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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927129272Author Robert Ratcliffe TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint TouchWood EditionsPublisher TouchWood EditionsWeight(grams) 344g

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe. It uncovers the remarkable...

In recent years, Baghdad has been viewed as a battleground for political conflicts; this interpretation has heavily influenced writings on the city. This book moves away from these perspectives to present an interdisciplinary exploration into the urban...

In the mid-1920s a physiologist, a glass chemist, and a zoo embarked on a project which promised to turn buildings into medical instruments. The advanced chemistry of "Vita" Glass mobilised theories of light and medicine, health practices and...

The short lived Tulip Era breathed a new life into Ottoman social life and novel elements of art, architecture and new spaces of leisure and entertainment that both men and women could participate and enjoy emerged during the early 18th century. Later,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991016386Author John WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Massey University PressPublisher Massey University Press

How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces. Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in the...

This book addresses the work of architect John Dalton (1927-2007), an important voice in mid-century modernism in Australia whose work, despite his being exhibited and published internationally and also winning several awards for his designs, is woefully...

Palaces of Reason traces the fascinating history of three royal residences built outside of Naples in the eighteenth century at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta. Commissioned by King Charles of Bourbon and Queen Maria Amalia of Saxony, who reigned over...

After the Fall explores the many traces of fascism that can be found in the architecture and urban form of Rome – from its buildings, monuments and piazze, to its street names and graffiti. It reveals how the legacy of this short period in history...

An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within and beyond Rome’s ever-changing political boundaries   Roman art and architecture is typically understood as being bound in some...

Drawing on the author’s extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong’s buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong’s cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the...

Italian architecture has long exerted a special influence on the evolution of architectural ideas elsewhere - from the Beaux-Arts academy’s veneration of Rome, to modernist and postmodern interest in Renaissance proportion, Baroque space, and Mannerist...

Dedicated to the tracing of continuity across sectarian divides, Christopher Tadgell's History of Architecture in India (1989) was the first modern monograph to draw together in one volume all the strands of India's pre-colonial architectural history -...

Studies cross-cultural exchanges across the Mediterranean using new interdisciplinary methodologies An edited volume that provides architectural, literary, historical and visual analyses A strong focus on interpreting archives A work of comparative...

• Examples and case studies are provided from Chile, the West and South of the US, Asia, Europe including Netherlands and Turkey, Guatemala, combined Latin American experiences, and a study of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the African continent and the...

Connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins – analysing in straightforward and jargon-free language the genesis of modernism and the complex reactions to it Provides students with a clear understanding of the...

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations. Due to the historical context...

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...

During his lifetime, the work of architect George Hadfield (1763-1826) was highly regarded, both in England and the United States. Since his death, however, Hadfield's contributions to architecture have slowly faded from view, and few of his buildings...

In writing The Settlement Patterns of Britain Nick Green was inspired by the short story genre. His book is a collection of eight non-fiction short stories or essays, where the characters are the places, some of which appear more once, usually as...

This is the first book to present an overview of the best Spanish architecture in the 21st century. Featuring 35 important architectural projects that will actually be in construction in 2006, the book reflects the geographic and generational diversity...

This new edition of the definitive guide to recording America's built environment provides a detailed reference to the recording methods and techniques that are fundamental tools for examining any existing structure. Edited by the Deputy Chief of the...

Building/Object addresses the space in between the conventional objects of design and the conventional objects of architecture, probing and reassessing the differences between the disciplines of design history and architectural history Each of the...

This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing...

Arcadia Updated delves into the concept of landscape as it is shaped by the literary tradition and material works known as pastoral. Referring to several of the tradition's works as well as scholarly critiques, Fiskevold and Geelmuyden highlight how...

An essential guide to Mexico City, surveying more than 180 architectural works from the early 20th century to the present This new edition of Arquine's essential guide to Mexico City compiles more than 180 works of architecture dating from the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906155735Author Chris RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 1270gDimensions(mm)...

In postwar Europe and the Middle East, Hilton hotels were literally "little Americas," offering travelers cheeseburgers, air-conditioning, and respite from alien cultures. Conrad Hilton claimed that his hotels were constructed for profit and political...

Each of the Shaker communities is represented with very interesting photographs of the buildings that made up their world. The Shakers expressed imagination through their environment, and the details of architecture became their tangible art, while they...

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the...

Acclaimed landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his photographic archives, compiled over the past 30 years, to present a visual study of Balinese architecture: its origins, elements, variations and vagaries. The book opens with an...

Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind is an interdisciplinary volume of literary and cultural scholarship that examines the link between two pivotal intellectual and artistic figures. It probes the degree to which the...

Photographer Barbara Mensch’s rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan. Many of these images are published here for the first time. The photographs evoke the passage of time by dividing the...

This title provides an in-depth and vivid tour of architecture, like no other. These collections are some of the largest and most often used by the Library of Congress. Along with seventy black and white photos of barns across the country from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929112671Author Michelangelo SabatinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dalhousie Architectural PressPublisher Dalhousie Architectural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565547209Author Nancy WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 375g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791254630778Author Pippo CiorraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MarsilioPublisher Marsilio

This monograph details thirty-four major architectural works from Valode and Pistre, including commercial, retail, industrial, and cultural projects. Founded in 1980 by its current directors Denis Valode and Jean Pistre, Valode and Pistre Architects is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789460225253Author Jeannette van DitzhuijzenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 1562g