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  • The Architectural Capriccio

    Memory, Fantasy and Invention

    Edición de Lucien Steil ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio. It not only explains the phenomena within a historical context, but moreover, demonstrates its contemporary validity and appropriateness as a ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Language of Houses

    How Buildings Speak to Us

    de Alison Lurie ...
    In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and ... Leer más

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  • Baroque Art

    Power, drama, and the glory of the Counter-Reformation

    de Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl ...
    The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark ... Leer más

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  • Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism

    de Miles David Samson ...
    The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    de Michelangelo Sabatino ...
    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation

    Saving the World’s Past

    de Zeynep Aygen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    The majority of books in English on historic building conservation and heritage preservation training are often restricted to Western architecture and its origins. Consequently, the history of building conservation, the study of contemporary paradigms and case studies in most universities and within wider interest circles, predominantly in the UK, Europe, and USA focus mainly on Europe and ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Roman Military Architecture on the Frontiers

    Armies and Their Architecture in Late Antiquity

    Edición de Rob Collins, Matt Symonds, Meike Weber ...
    The Roman army was one of the most astounding organizations in the ancient world, and much of the success of the Roman empire can be attributed to its soldiers. Archaeological remains and ancient texts provide detailed testimonies that have allowed scholars to understand and reconstruct the army’s organization and activities. This interest has traditionally worked in tandem with the study of Roman ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Bridges

    A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans

    de Judith Dupré ...
    From New York Times best-selling author Judith Dupréomes a revised and updated edition of Bridges, her magnificent chronological tour of the world's most significant and eye-popping spans. Covering thousands of years of architectural history, each bridge is gorgeously photographed "elevating the landmarks from mode of transportation to works of art" (Bustle).Technological advances, structural ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography

    Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture

    de Linda Fraser, Michael McMordie, Geoffrey Simmins ...
    Series Libro 11 - Art in Profile: Canadian Art and Architecture
    Architectural practice in post-World War II Canada brought substantial change to the face of the Canadian built environment, led by the contribution of John C. Parkin. As senior partner at the Toronto-based architectural firm John B. Parkin Associates (no relation) from 1947 to the 1970s, Parkin oversaw the creation of a large number of modernist projects, including hospitals, airports, schools, ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Continuity With Change

    Planning for the Conservation of Man-Made Heritage

    Edición de Mark Fram, John Weiler ...
    "[Continuity with Change] seeks to document and demonstrate that middle positions between Change and Continuity are possible and desirable." — Canadian Architect"[Continuity with Change] is well produced with a large number of good photographs, maps, and drawings … obviously designed for a wide audience of planners and others active in heritage conservation." — The Journal of the Society for ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Across Space and Time

    Architecture and the Politics of Modernity

    de Patrick Haughey ...
    Modernity tends to be considered a mostly Western, chronologically recent concept. Looking at locations in Brazil, Java, India, Georgia, and Yugoslavia, among others, Across Space and Time provides architectural and cultural evidence that modernity has had an impact across the globe and for much longer than previously conceived. This volume moves through space and time to illustrate the way global ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Primitive

    Original Matters in Architecture

    Edición de Jo Odgers, Flora Samuel, Adam Sharr ...
    This innovative edited collection charts the rise, fall and possible futures of the word primitive.The word primitive is fundamental to the discipline of architecture in the west, providing a convenient starting point for the many myths of architecture's origins. Since the almost legendary 1970s conference on the Primitive, with the advent of post-modernism and, in particular, post-colonialism, ... Leer más

    $100.99 USD