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Whether determining the style of its embassies or the design of overseas cemeteries for Americans killed in battle, the U.S. government in its rise to global leadership greatly valued architectural symbols as a way of conveying its power abroad. In order...

The historic preservation movement has had a huge influence on America's built landscape for the past thirty years. Discover the cornerstone primer on the topic -- Keeping Time. This edition features a wealth of new material, including new chapters on...

Architectural style is defined as a definite type of architecture, distinguished by special characteristics of structure and ornament. This revised edition of What Style Is It? includes new sections on Neoclassical, Romanesque and Rustic Styles. It also...

A practical guide to the maintenance and repair of old and historic buildings Carrying out work in accordance with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's standards and guidelines can be a challenge for professionals charged with the preservation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789056624217Author Dick Van GamerenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint NAI PublishersPublisher Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi Uitgevers/Publishers)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782930054285Author Pascale FraitureFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 1247gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783980988766Author Mafaldo AdePage Count 288Imprint Esefeld, Jorg u. Traub, Johannes. edition esefeld & traubPublisher Esefeld, Jorg u. Traub, Johannes...

When the Forth Bridge opened on 4 March 1890, it was the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth west of Edinburgh in Scotland, it represents one of the greatest engineering...

From Dallas-Fort Worth to El Paso, Goodnight to Marfa to Langtry, and scores of places in between, the second of two towering volumes assembled by Gerald Moorhead and a team of dedicated authors offers readers a definitive guide to the architecture of...

The buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright are not immune to the social and environmental forces that affect all architecture. Because of the popular recognition and historical significance of his work, however, the stakes are unusually high when his buildings...

Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly rich terrain, and rocky, almost untillable land. The green forests, rich loam,...

This unique visual reference guide will be an invaluable resource to professional designers - from architects to illustrators, production designers, art directors, decorators, film concept artists, sculptors and painters. It uses colour photographs to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783939633365Author Jochen VisscherFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint JOVIS VerlagPublisher JOVIS VerlagWeight(grams) 288g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933502137Author Janice StevensFormat HardbackPage Count 76Imprint Linden Publishing Co IncPublisher Linden Publishing Co Inc

How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city's history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city's changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and...

This book, which fills a gap on the materiality of lived relations, examines households within the context of their immediate physical surroundings of home and shows how human interactions are reflected in built forms. Houses are dynamic participants in...

This interdisciplinary book investigates the use of secular space for music making in Early Modern France and Italy. The fact that many artists of the time also had musical skills underlines the close relationship between music and the visual arts. ...

A yawning gap between two 1960s buildings is not at all unusual in Cologne. A gap scarcely wide enough to park a few bicycles has been used as an office by the Rendel and Spitz Advertising Agency since 1999.Book InformationISBN 9783932565359Author Martin...

Text in English and German. What links film and architecture? Above all it is 'Metropolis', the film that Fritz Lang made in the Babelsberg studios in 1925/26. Its extravagance created enormous financial difficulties for Ufa, the biggest German film...

Hans Dieter Schaal is already something of a cultural institution in Germany. Trained as an architect, he always operates outside the "main stream", designing and realizing stage sets, sculptures, cemeteries, parks, squares, spatial...

Known as the 'Big Eye' the Oita Stadium is one of the chosen venues for the next World Cup in 2002. It will be reused for the second stage of the Japan Inter-Prefectural Athletic Competition in 2008 after the World Cup, continuing to grow in the future...

In 1975, the European Year of Protection of Ancient Monuments, Alsfeld in Upper Hesse acquired model-town status, along with Berlin, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Xanten and Trier in Germany. In this way the Council of Europe was acknowledging the long...

Text in English and German. Julia Bolles-Wilson and Peter L Wilson have built a large number of striking, thoroughly detailed cultural and commercial buildings in recent years, all sharing the characteristic that they stubbornly resist superficial...

The study of bronzes and other metals from the Athenian Acropolis traditionally has been overshadowed by the emphasis given to the famous monuments of architecture and sculpture, in part due to the incomplete publication of the metal small finds from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357765855Author S. MuthiahFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited

This volume of primary sources examine British architectural history from 1830-1914. The collection contains a mixture of architectural treatises, biographical material on architects, works on different types of building, and contemporary descriptions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503570235Author Nadja AksamijaFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 980gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 221mm *...

This wonderful volume contains over three hundred images and line drawings detailing the influence of Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization on the wonderful examples of colonial architecture built in Delaware. Covering a period of time ranging from...

Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era, but many of these buildings have disappeared as the result of fire, demolition, and modernisation. They were built during periods of urban transformation;...

This first paperback facsimile of the classic 1913 edition includes thirteen photographs and numerous illustrations of the great cathedrals of Northern France. Henry Adams referred to this book as "A Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity," and its expansive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813947679Author Christine Madrid FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788430114689Author Joseph RykwertFormat HardbackImprint Ediciones SiguemePublisher Ediciones Sigueme

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565548312Author Roulhac ToledanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 1078g

In the beginning, it was a hog farm. A cow pasture. A trash dump and it was located so far south — 50 city blocks — that downtown Kansas City merchants would not deliver goods to the area. In the mind's eye of young real-estate visionary Jesse Clyde...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942655063Author Samuel ChamberlainFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Architectural Book Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Architectural Book Publishing...

The Alpine region is characterized by a great diversity in all spatial dimensions and qualities. This circumstance is not to be read primarily as the result of administrative drawing of borders, but first of all as an expression of the alpine topography,...

Kingston is remarkable in that the visual evidence of its place in Canadian history and in Canadian architecture is still here: many of its older streets are lined with houses built of stone, and charming old limestone farm houses are found even in new...

New Orleans was a melting pot of Spanish and French culture, in a climate that forced a uniquely American architecture. More than 260 images present the wide verandahs, hipped and gabled roofs, neo-classical sensibilities, and lavish iron lacework that...

Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a...

Digitalization has transformed the discourse of architecture: that discourse is now defined by a wealth of new terms and concepts that previously either had no meaning, or had different meanings, in the context of architectural theory and design. Its...