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Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches...

Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects-from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce...

This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz's own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler's Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. Paul J. Karlstrom...

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...

In recent years, Sufism has become all but synonymous with the mystic poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi (d. 1273) and the ritual "whirling" of dervishes from Turkey. This branch of Islam does, however, have a long, complex history, and spiritual...

Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily...

Urban Eurasia. Cities in Transformation is a journey to urban spaces, places, and people in the global and highly dynamic, but often forgotten region between Europe and Asia. Intriguing photo-graphs and evidence-based reports give a nuanced account to...

The fifth largest population in the world is rapidly expanding. For the past seven decades, both Indonesian and international architects have developed new ideas in order to fulfil the demands of the country's 250_ million inhabitants, in line with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503536064Author Michalis OlympiosFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1678gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 218mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503531090Author Tim JuckesFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

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How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s Against the backdrop of a global energy crisis, a widespread movement embracing the use of raw earth materials for...

How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society In the middle of the nineteenth century, a utopian impulse flourished in the United States through the circulation of architectural and urban plans predicated on...

Italian know-how is hard to copy. Starting from this somewhat functional premise, some sections of the Expo Shanghai exhibition were based on Italian architecture and cities: existing, preserved, recovered and restored buildings, industry and...

Gray rock fences built of ancient limestone are hallmarks of Kentucky's Bluegrass landscape. Why did Kentucky farmers turn to rock as fence-building material when most had earlier used hardwood rails? Who were the masons responsible for Kentucky's lovely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455618460Author Lee MaloneFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783882262629Author Terry AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Dr Ludwig Reichert VerlagPublisher Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503568034Author Aurore DidierFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 1361g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782724707038Author Mercedes VolaitFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint IfaoPublisher IfaoWeight(grams) 1878g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907002250Author Annette BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Dublin Corporation Public LibrariesPublisher Dublin Corporation Public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891316844Author Giuseppe StrappaFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di BretschneiderWeight(grams) 2260g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455618736Author Kerri McCaffetyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788882654115Author Pialuisa BiancoFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint L'Erma Di BretschneiderPublisher L'Erma Di Bretschneider

A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome...

Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803809505Author John Barrington BayleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Architectural Book Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Architectural Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503525365Author Matthew M ReeveFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

In 1811, architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe spurred American builders into action when he called for them to reject "the corrupt Age of Dioclesian, or the still more absurd and debased taste of Louis the XIV," and to emulate instead the ancient temples of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038171Author Sandy IsenstadtFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 22mm

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China is undergoing a process of unprecedented urbanisation, with cities often being built from scratch in just three to five years. It is projected that 400 new cities will be built over the next 20 years with newly urbanised populations of over 240...

This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city's colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural...

Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in...

This book reinterprets the Muslim architecture and urban planning of South India, looking beyond the Deccan to the regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala - the historic coasts of Coromandel and Malabar. For the first time a detailed survey of the Muslim...

This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists, architects, curators and scholars who explore...

Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas...