Featuring major historical styles, and covering parts of the world, it is suitable for architecture enthusiasts, and discovers 5,000 years of architectural design, style, and construction.

In this history of world architecture, commentator Jonathan Glancey conducts an odyssey through 5000 years of buildings, from ancient Sumeria to the glass-and-steel towers of today's cityscapes.

Comprehensive, accessible, and beautifully illustrated, this stunning guide makes the perfect purchase for anyone who is fascinated by our world's most wondrous buildings.

Spitfire: The Biography is a celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it, and supported its development, and of the industry that manufactured both the aircraft and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered it.

So, if you want to know your arch from your elevation, and your Baroque from your Brutalism, or you wish to top off your next dinner party with a stirring speech on how form follows function, this is the quickest way to build your argument.

This is the best definitive visual guide on architecture; it covers 5,000 years of architectural design, style, and construction from airports to ziggurats.

This book informs & educates its reader on the history & progress of the preeminent design movement of the century.

Explores London s Millennial follies and asks how and where London might now channel its energies.

A pictorial collection of trains and train stations includes black and white photographs that capture the full history of these technological marvels, from the first steam engines to the high-powered electrical trains of today.

A celebration, as well as a thoroughly researched history, of a truly brilliant machine that became a sky god of its era Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the ...