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  • Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design

    par Kingston Heath ...
    Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international case studies, it examines how architects and designers have applied a variety of tactics to achieve ... En savoir plus

    $142.99 CAD

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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

    From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

    par Edward Hollis ...
    A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents.Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Pentagon

    A History

    par Steve Vogel ...
    The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell conceived and built an institution that ranks with the White House, the Vatican, and a handful of other structures as ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Classical Orders of Architecture

    par Robert Chitham ...
    This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders. The new edition of this successful title now includes the proportions in both metric and imperial measurements to make the orders more accessible and to provide a valuable reference for designers.The inclusion of both 100-part and 96-part systems of proportion is underpinned by an essay on James Gibbs - one ... En savoir plus

    $116.99 CAD

  • Engineers

    A History of Engineering and Structural Design

    par Matthew Wells ...
    This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Athens

    par James H. S. McGregor ...
    Revered as the birthplace of Western thought and democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today’s contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again.Although the Acropolis remains the city’s anchor, Athens’ ... En savoir plus

    $46.19 CAD

  • 14 Fun Facts About the Washington Monument: A 15-Minute Book

    15-Minute Books, #110

    par Caitlind L. Alexander ...
    Collections Livre 110 - 15-Minute Books
    The Washington Monument is one of the most recognizable monuments in Washington D.C.. It took over 50 years to build, and it has stood for over 100 years. How much do you know about this magnificent monument.How thick are the walls at the base of the monument?Why is the Washington Monument made up of two different colors of marble?Why is there a stone in the monument that says "My language, my ... En savoir plus

    $0.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Cleopatra's Needles

    The Lost Obelisks of Egypt

    par Dr Bob Brier ...
    Collections series Bloomsbury Egyptology
    In the half-century between 1831 and 1881 three massive obelisks left Egypt for new lands. Prior to these journeys, the last large obelisk moved was the Vatican obelisk in 1586 – one of the great engineering achievements of the Renaissance. Roman emperors moved more than a dozen, but left no records of how they did it. The nineteenth-century engineers entrusted with transporting the obelisks ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Transforming Barcelona

    The Renewal of a European Metropolis

    Modifié par Tim Marshall ...
    This unique book, written by local experts in the city, deals with the transformation of Barcelona during the last twenty years. Barcelona has been held up as a model of urban planning and economic regeneration amongst built environment professionals. The redesign of square parks and streets throughout the city in the 1980s first attracted attention and praise and then the 1992 Olympics hosted in ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines

    par Joseph P. McCallus ...
    It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains.In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the route Gen. Douglas MacArthur took during his liberation of the country from the Japanese in 1944 ... En savoir plus

    $23.29 CAD

  • Wrigley Field

    The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines

    par Stuart Shea ...
    "One of the best books ever written about the Cubs, their home and the fans who flock there to watch them, win or lose."— Rolling StoneIn spring 1914, a new ballpark opened in Chicago. Hastily constructed after epic political maneuvering around the city's and organized baseball's hierarchies, the new Weeghman Park (named after its builder, fast-food magnate Charley Weeghman) was home to the ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest

    Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330

    par Patricia Blessing ...
    Collections series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
    This book is a study of Islamic architecture in Anatolia following the Mongol conquest in 1243. Complex shifts in rule, movements of population, and cultural transformations took place that affected architecture on multiple levels. Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia, and ending with the demise of the Ilkhanid Empire, centered in Iran, in the 1330s, this book considers how the ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD