Landmarks & Monuments

Addison Mizner was one of the 20th Century's most influential American architects, a member of the remarkable group of visionaries who transformed Palm Beach. His buildings demonstrate a masterful ability at blending a building with its environment,...

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is America's foremost memorial to the nation's third president. As an original adaptation of neoclassical architecture, modeled after Rome's Pantheon, it is a key landmark in the monumental core of Washington, D.C.,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890136331Author Wendy Waszut-BarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum of New Mexico PressWeight(grams) 1620g

Palm Beach is a remarkably small town to be so famous; its population is only a little over 10,000. Nor is it an old town: the oldest extant building dates from about 1885, and the town itself was not incorporated until after 1900. What has granted Palm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683965008Author Emilie HarelFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Fantagraphics-FuPublisher Fantagraphics-FuWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 272mm * 218mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615325910Author Eric MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Missouri Botanical Garden PressPublisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press

Opened in 1971, Denver Art Museum s north building, a seven-story structure with its distinctive cut-out roofline, narrow windows, and an exterior covered with more than a million custom-made glass tiles was one of the first high-rise art museums. In...

An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah invites visitors and other explorers of Utah to see the state's history, material culture, settlement, and natural landscape through the lens of its buildings. With more than 600 buildings as examples, this guide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467148405Author Mark A BarnhouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146753Author Joseph GustaitisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Monuments represent power: explicitly and simply, but not universally. In Estonia, the classical notion of a monument is a strange one. Its presence is marginal, its tradition non-existent and its form tormented by an apparent cultural displacement. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857226927Author Preston Scott CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1410g

La Gara is an 18th-century country estate in Jussy, a village near Geneva, Switzerland. The buildings have been carefully restored by Swiss architect Verena Best, who also added inspired touches to the interior design. The renowned Belgian landscape...

From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making. Celebrating the twentieth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130727Author Andrew M. ShankenFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 860gDimensions(mm) 256mm * 146mm * 35mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722300Author William De LangeFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 2150gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 44mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578774275Author Hisham MortadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Benton Heights LLCPublisher Benton Heights LLCWeight(grams) 576gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how-and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? Rolf...

With its pale pink sandstone, picturesque domes and dramatic setting, Drumlanrig is one of Scotland's most romantic castles, its history entwined with that of the country itself. The twists and turns of its story are here captured atmospherically in...

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...

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars. Mussolini's government constructed thousands of new buildings across the...

Twenty chapters, authored by leading scholars from around the world, explore the astonishing variety of building styles and traditions that have evolved over millennia in a region of diverse terrains, extreme climates and distinctive local histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543095Author Justin BealFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846813658Author Charles PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing

Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled park bordered by the marshes and dunes of the North Norfolk coast. Built, owned and occupied by the Coke family since 1612, it is at the centre of a major...

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692446065Author Scott CardinalFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Campfire NetworkPublisher Campfire NetworkWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

This book reveals how the Aga Khan Development Network and its Historic Cities Programme transformed an area of Cairo's urban blight into a dynamic public space. Once a city of verdant gardens and parks, Cairo in the 1980s was severely overcrowded,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760790035Author Barry StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455566655Author Julie SatowFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

This new book is an edited volume of essays that examine the legacy of architecture in a number of African countries soon after independence. It has its origins in an exhibition and symposium that focused on architecture as an element in Nordic...

This book presents around 100 buildings that were erected between 1917 and 2017, and are already considered to be classics of architectural history. With informative texts accentuated by photos, plans, archive material and, most importantly, facts...

Drawing on detailed design, construction and financial histories of six prominent Performing Arts buildings with budgets ranging from AGBP3.4 million to over AGBP100 million, Geometry and Atmosphere presents unique and valuable insights into the complex...

In 2013, National Geographic Traveler chose St. Augustine as one of "20 must-see places and best trips in the world." But while tourists take in the fort and stroll the cobblestone streets, few visitors are aware of the remarkable history of this oldest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692420591Author Scott CardinalFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Campfire NetworkPublisher Campfire NetworkWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Monumental cares rethinks monument debates, site specificity and art activism in light of problems that strike us as monumental or overwhelming, such as war, migration and the climate crisis. The book shows how artists address these issues, from Chicago...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924634Author James RestonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 383gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

The first in-depth exploration of the award-winning King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia, designed by Norwegian architects Snohetta Ithra, also known as the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, is an...

The twenty-one missions of California, from San Diego to San Francisco Solano, are historic treasures and sites of pilgrimage for visitors from the world over. Intrinsically beautiful structures typically built of adobe brick and wood, adorned with...

The official book of the 130th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, one of the most famous monuments in the world At 1,063 feet (324 meters) high, the Tower is a symbol-of Paris and of France, and of modernity. Since its creation in 1889, the Eiffel...