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A History of Architectural Preservation : Antiquity to Modernity
Shortlisted for the 2014 SAHGB Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many s...
This is a concise, up-to-date survey that provides for the visitor or resident an overview of Scotland's finest buildings and its long line of archite...
Architecture and National Identity in Scotland
As the debate about Scottish independence rages on, this book takes a timely look at how Scotland's politics have been expressed in its buildings, exp...
Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History
Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2021 (The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain) "It will become the standard work ...
At last - here is a single volume authoritative history of Scottish architecture. This compact yet comprehensive account combines factual description ...
An Architectural and Policy History
Hong Kong Public Housing provides the first comprehensive history of one of the most dramatic episodes in the global history of the modern built envir...
From the Renaissance to the Present Day
At last--here is a single volume authoritative history of Scottish architecture. This compact yet comprehensive account combines factual description o...
Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture
Clone City brings architecture, for the first time, into the mainstream of debates about Scottish cultural identity. It analyses polemically the ways ...
The Story of Scotland's Architecture
A history of Scottish architecture, from the Royal palaces of the Stuart kings to the recent flowering of creativity after the austerity of the post-w...
Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
After World War II, the most urgent reconstruction problem in these islands was in the field of public housing, and the opportunity presented itself t...
From Kingship to Parliamentary Democracy
This extensively illustrated book provides a historical overview of Scottish buildings of government and assembly from the Middle Ages to the present ...
Images of the Past
Photographs and drawings depicting the built heritage of Aberdeen illustrate this history of the famous city. They are accompanied by short historical...
An Architectural History of British Multi-Storey Housing, 1945-1970
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the design and construction of Norwich council housing under David Percival 1955 - 1973
Modern Architecture and State Power-a Global History
"This major work provides the first comprehensive history of one of modernism's most defining and controversial architectural legacies: the 20th-centu...
The Life and Times of Robert Matthew
Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? What are its elements and limitations? This broad-ranging selection of extraordinary d...
A Social and Architectural History of the New Towns, 1947–1997
Combining architectural and social history, this open access book tells for the first time the in-depth story of Scotland's new towns. One of the most...
Scotland's Farms 1750-2000
The story of the changing countryside of Scotland can be traced through its buildings. All the successive phases of agricultural development - from th...