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  • Alexander Robey Shepherd

    The Man Who Built the Nation’s Capital

    With Alexander Robey Shepherd, John P. Richardson gives us the first full-length biography of his subject, who as Washington, D.C.’s, public works czar (1871–74) built the infrastructure of the nation’s capital in a few frenetic years after the Civil War. The story of Shepherd is also the story of his hometown after that cataclysm, which left the city with churned-up streets, stripped of its trees ... Leer más

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  • Unbuilt Toronto 2

    More of the City That Might Have Been

    Series Libro 2 - The City That Might Have Been
    Quill & Quire cited Unbuilt Toronto as a book filled with "well-researched, often gripping tales of grand plans," while Canadian Architect said that it is "an impressively researched exploration of never-realized architectural and master-planning projects intended for the city." Now Unbuilt Toronto 2 provides an all-new, fascinating return to the "Toronto that might have been."Discover the ... Leer más

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  • Five Hundred Buildings of Paris

    Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved cities.This inspiring photographic journey through the City of Lights features the greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of Paris, organized by neighborhood. Each building is featured in a rich, fine-resolution duotone photograph. ... Leer más

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  • The 1930s House Explained

    de Trevor Yorke ...
    The Art Deco exhibition in Paris in 1925 ushered in a new style of architecture based on the latest designs from Europe and American—flat roofs, plain facades, reinforced concrete and white paint inside and out. Streamlining was the watchword and houses, from bungalows to detached family homes, were planned around their internal use. Using his own drawings, diagrams and photographs, author Trevor ... Leer más

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  • The Architecture of San Juan de Puerto Rico

    Five centuries of urban and architectural experimentation

    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken place over the last five centuries, transforming the site from a small Caribbean enclave to a sprawling modern capital.As the oldest European settlement in the United States and second oldest in the Western Hemisphere, San Juan is an example of the ... Leer más

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  • Architecture and Embodiment

    The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design

    In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological breakthroughs are ... Leer más

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  • Texas Log Buildings

    A Folk Architecture

    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 countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques ... Leer más

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  • Phantom Architecture

    A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built.These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits, explored challenging new ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way towards the future. Some of them are ... Leer más

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  • Osgoode Hall

    An Illustrated History

    Winner of the 2006 Fred Landon AwardOsgoode Hall is a national monument and one of the architectural treasures of Canada. Of the many public buildings erected in pre-confederation Canada and British North America, it best encapsulates the diverse stylistic forces that shaped public buildings in the first half of the nineteenth century. The gated lawns, grandly Venetian rotunda, the noble ... Leer más

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  • Solomon's Temple

    Myth, Conflict, and Faith

    de Alan Balfour ...
    A highly original architectural history of Solomon’s Temple and Islam’s Dome of the Rock that doubles as a social and cultural history of the regionThe most extensive study of the interrelated history of two monuments, Solomon’s Temple and The Dome of the Rock, drawing on an exhaustive review of all the visual and textual evidenceRelayed as a gripping narrative, allowing readers to re-enter and ... Leer más

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  • Art of India

    Sacred traditions, temples, and timeless beauty

    If the ‘Palace of Love’, otherwise known as the Taj Mahal, is considered to be the emblem of Mughal Art, it is by no means the sole representative. Characterised by its elegance, splendor, and Persian and European influences, Mughal Art manifests itself equally well in architecture and painting as in decorative art. ... Leer más

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  • Women Architects and Modernism in India

    Narratives and contemporary practices

    de Madhavi Desai ...
    Series series Visual and Media Histories
    Studies on architecture in South Asia continue to ignore women in canonical histories of the discipline. This book attempts to recover the stories of the women architects whose careers nearly parallel the development of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India. Writing their experiences into the narrative of mainstream architectural history within the challenge of non-existent archives, it ... Leer más

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