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This study peers behind the veil of architectural styles to the underlying social microcosm of the 'building world' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to examine how the fragile authority of the architect took root there. Bringing to...

Want to know more about the buildings around you? Can't tell a Doric from a Corinthian column? Interested in how the Egyptians built the pyramids, and how on earth a dome stays up? Then this book is for you. Packed with absorbing facts and quirky...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674730816Author Edgar W AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674865679Author Langdon WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674431522Author Harold R ShurtleffFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674491700Author Sigfried GiedionFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1089g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992876876Author Victoria WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Doctor Watson ArchitectsPublisher Doctor Watson ArchitectsWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648955627Author Christopher J ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Place Research InstitutePublisher Place Research InstituteWeight(grams) 127g

In print since 1948, Dwelling House Construction is a homebuilding classic that covers site inspection, foundations, framing, windows, roofing and flashing, coatings, fireplaces and chimneys, insulation, hardware, plastics, mobile homes, and manufactured...

Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887536335Author Nick HildenbrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Black Moss Press 406772 Ontario Ltd.Publisher Black Moss Press 406772 Ontario Ltd...

"Published in cooperation with Deutsches Haus, New York University"--T.p. verso.Book InformationISBN 9780826403094Author Gert SchiffFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury...

The papers collected in this volume were originally presented at the conference on Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning that was held in Mierlo, the Netherlands in July 1992. This conference was organized as one of the...

The set of "Building 2000" brochures illustrates how architects and other building designers can successfully apply passive solar principles to produce energy-effient buildings. "Building 2000" is a pilot project of the European...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646835440Author Metin MustafaFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Centre for Ottoman Renaissance and CivilisationPublisher Centre for Ottoman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578969923Author Zach BundyFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Zachary BundyPublisher Zachary BundyWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578920115Author Mac WalcottFormat HardbackPage 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 9780578912301Author Joseph C KosiorekFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint ABI Road LLCPublisher ABI Road LLCWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578308036Author Lisa Michele ChurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Relentless HistoryPublisher Relentless HistoryWeight(grams) 549g

Originally published in 2001, this book examines the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete and its capital city, Candia...

In this 2003 study, Edson Armi offers a fresh interpretation of Romanesque architecture. Armi focuses on buildings in northern Italy, Switzerland, southern France and Catalonia, the regions where Romanesque architecture first appeared around 1000 AD. He...

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,...

* Covers all aspects of making a presentation, from preparation to delivery* Provides the tools to succeed in your next project interview* Presents guidelines for capturing an audience and creating a "stage presence" Easy access to crucial...

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Frank Lloyd Wright often expressed a passionate contempt for America's great cities, reserving a special wrath for New York. And yet, as Herbert Muschamp argues with verve and conviction in this book, Gotham played a vital part in shaping Wright's...

Colin Rowe has achieved legendary status as one of a handful of outstanding studio teachers of architecture and urban design to emerge within the last two generations. His writings reveal the powerful insight and dispassionate, authoritative intelligence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368351594Author David KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 1243g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853315117Author Charles KnevittFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lund Humphries Publishers LtdPublisher Lund Humphries Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946708222Author Edward Lucie-SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Heneage (Thomas) & Co LtdPublisher Heneage (Thomas) & Co Ltd

"Somerset is a serene county, varied in mood more then most, yet always mild" wrote Pevsner, drawing attention to its freedom from the extremes of its neighbouring counties. Highlights of this volume are a full account of the Georgian marvels...

Skyscrapers, ever taller, astound us with their immensity and beauty. Despite the challenges associated with their design and safety, there is continued growth in the size and number of tall buildings being built around the world. In this fascinating...

At once a history of Holker Hall in Cumbria, the story of a family, a life, a community and an exploration of continuity with the past and adaptation to the modern age. Hugh Cavendish, Baron Cavendish of Furness, owner of Holker Hall in Cumbria, writes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780713718287Author Adrian HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Cassell IllustratedPublisher Octopus Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 200g

A study of the shape and appearance of civic places and the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence. A civic place belongs to everyone and yet to nobody in particular. In Civic Realism, Peter G. Rowe looks at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899861655Format PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint AVEditionPublisher AVEditionWeight(grams) 1289g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870812590Author Robert K. SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint University of Colorado,Department of Fine ArtsPublisher University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500200940Author Peter MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715329887Author Corinne BraddFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint David & CharlesPublisher David & CharlesWeight(grams) 599g

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