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Gardner's Art Through the Ages : The Western Perspective
Fred S. Kleiner Description Package includes Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volumes I and II, 15th edition and LMS Integrated for MindTap Art, 1 Term (6 months)… Read more
Roman Villas in Central Italy : A Social and Economic History
Annalisa Marzano Description This volume, which was awarded Honorable Mention and a Silver Medal from the Premio Romanistico Internationazionale Gerard Boulvert, investigates the socio-economic role of elite villas in Roman… Read more
Winnipeg Modern : Architecture, 1945 to 1975
Serena Keshavjee Description A vivid, stylish, and fascinating look at internationally acclaimed architects and their work. Beginning in the 1940s, John A. Russell, dean of the School of Architecture at… Read more
First Forts : Essays on the Archaeology of Proto-Colonial Fortifications
Eric C. Klingelhofer Proto-colonial archaeology explores the physical origins of the world culture that evolved out of contacts made in the Age of Exploration, from Columbus to Cromwell. The early… Read more
[FREE] Hart Wood : Architectural Regionalism in Hawaii
By Don J. Hibbard This lavishly illustrated book traces the life and work of Hart Wood (1880-1957), from his beginnings in architectural offices in Denver and San Francisco to his… Read more
Michigan’s County Courthouses
By John Fedynsky Whether you are an attorney, a Michigan history buff, or a lover of architecture, you will find this book is a valuable resource. —”Michigan Bar Journal”John Fedynsky… Read more
Just Below the Line : Disability, Housing, and Equity in the South
Korydon H. Smith With America on the brink of the largest number of older adults and persons with disabilities in the countrys history, the deceleration in housing production during the… Read more
[FREE] Public Spaces, Private Gardens : A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans
By Lake Douglas Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents — many of which have never before been published —… Read more
[FREE] Viennese Secession
By Klaus H Carl Symbol of a forecasted revolution, the Viennese Secession possesses within itself the dissidence of about twenty talented artists against the conservative academicism which petrified Vienna and… Read more
[FREE] Cairo : Histories of a City
By Nezar Alsayyad From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured… Read more
[FREE] Steel Designer’s Manual
By Institute Steel Construction This classic manual for structural steelwork design was first published in 1956, since when it has sold many thousands of copies worldwide. The fifth edition is… Read more
San Antonio Architecture : Traditions and Visions
by San Antonio, Boone Powell With a history more than 290 years old, San Antonio boasts a diverse, eclectic, and important architectural inventory. From the Spanish Missions of the 17th… Read more
Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity : Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960
Kimberly Elman Zarecor Description Eastern European prefabricated housing blocks are often vilified as the visible manifestations of everything that was wrong with state socialism. For many inside and outside the… Read more
Media Capital : Architecture and Communications in New York City
Aurora Wallace Description In a declaration of the ascendance of the American media industry, nineteenth-century press barons in New York City helped to invent the skyscraper, a quintessentially American icon… Read more
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian : Re-Opening the Early Historiography of Modern Architecture
Gevork Hartoonian Description Starting with the question concerning the discursive formation of architectural history, the chapters compiled in this book attempt to re-read the historiography of early modern architecture from… Read more
Missouri Armories : The Guards Home in Architecture and History
Robert P. Wiegers Description The armory buildings in most Missouri towns are the unheralded local face of the Missouri National Guard. Home to a part-time militia within communities around the… Read more
Pedestrian Modern : Shopping and American Architecture, 1925-1956
David Smiley Description Too close to the wiles and calculations of consumption, stores and shopping centers are generally relegated to secondary, pedestrian status in the history of architecture. And yet,… Read more
Constantinople to Cordoba : Dismantling Ancient Architecture in the East, North Africa and Islamic Spain
By Michael Greenhalgh A survey of the various ways in which the extensive remains of ancient architecture were reused or destroyed in the crescent from Greece and Turkey through Syria,… Read more
Dalmatia and the Mediterranean : Portable Archaeology and the Poetics of Influence
Alina Payne Description Using the Braudelian concept of the Mediterranean this volume focuses on the condition of "coastal exchanges" involving the Dalmatian littoral and its Adriatic and more distant maritime… Read more
Deleuze and Architecture
Helen Frichot Description This title critiques the legacy and ongoing influence of Deleuze on the discipline and practice of architecture. Since the 1980s, Deleuze's philosophy has fuelled a generation of… Read more
[FREE] Gods in Dwellings : Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East
by Michael B. Hundley In this book devoted exclusively to temples and perceptions of the divine presences that inhabit them, Michael B. Hundley focuses on the official religions of the… Read more
[FREE] Chicago Skyscrapers 1871-1934
By Thomas Leslie For more than a century, Chicago’s skyline has included some of the world’s most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City’s skyscrapers begins in… Read more
The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford : Society, Religion, School and Stage
Professor J. R. Mulryne Description The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town's… Read more
Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine
Zeev Weiss Description Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine introduces readers to the panoply of public entertainment that flourished in Palestine from the first century BCE to the… Read more
Chinese Architecture and Metaphor : Song Culture in the Yingzao Fashi Building Manual
Feng Jiren Description This book investigates the historical tradition of Chinese architectural writing from antiquity to the Song period, with a focus on a building manual titled Yingzao Fashi (Building… Read more
China Living
Sharon Leece; A. Chester Ong Gain insight into the world’s hyper-modern design paradise with this stunning Chinese interior design book. In this rapidly-changing nation, the pioneering spirit of a new… Read more
Building a Revolution : Chinese Architecture Since 1980
Charlie Q.L. Xue Description This book presents a picture of Chinese architecture in transition, as the entire economy shifted from being planned and state-controlled to being market-led.show more Download
Baroque & Rococo Art & Architecture
Robert Neuman Description Baroque and Rococo Art and Architecture is the first in-depth history of one of the great periods of Western art, spanning the years 1585 to 1785. The… Read more
Art of Islam
Elliott Fleming; Gustave Le Bon>Following the ideals of beauty of Islamic art, the book shows high-quality representations of numerous monumental masterpieces, such as the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the Taj… Read more
Art Deco : A Mode of Mobility
Michael Windover Description This book argues that mobility is the central theme of the interwar mode of design known today as Art Deco. It is present on the very surfaces… Read more
Architecture: The Making of Metaphors
Barie Fez-Barringten Description The authors writings are based on his lecture series presented in 1968 at Yale University called "Architecture: The Making of Metaphors" which was then published in part… Read more
Architecture in Translation : Germany, Turkey, and the Modern House
Esra Akcan Description In Architecture in Translation, Esra Akcan offers a way to understand the global circulation of culture that extends the notion of translation beyond language to visual fields…. Read more
Tales of Two Cities : Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City
by Jonathan Conlin Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period from 1700 to 1914, when each vied to be the world’s greatest… Read more
Building Jaipur : The Making of an Indian City
By (author) Vibhuti Sachdev , By (author) Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson Jaipur, in Rajasthan, is one of India s most famous cities, and is renowned for its palaces and museums,… Read more
Suspending Modernity : The Architecture of Franco Albini
By (author) Kay Bea Jones , Series edited by Dr. Eamonn Canniffe Franco Albini s works of architecture and design, produced between 1930 and 1977, have enjoyed a recent revival… Read more
[FREE] Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel : Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America
By (author) Carla Blank , By (author) Tania Martin This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice… Read more
Stones of Dublin : A History of Dublin in Ten Buildings
By (author) Lisa Marie Griffith Stand on any street in Dublin and one is confronted with history, with a story set in stone. In presenting 10 of Dublin’s most historic… Read more
Ornament and Order : Graffiti, Street Art and the Parergon
By (author) Rafael Schacter Over the last forty years, graffiti and street-art have become a global phenomenon within the visual arts. Whilst they have increasingly been taken seriously by the… Read more
Seats of Power in Europe During the Hundred Years War : An Architectural Study from 1330 to 1480
By (author) Anthony Emery The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later… Read more
Great Walls and Linear Barriers
By (author) Peter Spring Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China and knows of Hadrian’s Wall and the other barriers lining stretches of Rome’s imperial frontiers. But Peter… Read more
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