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The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid examines the transformation of Madrid from a secondary market town to the capital of the worldwide, Spanish Habsburg empire. Focusing on the planning and building of Madrid's principal public monument,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984374144Author Gang ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Architeg, Inc.Publisher Architeg, Inc.Weight(grams) 464g

The architectural facade addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying, or dissembling, interior arrangements. In this book, Charles Burroughs tracks the emergence of the facade in late medieval Florence and then follows the sharply...

An important trade centre in the Medieval Mediterranean, Amalfi and the surrounding region of southern Italy sustained strong art production and patronage from the eleventh through to the thirteenth centuries. Merchant patrons realised a wide variety of...

Hailed as 'one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man', Robert Willis's monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge is here reprinted. Its...

Hailed as 'one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man', Robert Willis' monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge is here reprinted. Its...

The Seasons and the Woodman was first published in 1941 as one in a series of Cambridge children's books related to the natural world. D. H. Chapman provides an atmospheric narrative of the interaction between humanity and woodland. This is combined with...

Originally published in 1976, this book introduced a series of mathematical models of urban phenomena relevant to scientists and planners attempting to understand and predict the form of cities and regions. Dr Batty organises the book around the main...

The integration of the location of activities in space and the use of transport has been a theoretical planning issue for many years. However, most books on this subject treat each component of the land use and transportation system with different,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674368491Author Sigfried GiedionFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 560g

The popular image of the traditional western city has usually been dominated by the cathedral, whose sheer size seemed to create an isolated physical and spiritual focal point. In this iconoclastic study, the author sets out to reverse some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334106Author Walter H KilhamFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945186199Author Will HolladayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint W & H PublishersPublisher W & H PublishersWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578920146Author Mac WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Little House PubPublisher Little House PubWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645095845Author Philip FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Balcombe Bay PublishingPublisher Balcombe Bay PublishingWeight(grams) 640g

Over the course of this century, nature has increasingly been relegated to the province of environmentalists while cities and towns have been turned over to developers and planners. Norman Crowe seeks to overcome this division into the respective realms...

Architecture and sculpture in English churches changed and developed markedly between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries, partly due to the invading French influence on the existing Anglo-Saxon buildings. In this 1927 book, the different categories and...

The Architecture of Conquest deals with the practice and ideology of colonial architecture in Latin America, referring particularly to the Viceroyalty of Peru during the period 1535-1635. Colonial building has generally been regarded as being merely a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674368743Author Montgomery SchuylerFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 662g

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Having perceived a widespread failure of most community-scale plans, Eduardo Lozano has created a large and humane vision for community design, geared towards urban planners and designers, as well as those concerned with the communities of the future...

In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of other disciplines with and within contemporary architecture. He asks whether photography, film, drawing, philosophy, and language are merely fashionable props for...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674368767Author Montgomery SchuylerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 667g

Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural midland county with its excellent local building stone from the limestone belt. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the late seventeenth century French-inspired...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995589360Author Elantha EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint University of WestminsterPublisher University of WestminsterWeight(grams) 612g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783822806807Author Andrea KettenmannFormat PaperbackImprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbHWeight(grams) 503g

Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was a polymath thinker well known for founding the discipline of mathematical statistics, as well as for being a controversial proponent of eugenics. First published in 1887, and presented here in its original German form, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648854517Author Nathan G JuddFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Echo BooksPublisher Echo BooksWeight(grams) 671g