Architecture
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Lost East Lothian [Paperback]
Craig Statham(Author)
$21.95ISBN: 9781912476954
Published by : Origin
East Lothian, a unitary authority area including the old county of Haddingtonshire, is one of Scotland's most historic places - John Knox was born in Haddington in the early years of the sixteenth century; important links were forged with the Low ... .... Learn More -
Imagining the Divine: Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia [Paperback]
Jaś Elsner(Editor); Rachel Wood(Editor)
$80.00ISBN: 9780861592340
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 234
This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200−1000), across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. Duri... .... Learn More -
Fortresses of Faith: A Pictorial History of the Fortified Churches of Romania [Paperback]
Alan Ogden(Author)
$29.99ISBN: 9781592110827
Published by : Center for Romanian Studies
For nearly a thousand years, the Saxon settlers from the Rhine valley played a vital role in the history of Transylvania until their diaspora in the second half of the twentieth century. Fortresses of Faith focuses on their magnificent arch... .... Learn More -
The Country Houses of Shropshire [Hardback]
Gareth Williams(Author)
$150.00ISBN: 9781783275397
Published by : Boydell Press
Shropshire is the largest English inland county, and has a wide variety of important landed country houses, with owners from diverse social groups, with links to trade in Liverpool, Manchester and London as well as the local gentry. This book is n... .... Learn More -
Drumlanrig: The Castle, its People and its Paintings [Paperback]
Richard Buccleuch(Author); Fritz von der Schulenburg(Photographer); John Montagu Douglas Scott(Editor)
$16.95ISBN: 9780995756632
Published by : Cornucopia Books/Caique Publishing
Series: The Buccleuch Houses
Volume: 1
With its picturesque domes, walls of pale pink sandstone and splendid Dumfriesshire setting, Drumlanrig is one of Scotland’s most romantic castles, its story entwined with that of the country itself. Today’s castle was superimposed on ... .... Learn More -
Meck Architekten: Gestimmte Räume [Paperback]
M. Heinrich(Author); F. Holzherr(Author); M. Lasser(Author); A. Lederer(Author); P. Pfab(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9783777436128
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Meck Architekten fügen Konstruktion, Material, Form und Raum zu einer überzeugenden Sprache zusammen, die nicht zwischen privater oder öffentlicher Hand unterscheidet, nicht zwischen Ferienhaus auf dem Land oder großer stä... .... Learn More -
The Georgian Churches of Oski and Iskhani: Architecture and Ornament [Hardback]
Dora Piquet-Panayatova(Author)
$240.00ISBN: 9781899828913
Published by : Pindar Press
This study deals with the churches of Oski and Iskhani, in the ancient Georgian province of Tao-Klardeti, now in eastern Turkey. Each church is examined separately, with a focus on the architecture and carved decoration. The architectural sculptur... .... Learn More -
Bauen und Erhalten: Eine Einführung [Hardback]
Ute Hassler(Author)
$39.95ISBN: 9783777436036
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Denkmalpflegerische Arbeit steht heute durch das wachsende Bewusstsein, dass Ressourcenschonung Pflicht ist, in einem neuen Kontext werterhaltenden Denkens. Durch die kurze Haltbarkeit ‹junger Strukturen› und industrieller Bauelement... .... Learn More -
Designs on Death: The Architecture of Scottish Crematoria [Hardback]
Hilary Grainger(Author)
$75.00ISBN: 9781910900307
Published by : John Donald
Despite seven out of ten people in Scotland choosing cremation, in many ways crematoria are ‘invisible’ buildings, visited only by necessity, and they have not received the attention they deserve. Crematoria present a real challenge fo... .... Learn More -
The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500 [Hardback]
Philippa Turner(Editor); Jane Hawkes(Editor)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783275526
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: Volume 22
The rood was central to medieval Christianity and its visual culture: Christ's death on the cross was understood as the means by which humankind was able to gain salvation, and depictions of the cross, and Christ's death upon it, were ubiquitous.<... .... Learn More
