A History of the Church through its Buildings, by Allan Doig James Stevens Curl has reservations about a broad overview of the development of Christianity through its architecture By James Stevens Curl 22 February
The Edwardians and Their Houses: The New Life of Old England, by Timothy Brittain-Catlin James Stevens Curl is delighted by a comprehensive study of an often underrated architectural era By James Stevens Curl 27 July
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance, by Ita Mac Carthy James Stevens Curl considers the elusive notion of ‘grace’ and how it impregnated the art of the Renaissance and beyond By James Stevens Curl 19 March
The Art of Classic Planning: Building Beautiful and Enduring Communities, by Nir Haim Buras James Stevens Curl is thrilled by a guide to how we can recover the essential principles of creating liveable cities By James Stevens Curl 20 February
Michelangelo, God’s Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece, by William E. Wallace James Stevens Curl is impressed by a detailed account of one of the world’s most celebrated buildings By James Stevens Curl 2 January
Traditions of Death and Burial, by Helen Frisby James Stevens Curl enjoys a brief survey of changing British attitudes to the saying of final farewells By James Stevens Curl 5 September
Culture in Nazi Germany, by Michael H. Kater James Stevens Curl has reservations about an account of the art produced under totalitarianism By James Stevens Curl 20 June
Vienna 1900 Complete, by Christian Brandstätter, Daniela Gregori and Rainer Metzger; translated by David H. Wilson James Stevens Curl relishes the extraordinary visual splendours of a fin-de-siècle creative explosion By James Stevens Curl 21 March
Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century, by Lucia Allais Book of the week: James Stevens Curl is impressed by a marriage of modern architecture and monument preservation By James Stevens Curl 6 December
Baroque between the Wars: Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918-1939, by Jane Stevenson James Stevens Curl on a camp counter-culture that injected whimsy and vitality into art and design By James Stevens Curl 7 June
Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction, by Mari Lending Models and casts helped transmit knowledge of building, design and art, says James Stevens Curl By James Stevens Curl 8 March
Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space, by William Whyte James Stevens Curl on an eloquent plea for an understanding of the past through built fabric By James Stevens Curl 11 January
The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization, by Leslie Sklair James Stevens Curl on a study of symptoms of consumer culture and those who built them By James Stevens Curl 16 November
Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment By James Stevens Curl 24 August
Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy, by Hannah Malone James Stevens Curl heaps praise on a fascinating study and pays tribute to the scholarly tenacity that it is built on By James Stevens Curl 6 July
Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott, by Gavin Stamp James Stevens Curl on an architect who designed some of the great Victorian buildings but was unjustly maligned By James Stevens Curl 12 November
Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace: Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936, by Kate Nichols James Stevens Curl on a well-researched study of the display of and visitor reactions to exhibits By James Stevens Curl 18 June
