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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784887061415Author Takeo KamiyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint University of Washington PressPublisher University of Washington PressWeight(grams)...

First Published in 1986 The Architectural History of King's College Chapel provides a complete picture of how and why King’s College Chapel came to be built. Francis Woodman uses the evidence both of structure and style and finance and patronage to...

Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluis Domenech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Joze Plecnik...

"Clay Lancaster was infected by a love of architecture at an early age, a gentle madness from which he never cared to recover." - From the Foreword, by Roger W. Moss It is easy to take for granted the visual environment that we inhabit...

More than 300 antique postcard images take readers through Mexico's streets and palaces, churches and courtyards. Architects, designers, and landscape professionals will find endless inspirations in this rich collection of images. Postcard collectors...

In "When Buildings Speak", Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565542709Author Leonard HuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 940g

In 'Islamic Architecture' Today, established experts and newer scholars from the wide world of 'Islamic architecture' consider its changing nature and continued significance. Reflective essays address the meaning of 'Islamic' in built environments, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565547070Author Friends of the CabildoFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 975g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789918230358Author Conrad ThakeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Kite Group LtdPublisher Kite Group LtdWeight(grams) 1500gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 240mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788832080537Author Giovanni Marco ChiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint ListLabPublisher ListLabWeight(grams) 148g

The process of coding is a systematic experimentation with signs, symbols, and the construction of larger cultural meanings. The fourth volume in the series Kontext Architektur examines the architectural-historical and -theoretical relevance of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189696358Author William ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 4000g

This is not another treatise on the heroic nature of the Jeffersonian imagination. Rather, it offers another reading generated by Joseph Campbell's reluctant hero in The Hero of A Thousand Faces as offered by Jeffrey Hildner in his prescient Epilogue...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803072562Author Luca El BannaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint VibooksPublisher VibooksWeight(grams) 152g

Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) dedicated to conversations about design. Each annual issue is conceptualized by an editorial team that proposes guests and objects to be in dialogue with one another...

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...

This title was first published in 2002: Since antiquity through to the present, architecture and the pictorial arts (paintings, photography, graphic arts) have not been rigidly separated but interrelated - the one informing the other, and establishing...

Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is vividly examined in separate...

This catalogue of Books of Hours, the 'best seller' of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, presents two dozen Books of Hours mostly dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Examples from France, the Netherlands, and Belgium are presented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929112473Author Steven MannellFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dalhousie Architectural PressPublisher Dalhousie Architectural PressWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929112718Author Cammie McAteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Dalhousie Architectural PressPublisher Dalhousie Architectural PressWeight(grams) 370g

2021 Good Brick Award Winner from Preservation Houston 2020 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture from Texas State Historical Association 2021 Summerlee Book Prize (Nonfiction), Center for History and Culture of Southeast...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874517712Author Thomas Durant VisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

Southeast Asian modernity - an overview Peter Rowe and Yun Fu's second volume on the modernization of architecture in the Far East deals with Southeast Asia and Austronesia, including the 12 nation states of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576876589Author Jose DavilaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 876g

For Mormons, the second coming of Christ and the subsequent millennium will arrive only when the earth has been perfected through the building of a model world called Zion. Throughout the nineteenth century the Latter-day Saints followed this vision,...

From the summer of 1933 to the fall of 1934, more than 38 million fairgoers visited a 3-mile stretch along Lake Michigan, home to Chicago's second World's Fair. Millions more experienced the Century of Progress International Exposition through newspaper...

Originally from France, the du Pont family settled in the Brandywine River Valley. Chateau Country is an intimate portrait of the houses built by this Delaware dynasty. Their first dwelling was a modest six-room house just steps from the gunpowder mills...

Whereas the past decades have seen a profound reconsideration of eighteenth-century visual culture, the architecture of that century has undergone little evaluation. Its study, unlike that of the early modern period or the twentieth century, has...

Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era. At the center of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068324730Author E. M. van SteekelenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint KIT PublishersPublisher KIT PublishersWeight(grams) 416g

Organized chronologically, this volume analyzes the dynamics, convergences, and ideological clashes that have given life to the most significant movements of the twentieth century and today to the season of recent phantasmagoric buildings of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934510063Author Susan Gilson MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Harvard Graduate School of DesignPublisher Harvard Graduate School of Design

An interdisciplinary study of one of the most important monuments in Islamic artThe Nasrid builders of the Alhambra the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the...

Examines the work of a group of architects that converged in Vermont's Mad River Valley in the mid-1960s. Lead essayist Danny Sagan traces the development of the Design/Build movement from its roots in Bauhaus theory at Yale School of Architecture in the...

Jan Turnovsky (1942-95), born and educated in Prague, emigrated to Austria in 1966 and worked for various architectural firms in Vienna. In 1975 he was appointed as a research and teaching assistant at Technische Universitat Wien's Institute for...

James D. Dilts has written the first comprehensive study of the broad range of structures built in North America for the railroads during their heyday, from high-rise office buildings to beautiful resort hotels to lowly roundhouses and shops. Dilts...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544085Author William FirebraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd