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  • Ideological Equals

    Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989

    Edición de Mary Pepchinski, Mariann Simon ...
    Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture. A topic often considered from the perspective of difference, this edited collection conversely focuses on the woman architect in a position of equality with their male counterparts. The book looks at nations in Eastern Europe under Socialism where, between 1945 and 1989, a ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • Golden Gate

    The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    de Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Minnesota Open House

    A Guide to Historic House Museums

    de Krista Finstad Hanson ...
    Duluth's majestic Glensheen Mansion, featuring thirty-nine ornate rooms and expansive landscaped grounds. Minneapolis's stunning Purcell-Cutts House, a showplace of finely crafted woodwork of Prairie School design. Stevens County's Trantow Log Cabin, built in the German style with dovetailed log corners. Minnesota has a remarkable array of house museums, each with its own unique history and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Building Taliesin

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home of Love and Loss

    de Ron McCrea ...
    Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Bungalows

    de Kathryn Ferry ...
    Series Libro 758 - Shire Library
    Now synonymous with the single storey home, when the bungalow was introduced to Britain in the late 1860s it had more elaborate connotations.Appropriated by colonial officials in Bengal, this humble dwelling was transformed upon its arrival on the Kent coastline into a new type of holiday home, complete with veranda and servant quarters. These first Western examples became very popular amongst the ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    de Virginia Cox ...
    Series series Short Histories
    The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the heart of modern western culture. This creativity extended far beyond the visual arts and architecture: dress history, dance history, food history, ritual and ceremonial all contributed to this vibrant rebirth. Virginia Cox here explores the material and economic output of the period, from the late 13th to the 16th century, when ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Reading the Islamic City

    Discursive Practices and Legal Judgment

    de Akel Ismail Kahera ...
    Series series Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
    Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally indicates a phenomenon of building, dwelling, and urban settlement patterns that evolved after the 7th century CE in the Maghrib (North Africa) and al-Andalusia (Spain). Madinah ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • The Living Tradition of Architecture

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Humanism and the Urban World

    Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City

    de Caspar Pearson ...
    In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. Past scholars have generally characterized the ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Cityscapes in History

    Creating the Urban Experience

    de Heléna Tóth ...
    Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment. The concept ’cityscapes’ refers to three different dynamics that shape the development of the urban environment: the interplay between conscious planning and organic development, ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Art of Building in the Classical World

    Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture

    de John R. Senseney ...
    This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe in science and philosophy. Building on recent scholarship that examines and reconstructs the design process of classical architecture, John R. Senseney ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD