Architecture

ISBN: 9781848021259
Published by : English Heritage
There is a powerful sense of place at the seaside. You know what to expect. Fishing villages usually have a pier, boats, lobster pots, and masses of seagulls while resort towns have esplanades, piers, grand hotels and gardens.

Certain ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805346092
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
The carian king Mausolus was one of the great builders of the ancient world: His tomb, the Maussolleion is one the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and his planned residence Halicarnassus is considered to be the most modern city of that time. Ma... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904965442
Published by : Spire Books
This book is a sequel to an earlier volume by the same authors on Anglican church-building in Greater London between 1915 and 1945. In the post-war period as many as 250 new churches were built inthe area, a very large corpus of w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848021020
Published by : English Heritage
John Nash is universally recognised as one of the most important architects of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain.

As the man responsible for the creation of Regent Street and Regent's Park, he left an indelible mark o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781846743108
Published by : Countryside Books
Ancient Egypt, Greek temples, Indian palaces and medieval castles are just some of the sources of inspiration which architects used when designing houses in the Regency period. This new book explains the bewildering wealth of exotic and histor... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783777420080
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
English Description: The Greek Classical Period’s influence extends even into our own time. The artistic and intellectual achievements of the Greeks of the 5th and 4 Century BCE were already regarded as exemplary and these a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904965428
Published by : Spire Books
"The Glossary is Pugin’s largest and most magnificent book. He intended that his two Dublin Review articles of 1842 would be accompanied by a third dealing with ornament and decoration. However, this developed into a grand survey church ornaments,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904597643
Published by : Pindar Press
This book is a reconsideration of the practice of whitewashing church interiors during the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is the first detailed study of its kind which challenges the view tha... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780876619667
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: ANCIENT ART & ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEXT
Volume: 3
This monograph considers the painted frieze on the façade of Tomb II at Vergina (ca. 330-280 B.C.) as a visual document that offers vital evidence for the public self-stylings of Macedonian royalty in the era surrounding the reign of Alexander ... .... Learn More