Yale University Press

A vibrant history of the castle in England, from the early Middle Ages to the present day

This title is a comprehensive architectural guide to Bath, England's finest Georgian city. Full of new discoveries and lively descriptions of the city's notable buildings, the book features specially taken colour illustrations throughout and numerous easy-to-use walking maps.

Presents the study of English architecture between 1945 and 1975 in its entirety. This book illustrates with photography that reveals the logic, aspirations and beauty of hundreds of buildings throughout England, at the point where many are disappearing or are being mutilated.

The first major study of one of the most important architects of the postwar era

In 1969 and 1970, Louis I Kahn (1901-1974) - one of America's greatest 20th-century architects - participated in a series of interviews with a young German architectural historian, Heinrich Klotz. This title provides a full edited transcript of these illuminating interviews, which provide insights into Kahn's philosophy of architecture.

The dissolution of the monasteries ravaged England in the 1530s and resulted in the greatest destruction of the built fabric of the country. This book shows that changes of style in architecture emerged from the practical needs of construction and the self-image of major patrons in the revolutionary century between Reformation and Civil War.

With an account of how bricks, brick files and terracotta have been made and used from medieval times onwards, this title presents an illustrated glossary of brickwork where virtually every term is shown in photographs and diagrams and a chronological photographic survey ranges from the earliest survivors to the twentieth century.

Looks at the life and work of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) - by turns businessman, soldier, playwright, and (despite lacking either training or qualifications) the architect of some of the important country houses of his era. This text examines Vanbrugh's buildings, among them Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace.