Architecture
Historic architecture from the ancient world to Neoclassical elegance and the Gothic revival, as well as some contemporary gems.
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London: On the Road Architectural Guides [Paperback]
Andrea Nastri (Author); Giuliana Vespere (Editor)
Regular Price: £17.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9788896780909
Published by : Forma Edizioni
The itineraries include about eighty architectural works, both historical and contemporary, which are fully illustrated with images, drawings and descriptions, and are marked on the front of the map with a reference number corresponding to the sec... .... Learn More -
Crossing the Threshold: Architecture, Iconography and the Sacred Entrance [Hardback]
Madeleine Mumcuoglu (Author); Yosef Garfinkel (Author)
£50.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250763
Published by : Oxbow Books
Every day millions of people enter public buildings of many forms and functions: Notre-Dame in Paris, Central Station in New York; the British Museum in London, that are decorated with recessed doorways. None of them is likely to be aware that thi... .... Learn More -
Chromatic Homes: The Joy of Color in Historic Places [Hardback]
John I. Gilderbloom (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813176147
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Bright, vibrant, intriguing, and unique, chromatic homes are speckled across the world's landscape. These historic houses and buildings are saturated with colors -- often highlighting decorative woodwork and architecture -- to enhance, revive, and... .... Learn More -
Buildings of Medieval Europe: Studies in Social and Landscape Contexts of Medieval Buildings [Paperback]
Duncan Berryman (Editor); Sarah Kerr (Editor)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785709715
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume brings together an interesting range of papers discussing medieval buildings across Europe. They provide interesting insights to life in the medieval world in several understudied areas of Europe. The papers range from Croatia and Tran... .... Learn More -
The Houses of Hereford 1200-1700 [Hardback]
Nigel Baker (Author); Pat Hughes (Author); Richard K. Morriss (Author)
£25.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781785708169
Published by : Oxbow Books
The cathedral city of Hereford is one of the best-kept historical secrets of the Welsh Marches. Although its Anglo-Saxon development is well known from a series of classic excavations in the 1960s and ’70s, what is less widely known is that the ci... .... Learn More -
Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris [Hardback]
Sun-Young Park (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822945284
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxi... .... Learn More -
Intertwining: Volume 1 [Paperback]
Sarah Robinson (Editor); Davide Ruzzon (Editor); Alessandro Gattara (Editor)
£14.00ISBN: 9788869771224
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Intertwining
Volume: 1
Intertwining is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to understanding the experience and making of architecture. It includes the voices of science alongside those of the arts - as both ways of knowing are critical to the ... .... Learn More -
Public Space: Henri Lefebvre And Beyond [Paperback]
Angela D’Ascoli (Author)
£16.00ISBN: 9788869771200
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Architecture
Public spaces have long been the object of countless studies. Yet, most of these have focused almost exclusively on the metropolitan setting, while neglecting the nature and function of public spaces in rural areas. This volume addresses precisely... .... Learn More -
Reducing Boundaries [Paperback]
Emanuela Bonini Lessing (Editor); Fabio Vanin (Editor); Daniel Achutti (Editor)
£16.00ISBN: 9788869771187
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Architecture
Reducing Boundaries offers a new perspective on an often under researched topic: what is the upper and middle classes perception of their own security? While human sciences have mainly focused on poor and low-middle classes evicted from urban spac... .... Learn More -
Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany [Hardback]
Itohan Osayimwese (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822945086
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany's built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany's colonial p... .... Learn More
