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Room For Diplomacy: Britain's Diplomatic Buildings Overseas 1800-2000
by Mark Bertram
Britain's diplomatic buildings - embassies, consulates, high commissions - come in all shapes, sizes, styles and ages. They share one purpose - to support the nation's international role. They provide its Room for Diplomacy. This is the first book to tell the story of this building type. It covers well over a hundred buildings around the world: why they were required, how they were procured and who made them happen. Their provision by one ...

Victorian Architecture: Diversity and Invention
by James Stevens Curl
Although more than a century has passed since the end of the Victorian era, the great achievements of the period 1837-1901 are grossly undervalued. Phrases such as Victorian monstrosity are bandied by many who ought to know better. Professor Curls robustly argued and beautifully illustrated book shows that the Victorians produced confident, colourful, rumbustiously eclectic architecture, and that they went further than anyone since Roman times to ...
Hardback. Price US$140.00

London's Parish Churches
by John Leonard
This is a new edition of John Leonard's popular London's Parish Churches, first published in 1997. With over 200 new colour photographs by the author, it provides both an historical account of churches in the capital from Anglo-Saxon beginnings to the dawn of the twenty-first century, and also an invaluable guide to over 120 of the finest parish churches. London contains a high proportion of the greatest post-Reformation churches in the ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00

Living, Leisure and Law: Eight Building Types in England 1800-1914
edited by Geoff Brandwood
The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought into being many new building types and radically transformed other existing ones. Many of these have received little attention before and this book brings together eight examples, all of them revealing interesting stories from the byways of architectural history. All of these studies result from pioneering work during recent years by scholars working for English Heritage and independently. The ...
Paperback. Price US$35.00

Deliciae Fictiles IV: Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy. Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes
edited by Patricia Lulof and Carlo Rescigno
In Ancient Italy, temples were adorned with full-figure architectural terracotta images such as acroteria, statuary groups and high reliefs. These terracottas mostly show complex scenes of gods and heroes, legendary battles and mythical animals, as well as large volutes and palmettes. The fourth edition of the Deliciae Fictiles conferences focused on this specific class of mostly handmade terracotta roof decoration from Etruria and Central Italy, ...

The Mirror of Great Britain: National Identity in Seventeenth-Century British Architecture
Edited by Olivia Horsfall Turner
In studies of seventeenth-century British architecture, the term 'Britain' has more often than not been used as a synonym for England. The geographical and political reality was far more complex. Following the accession of James I, there was a personal union of the Crowns of Scotland and England. Wales existed as a principality and Ireland's status was under negotiation throughout the century. Further afield, colonies in the New World had their ...
Hardback. Price US$70.00

Capturing value increase in urban redevelopment: A study of how the economic value increase in urban redevelopment can be used to finance the necessary public infrastructure and other facilities
by Demetrio Muñoz Gielen
Everyone would agree that urban development, especially when involving the building of residential areas, should be accompanied by sufficient and good public infrastructure and facilities. We all want neighbourhoods with the necessary roads, green areas, social facilities, affordable housing and public spaces of high quality. At the same time, nowadays, governments are facing severe cuts in public expenditure. So who is going to pay for all that ...
Paperback. Price US$90.00

Deciding About Design Quality: Value Judgement of Architectural Design and Decision Making by Public Clients in the Context of European Tendering Regulations
by L. Volker
In the past few years, the image of tender procedures in which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, creativity and innovation in architectural design. Due to potential risks, clients often allow legal requirements to overrule their actual wishes. This PhD ...
Paperback. Price US$80.00

Hill Hall: A Singular House Devised by a Tudor Intellectual
by Paul Drury and Richard Simpson
This is the complete history of a building that began as a hunting lodge, late in the eleventh century and that grew to be the principal house of the manor of Theydon Mount in Essex, a small country retreat within easy reach of London. In 1556, the house was acquired by Sir Thomas Smith (1512-77), a man of humble origins but precocious intellect who became Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge at the age of thirty and Chancellor of the ...
Hardback. Price US$110.00

The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century
by Timothy Brittain-Catlin
The Parsonage is one of England's best-loved traditional building types. This book draws on new research to portray the history of the parsonage during the critical years of the early nineteenth century - a time when the design of the small English house changed dramatically from that of the typically elegant but restrained Georgian villa to create the lively, original residences of the gothic revival. Behind every stage of this transition was ...