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Author: Jane BurryISBN-10: 111983399XISBN-13: 9781119833994Publisher: WileyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/04/2023Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.40w x 0.40d

This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building's style, history, and evolution. Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also the story of who designed it, who it was built for, and why....

By linking building theory to the emancipatory project of critique advanced by radical thinkers in our time, this work investigates the key conceptual and historical elements that culminate in an emancipatory theory of building entitled: 'Toward a philosophy of shelter'. Taking Marx as its...

Responsible for the creation of Regent Street, Regent's Park, the Brighton Pavilion and Buckingham Palace, John Nash is universally recognised as one of the most important architects of late 18th-early 19th century Britain. This book brings together recent scholarship, and so brings this most...

Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical developments and the formation of specialized hospitals as an independent building typology. Whether constructed as part of...

Beauport is the tantalizing personal statement of interior designer Henry Davis Sleeper. Built as a summer home, each room presents a theme that showcases Sleeper's amazing collection of thousands of decorative arts objects. This dazzling book of photographs and text offers an intriguing window...

A reissue of the classic guide to the origins, purpose and identity of the great castles of England and Wales, built after the arrival of the Normans. Castle studies have been shaped and defined over the past half-century by the work of R. Allen...

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition. It reveals that ruination presents a complex opportunity to envision new futures for a city,...

A comprehensive introduction to the history and architecture of the great railway termini of London. The book is a short history and guide to London's principal mainline railway stations, from the first to be opened (London Bridge, 1836) to the last of the Victorian...

A lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the Middle Ages, bringing them vividly to life. with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Rrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer. Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award 2019 The...

This book traces the historic evolution of urban form, principles, and design; it serves as a compendium, or reference, of city design; and is a polemic about the necessity for the recovery of the city and a contemporary urban architecture. It begins with the...

From Louis Sullivan's first successful attempts to give steel construction its own form and expression, to city planning, contemporary megastructures, public housing, and the Mobile Home, Vincent Scully examines the significant aspects of modern architecture. Applying his considerable talents as a passionate and engaging...

Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's entire career and includes his signature essay, "The Symbolic Essence of Modern...

(Bilingual Edition: English / German)Festivals celebrate occasions and moods and generate their own realities that manifest as living memories. Festivals transform people, allowing them to take on unfamiliar roles. Festivals also change places, give rise to new public spheres, and are capable of bringing...

The world's most artful and skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The precision of the stone masonry rivals that of the Incas to the point that writers from Spanish chroniclers of the sixteenth century...

The present study aimed at determines the impact of attitude towards modernization on stress newlineamong college students: an interventional approach. Modernization improves the lives of people in newlinemany tangible ways wherein higher standards of life, freedom, security and social justice are newlineaccepted goals of...

In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America's fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house's original owner, Walter...

A boy and a girl, Menashi and Ahnami, from two opposing Asian cultures, fall in love at the end of a four hundred year battle. As the two form a truce that is sealed with a kiss, the two help their warring factions come...

Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focusing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defense, urbanization, and infrastructural development. Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of 'political building' (using...

The only piece of architectural writing that will be classed among the essential literature of the 20th century.Author: Le CorbusierISBN-10: 1638232571ISBN-13: 9781638232575Publisher: www.bnpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2008Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.91lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.75d

A brilliant, ambitious follow-up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now-vanished chambers they once contained. The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As...

How many buildings around the world have such distinctive designs that simply their outline, and nothing else, is enough to identify them? Artist Jose D vila has physically cut out, from photographs, 90 of the world's most famous and beloved buildings and structures, from...

Author: Neil SpillerISBN-10: 1119838355ISBN-13: 9781119838357Publisher: WileyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2023Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 10.79h x 8.43w x 0.39d

With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house. Row houses have long been an important component...

The Creswell photographic archive at the American University in Cairo is an invaluable resource of over 12,000 printed images of Islamic architecture, mainly in Cairo, but also including buildings in other important cities such as Cdoba and Baghdad. Creswell's own photographs constitute the majority...

A very special new edition of this beautiful and award-winning official coffee table book which celebrates one of sport's most historic and iconic venues as it celebrates its 100th birthday. The Centre Court at Wimbledon is known throughout the world and is famous for...

This new study explores the development of the window, showing how it both transformed human experience by increasing access to light and air and changed our perception of architectural space Christopher Masters celebrates the multiple roles of the window in architecture by providing engaging...

A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor--the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure--through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects--architects who either...

Philadelphia-based builder Owen Biddle was a major influence on later architects, thanks to this well-illustrated and much studied guide. One of the very first manuals of American architecture, this essential sourcebook offers authentic views of interior and exterior designs of buildings erected in the...

This magnificently illustrated book reveals the architectural and decorative details of life at the top in Manhattan. More than 100 line drawings of floor plans and over 100 black-and-white photographs as well as fascinating mini-histories detail the vital statistics on 73 of New York...

There is scarcely a New England town which does not contain houses, church spires, or ornamental interior details derived from the Late Colonial architectural designs of Asher Benjamin (1773-1845). Benjamin disseminated his ideas chiefly through his publications, of which this book is the most...

Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the men and women who fought for it, the forces that shaped it, and...

Here are bay, rose, lancet, and half-fan windows, oculi, shutters, and blinds, testimony to the creative genius of architects, artisans, and the inhabitants themselves. Drawing on their extensive travels and years of research conducting site analyses of the chromatic palettes of villages and cities...

This volume is both a tribute to Sullivan's poetic genius and a catalogue of all his graphic work. The authors discuss the social implications of Sullivan's theories of architecture, with visual proof of his vision in illustrations of his work on paper and in...

In this completely revised and up-to-date edition, the world's most accomplished architects -- Gehry, Pei, Meier, Nouvel, Piano, and 37 more-express their views on creativity, inspiration, and legacy in this visually stunning, one-of-a-kind collection. The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for...

Charles Robert Ashbee--architect, designer, social reformer, and a major force behind the Arts and Crafts Movement--was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life at the turn of the century. Inspired by the Romantic anti-industrialism of John Ruskin and William...

This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years...

Winner of the 2010 Spiro Kostof Award (sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians)Empire building and modernity dominate the history of the nineteenth century. The French and Ottoman empires capitalized on modern infrastructure and city building to control diverse social, cultural, and political landscapes....

Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that defines the main components and sources for Russia's architectural traditions in their historical context, from the early medieval period...

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.In The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli proposes that a sharpened formal consciousness in architecture is a precondition for political, cultural, and social engagement with the city. Aureli...

Contemporary architectural criticism tends to focus on the theories and concepts behind buildings. Yet there is much to be learned by venturing beyond the library walls to contemplate the real buildings--the things themselves. This urge for "real living contact" is the impetus behind this...

Crumbled shells of mosques in Iraq, the fall of the World Trade Center towers on September 11: when architectural totems such as these are destroyed by conflicts and the ravages of war, more than mere buildings are at stake. The Destruction of Memory--now available...

Long Live Southbank documents the history and culture of this iconic London landmark, which was threatened by a 120 million redevelopment, announced in March 2013. The Southbank Centre proposed designs to transform the Southbank Undercroft skate park into retail units, relocating the revered and...

On a sacred site on the land of the Gadigal people, Tubowgule, a placeof gathering and storytelling for over 60,000 years, now sits the SydneyOpera House. It is a breathtaking building recognised around the worldas a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj...

This book presents the first sustained study of the stunning drawings of Roman ruins by Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574; in Rome, 1532-ca. 1537). In three parts, Arthur J. DiFuria describes Van Heemskerck's pre-Roman training, his time in Rome, and his use his...

This edited volume follows the panel "Earth in Islamic Architecture" organised for the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in Ankara, on the 19th of August 2014. Earthen architecture is well-known among archaeologists and anthropologists whose work extends from Central Asia to Spain,...

New Chinese Space takes its readers through a collection of the newest and the most exciting projects that have sprung up over recent years in China. Packed with vivid, large format photographs, architectural drawing and brief introductions, this book is a delightful presentation of...

For the first time the domestic architecture of the whole Arab region is being considered. An extensive analytical part is supported by a collection of more than 200 examples from thirteen countries.Author: Friedrich RagetteISBN-10: 3932565304ISBN-13: 9783932565304Publisher: Axel MengesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2003Pages: 296Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.97lbsSize: 12.00h...

When the German Embassy in Washington was completed in 1964, the architectural critic for the Washington Post wrote that the express aim of those commissioning the building had been to make an architectural statement that would embody the spirit of the young German democracy.Author:...