Great buildings

Abstract Writing the Great House: Transformations of a Topos across World English Fiction is a wide-ranging, comparative study that treats the figure of the great...

Abstract This book maps the political controversies surrounding the designing, making, and utilization of three Parliament buildings in Southern Africa that were fin...

OUP is a publisher, but it is also an architectural patron, a facilities manager, and the inhabitant of buildings in Oxford and across the globe. By 2004 the OUP estate included a ...

Buildings consume nearly 40% of global energy, and no component influences that demand more directly than the building envelope—especially windows. As the primary interface between...

The Spanish Civil War and its significance in the foreign relations of the Great Powers - Britain, France, the United States, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia - has at...

Abstract Illustrated with hundreds of illuminating line drawings, this classic guide reveals virtually every secret of a building’s function: how it stands up, keeps...

Abstract This important addition to the literature is the first overall study of the architecture of Norman England since Sir Alfred Clapham's English Romanesque ...

The churches of the Byzantine era were built to represent heaven on earth. Architecture, art and liturgy were intertwined in them to a degree that has never been replicated elsewhe...