Buildings across time

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...

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 ...

The Dutch Police is one of the largest owners of public real estate in the Netherlands. From police station to forensic laboratory, from listed buildings in the centre of The Hague...

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...

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the...

This two-volume work which was first published in 1825-8 presents London's most important buildings at a time of rapid urban transformation. Aiming to project a vision of London as...