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“john j cullinane”

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  • Maintaining and Repairing Old and Historic Buildings

    by John J. Cullinane ...
    A practical guide to the maintenance and repair of old and historic buildingsCarrying out work in accordance with the U.S. Secretary of the Interior's standards and guidelines can be a challenge for professionals charged with the preservation, restoration, and care of historic properties. This book-with-CD package facilitates the process with more than 400 field guidelines for the treatment of ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

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    The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

    by Kevin Starr ...
    The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wildheadlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of Californiaand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spotcommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completedin 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess andfull assumption of its destined continental dominance. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Architecture, Mysticism and Myth

    by W. R. Lethaby ...
    This classic explores the symbolism of classical architecture. A milestone in relating mysticism to design, it shows the correlation between mythology and the design of St. Paul's Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Versailles, and other architectural masterpieces. This delightful book describes the symbolism of real-world architecture, as well as architecture described in fiction, myth and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour

    1001 Unforgettable Works of Art

    by Francis Russell ...
    A new and massively enlarged and revised version of a much praised book first published by Umberto Allemandi in 2008 (then titled ’52 Places in Italy’)A distinguished and well-connected author with powerful and influential media and art-world friends—he is deputy chairman of Christies.A selective and authoritative guide to the art and architecture of the world’s most visited ‘foreign country’.A ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Routes Not Taken

    A Trip Through New York City's Unbuilt Subway System

    by Joseph B. Raskin ...
    A fascinating journey into the past—and under the ground—that offers "an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit" ( The New York Times).From the day it broke ground by City Hall in 1900, it took about four and half years to build New York's first subway line to West 145th Street in Harlem. Things rarely went that quickly ever again.The Routes Not Taken explores the often ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Constitutional Modernism

    Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959

    by Timothy Hyde ...
    How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces. Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in the Cuban Republic, Timothy Hyde reveals how architects joined with other professionals and intellectuals in efforts to establish a stable civil ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • New Zealand Film and Television

    Institution, Industry and Cultural Change

    by Trisha Dunleavy, Hester Joyce ...
    Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence. Whilst there is a growing body of academic work on New Zealand film and television, relatively little exists on ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Beyond Live/Work

    The Architecture of Home-based Work

    by Frances Holliss ...
    Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workhome’. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten buildings. Despite having existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in every country across the globe this dual-use building type has long gone ... Read more

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  • The Living Tradition of Architecture

    Edited by José de Paiva ...
    The Living Tradition of Architectureexplores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some of its foremost contributors. Beyond modern misconceptions about tradition only relating to things past and conducive to a historicist vision, the essays in this volume reveal tradition as a living ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Women Architects and Modernism in India

    Narratives and contemporary practices

    by 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 ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Shadow-Makers

    A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture

    by Professor Stephen Kite ...
    The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history.Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD