Le Corbusier wrote simultaneously as an architect, city planner, historian, critic, discoverer and prophet. This is a new translation of his text Vers une architecture.

A survey of modern architecture and its origins. This book also explores the effects of globalization on architecture, the rise annd rise of the celebrity architect, and the way in which practices worldwide have addressed such issues as sustainability and habitat.

Published to coincide with the release of Architectonics of Humanism , this new edition of an established architectural text offers definitive explanations of the significance of certain architectural forms, and reveals the limitations of a purely aesthetic theory of Renaissance architecture.

This translation of I Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura contains Palladio's original woodcuts, reproduced in facsimile and positioned correctly, adjacent to the text. It also contains a glossary that explains technical terms in their original context and an introduction to Palladio and his work.