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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087931364Author Bill HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 5mm

The city of a thousand minarets is also the city of eclectic modern constructions, turn-of-the-century revivalism and romanticism, concrete expressionism, and modernist design. Yet while much has been published on Cairo's ancient, medieval, and...

"This new edition ensures that the book will continue to be internationally acknowledged as the standard work on the development of modern architecture." -Walter Gropius"A remarkable accomplishment. . . one of the most valuable reference books for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047982Author Jean-Louis CohenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957167933Author Ray ElmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Hampton Wick HistoryPublisher Hampton Wick HistoryWeight(grams) 273gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. From that discovery unspooled the captivating,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914934346Author Bruce BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Peacock PressPublisher Peacock PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 8mm

Acclaimed as the "father of skyscrapers," the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to...

'This is definitely up there as one of the best books that I have read. It's got a special place in my heart. Just amazing!' 5* reader review'Gorgeous! Exuberant writing, convincing, adorable characters, romance and a little whimsy' TRACY REESLove will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618952301Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***Thinking Through Twentieth-Century Architecture connects the practice of architecture with its recent history and its theoretical origins - those philosophical ideas that lay behind modernism and...

'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. ...

Be transported to New York during the Gilded Age and experience daily life in one of the world's most vibrant cities through mesmerizing, contemporary 3D photography and exciting tales of the time.Black Dog & Leventhal has partnered with the New-York...

With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing...

Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it...

The life of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of...

The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world's most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac's book, focused on the inception and construction of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of...

A revelatory look at the residences of Adolf Hitler, illuminating their powerful role in constructing and promoting the dictator’s private persona both within Germany and abroad Adolf Hitler’s makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a...

The Cannibal's Cookbook fiercely consumes the body of past cyclopean constructions. It assembles, re-packages, and offers this latent knowledge for your contemporary consumption. It is a manual for the hungry, for those who are not satiated by the...

London is the supreme railway city. In 1900 it had fourteen railway termini, more than any other city in the world. A century later only one of them has disappeared completely, and just three have undergone comprehensive reconstruction. All the others...

Building Toys: An Architect's Collection documents over 100 architectural building toys from the author's collection, from the mid-1800s to the present, from the U.S. and abroad. Each toy has an immersive two-page spread celebrating its unique features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904965572Author Malcolm JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Fleming H. Revell CompanyPublisher Fleming H. Revell CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048705Author Alfredo Thiermann RiescoFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

On the eve of its subject's centennial, this richly illustrated and meticulously researched catalog celebrates-and reconsiders-one of the most significant artistic movements of the twentieth century. Gustav F. Hartlaub's 1925 exhibition Neue...

A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture. Window Shopping with Helen Keller recovers a series of influential moments when architects and designers engaged the embodied experiences...

An examination of the complex connections in St. Louis among modern architecture, urban renewal, and racial and spatial change.Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s-1970s features essays on the modernist architects Charles E. Fleming, R...

How conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all.Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration...

A comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American ModernismIn the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers of women, but career success did not come easily. Women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472039746Author Michael G SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Examining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhoodPlayhouses and Privilege explores children's playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s...

Examining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhoodPlayhouses and Privilege explores children's playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s...

With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989681599Author Allan T. ShulmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Historymiami MuseumPublisher Historymiami MuseumWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162311Author Hugh HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common divisor"...

This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia's spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional "common divisor"...

The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work--a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of...

Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and...

Much of Boston's rich heritage of Victorian buildings dates from the mid-nineteenth century when Gridley James Fox Bryant (1816-1899) dominated the profession of architecture in the city. At that time, Boston was undergoing a transformation from a quaint...

In 1932 nineteen-year-old John H. Howe arrived at Taliesin as a charter member of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship. There he would remain for the next thirty-two years, earning a reputation as "the pencil in Wright's hand" before establishing his...