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The Empire State Building: the Making of a Landmark

By John Tauranac

This Brutal World

By Peter Chadwick

His Invention So Fertile

By Adrian Tinniswood

Now You See It and Other Essays on Design

By Michael Beirut

Space, Hope, and Brutalism: English Architecture, 1945-1975

By Elain Harwood

Making Sense of Christian Art & Architecture

By Heather Thornton McRae

England's Villages: An Extraordinary Journey Through Time

By Dr Ben Robinson

The Image of the City

By Kevin Lynch

Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden

By Laura Mayer

The Secrets of Hawthorn Place: A heartfelt and charming dual-time story of the power of love

By Jenni Keer

Bauhaus

By Magdalena Droste

Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe

By Kevin McCloud

The Road ahead

By Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson

London Interiors: From the Archives of "Country Life"

By John Cornforth (Architecture Editor for Country Life magazine)

The Edwardian House Explained: A Brief History of British Architecture from 1900-1914

By Trevor Yorke

Beyond the Mosque: Diverse Spaces of Muslim Worship

By Rizwan Mawani

Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion

By Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen, Chloe Reddaway

Building Modern Turkey: State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic

By Zeynep Kezer

The Arab City - Architecture and Representation

By Amale Andraos, Nora Akawi

Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals

By Emma J. Wells

The architecture of Europe

By Yarwood, Doreen.

Folkestone in 50 Buildings

By Paul Harris

Old Cinemas

By Allen Eyles

Lost Victorian Britain: How the Twentieth Century Destroyed the Nineteenth Century's Architectural Masterpieces

By Gavin Stamp

Bee Boles and Bee Houses

By Anne Foster

Palaces of Sicily

By G. Tomasi, A. Zalapi

On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Life of Sir Christopher Wren

By Lisa Jardine (Queen Mary University of London)

Greece

By Anne Stierlin, Henri Stierlin

Electrodynamics from Ampere to Einstein

By Olivier Darrigol (, University of Paris VII)

Mavericks

By Owen Hopkins