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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »