Americas

Georgetown's architecture was molded by the French, Dutch, British and Spanish during the C18th/C19th and built in a classical style reinterpreted by local craftsmen largely in wood. The book gives a brief history of Georgetown, explaining the various house types with photographs of the buildings and their particular features

An updated edition of the popular reference guide to Chicago architecture from the mid-19th century to present day

Taking in the celebrated, and reviled, period of Niemeyer's primacy in Brazilian architecture, this meticulous history examines the controversies, achievements, and failures in constructing spaces, buildings, and cities in South America's most dynamic country.

Jacob Blanc examines the creation of the Itaipu Dam-the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world-on the Brazil-Paraguay border during the 1970s and 1980s to explore the long-standing conflicts around land, rights, indigeneity, and identity in rural Brazil.