormick's book is the first comprehensive and balanced study of Clérisseau.
The Law Courts
The Architecture of George Edmund Street
ISBN: 9780262021999
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 7, 1984
This is the first book devoted exclusively to Street and his greatest work, the Royal Law Courts in the Strand.
The Politics of the German Gothic Revival
August Reichensperger
ISBN: 9780262121774
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 10, 1993
Establishes Reichensperger as the major figure in the German neo-Gothic movement, not only through his buildings, but through his writings and manifestos as well.
Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity
ISBN: 9780262740180
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 2, 1996
Enriched by over 500 illustrations, many of them by the author, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity is an important sourcebook for this ancient institution.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building
The Myths and the Facts
ISBN: 9780262670036
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 17, 1989
Bit by bit Quinan brings to life a key achievement of American architecture, from the saga of its creation to the inconsistencies of its reputation. He traces the elements of its exceptional structure,...
Mizner's Florida
American Resort Architecture
ISBN: 9780262530682
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 5, 1987
This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during...
The Paris of Henri IV
Architecture and Urbanism
ISBN: 9780262521970
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 5, 1994
Drawing on previously untapped notarial archives in Paris's Minutier central, Hilary Ballon provides a rich and original account of the crucial period between 1605 and 1610 when Paris was transformed from a medieval city decimated by war and neglect into a modern capital.
Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power
The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
ISBN: 9780262140508
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 1992
Gülru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic otherness of...
The Paris of Henri IV
Architecture and Urbanism
ISBN: 9780262023092
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 21, 1991
Drawing on previously untapped notarial archives in Paris's Minutier central, Hilary Ballon provides a rich and original account of the crucial period between 1605 and 1610 when Paris was transformed from a medieval city decimated by war and neglect into a modern capital.
Charles-Louis Clérisseau and the Genesis of Neoclassicism
ISBN: 9780262132626
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 30, 1991
Thomas McCormick's book is the first comprehensive and balanced study of Clérisseau.
The Law Courts
The Architecture of George Edmund Street
ISBN: 9780262021999
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 7, 1984
This is the first book devoted exclusively to Street and his greatest work, the Royal Law Courts in the Strand.
The Politics of the German Gothic Revival
August Reichensperger
ISBN: 9780262121774
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 10, 1993
Establishes Reichensperger as the major figure in the German neo-Gothic movement, not only through his buildings, but through his writings and manifestos as well.
Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity
ISBN: 9780262740180
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 2, 1996
Enriched by over 500 illustrations, many of them by the author, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity is an important sourcebook for this ancient institution.