Richard Ford 
The Handbook for Travellers in Spain [PDF ebook] 
Madrid and the Castles; The Basque Provinces; Leon; Asturias and Galicia

There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines. Sociologists and social psychologists have been added to faculties of architecture school …

Turkey: Modern Architectures in History offers a journey through the iconic buildings of Turkey that begins with the end of World War I, when the new Turkish Republic was born out of the disintegrati …

This book explores conceptions of Indian architecture and how the historical buildings of the subcontinent have been conceived and described. Investigating the design philosophies of architects and s …

Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across …

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practice …

Postmodern architecture – with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch – has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist archi …

This book presents 18 in-depth case studies of net zero energy buildings—low-energy building that generate as much energy as they consume over the course of a year—for a range of project types, sizes …

Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring. At the same time,  »culture » is nowadays seen as the world »s key intellectual resource possessing …

The User Perspective on Twenty-First Century Art Museums explains contemporary museums from the whole gamut of user experiences, whether users are preserving art, creating an exhibit, visiting, or pa …

 »If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty » writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a …