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  • Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture by Lasansky, D. Medina
    D. Medina Lasansky

    Archi.Pop

    How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship in cultural...
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  • The Architecture of David Lynch by Martin, Richard
    Richard Martin

    The Architecture of David Lynch

    From the Red Room in Twin Peaks to Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive, the work of David Lynch contains some of the most remarkable spaces in contemporary culture. Richard Martin's compelling study is the first sustained critical assessment of the role architecture and design...
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  • Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940: Creating Modern Living by Myzelev, Alla
    Alla Myzelev

    Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940: Creating Modern Living

    Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940 tells a story of the significant changes in domestic life in the first 40 years...
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  • The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City by Kishik, David
    David Kishik

    The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City

    This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the twentieth century. A sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary manuscript composed by...
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  • Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy by Sabatino, Michelangelo
    Michelangelo Sabatino

    Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry....
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  • Quid Novi: Architectural Education Dilemmas in the 21st Century by Lara, Fernando Luiz
    Fernando Luiz Lara

    Quid Novi: Architectural Education Dilemmas in the 21st Century

    What is the real purpoise of this huge apparatus of higher education in architecture? This book proposes to discuss exactly this question. Departing from our assumption that architectural education has not changed much in the last 50 years, how do we define the relationship...
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  • Italy/Australia: Postmodern Architecture in Translation by Micheli, Silvia
    Silvia Micheli

    Italy/Australia: Postmodern Architecture in Translation

    Relationships with Italy were crucial in contributing to the making of postmodern architecture in Australia. In this collection of essays and conversations, the authors reflect upon the reception of Italian postmodern architecture in Australia, revealing a richness of original interpretations.Dedicated to the memory of...
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  • Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge: An International Inquiry by Chupin, Jean-Pierre
    Jean-Pierre Chupin

    Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture, Quality and Knowledge: An International Inquiry

    This book comprises a series of 22 case studies by renowned experts and new scholars in the field of architecture competition research. In 2015, it constitutes the most comprehensive survey of the dynamics behind the definition, organization, judging, archiving and publishing of architectural, landscape...
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  • Fantastic Architecture by Vostell, Wolf
    Wolf Vostell

    Fantastic Architecture

    Compiled by Fluxus artists Wolf Vostell and Dick Higgins, and first published by Higgins' legendary Something Else Press in 1970, Fantastic Architecture anticipated the critiques launched by a new generation of visionary architects in the 1970s. In his introduction, Higgins argued that "architects ......
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  • The Cornell Journal of Architecture 8: RE by O'Donnell, Caroline
    Caroline O'Donnell

    The Cornell Journal of Architecture 8: RE

    This issue of the Cornell Journal of Architecture is about the now, the new, and the next in architecture, while simultaneously acknowledging that every possible future is intrinsically linked to the existent, to the present and its attendant past. At the heart of issue...
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  • Design Primer for Hot Climates by Konya, Allan
    Allan Konya

    Design Primer for Hot Climates

    This highly practical book has been written to encourage design solutions that are in harmony with local climates & conditions: a matter of economic as well as aesthetic importance. The initial chapters explain the fundamentals of climate & comfort. Subsequent sections set out environmental...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space by Satler, Gail
    Gail Satler

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Living Space

    This sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines the interaction between people and the spaces they create. Satler shows how Wright explored a new architectural dimension, the space in which we live. Focusing on the Larkin Building (1904) and Unity Temple (1907), works that Wright...
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  • The Universitas Project: Solutions for a Post-Technological Society by Riley, Terence
    Terence Riley

    The Universitas Project: Solutions for a Post-Technological Society

    In January of 1972, The Museum of Modern Art hosted "The Universitas Project," a two-day conference sponsored by the Museum's International Council and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. The distinguished participants, from a wide range of scholarly and artistic disciplines, including Jean...
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  • Santa Fe's Historic McKenzie Neighborhood by Rogers, Victoria
    Victoria Rogers

    Santa Fe's Historic McKenzie Neighborhood

    This book speaks to lovers of art, Santa Fe, historic architecture, guidebooks, and books as art. The imaginative images are combined with historical documentation, illuminating the diverse period-architecture found in a simple crisscross of seven streets. The historic McKenzie Neighborhood is just a five-minute...
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  • Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia's Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks by McDaniel, Justin Thomas
    Justin Thomas McDaniel

    Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia's Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks

    Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region--in Nepal,...
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  • Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture by Last, Nana
    Nana Last

    Wittgenstein's House: Language, Space, and Architecture

    Wittgenstein's House reads Wittgenstein's his two main philosophical texts, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations, in relation to an experience that intervened between them: his design and construction of the Stonborough-Wittgenstein house in Vienna. Arguing that the practice of architecture occupies not just a historical...
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  • Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958 by Blackmore, Lisa
    Lisa Blackmore

    Spectacular Modernity: Dictatorship, Space, and Visuality in Venezuela, 1948-1958

    Winner, 2018 LASA Venezuela Section Fernando Coronil Award In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story....
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  • Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture by Brumfield, William Craft
    William Craft Brumfield

    Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015 The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and massive political terror tested the limits of human endurance. The results of this...
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  • Log Construction: In The Ohio Country, 1750-1850 by Hutslar, Donald A.
    Donald A. Hutslar

    Log Construction: In The Ohio Country, 1750-1850

    Log construction entered the Ohio territory with the seventeenth-century fur traders and mid-eighteenth-century squatters and then spread throughout most of the area after the opening of the territory in the 1780s. Scottish-Irish and German settlers, using techniques from the eastern states and European homelands,...
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  • Nantucket Doorways by Stackpole, Edward A.
    Edward A. Stackpole

    Nantucket Doorways

    Once a major whaling center, Nantucket today draws thousands to its New England shores as one of America's leading summer resorts. The author gives guided tour of the homes of such noted families as the Macys, the Folgers and the Starbucks.Author: Edward A. Stackpole,...
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  • Urban Design by Krieger, Alex
    Alex Krieger

    Urban Design

    Author: Alex KriegerISBN-10: 0816656398ISBN-13: 9780816656394Publisher: University of Minnesota PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.78dReview Citation(s): Choice 09/01/2009Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 232
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  • The Singular Objects of Architecture by Baudrillard, Jean
    Jean Baudrillard

    The Singular Objects of Architecture

    What is a singular object? An idea, a building, a color, a sentiment, a human being. Each in turn comes under scrutiny in this exhilarating dialogue between two of the most interesting thinkers working in philosophy and architecture today. From such singular objects, Jean...
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  • Architecture in New York: A Photographic History by Andrews, Wayne
    Wayne Andrews

    Architecture in New York: A Photographic History

    In the many photographs magnificently reproduced in this collection, Andrews has captured the incredible range of the architecture of New York State, from Manhattan Island to Chautauqua County. Something of the scope of this work is indicated by the fact that A. J. Davis,...
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  • Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy by Gage, Mark Foster
    Mark Foster Gage

    Designing Social Equality: Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Perception of Democracy

    In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality, and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, he...
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  • Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia by Vesentini, Andrea
    Andrea Vesentini

    Indoor America: The Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia

    Cars, single-family houses, fallout shelters, air-conditioned malls--these are only some of the many interiors making up the landscape of American suburbia. Indoor America explores the history of suburbanization through the emergence of such spaces in the postwar years, examining their design, use, and representation....
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  • Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America by Sachs, Avigail
    Avigail Sachs

    Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America

    Much of twentieth-century design was animated by the creative tension of its essential duality: is design an art or a science? In the postwar era, American architects sought to calibrate architectural practice to evolving scientific knowledge about humans and environments, thus elevating the discipline's...
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  • Material Witnesses: Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia by Wells, Camille
    Camille Wells

    Material Witnesses: Domestic Architecture and Plantation Landscapes in Early Virginia

    The Chesapeake region of eastern Virginia and Maryland offers a wealth of evidence for readers and researchers who want to discover what life was like in early America. In this eagerly anticipated volume, Camille Wells, one of the foremost experts on eighteenth-century Virginia architecture,...
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  • Buildings of Wisconsin by Weisiger, Marsha
    Marsha Weisiger

    Buildings of Wisconsin

    From Milwaukee to Madison, Racine to Eau Claire, La Crosse to Sheboygan, and scores of places in between, tradition and progressivism have shaped Wisconsin's architectural landscape. This latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' Buildings of the United States series showcases noteworthy and...
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  • Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination by Mitrovic, Branko
    Branko Mitrovic

    Visuality for Architects: Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination

    What is more important in architectural works--their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same...
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  • Buildings of Michigan by Eckert, Kathryn Bishop
    Kathryn Bishop Eckert

    Buildings of Michigan

    This revised edition of Buildings of Michigan (first published in 1993) presents the architecture of the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan, which are surrounded by four of the Great Lakes. From the Greek, Gothic, Italianate, Queen Anne, and Richardsonian Romanesque structures of the...
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  • Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements by Murtagh, William J.
    William J. Murtagh

    Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements

    The industrial city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was originally settled in colonial times by Moravians from southeastern Germany. These religious utopians were noted for urban planning. In this large-format, richly illustrated volume, historian William Murtagh compares more than 20 Bethlehem landmarks with other Moravian communities...
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  • Skyline: The Narcissistic City by Damisch, Hubert
    Hubert Damisch

    Skyline: The Narcissistic City

    One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert Damisch--whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of imitation, and the question of representation...
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  • Places of Performance by Carlson, Marvin A.
    Marvin A. Carlson

    Places of Performance

    "A lucid, well-organized survey of the almost infinite variety of production spaces of western theatre.... Carlson's survey must be admired for its wealth of carefully researched and elegantly articulated information concerning the relation of urban planning, architecture, and interior and exterior theatre embellishment to...
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  • Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia: 1690 to 1930s: 1690 to 1930s by Minardi, Joseph
    Joseph Minardi

    Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia: 1690 to 1930s: 1690 to 1930s

    Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia is a colorful and comprehensive look at the rich architectural history of the Wissahickon Valley, and the people who made it possible with a locally sourced building stone, the Wissahickon schist. The simple stone structures of Germantown's origins as...
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  • Le Corbusier: Ideas & Forms (New Edition) by Curtis, William J. R.
    William J. R. Curtis

    Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms

    An expanded edition on the master of Modernism, Le Corbusier, by award-winning architectural historian William J. R. Curtis.Originally published in 1996 to critical fanfair, scholar William J.R. Curtis has re-issued his classic text with extensive new scholarship and contemporary research that continues the high...
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  • 10x10/3: 100 Architects, 10 Critics by Jimenez, Carlos
    Carlos Jimenez

    10x10_3: 10 Critics, 100 Architects

    10 x 10_3 = the 100 best architects you've never heard of. That's about to change. The work shown in this volume is ambitious, inventive, and ground breaking. These are the architects to watch out for, this is the architecture shaping our cities and...
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  • The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture by Wright, Frank Lloyd
    Frank Lloyd Wright

    The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

    He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of writings about architecture was as prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold new kind of architecture, one in which the spirit...
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  • Cairo: Histories of a City by Alsayyad, Nezar
    Nezar Alsayyad

    Cairo: Histories of a City

    From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the...
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  • From Object to Experience: The New Culture of Architectural Design by Mallgrave, Harry Francis
    Harry Francis Mallgrave

    From Object to Experience: The New Culture of Architectural Design

    Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural design. Today, the sciences have granted us...
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  • Architecture in Black: Theory, Space and Appearance by Fields, Darell Wayne
    Darell Wayne Fields

    Architecture in Black

    Based on analysis of historical, philosophical, and semiotic texts, Architecture in Black presents a systematic examination of the theoretical relationship between architecture and blackness. Now updated, this original study draws on a wider range of case studies, highlighting the racial techniques that can legitimize...
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  • The Nature of Gothic by Ruskin, John
    John Ruskin

    The Nature Of Gothic

    ""The Nature of Gothic"" is a book written by John Ruskin that explores the Gothic architecture and its artistic principles. In the book, Ruskin discusses the characteristics of Gothic architecture, including its use of pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses. He also delves...
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  • Aalto, Utzon, Fehn: Three Paradigms of Phenomenological Architecture by Tyrrell, Roger
    Roger Tyrrell

    Aalto, Utzon, Fehn: Three Paradigms of Phenomenological Architecture

    This book examines the work of three seminal Nordic architects - Alvar Aalto, J rn Utzon and Sverre Fehn - from a phenomenological perspective, utilising the methodology of 'paradigm' (or 'in the manner of''). Roger Tyrrell explains how the approach of each architect is...
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  • Architectural History Retold by Davies, Paul
    Paul Davies

    Architectural History Retold

    How much do you know about Greek architecture? Roman? Gothic? The Renaissance? Modernism? Perhaps more importantly, do you know how these are connected or how one style evolved to become another? Or what happened historically during each of these periods? Architectural History Retold is...
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  • Why Architects Matter: Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects by Samuel, Flora
    Flora Samuel

    Why Architects Matter: Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

    Why Architects Matter examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it knows and the value of what it knows if it is to work successfully...
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  • How Drawings Work: A User-Friendly Theory by Piedmont-Palladino, Susan
    Susan Piedmont-Palladino

    How Drawings Work: A User-Friendly Theory

    How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety of forms: drawings by hand and computer, models both physical and virtual, and words as needed. The book reflects in...
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  • Instabilities and Potentialities: Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture by Ahrens, Chandler
    Chandler Ahrens

    Instabilities and Potentialities: Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture

    Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, Instabilities and Potentialities explores our post-digital culture to better understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture. The role of digital technologies and its ever-increasing infusion of information into the...
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  • Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture: Phenomenal Phenomenology by Shirazi, M. Reza
    M. Reza Shirazi

    Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture: Phenomenal Phenomenology

    This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise introduction to the philosophical grounds of phenomenology from the points of view of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger,...
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  • Architecture's Appeal: How Theory Informs Architectural Praxis by Djavaherian, Negin
    Marc J. Neveu

    Architecture's Appeal: How Theory Informs Architectural Praxis

    This collection of previously unpublished essays from a diverse range of well-known scholars and architects builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by Dalibor Veseley and Joseph Rykwert and carried on by David Leatherbarrow, Peter Carl and Alberto P駻ez-Gez.Taking an interdisciplinary...
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  • Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome: Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama by Elet, Yvonne
    Yvonne Elet

    Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome: Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael's Villa Madama

    Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. The creation of this important, unfinished complex provides a remarkable case study for the nature of architectural invention. Drawing on little known poetry...
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  • The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture by Payne, Alina A.
    Alina Alexandra Payne

    The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture

    Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern...
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