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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681773599Author Marc MorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977790432Author Philip GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Reality EntertainmentPublisher Reality EntertainmentWeight(grams) 239g

What is the Ka'ba and why it is pivotal to the Islamic world? Why do pilgrims go about it, not in it? Is it empty? And why is a hollow building covered in black silk? The most sacred site of Islam, the Ka'ba (the granite cuboid structure at the...

New UPDATED EDITION 2014 The unique Black and White house in Singapore is the most distinctive and imposing of the island's colonial architectural legacy. Surviving examples are testament to their physical and aesthetic durability - a unique tropical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167957Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 152g

Discover Britain's magnificent heritage of country houses in this lavishly illustrated guide to the architectural treasures of the United Kingdom. Spanning the years from 1714 to the start of the 21st century, this book includes the period's finest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547505Author Tim AnsteyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Designed to appeal to visual thinkers, 25 Concepts in Modern Architecture explores the fundamental ideas behind architectural design, through easy-to-follow sketches, drawings and succinct explanations. Twenty-five concepts - each of which are key to...

Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. In recent years the idea of 'baroque' or 'the baroque' has been seized upon by scholars from a range of disciplines and the term 'baroque' has consequently been much in evidence in writings on contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732100633Author Scott CardinalFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Campfire NetworkPublisher Campfire NetworkWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955200960Author Douglas PhilipsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Handstand PressPublisher Handstand Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352407Author Sophia PsarraFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486285146Author Mulliner,Box & PlaningFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that...

Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of...

The thirteen-centuries-old church of Hagia Sophia, dedicated to the Holy Wisdom of God, has been the focus of scholarly interest and debate since the nineteenth century, generating a remarkably rich bibliography both Greek and foreign. However, until now...

Cardiff's civic centre in Cathays Park, described as the finest civic centre in the British Isles, is an impressive planned group of public buildings, begun largely with wealth created by the coal industry in the south Wales coalfield. This book covers...

Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment. These questions are most pertinent when buildings have been destroyed in disaster or war, and the built fabric is being reconstructed to...

Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements-this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789602043226Author Maro Kardamitsi-AdamiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Melissa Publishing HousePublisher Melissa Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

This comprehensive guide on historic garden and landscape conservation will help landscape professionals familiarise themselves with what the conservation of historic gardens, garden structures and designed landscapes encompasses. The aim of the series...

At the turn to the twentieth century, architects began to realize that architecture should no longer find ist expression in historic styles. They had recognized that the reason for arbitrarily resorting to historical building forms established in advance...

Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study details...

Winner, AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers and Alcuin Society Book Design Awards Second Prize (Prose Illustrated) A National Bestseller The legacies of theaters, hotels, fire stations, flour mills, and more - torn down, burned down, and otherwise lost - are...

Windtower offers a unique insight into a past way of life, exploring Dubai's rich and storied past and heritage. This new and extended edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the formation of the United Arab Emirates, diving deeper into the...

From the Arab conquest to the Arab Spring: in its capacity for architectural and social transformation and in its tension between religious tradition and modern glitter, Cairo is like no other city in the Islamic world. In this book, Swiss architect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043960Author Hashim SarkisFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm * 44mm

Thomas Jefferson (1743 1826), third president of the United States, designed his Virginia residence with innovations that were progressive, even unprecedented, in the new world. Six acclaimed arts and cultural luminaries pay homage to Jefferson, citing...

Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954452391Author Rupert GunnisFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Orage PressPublisher Orage PressWeight(grams) 544g

The New Paradigm in Architecture tells the story of a movement that has changed the face of architecture over the last forty years.The book begins by surveying the counter culture of the 1960s, when Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi called for a more...

This ode to the spirit of place consists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262562010Author Edward R FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 451Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1560gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 279mm * 19mm

In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950921287Author H J TidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Night Terror PublishingPublisher Night Terror PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults...

The Architectwas the first book in fifty years to survey the role of the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the present. Without claiming to cover every period in every country, it is nonetheless the most complete synthesis available of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the 2003 CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award presented by the International Committee of Architectural Critics 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780262621946Author...

Poplar Forest is one of two personal residences that Thomas Jefferson designed for himself, the other being Monticello. Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, inherited the land--originally a 6,861-acre parcel--at her father's death in 1773,...