Research Guides: Architecture: Books

Featured Architecture Books

Architectural Styles: a visual guide
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2020
Features hundreds of detailed drawings from Europe and the Americas to Egypt, China, and India. It covers a host of historical and contemporary architectural styles, from ancient and classical to Pre-Columbian, Romanesque, Renaissance, Palladian, art nouveau, Brutalist, and biomorphic.
Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local
Call Number: NA3310 .H57 2016
A global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, this book offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts.
A Chronology of Architecture: a cultural timeline from stone circles to skyscrapers
Call Number: NA200 .Z85 2020
A survey that examines--together--engineering and architectural accomplishments. Sites are arranged within a sociocultural timeline that examines them in terms of historic events and trends, social change, economic developments, and technological innovations--factors that all helped shape architecture and engineering design solutions over millennia.
Archi-Graphic: an infographic look at architecture
Call Number: NA2750 .J33 2015
This book uses a variety of inventive infographics to take a look at architecture in a way that would not be possible with words and images alone. Through a variety of different infographics it compares, for example, the range of materials and colours used by different architects, the relative locations of their buildings, who influenced who, and which architects are the most discussed.

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Theses and Dissertations

Dissertations may be useful sources for researching the state of the field
and the bibliographies can often provide a wealth of new sources.

Dissertations and Theses Full Text (ProQuest)
Comprehensive and curated collection of dissertations and theses from universities around the world, with full-text availability for most titles.

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