Book Series
Architecture in Context
New & Published Titles:
Islam
From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul
This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its…
read moreApril 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43609-0 (Routledge)
The East
Buddhists, Hindus and the Sons of Heaven
Continuing the Architecture in Context series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40752-6 (Routledge)
Series Details:
Architecture in Context is a series of five books describing all the seminal traditions of architecture, from the earliest settlements in the Euphrates and Jordan valleys to the stylistically and technologically sophisticated buildings of the second half twentieth centaury. It Brings together the fruits of the authors lifetime of teaching and travelling the world, seeing and photographing buildings in an extraordinary synthesis. Each standalone volume sets the buildings described and illustrated within their political, technological, social and cultural contexts, exploring architecture not only as the development of form but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolved.
The series focuses on the story of the Classical tradition from its origins in Mesopotamia and Egypt, through its realization in ancient greece and Rome, to the Renaissance, Neo-Classicism, Eclecticim and Modernism. This thread is supplemented with detailed excursions to cover the development of architecture in Central America, India, South-East Asia and the Islamic world
For students of architecture and art history, for travellers and for for readers who want to understand the genesis of the buildings they see around them, each volume provides a complete, readable and superbly illustrated reference
Forthcoming Titles:
Modernity: After Enlightenment
By Christopher Tadgell
To be published April 30th 2010
The West: The Dark Age to the Reformation
By Christopher Tadgell
To be published April 14th 2009