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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979090943Author Georgiana Goddard KingFormat PaperbackImprint Pilgrims' ProcessPublisher Pilgrims' ProcessWeight(grams) 907g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436664Author William A ColesFormat HardbackPage Count 578Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1628g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999657874Author Bob Owen CrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 634Imprint Robert Owen CrossmanPublisher Robert Owen CrossmanWeight(grams) 721g

Presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in attempts to update the image of Paris as "capital of the 19th century". At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris itself, as much as the commodity, was put on...

What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How...

Covers the development of musical life in the great centres of European music - Paris, Vienna, London and the courts of Italy and Germany. The contributions of Handel and Bach, and their lesser colleagues are set in their historical and sociological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865342347Author Van Dorn HookerFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 386g

The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts. Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a...

Take a journey through one of England's most beautiful villages, with this excellent guide. Leading you on a variety of different walks and treks that will take you past beautiful historical and listed buildings. OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES: LAMBERHURST...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473571627Author Lady BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint AG BooksPublisher AG BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946993Author Annabel Jane WhartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams)...

Covering the full range of building in the South from 1607 to the 1820s, An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape is now available for the first time in paperback. This unique and exhaustive compilation traces the origin and...

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. * Brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578640457Author James R BachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Bristlecone PressPublisher Bristlecone PressWeight(grams) 372g

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The factories of American cities are examples of functional beauty constructed from an attempt to adapt a means to an end. The Works is a generously illustrated and exhaustive study of the different types of industrial buildings over one hundred years...

This book is the first comprehensive study of Mormon architecture. It centers on the doctrine of Zion which led to over 500 planned settlements in Missouri, Illinois, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Canada, and...

Have you ever wished that you could have seen King Solomon's mighty Temple in Jerusalem or climbed to the top of the legendary Tower of Babel? What must it have been like to have paraded up and down the great glass galleries of the Crystal Palace in...

Watermills were once commonplace but, because of their domestic scale and their often picturesque waterside locations, many have now lost their waterwheels and machinery and the buildings have been converted to other uses. Water power has been used for...

Some 125 color photographs mark a charming tour through eighteen of Charleston's most legendary houses, discussing how a wide variety of styles blend beautifully to become a distinct, and sometimes eccentric, regional style with unique features such as...

What are the unique characteristics that make a house Colonial or Craftsman, Modern or Deco, or any of the other approximately 20 styles of domestic architecture common in the United States? At a time of near-obsessive attention to home design and...

This series examines the meeting of lifestyle and interior design. Each volume concentrates either on "ethnic" or "urban" traditions, encompassing places in the world that provide inspiration to today's designers. The series looks at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974144375Author Marie De FranceFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Polaris BooksPublisher Polaris BooksWeight(grams) 499g

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The late Sir John Betjeman described this volume as "a gem of a book...condensed knowledge without being stodgy, affectionate without being mawkish." From the Saxon simplicity of the little church of St. Lawrence at Bradford-on-Avon to the late...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) is widely considered one of the most influential writers on the history of architecture in the 20th century. He is best known for...

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Forewords by Penelope Keith and Paul Martin Avebury Manor in Wiltshire, one of the most beautiful houses in England has been empty for years. Its owners, the National Trust, have teamed up with the BBC and an enthusiastic team of experts and volunteers...

"The definitive book on the archaeology of Irish castles." TERRY BARRY, Trinity College Dublin. The great age of Irish castle-building began with the arrival of the Anglo-Normans, traditionally dated to 1169, and continued right up to the...

Military barracks have played an important part in the social as well as the military history of Britain. They have served many purposes, being homes, training establishments and recruitment depots, and were meant to impress (and, at times, to overawe)...

A captivating picture book for architects, engineers, and a general audience, Built for Britain features over 100 British buildings in a stylish square format. Organized by building type. It has an index designed to make it easy to find buildings in...

This work follows the transformation of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's brick power station, on Bankside, into the Tate Modern art gallery, by Swiss Architects Herzog & de Meuron. It presents a photographic account of every stage of the development and...

Visiting historic buildings is one of Britain's most popular pursuits. Visitors, however, are often frustrated by existing guidebooks, which assume much prior knowledge of architectural history and terms. This book presents a new look at cathedrals,...

This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious...

Carter Wiseman presents an original, readable, and literate overview of the major figures, influential movements, and landmark buildings that have defined American architecture over the past hundred years. In a survey that is "as good . . . as...

When reading the Chinese city, which this book sets out to do, it is not the well-known cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Xi an that are in the focus of attention, but rather the essentially Chinese of the Chinese city, those characteristics or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780214655173Author Dominik HerzogFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dominik HerzogPublisher Dominik HerzogWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682565223Author Richard SeabergFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Litfire PublishingPublisher Litfire PublishingWeight(grams) 413g

Reframing Berlin is about how architecture and the built environment can reveal the memory of a city, an urban memory, through its transformation and consistency over time by means of 'urban strategies', which have developed throughout history as cities...