Architecture
Historic architecture from the ancient world to Neoclassical elegance and the Gothic revival, as well as some contemporary gems.
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Burgen in umstrittenen Landschaften: Eine Studie zur Entwicklung und Funktion von Burgen im südlichen Jütland (1232–1443) [Hardback]
Stefan Magnussen (Author)
£195.00ISBN: 9789088908682
Published by : Sidestone Press
In ganz Europa bestimmten Burgen im hohen und späten Mittelalter die Herrschaftspraxis. Doch während dies in zahlreichen Regionen hinreichend Beachtung findet, wurde das südliche Jütland bislang weder von der Regionalgeschichts- noch von der Burge... .... Learn More -
Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning [Hardback]
Edward Muller (Author); Joel A. Tarr (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822945697
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary... .... Learn More -
The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester [Paperback]
Carolyn Heighway (Author); Richard Bryant (Author)
£24.99Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789254143
Published by : Oxbow Books
This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral. The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is remarkable, and often not appreciated by the cas... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597506
Published by : Pindar Press
Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the mino... .... Learn More -
Intertwining: Volume 2 [Paperback]
Sarah Robinson (Editor); Alessandro Gattara (Editor); Davide Ruzzon (Editor)
£26.99ISBN: 9788869772702
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Intertwining
Volume: 2
After the 2018 Davos Declaration it’s been perceived as extremely urgent a return to urban transformation practices linked with cultural values. What does this mean? What kind of values should designers, planners, and public administrators put at ... .... Learn More -
Deliciae Fictiles V. Networks and Workshops: Architectural Terracottas and Decorative Roof Systems in Italy and Beyond [Hardback]
Patricia Lulof (Editor); Ilaria Manzini (Editor); Carlo Rescigno (Editor)
£60.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253108
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Deliciae Fictiles
Volume: 5
Temples are the most prestigious buildings in the urban landscape of ancient Italy, emerging within a network of centres of the then-known Mediterranean world. Notwithstanding the fragmentary condition of the buildings’ remains, these monuments – ... .... Learn More -
Of Greater Dignity than Riches: Austerity and Housing Design in India [Hardback]
Farhan Karim (Author)
£42.50ISBN: 9780822965695
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Extreme poverty, which intensified in India during colonial rule, peaked in the 1920s—after decades of imperialist exploitation, famine, and disease—a time when architects, engineers, and city authorities proposed a new type of housing for India’s... .... Learn More -
Improvised Cities: Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru [Hardback]
Helen Gyger (Author)
£42.50ISBN: 9780822945369
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and the proliferation of self-built shelters clustered in barriadas, or squatter se... .... Learn More -
Hagia Sophia in Context: An Archaeological Re-examination of the Cathedral of Byzantine Constantinople [Hardback]
Ken Dark (Author); Jan Kostenec (Author)
£55.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250305
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Byzantine cathedral of Hagia Sophia has been a source of wonder and fascination since its sixth-century construction. It was the premier monument of the Byzantine capital, Constantinople, and remains one of the most recognisable symbols of mod... .... Learn More -
Big Men or Chiefs?: Rondel Builders of Neolithic Europe [Hardback]
Jaroslav Řídký (Author); Petr Květina (Author); Petr Limburský (Author); Markéta Končelová (Author); Pavel Burgert (Author); Radka Šumberová (Author)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250268
Published by : Oxbow Books
If there is a feature of the Central European Neolithic period that deserves increased attention of researchers and all those with interest in prehistory, it is circular architecture of the dimensions of many tens of metres, from which only negati... .... Learn More
