Architecture - History - General

Volume I studies the origins of the Lombardic vaulted basilica. Volume II reconstructs the history of the Lombardic basilica north of the Alps. This reprint of the 1910 edition includes eight hundred fine illustrations, most of which were omitted from later editions. In addition...

What kind of city was the Fascist 'third Rome'? Imagined and real, rooted in the past and announcing a new, 'revolutionary' future, Fascist Rome was imagined both as the ideal city and as the sacred centre of a universal political religion. Kallis explores this...

Published in 1909, this report details the plans presented to the Building Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Richard Clipston Sturgis was the architect responsible for the project, and his report includes detailed plans for the new building, as well as...

From the earliest classical temples to today's achievements, over two thousand years of Western architectural history are summarized. Every architectural style is the product of an ideology, and the author shows how the buildings of Greece and Rome, of the Early Christian and Byzantine...

This volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. And the fact that it was demolished only forty-six years after its 1904 completion makes Jack Quinan's study of the building--which housed a Buffalo, New York, soap company--all the more valuable. Quinan's...

Working with a large-format view camera, Williams has photographed Fort Worth, Texas over a 30-year period. His b&w images of some 80 structures are accompanied by Roark's text describing the history and significance of the pictured buildings. 11.25x9 Annotation c. by Book News, Inc.,...

St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, in Washington, DC is one of the most unique churches in the United States. A National Historic Landmark, located just north of Lafayette Square, and in clear view of the White House, it has witnessed the presence within...

For New Yorkers and visitors alike, the Trade Center was a compass point rising dramatically above other skyscrapers at the tip of Manhattan. For more than two decades, practically since the Twin Towers were erected, Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo photographed these awesome buildings....

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Author: Ann ClineISBN-10: 026253150XISBN-13: 9780262531504Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/24/1998Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 05/11/1998 pg. 61New York Times 08/02/1998 pg. 17

Ben Claasz Coockson was born in 1956 in The Hague, The Netherlands. He worked in his own Archaeological Buro in Holland, from where he was sent to Syria in 1986 to do the architectural work on the excavation site of Tell Hammam et Turkman....

Roman 'small towns' were an important link between the urban civitas capitals and the rural population and offer an ideal case study for examining the extent of Roman influence permeating into the rural provinces. Thomas Rust's study looks at 67 Romano-British sites, including Alcester,...

This rare auction catalog documents the sale of the vast architectural library and artwork collection of esteemed American architect Horace Trumbauer. The book provides a comprehensive list of the 1,300 items up for sale, including works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albrecht Dürer,...

Celebrated Upstate New York author Chuck D'Imperio takes readers on a unique tour of some of the most fascinating and little-known historic homes across the state. From the stunning neoclassical mansion of the Clarke family tucked away on a hill in Cooperstown to the...

Singer Castle Revisited is a fresh look at this castle's rich 100-year history with many new stories and photographs of its original owner, Frederick G. Bourne; his daughter Marjorie, who owned the castle for the next 40 years; and Dr. Harold and Eloise Martin....

Throughout the early Victorian period, American domestic architecture was dominated by the ideas and designs of Andrew Jackson Downing (1815‒52). Downing, who was America's first important landscape architect, was instrumental in establishing a well-styled, efficient, yet low-priced house that offered many features that previously...

Author: George L. HerseyISBN-10: 0226327841ISBN-13: 9780226327846Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2002Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.94w x 0.73d

The gripping story of how monasteries were swept away and their buildings adapted to secular use after the English Reformation. Five short years after Henry VIII's break with Rome, his chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, masterminded the Dissolution of the Monasteries. It was one of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

At the height of the middle ages, there were hundreds of abbeys and priories throughout England. The ruins of some of those that were destroyed at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries are today seen as iconic medieval buildings - such as...

Author: Vinno N. MathurISBN-10: 939112500XISBN-13: 9789391125004Publisher: Niyogi BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2023Pages: 356Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.39lbsSize: 9.21h x 9.37w x 0.94d

In postwar Europe and the Middle East, Hilton hotels were quite literally "little Americas." For American businessmen and tourists, a Hilton Hotel-with the comfortable familiarity of an English-speaking staff, a restaurant that served cheeseburgers and milkshakes, trans-Atlantic telephone lines, and, most important, air-conditioned modernity-offered...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Based on historical fact, George Washington's Boy, written by Ted Lange, portrays the fight for freedom, the Declaration of Independence, and the first presidency of the United States from the viewpoint of one of George Washington's closest confident, ironically, his slave, Billy Lee. Billy...

A leading Mexican architect's photographic panorama of the past century's greatest buildings This beautifully designed volume offers an architect's portrait of modern and contemporary architecture. Through the lens of Alfonso Lopéz Baz (born 1947), cofounder of the leading Mexican firm Grupo LBC Arquitectos, great...

- For the first time in printed form, Michael G. Imber reveals the artwork that has inspired his architecture. This book is a beautiful collection of over 230 historic and contemporary paintings, sketches, and conceptual architectural artwork- Includes the stories behind the artwork, with...

This Afrocentric design and landscape assessment toolkit is an essential resource for landscape appraisals for new and existing building projects. The assessment toolkits in this book consist of a curated information database to access training and best practices, accessible in one location under the...

What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960, examines in...

The art of Hinduism constitutes one of the world's great traditions, as alive today as when the first images of Hindu gods were fashioned out of stone more than two thousand years ago. George Michell's invaluable survey looks at the entire period, covering shrines...

A new series highlighting women's voices in the architectural profession todayThe first installment in nai010's new Women in Architecture series, Documents and Histories offers a many-faceted exploration of multivocality in architecture. Catja Edens reflects on the diverse roles of women in architecture; Lara Schrijver's...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The Akademie der Kunste (Academy of Arts) in Berlin has carried out the task of promoting the German Arts, since its foundation in 1696. From the outset, master builders have been eligible to become members. The architect Hans Scharoun laid the groundwork for establishing...

A comprehensive development history of nearly 200 buildings of downtown Honolulu, most of which are long gone yet worthy of remembrance and documentation. Buildings are listed by street address, and the book includes many "now and then" photograph comparisons plus thumbnail bios of over...

Beyond a doubt, Billy the Kid is the most internationally recognizable character in American Western history. Countless authors and artists have spent their entire careers studying and memorializing this man who most likely died before his twenty-second birthday. At the epicenter of this international...

A guide to the history of Lamberhurst, a beautiful village in the high weald area of Kent, reflecting on how changing industries and lifestyles shaped the village into what it is today.Author: Roger PitchforkISBN-10: 0755206355ISBN-13: 9780755206353Publisher: New Generation PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/08/2010Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize:...

Augustus Mayhew's revealing and entertaining essays portray Palm Beach's larger-than-life characters, bigger-than-ever mansions and bolder-than-most pursuits. Focused on the fine line between illusion and reality so often blurred at Palm Beach, the book explores the town's standing as an ultimate destination where extravagance, eccentricity...

The "new community" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This richly documented book examines the results of...

This book looks at specific instances in the Renaissance, Enlightenment and our own time when architectural ideas and ideas of biological life come into close proximity with each other. These convergences are fascinating and complex, offering new insights into architecture and its role. Establishing...