"Cities and Saints" contends that Sufis in medieval Anatolia made alliances that gave dervish lodges powers so vast that they were able to alter the layout of cities and serve as the means of forging new social bonds.
Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.
Examines the nexus of learned culture and architecture in the 1730s to 1750s, including major building projects in Rome undertaken by the popes.
Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement.
Examines the crown-sponsored architecture and urbanism of Naples during the reign of King Charles of Bourbon (1734-59). Shows how structures and public spaces helped consolidate royal authority and refashion the city into a royal capital.
This study of 18th-century villas and their representation in Marc'Antonio Dal Re's prints aims to deepen understanding of designed, recreational landscapes as both spatial expression and aesthetic obscuring of social and environmental relations in the Habsburg empire.
Traces the history of the Yıldız Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire.
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