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He was the most iconoclastic of architects, and at the height of his career his output of writings about architecture was as prolific and visionary as his architecture itself. Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold new kind of architecture, one in which the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334007Author Emil KaufmannFormat HardbackPage Count 319Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 807g

Bread and circuses-free food and mass entertainment-was the name contemporary social observers gave to the ancient Roman practice of keeping the common people happy and rebellion-free. Jonathan Glancey, in this personal and passionate essay about the...

Dressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from...

During his long career, Pier Luigi Nervi has explored the potential of concrete through the cast-in place and the prefabrication of elements in reinforced concrete or in ferro-cement, the material he invented and patented during the war. All of his best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929112695Author Steven MannellFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Dalhousie Architectural PressPublisher Dalhousie Architectural PressWeight(grams) 350g

Exploring the social and cultural hierarchies established in 18th-century France, this volume illustrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French...

Hailed as one of the key theoreticians of modernism, Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was also the most renowned restoration architect of his age, a celebrated medieval archaeologist and a fervent champion of Gothic revivalism. He published some of the...

"Signs, Streets, and Storefronts" addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America's commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the...

Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the "Bulwark of Islam," into "Alger la blanche," the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire...

The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being...

Assesses and analyses medieval Anatolia from the perspectives of architecture, landscape and urban space.Book InformationISBN 9781474437363Author Patricia BlessingFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195040449Author Spiro KostofFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 508g

Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764913334Author Jay PridmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications...

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Britain Can Make It (BCMI) exhibition, this collection of essays, documents and commentaries is a re-examination of a major design initiative in the immediate post-war period. BCMI encapsulated many of the problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578499994Author Lisa Michele ChurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Relentless HistoryPublisher Relentless HistoryWeight(grams) 381g

Eastern North Carolina boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in the state, from colonial churches and antebellum plantation houses to the imperiled lighthouses of the late nineteenth century. The more recent history of this...

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Variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life. For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946986Author Annabel Jane WhartonFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams)...

City and Campus tells the rich history of a Midwest industrial town and its two academic institutions through the buildings that helped bring these places to life. John W. Stamper paints a narrative portrait of South Bend and the campuses of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503572737Author Derek HirstFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999077009Author Gregg CoodleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Bendrogo PressPublisher Bendrogo PressWeight(grams) 454g

This unique and carefully researched study traces the evolution and accomplishments of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the United States - the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979090929Author Kathy GowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Pilgrims' ProcessPublisher Pilgrims' ProcessWeight(grams) 615g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979090936Author Georgiana Goddard KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Pilgrims' ProcessPublisher Pilgrims' ProcessWeight(grams) 140g

Chicago's impressive industrial expansion in the late nineteenth century convinced most observers that the city was defined by the crass pursuit of wealth and that its architecture was, as described by Lewis Mumford, "a brutal network of industrial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645841626Author History TitansFormat HardbackPage Count 82Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993559105Author Alan R MassenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Rainbow Publications UKPublisher Rainbow Publications UKWeight(grams) 594g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992875183Author James W P CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Construction History SocietyPublisher Construction History SocietyWeight(grams)...

Hailed by some as the Eighth Wonder of the World when it opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the world's most recognizable and beloved icons. For over one hundred years it has excited and fascinated with stories of ingenuity and heroism, and it...

The school has been at the forefront of wave after wave of innovation in architectural education and practice; and a formative influence in the development of architectural science, urban planning, computer-aided design, environmentally and socially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992205171Author Lindokuhle MnyanduFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Mnyandu PublishingPublisher Mnyandu PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

As architecture documents history, ""The Houses of St Augustine"" records architecture, preserving and interpreting the history of housing in the oldest city in the continental United States. The charming two-storey house so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008965829Author Govert WesterveldFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 680g

Why do cities look the way they do? In this intriguing new book, Mona Domosh seeks to answer this question by comparing the strikingly different landscapes of two great American cities, Boston and New York. Although these two cities appeared to be quite...

The author of a classic work on the architecture of imperial Rome here broadens his focus to present an original study of urban architecture in Roman market towns, port cities, veterans' colonies, and major metropolitan centers throughout the empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865340343Author Jerome IowaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 458g