Architecture: public and commercial Books
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Oregon City
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Nebraska Ballrooms and Dance Halls
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Pittsburghs Historic Stadiums and Arenas
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Concord
£20.40
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Richmond
£20.40
Arcadia Publishing (SC) A New Port Richey Historic Walking Tour
£20.57
Basic Books The Power and the Glory
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£22.26
Pelican Publishing Co Majesty of the French Quarter, The
Book SynopsisBrings the majesty of the French Quarter to life in a luxurious parade of pictures and prose. Fabulous hotels, churches, fine restaurants, antique shops, and art galleries line the streets of the Quarter. But some of the most fascinating architecture--that of private residences--has never been photographed until now.
£34.84
Pelican Publishing Co New Orleans Architecture: The University Section
Book SynopsisFocuses on the section of Uptown New Orleans that gets its name from the various colleges and universities, such as Tulane and Loyola, that have existed within its boundaries. The architecture ranges from Gothic universities and grand mansions, to the modest cottages scattered around the perimeter.
£25.19
Astra Publishing House The Wonderful Towers of Watts
Book SynopsisThe incredible artwork of an Italian immigrant who followed his dream of monumental proportions in the impoverished Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles is revealed in this fascinating and engaging true story. A Reading Rainbow selection! Simon (Sam) Rodia had no formal engineering or architectural training. Yet, over the course of three decades, he constructed an artistic masterpiece in his own backyard – the Watts Towers. Using all kinds of things other people had thrown away, such as broken bottles and tiles, pieces of mirror and glass, seashells, and bits of pottery, he adorned the collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers. His imaginative salvaging and perseverance can be seen today, as people from all over the world still come to marvel at Sam’s dream.Trade Review"Will intrigue readers, and the artwork has a charm all its own." --Booklist"The fascination of collecting and creating, of turning garbage into something splendid, shines through the book. . . . As well as being a story of individual human achievement, this could serve as an inspiration for some classroom art projects." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"The book can stand on its own, but could also spark an interesting discussion on art and its role in our society." --School Library Journal
£9.69
Shanghai Press China's Lost Imperial Garden: The World's Most
Book SynopsisBuilt in 1707, the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) is a masterpiece integrating the classic garden-building arts of China. It is reputed as the "Garden of all Gardens," due to its rich and incomparable landscaping. The beautiful and expansive gardens were known to the world, and triggered the craze of Chinese gardens in 18th century Europe. Victor Hugo, one of the best and greatest known French writers, described it as "Achievements generated from the imagination of a super nation." The Old Summer Palace was also the second political center in addition to the Forbidden City in the Qing Dynasty (1636–1911). Five emperors chose the Old Summer Palace as their venue for administrative governance. They felt it expressed an ideal of state governing and an appeal of aesthetics. Meanwhile, it was the base for turning out important national policies while serving as an important venue for the exchange between Chinese and foreign envoys. Having gone through a span of over 150 years, the Old Summer Palace reflects the history of the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty. Deserving its honor as the largest royal art museum, the Old Summer Palace contained calligraphic works and paintings of many noted artists, numerous rarities such as secret and valuable books, ancient bells, tri-pots, precious articles, gold and silver wares, jewelry and jade as well as rare flowers and trees of that time. In 1860, the Old Summer Palace was destroyed by British-French Allied Forces and all the collections inside were looted, resulting in a terrible disaster in the history of international culture. Today, the Older Summer Palace represents an important piece of cultural history for human civilization. At the end of the 20th century, Guo Daiheng, the author of this book, led over 80 experts, scholars and professionals in starting a project of Digital Reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace, an unprecedented task in the history of international historic parks. Over the past 15 years, the project has included an orderly development in 3D molding, digital restoration, and digital experience. Scenes of the Old Summer Palace in this book are the exact results from a digitalized Old Summer Palace, which reveals the magnificence of the garden in its prime.
£29.40
History Press Lighthouses of Greater Los Angeles Landmarks
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Atlantas Historic Westview Cemetery
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£21.24
Fonthill Media LLc Abandoned New Orleans
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£20.39
America Through Time Bucky's Dome: The Resurrection of R. Buckminster
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£26.09
America Through Time Graveyards of the Wild West: Arizona
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£21.24
America Through Time Graveyards of the Wild West: New Mexico
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£21.24
America Through Time Portland Public Sculptors: Monuments, Memorials
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£21.24
America Through Time Graveyards of the Wild West: Nevada
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£21.24
America Through Time Bethlehem Steel: Rusting Relic
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£19.99
America Through Time The National Capital Area
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£17.85
Fonthill Media LLc Connecticut Schoolhouses Through Time
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£19.54
Fonthill Media LLc Southern Berkshires Through Time
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£20.39
Bloomsbury Publishing Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures
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£16.99
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Play On: Contemporary Theatre Architecture in
Book SynopsisThis book documents and celebrates Britain’s contemporary theatre architecture. It is about the conception, design, and delivery of spaces for drama between c. 2008 and 2018, a period of economic recession and financial austerity which has nonetheless seen a significant number of well received theatre-building projects. Intended not only for theatre enthusiasts but also individuals and organisations who may be contemplating a capital project of their own, Play On provides detailed ‘contemporary histories’ of ten recent projects. It includes new theatres, like Liverpool’s prize-winning Everyman Theatre and Cast in Doncaster, as well as major refurbishment and restoration schemes such as the National Theatre in London and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow. Architects whose work is discussed include Haworth Tompkins, Aedas Arts Team, Bennetts Associates, Richard Murphy Architects, and Page\Park. An extended introductory section sets the case studies in their historical and contemporary contexts, and draws out key themes, including sustainability, accessibility, and the need for theatres to be efficient yet welcoming ‘public’ spaces.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Extended Essay: Historical Introduction: the post-war and 'Lottery' booms; Creative impulse in early twenty-first century music and drama; The place of the theatre in a digital age; Wider agendas: regeneration and identity; Process: building for the Arts in a different economic climate; 3. Case Studies: New Construction and Conversion: Refurbishment; Concert Halls; Future Directions
£92.90
Black Dog Press Rick Mather Architects
Book SynopsisRick Mather Architects (RMA) have been working in London since the early 70s. Best known for their award winning museum extensions, such as the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Maritime Museum, RMA's portfolio spans a broad spectrum of projects, including residential and student housing, master plans and urban design for both renovations and new buildings. They are world renowned for their intuitive sense of place and context, as well as their pioneering technologies in structural glass and sustainable design. The book establishes Rick Mather's unique approach to resolving complex design issues on both a large scale and in the fine details; the work of the practice is described in accessible terms through the texts and through a wealth of visual material, including photography and drawings supplied by the practice. Alongside this documentation, the visual aspect is supplemented by reproduced paintings, maps and drawings from a diverse range of sources, which have inspired and informed the work. Over the past 33 years, the practice has undertaken 500 projects. These include the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; the student halls of residence in Norfolk; the Ashmolean Museum extension, Oxford; the masterplanning of London's South Bank Centre; as well as Mather's iconic housing of the 1980s and 90s. This book will cover the full range of the projects, exploring Mather's response to the technical and social requirements of the briefs, and the way that a US born architect has re-imagined Britain's culture and made it his own.
£38.74
Black Dog Press Thinking Big: The History of Davis Langdon
£43.43
Smithsonian Books Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic: The
Book SynopsisArt, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture.The nation's first federally-commissioned monument, Horatio Greenough's huge marble statue of George Washington, sits near the entrance of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Meant to be the symbolic focus of the whole continent--at the very center of the US Capitol--the monument instead seems a sadly curious relic. This book tells the tale of its demotion from stardom to obscurity: the story is stranger than fiction, including an attempted murder; fights in the USA, Britain, and Italy; and political maneuvering. Horatio Greenough and the Form Majestic: The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument presents new research into the complicated tale. It translates and explains the monument's Latin inscription and offers the story of how the work was brought to America by a sea captain subsequently immortalized by Herman Melville. The book also untangles and decodes the monument's symbolism for the average spectator and art lovers alike. This is the story of the commissioning, conception, execution, transportation, installation and re-location, the public's bemused and often fond reception, subsequently frequent re-positionings, and so much more of the nation's first monument to George Washington. Horatio Greenough's statue rests at the heart of an amazing tale, never told before this book.
£27.90
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Shanghai Ten Folio: Architectural Association
Book SynopsisSHANGHAI TEN FOLIO is the culmination of AAVS SH10 SHOW EVENT FOLIO, a series of events which celebrate the tenth consecutive year of the AA Shanghai Summer School. SHANGHAI TEN has been curated, edited and hosted in 3 parts, including an exhibition (AAVS SH10 SHOW), and a symposium event held in Shanghai in July 2016 (AAVS SH10 EVENT), and this book, AAVS SH10 FOLIO. SHANGHAI TEN is an opportunity not only to look back, collate, reflect critically, and to disseminate the work of the students, tutors, and visitors in the 10 years of the AAVS Shanghai Summer. SHANGHAI TEN is the product of a multi-contributor collaboration, comprised as the composite aggregation from a large design community. Contributions to this book have been selected from the work of 745 students from 44 countries who have joined AAVS Shanghai from 2007-2016; 36 tutors who have taught in the programme; and over 80 visitors to the programme, who have given lectures and presentations, attended AAVS symposia, and toured AAVS students to their built projects, factories and galleries in and around Shanghai. In addition, SHANGHAI TEN FOLIO also includes essay contributions from a range of expertise in urbanism; transcribed conversations from AAVS symposia in 2015 and 2016. SHANGHAI TEN aims to chart pressing intellectual problematics of this context, their formulations as paradigms related to the conception and design of urbanism, and their associated experimental design approaches and methodologies. This compilation accumulatively and collectively demonstrates the ontological trajectory AAVS Shanghai has targeted, with the objective to harness, mobilise and respond to the complex challenges of Chinese urbanization in the twenty-first century.
£36.00
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Harry Seidler: The Exhibition: Organizing,
Book SynopsisVladimir Belogolovsky’s Harry Seidler: The Exhibition leaves no stone unturned in documenting his ongoing, four years in the making to date, world tour exhibition, Harry Seidler: Painting Toward Architecture. It examines the blurry boundaries between art and architecture and how these disciplines inspire one another by bringing to focus the work of Vienna-born Australian modernist Harry Seidler and his creative collaborations with a dozen of world-renowned architects and artists. Curator of 20 Seidler exhibitions and author of Harry Seidler: Lifework (Rizzoli, 2014), Belogolovsky provides detailed insights into the project from beginning to end: pitching initial exhibition idea to the client, developing its concept, arranging the tour, preparing the content, designing individual exhibitions, managing installations, presenting the lecture, initiating new collaborations and projects. The book’s focus on a single touring exhibition is unprecedented; it explores what typical exhibition catalogues miss entirely – spatial engagement with the content by the public. In its attempt to present various aspects of a single exhibition the book raises fundamental curatorial issues beyond the project in question.
£54.00
Bohlau Verlag Palais Ephrussi
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£57.28
Harrassowitz Der Palast Im Antiken Und Islamischen Orient: 9.
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£64.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Deutschen Konigspfalzen. Band 5: Bayern:
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£150.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Antike Theaterbauten: Ein Handbuch
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£313.50
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Das Wiener Konzerthaus 1913 - 2013: Im
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£121.60
Gebruder Mann Verlag Advertising Architecture: Kommunikation,
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£94.25
Sandstein Verlag Militarhistorisches Museum Dresden: Architecture
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£7.34
Sandstein Verlag Kultur- Und Baugeschichte Der Sachsischen Vieh-
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£16.80
Sandstein Verlag Museen Und Gedenkstatten Zur Erinnerung an Die
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£39.90
Sandstein Verlag Museums and Monuments to the Memory of the
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£31.50
a+t ediciones A+T 44 Workforce: A Better Place To Work 2
£44.66
Servei Catala de La Salut ARQUITECTURA PARA LA SALUD.
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£31.97
Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Caordoba La plaza de La Corredera de Córdoba. Funciones significado e imagen a través de los siglos
£33.50
Viella The Tombs of the Doges of Venice: From the
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£46.00
