The Warburg Institute one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art and culture. Its collections, courses and programmes are dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society. Founded in Hamburg at the turn of the twentieth century by historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929), the Institute was exiled to England in 1933 and given to the University of London in 1944—occupying the final building designed by Charles Holden as part of its central Bloomsbury masterplan.

This book traces the story of the major renovation made to the 1958 Warburg Institute on Woburn Square, completed as the Warburg Renaissance Project, 2018-2024. It describes the project from overall plans to individual details, and documents both the archival research and design-thinking that have marked every step of the process. It captures the collaboration between Haworth Tompkins and the Warburg Institute, and the facilitation and inspiration provided by Tim Anstey (a long-standing student of the Warburg Institute and a close friend of both the architects and the clients in this project).