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HarperCollins Publishers Literary Landscapes Paris Embark on a captivating
Book SynopsisFrom Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature.The book is an elegant photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destination.Literary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home. It looks at places where books were written, discussed over dinner, and where ultimately the books are sold.There are the theatres of Molière, Dumas and Beaumarchais along with the incredible Palais Garnier opera house and the legend of Le Fantome by Gaston Leroux.There are the revered bookshops of the Latin Quarter including the idiosyncratic Shakespeare & Co.There are the classic grand structures referenced in Victor Hugo novels (and still there) or the mean streets of George Orwell's Down and Out in Pa
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HarperCollins Publishers Radicals Rebels and Royals
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated alternative history book, tracing the history of the British Isles through its landmark pubs with recreations of their pub signs in stunning colour.The perfect combination of Britain?s two favourite past-times ? talking about history and going to the pub! Be transported around the British Isles with this plotted history of the most interesting, and sometimes surprising facts about the history of Britain. Radicals, Rebels and Royals is packed with trivia, stories, and practical ?Out and About? segments for each location which will leave any pub-goer satiated. Learn how pub history has memorialised the Celts, World War II, football teams and much more as well as reading about their most famous patrons.With tales of pirates, highwaymen and secret affairs Radicals, Rebels and Royals features over 70 pubs from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Brush up on your local history, or discover your next watering hole all from the comfort of your own home.Pubs include: The Shakespeare?s Head in London, The Robert the Bruce in Scotland, The King?s Head in Galway, The Star and Garter in Manchester, the Blue Boar in Essex and many more!Come for the history and leave drunk on the fun, with Radicals, Rebels and Royals!
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Literary Landscapes Dublin
Book SynopsisA bibliophile's journey through Dublin''s rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish natives, and tourists alike.There are few cities in the world that care so deeply about the written word as this historic capital. Stroll along canals, Georgian squares, and bridges, and you'll find plaques honouring writers, literary landmarks, and statues aplenty; like George Bernard Shaw at the National Gallery or Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square. Creative outpourings are well documented in museums and galleries here, like the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI) which holds the first copy of James Joyce's Ulysses.No trip to Dublin would be complete without visiting its notable pubs and this book is no exception. Explore bars once frequented by WB Yeats after discovering stunning libraries like Trinity College''s Long Room, as featured in Sally Rooney's Normal People.Dublin holds its independent bookshops close to its heart, and there are some wonderful little literary spots dotted around the city, many of which are a treasure trove of rare books.When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart, James Joyce once said. And here it is written for you to explore, too.
£18.70
HarperCollins Publishers The Times Test Cricket
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HarperCollins Dream Cities
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities?from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and ?sustainable? developments?that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them.Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way?as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe. It tells the stories of the real architects and thinkers whose imagined cities became the blueprints for the world we live in.From the nineteenth century to today, what began as visionary concepts?sometimes utopian, sometimes outlandish, always controversial?were gradually adopted and constructed on a massive scale in cities around the world, from Dubai to Ulan Bator to London to Los Angeles. Wade Graham uses the lives of the pivotal dreamers behind these concepts, as well as their acolytes and antagonists, to deconstruct our urban landscapes?the houses, towers, civic centers, condominiums, shopping malls, boulevards, highways, and spaces in between?exposing the ideals and ideas embodied in each.From the baroque fantasy villages of Bertram Goodhue to the superblocks of Le Corbusier?s Radiant City to the pseudo-agrarian dispersal of Frank Lloyd Wright?s Broadacre City, our upscale leafy suburbs, downtown skyscraper districts, infotainment-driven shopping malls, and ?sustainable? eco-developments are seen as never before. In this elegantly designed and illustrated book, Graham uncovers the original plans of brilliant, obsessed, and sometimes megalomaniacal designers, revealing the foundations of today?s varied municipalities. Dream Cities is nothing less than a field guide to our modern urban world.Illustrated with 59 black-and-white photos throughout the text.
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Vintage Publishing These Silent Mansions
Book Synopsis''A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself'' Literary ReviewGraveyards are oases: places of escape, peace and reflection. Liminal sites of commemoration, where the past is close enough to touch. Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead.Jean Sprackland - the prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her life, revisiting her once local graveyards. In seeking out the stories of those who lived and died there, remembered and forgotten, she unearths what has been lost.Trade ReviewA wide-ranging, unpredictable and refreshingly original meditation on a huge but widely ignored subject: the relationship between the living and the dead… Exhilarating… This is a lovely book: beautifully written, never lapsing into self-conscious ‘poet’s prose’, always a joy to read. I wish I had written it myself. -- Nigel Andrew * Literary Review *Cemetery tales, filled with fascinating details and told with a poet’s skill… Delightfully morbid… Sprackland roves about history, language, biology, architecture, entomology, iconography and much else in her quest for meaning… [and] the astonishing twist…should justify your reading These Silent Mansions in its entirety. -- Anthony Quinn * Guardian *Shot through with delightful digressions… There is a spare beauty to Sprackland’s prose… These Silent Mansions is a strange and mercurial book; hard to pin down, but even harder to forget. -- Lucy Scholes * i *Sprackland has the poet’s knack for atmosphere and a magician’s ability to conjure up other worlds. She is like a ghostly time traveller… Sprackland is particularly agile, though, at exploring the ways in which a graveyard reflects its community and how, with modern life, we are losing this sense of connection. -- Ann Treneman * The Times *Part social history, part personal meditation and wholly enchanting - as attentive to local and moving details as it is to the fact of mortality itself. -- Andrew Motion
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Penguin Books Ltd TransEurope Express
Book SynopsisOver the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed trains traversing open borders, have a combination of order and pleasure which is exceptionally unusual elsewhere.In Trans-Europe Express, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it.Trade ReviewA scathing, lively and timely look at the "European city", from one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today -- Owen JonesThe best book I've read on Europe, blending history, architecture and contemporary politics and written in Owen Hatherley's trademark mixture of scepticism, erudition and humanity. He is a writer of lasting merit who will be read fifty years from now. -- Anna MintonThe latest heir to Ruskin. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
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Oxford University Press Modern Architecture
Book SynopsisSomewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it''s hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly plain reflections of novel materials, functions, and technologies. Modern architecture promised the transformation of cities from overcrowded conurbations characterised by packed slums and dirty industries to spacious realms of generous housing and clean mechanised production set in parkland. At certain times and in certain cultures, it stood for the liberation of the future from the past.This Very Short Introduction explores the technical innovations that opened-up the cultural and intellectual opportunities for modern architecture to happen. Adam Sharr shows how the invention of steel and reinforced concrete radically altered possibilities for shaping buildings, transforming what architects were able to imagine, as did new systems for air conditioning and lighting. While architects weren''t responsible for these innovations, they were among the first to appreciate how they could make the world look and feel different, in connection with imagery from other spheres like modern art and industrial design. Focusing on a selection of modern buildings that also symbolize bigger cultural ideas, Sharr discusses what modern architecture was like, why it was like that, and how it was imagined. Considering the work of some of the historians and critics who helped to shape modern architecture, he demonstrates how the field owes as much to its storytellers as to its buildings.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewAdam Sharr has succeeded in making modern architecture modern again, with this refreshing and original account of the technological revolutions and individual designers that shaped our world from the 1850s to the 1970s. Rather than concentrate on questions and debates over style and ideology, or follow the self-promotional versions of the architects themselves, he has preferred to go to the root of the revolution: the technologies and their innovative utilization. This little book will have an effect far beyond its size, providing more than an introduction for students and the public, and for architects themselves a salutary set of careful worked case studies, from Miess IIT Campus to Rogers and Pianos Centre Pompidou. * Anthony Vidler, Professor of Architecture, The Cooper Union *The great strength of Adam Sharr's book is that it relates modern architecture to wider cultural, philosophical, and technological trends. It is also written in a very accessible style and, despite its brevity, covers a wide territory. * Jeremy Till, Head of Central Saint Martins, Pro Vice-Chancellor University of the Arts London *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Iron and steel 3: Reinforced concrete 4: Brick 5: Light and air 6: Conclusion Further reading Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Redbrick A Social And Architectural History Of Britains Civic Universities
Book SynopsisIn the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians. Drawing on a decade''s research, and based on work in dozens of archives, many of them used for the very first time, this is the first full-scale study of the civic universities - new institutions in the nineteenth century reflecting the growth of major Victorian cities in Britain, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, York, and Durham - for more than 50 years. Tracing their story from the 1780s until the 2010s, it is an ambitious attempt to write the Redbrick revolution back into history. William Whyte argues that these institutions created a distinctive and influential conception of the university - something that was embodied in their architecture and expressed in the lives of their students and staff. It was this RedbrTrade ReviewWhyte has written a fascinating architectural and social history of the development of British universities * A.W. Purdue, Northern History *A magnificent review of the two-centuries-long evolution of the civics ... perceptive. * David Palfreyman, Times Higher Education *Authoritatively and perceptively as it makes a case for its subject, in prose that is often amusing as well as elegant ... it makes a refreshing change to wish that a book had been much longer * Michael Hall, The Victorian *This carefully researched and well-illustrated study is a remarkable achievement. * Dr Michael Wheeler, Church Times *William Whyte has succeeded admirably in depicting the evolution of Britain's extremely complex university sector in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ... This work of detailed scholarship has the virtue of being both very readable and exceptionally informative. Author and publisher alike are to be congratulated for producing such an attractive book that casts important light on a really complicated and previously overlooked topic. * Hugh Clout, Cercles *This superb book is the first history to cover the history of British civic universities in 50 years ... Whyte draws on a formidable array of archival research, discovering piquant quotes from a range of obscure sources ... the portrait of Britain's civic universities that emerges is, in the end, one that is almost 'beautiful' because it is a human portrait rather than an institutional one ... The book will obviously be of interest to those specializing in the history of education. However, the book's methodology, which is cogently set out in the introduction, should be read by all scholars thinking about how to write histories of the way societies interact with the physical environments that they occupy. * Otto Saumarez Smith, Urban History *Whyte's highly readable study of civic universities fills a significant gap in the history of higher education ... an outstanding book ... it brims with life by meaningfully weaving in the stories of the men and, by the late nineteenth century, the women who attended universities and inhabited their buildings. It transcends the history of education to reveal the central place of civic universities in the evolution of the modern state, the making of the middle class, and the mutual tempering of social radicalism and conservatism. * Christopher Bischof, Journal of British Studies *Rich, varied and amusing ... Whyte deserves congratulation for his thoughtful, perceptive and witty work. * Jeremy Black, History Today *Beautifully written (not to mention witty) and drawing on extensive archival research ... Whyte's book successfully asserts a centrality for the British civic universities within both the history of higher education and the life of the nation that is long overdue. Its central thesis -- that there is a common civic tradition within British higher education -- will spark much debate. Good. The volume lends much-needed vitality to the history of higher education in Britain and will provide an invaluable starting point for all future historians of Britain's universities. * Mike Finn, History of Education *William Whyte's excellent and provoking study of the evolution of the modern university in Britain ... deserves a wide readership, and provides valuable historical background to contemporary debates about the place of universities within society. * Alexander Hutton, English Historical Review *Anyone searching for a scholarly, well-written, extensively illustrated account of Britain's Redbrick universities ... may retire from the hunt with this book in hand. * Joseph A. Soares, American Historical Review *The book is comprehensive, ranging from the eighteenth century to the present; it perceptively attends to false starts and fictional accounts, alongside more familiar and lasting successes; and it is deeply researched, generously illustrated, and beautifully written throughout ... Redbrick belongs on the shelf of every historian of architecture, universities, and indeed modern Britain, and it should also inform wider discussions about the university in Britain past, present, and future. * Journal of Modern History *Whyte has breathed new life into the history of British universities. * Emily Rutherford, Twentieth Century British History *Table of ContentsPART ONE: 1783-1843; PART TWO: 1843-1880; PART THREE: 1880-1914; PART FOUR: 1914-1949; PART FIVE: 1949-1973; PART SIX: 1973-1997
£39.49
The University of Chicago Press Building Ideas
Book SynopsisA photographic guide that traces the evolution of University of Chicago's campus architecture from the university's founding in 1890 to its plans for the twenty-first century. It features the work of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Ives Cobb, Holabird & Roche, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Netsch, and, Cesar Pelli.
£30.70
The University of Chicago Press Building for the Arts The Strategic Design of
Book SynopsisOver the years, the arts in America have experienced an unprecedented building boom. Drawing on case studies and in-depth interviews, this book explores how artistic vision, funding partnerships, and institutional culture work together - or fail to - throughout the process of major cultural construction projects.Trade Review"Are large-scale building projects good for the arts? And why do so many go so horribly wrong? Frumkin and Kolendo bring to life the processes by which decisions get made with compelling interviews and a colorful cast of characters, revealing a tangled web of internal politics, personal ambitions, miscalculations, community conflict, and public relations flascos. Throughout, they provide thoughtful analysis to help planners and project directors think about how to approach decisions along the way. Their book should be essential for arts and public administration programs." (Steven J. Tepper, Vanderbilt University)"
£49.18
The University of Chicago Press Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America
Book SynopsisThousands of memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of communism, have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history.Trade Review"Memorial Mania is an important and much-needed book, one that complements the existing literature on memorials with richness and originality, and also forges new territory. Erika Doss's excellent and highly polemical critique of its resurgence furthers one of American studies' most noteworthy traditions." - Michelle Bogart, Stony Brook University"
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The University of Chicago Press Memorial Mania
Book SynopsisIn the past few decades, thousands of memorials have dotted the American landscape. This title argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express - and claim - those issues in visibly public contexts.Trade Review"I believe Memorial Mania will appeal to a wide audience - both inside and outside academia - given the quality of the writing and the presentation of the material.... It is a sign of the quality of Erika Doss's work that I am left wanting more." (Anthropology Works) "What makes Erika Doss's book so valuable is that it reveals the range, complexity, and depth of emotion produced by memorial acts." (American Quarterly)"
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Modernizing Main Street Architecture and
Book SynopsisAn important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America. This work uncovers the cultural history of the modernized storefronts that resulted from the little-known federal provision that made billions of dollars available to shop owners.Trade Review"This fascinating and insightful book coaxes us to see the familiar storefront in entirely new ways. Esperdy fluidly explores broad cultural meanings at the same time as she helps us interpret the details of the buildings. The implications for our understanding of New Deal policies and the 1930s are particularly surprising and novel." - Alison Isenberg, author of Downtown America"
£46.83
The University of Chicago Press Symbolic Space
Book SynopsisExploring the social and cultural hierarchies established in 18th-century France, this volume illustrates how the conceptual basis of the modern house and the physical layout of the modern city emerged from debates among theoretically innovative French architects of the 18th-century.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Improbable Libraries
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The University of Chicago Press Paris Primitive
Book SynopsisRecounts the massive reconfiguration of Paris' museum world that resulted from Jacques Chirac's dream, set against a backdrop of personal and national politics, intellectual life, and the role of culture in French society.Trade Review"Sally Price has a gift for capturing the tone and spirit with which people choose to represent themselves. This is a well-told story that represents a major contribution to the field and offers an accessible introduction to some key issues in museum politics." - Christopher B. Steiner, author of African Art in Transit"
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press Frank Lloyd Wrights Larkin Building Myth and
Book SynopsisFrank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building has become an icon of modern architecture. This work is a study of this building. Illustrated with over hundred photographs, floor plans, maps, and diagrams, it provides a record of how the building was conceived, built, evaluated, and demolished in what has been called a tragic loss for American architecture.Trade Review"Thoughtful and readable." - Paul Goldberger, New York Times Book Review"
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The University of Chicago Press The Architecture of Aftermath
Book SynopsisThe September 11 terrorist attacks targeted America's icons of military and economic power. This book argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings. It focuses on the very culture of aftermath itself, exploring how global politics, clashing cultures, and warfare have changed the way we experience destination architecture.Trade Review"This provocative, lively, and well-written book challengingly addresses the place of architecture in the contested aftermath of September 11 and indeed of modernism as such. It has range, bite, and insight, reinforced by a dazzling range of reference and vision." - Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Architecture of Aftermath
Book SynopsisThe September 11 terrorist attacks targeted America's icons of military and economic power. This book argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings. It focuses on the very culture of aftermath itself, exploring how global politics, clashing cultures, and warfare have changed the way we experience destination architecture.Trade Review"This provocative, lively, and well-written book challengingly addresses the place of architecture in the contested aftermath of September 11 and indeed of modernism as such. It has range, bite, and insight, reinforced by a dazzling range of reference and vision." - Nicholas Mirzoeff, New York University"
£42.87
The University of Chicago Press Free to All Carnegie Libraries American Culture
Book SynopsisFamiliar landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries today seem far from controversial. In this book, however, the author shows that the classical facades and symmetrical plans of these buildings often mask a complex and contentious history.
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Penguin Books Ltd Humanise
Book SynopsisFrom one of the world''s most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.''This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn''t put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that'' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about power than the people who vote for them. And too many cities feel soulless and depressing, with buildings designed for business, not for us.So where do we find hope?Thomas Heatherwick has an alternative. By changing the world around us, we can improve our health, restore our happiness, and save our planet. The time has come to put human emotion back at the heart of the design process. Drawing on thirty years of making bold, beautiful buildings, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Heatherwick brings together vivid stories and hundreds of beautiful images into a visual masterpiece. Humanise will inspire us to do nothing less than remake our world.*****''Thomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives . . . I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines!'' SIMON SINEK''Humanise is a masterwork. It''s quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here'' ALAIN DE BOTTONTrade ReviewHumanise is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here. The Age of Boring might just have ended right now -- Alain de BottonThomas Heatherwick echoes many things I find myself saying as I travel round the country. How the hell did that monstrosity get built? Why is this place so depressing? Why is so much of the built environment so boring? This book will wind up quite a few architects, planners and developers who labour under the delusion that they are the adults in the room. Good. These people need to develop some compassion for the people who have to live with their joyless, bland, unlovable creations. This book is a super accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that -- Grayson PerryThomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives. In simple, elegant words, he demands that we put people first. Not developers, politicians or architects. I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines! Vive la revolution! -- Simon Sinek, Optimist and New York Times-bestselling author of Start with Why and The Infinite GameThis book will help frustrated ordinary people and communities see what is possible -- David ByrneA revelation. Humanise offers an accessible, compelling and entirely unique perspective on the world in which we live. Heatherwick’s storytelling ability shines through on each and every page - pushing boundaries and challenging perspectives. At a time where thoughtful and constructive ideas and solutions, that put the public at the centre of decision-making, are sought more than ever - this book provides a spark to ignite conversations across our city, country and the globe on how to build a better world for everyone -- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonHeatherwick makes the case for human buildings that nurture our health and happiness. Out with the 'blandemic' of boring buildings and let's get back to interestingness. He calls for us all to engage with our built environment and so we should -- Dame Sally DaviesArchitecture has the ability to uplift and inspire, support connection, and fuel invention - bringing life and vitality to our cities by making them better, more beautiful, more sustainable places to live and work. Thomas Heatherwick's new book offers us a powerful prescription for buildings that put the public first and help set the course for a brighter future for humanity -- Mike Bloomberg, entrepreneur, philanthropist, former Mayor of New York CityIn a social and economic tour de force, Thomas Heatherwick explodes the waste of bad design: the neighbourhoods destroyed, the wellbeing lost, the carbon burned. And then he pivots to the potential of bending the straight line into a curve, the building into the feeling, and the narrowly rational into the fully human -- Mark CarneyHumanise ignites the urgent public conversation I've been calling for for years -- Sir Terry Farrell CBE, architect and urban designerA book that will change how you see the world -- Simon JenkinsThe climate crisis, a post-pandemic era and war. All these issues that the world is facing require unprecedented approaches in art, architecture and design. Humanise transcends all borders, cultures and fields of expertise. This book maintains an exquisite balance between quantitative evidence, architectural history, ideals and reality. It urges all of us on this planet to celebrate life -- Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum, TokyoInspiring, enlightening and provocative, Humanise arms us with a new way of seeing our built environment, and makes explicit what's at stake if we blindly accept the status quo -- Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century: A Call to ReconnectThomas Heatherwick's humanity centred imagination is brought to life through his buildings and designs. He challenges us all to see the world differently, in harmony with nature, for the better. Humanise is a look behind the scenes and into the mind of his creative genius -- Tony Fadell, NYT bestselling author of Build, iPod inventor, Nest founderHeatherwick's fascinating book argues we must bring public value and delight back to the world of architecture which has been lost in boringness that is bad for people and planet -- Marianna Mazzucato, author of Author of Misson Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing CapitalismA world-renowned designer * Wall Street Journal *The Leonardo da Vinci of our times -- Terence ConranProbably the most creative person in the world -- Stephen Ross
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Penguin Books Ltd Britains 100 Best Railway Stations
Book SynopsisDiscover the architectural gems that are Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations in this Sunday Times top 10 bestseller'This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book' Chris EvansIt is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting, greeting and parting. It is an institution with its own rituals and priests, and a long-neglected aspect of Britain's architecture. And yet so little do we look at the railway station. Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain, from Waterloo to Wemyss Bay, Betws-y-Coed to Beverley, to select his hundred best railway stations. Blending his usual insight and authority with his personal reflections and experiences - including his founding the Railway Heritage Trust - the foremost expert on our national heritage deftly reveals the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of our social history shows the station's role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the triumphs and follies of these very British creations. These are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation, celebrated like never before. 'However spectacular the book's photographs, it's the author's prowess as a phrase-maker that keeps you turning the pages' The Times'An uplifting exploration of our social history' GuardianTrade Review[Spreads] enthusiasm by inviting the reader to join in a game of admiration. -- Christopher Howse * Telegraph *However spectacular the book's photographs, it's the author's prowess as a phrase-maker that keeps you turning the pages -- Richard Morrison * The Times *A most beautiful book . . . full of information. I'd like to travel to every one of the stations. Simon Jenkins is a blessing to the nation, keeping an eye on our buildings and making sure they are not forgotten or neglected. -- Claire TomalinJenkins has unearthed a lot of gems. The photography is stunning -- Christian Wolmar * Spectator *This is a cracker . . . a beautiful book -- Chris EvansSimon Jenkins extols the virtues of 100 of them, as well as offering a brief history of the rise, fall and rise again of Britain's railways. And he is the perfect person to do so. Excellent, enticing. -- Gavin Stamp * Evening Standard *This glorious and utterly essential guide to Britain's best railway stations is also a history of some of the remarkable - but often undersung - landmarks to our social history * The Bookseller *Masterly, perhaps a masterpiece * Independent, Books of the Year on 'England's Thousand Best Churches' *Every house in England should have a copy of this book -- Auberon Waugh on 'England's Thousand Best Churches' * Literary Review, Book of the Century *Jenkins is, like all good guides, more than simply informative: he can be courteous and rude, nostalgic and funny, elegant, convincing and relaxed' -- Adam Nicolson on 'England's Thousand Best Houses' * Evening Standard *Any passably cultured inhabitant of the British Isles should ask for, say, three or four copies of this book -- Max Hastings on 'England's Thousand Best Houses' * Sunday Telegraph *Full of stand-out facts . . . absolutely fascinating -- Richard Bacon on 'A Short History of England' * BBC Radio 2 *Full of the good judgements one might hope for from such a sensible and readable commentator, and they alone are worth perusing for pleasure and food for thought -- Michael Wood on 'A Short History of England' * New Statesman *Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of Great Britain's railways. Beautifully illustrated with colour photos, this is an uplifting exploration of our social history * The Guardian *
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University of Illinois Press An Illini Place
Book SynopsisWhy does the University of Illinois campus at Urbana-Champaign look as it does today? Drawing on a wealth of research and featuring more than one hundred color photographs, An Illini Place provides an engrossing and beautiful answer to that question. Lex Tate and John Franch trace the story of the university's evolution through its buildings. Oral histories, official reports, dedication programs, and developmental plans both practical and quixotic inform the story. The authors also provide special chapters on campus icons and on the buildings, arenas and other spaces made possible by donors and friends of the university. Adding to the experience is a web companion that includes profiles of the planners, architects, and presidents instrumental in the campus's growth, plus an illustrated inventory of current and former campus plans and buildings.Trade Review"Ours and every generation owes a debt to those who went before. An Illini Place enables us to grasp a sense of how it all began, the obstacles that were overcome, the opportunities that were seized, the people who made it happen, and the vision and values that sustained it."--from the Foreword by Stanley O. Ikenberry, President Emeritus of the University of Illinois "The colorful history of the University of Illinois (U of I) campus explored in this lavishly illustrated and pithy history. By virtue of its expert research, its thoughtful organization and writing, and its beautiful illustrations, it takes its place alongside other treatments of important institutions and landmarks of Illinois. The authors have achieved an admirable synthesis of treating the old and new, of the venerable structures (razed and remaining) and the modern construction and more recent architecture. An affectionate guidebook to this prairie cathedral and its plucky evolution." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
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University of Illinois Press Chicago Skyscrapers 19341986
Book SynopsisWinner ofThe Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, by The Pattis Family Foundation and the Newberry Library From skyline-defining icons to wonders of the world, the second period of the Chicago skyscraper transformed the way Chicagoans lived and worked. Thomas Leslie’s comprehensive look at the modern skyscraper era views the skyscraper idea, and the buildings themselves, within the broad expanse of city history. As construction emerged from the Great Depression, structural, mechanical, and cladding innovations evolved while continuing to influence designs. But the truly radical changes concerned the motivations that drove construction. While profit remained key in the Loop, developers elsewhere in Chicago worked with a Daley political regime that saw tall buildings as tools for a wholesale recasting of the city’s apTrade Review"An ambitious history that’s less the usual roundup of Loop landmarks than an architecture junkie’s dense wandering intriguingly away from downtown." --Chicago Tribune"A magisterial account of our city's high-rise foundations." --Newcity"An impressive and important book that ranks with other works providing the deepest insights into what makes Chicago, Chicago. . . . Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986 is one of those rare books about significant architectural structures that looks beyond design controversies, elegant descriptions, and engineering details and examines the forces behind their creation." --Third Coast Review“A worthy successor to the pathbreaking work of Carl Condit, this deeply researched volume explores the architectural design, structure and equipment of tall buildings in Chicago from the 1930s into the 1980s in their full and complex relationship to changing economic, social, and political realities in the city.”--Robert Bruegmann, author of Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern AmericaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Second Skyscraper City Chapter 2. Technical Developments in the 1930s-1940s Chapter 3. Demographics and Housing Chapter 4. Prudential, Inland Steel, and the Rebirth of the Loop Chapter 5. Daley’s City: Commercial Construction, 1955-1972 Chapter 6. High Rise Housing in the 1960s Chapter 7. Skyscraper Urbanism Chapter 8. Tubes and the High-Rise as Structural Art Chapter 9. After Sears Coda: Mies, Morality, and the Myth of the “Second Chicago School” Notes Bibliography Index
£33.25
MO - University of Illinois Press Lincoln Hall at the University of Illinois
Book SynopsisLincoln Hall at the University of Illinois, named to commemorate the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, has long been a familiar landmark on the Urbana-Champaign campus and the home for undergraduate and graduate work in the liberal arts and communication. This title chronicles the history of Lincoln Hall from its conception to its expansion.Trade Review"A meticulously researched story of the planning, construction, dedication and evolution of the historic classroom building on the UI Quad. . . . Hoffmann's book makes clear that ... Lincoln Hall is a wondrous collection of art and architecture, as well as a unique tribute to Illinois' most favorite son."--The News-Gazette
£20.43
Indiana University Press African Art Interviews Narratives Bodies of
Book SynopsisA compelling collection that shows how interviews can be used to generate new meaningTrade ReviewAfrican Art, Interviews, Narratives . . . is a highly reflective collection of essays about the work of constructing art history out of interviews. Designed to unsettle and open up the relationship between interviews and scholarship, it speaks to the work of anthropology by aiming to better understand the nature of the interview process itself, how we produce and convey meanings from interviews and related documents. While it will be of particular interest to anthropologists working as museum curators, it will be equally useful to any professional whose craft largely depends upon interviews. * Leonardo Reviews *In these essays, one hears the narratives and learns the perspectives of a diverse group of people that greatly illuminate both meaning and intent. * African Studies Review *African Art, Interviews, Narratives provides scholars the chance to reexamine the role of the interviewer, interlocutor, and art historian when making printed text from recorded interviews. * Oral History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Work of Interviews Carol Magee and Joanna Grabski 1. Talking to People about Art Patrick McNaughton 2. Ghostly Stories: Interviews with Artists in Dakar and the Productive Space around Absence Joanna Grabski 3. Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar's Subversive Redemptive Art of ResistanceJoseph Jordan 4. Photography, Narrative Interventions, and (Cross) Cultural Representations Carol Magee 5. Narrating the Artist: Seyni Camara and the Multiple Constructions of the Artistic Persona Silvia Forni 6. Interview—Akinbode Akinbiyi Akinbode Akinbiyi 7. Inter-Weaving Narratives of Art and Activism: Sandra Kriel's Heroic Women Kim Miller 8. Politics of Narrative at the African Burial Ground in NYC: The Final MonumentAndrea E. Frohne 9. Who Owns the Past: Constructing an Art History of a Malian MasqueradeMary Jo Arnoldi 10. Framing Practices: Artists' Voices and the Power of Self-RepresentationChristine Mullen Kreamer11. Undisciplined KnowledgeAllan deSouza and Allyson PurpuraAppendix: InterlocutorsContributorsIndex
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MIT Press Ltd Cooling Towers
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MIT Press Ltd Grain Elevators
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Italian Piazza Transformed Parma in the
Book SynopsisExplores the history and architecture of two city squares, constructed by rival political parties, in the Italian city of Parma from 1196 to 1300.Trade Review“There is no doubt that this is a significant contribution to the field . . . an exemplary presentation of extremely complex historical processes. The scholarship is formidable.”—Charles Burroughs,Case Western Reserve University“[The Italian Piazza Transformed] has value on many levels. First, the story of the development of these piazzas is well told, and is supported by clear, abundant diagrams and photographs. One can begin to visualize the evolving spatial order. Second, the lessons that can be drawn from this story are important ones for cities in Italy in the coming centuries and in some ways for all cities across time. Through the discussions of the way the development of these piazzas related to the emerging ecclesiastical and communal roles, one can begin to understand how political power and social values relate to urban space. Third, the book describes and exemplifies first-rate scholarship. The text describes the methodologies and challenges of historical inquiry. The book contains excellent, informative appendixes, extensive and enriching notes, a thorough bibliography, and a detailed index. Given its various assets, this volume should appeal to scholars in various fields, and should find a welcome place in many academic libraries.”—D. Sachs Choice“The Italian Piazza Transformed makes an extremely valuable empirical advance in Italian urban studies. Marina’s careful reconstruction, through historical texts and site surveys, of the development of . . . important Parmesan sites places their study on new foundations. She also offers a model of how open space in an urban fabric can be rigorously studied. One can only hope others will follow the stimulating lead Marina pioneers in this book.”—Maureen C. Miller Renaissance Quarterly“Marina’s highly developed method of processing, analyzing, and organizing disparate spatial, historical, and representational systems not only makes an important contribution to contemporary debates about urban design, but would also have been immediately recognized and greatly appreciated by her medieval forebears.”—Niall Atkinson Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians“In this splendidly illustrated, intelligently designed, and elegantly written book, Areli Marina establishes herself as a leading new voice in medieval Italian urbanistic studies.”—Gary Radke SpeculumTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsAbout the Reconstruction DiagramsIntroductionPart I: The Production of Order1 (Re)constructing the Piazza del Duomo2 (Re)constructing the Communal PiazzaPart II: The Piazza and Public Life3 The Legislation of Order4 The Eloquent PiazzaEpilogue: Parma’s Spatial Practice ComparedAppendixesI: On Measurement, Module, and Geometry in Medieval ParmaII: The Communal Buildings of Parma: Evidence and InterpretationIII: Salimbene de Adam’s Account of Parma’s Late Thirteenth-Century Architectural ProjectsNotesBibliographyIndex
£86.66
Pennsylvania State University Press AirConditioning in Modern American Architecture
Book SynopsisWesleyan University. He is the author of four books, including most recently Beth Sholom Synagogue: Trade Review“Joseph Siry’s excellent new book makes a convincing case for the inclusion of technology and the conditions of architectural production in our approach to architectural history. It provides a major new contribution to our understanding of the field.”—Dietrich C. Neumann,editor of “The Structure of Light”: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture“Siry has written an interesting and necessary text. By carefully examining a number of familiar buildings and architects, he reveals that the role of HVAC systems was essential to design debates in American modernism. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, the book advances a novel and refreshing account of the technological and social issues that inform architectural developments.”—Daniel A. Barber,author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning“This reader came away with a deep understanding of the details of each building discussed—design as well as materials and engineering—and how passive cooling, fans, air ducts, and even mechanical floors (for example) influenced and altered the ‘art’ of building design. . . . This is an excellent complement to the modern architecture literature.”—L. B. Allsopp Choice“Although many of the book’s buildings have already been covered in a few other historical accounts, it is the first time that they are discussed in a single in-depth and comprehensive narrative. Besides the focus on the aesthetics of integration and collaborative authorship typical of an internalist approach, the chapters also begin to foreground fascinating historical connections between air-conditioning and the various spaces of production and consumption in a capitalist economy, as well as the attendant concerns with comfort, health, welfare, productivity, and profit.”—Jiat-Hwee Chang Technology and Culture“The text describes iconic buildings and the work of heroic architectural figures: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn, to name but a few. The surprise and the novelty is that Joseph M. Siry foregrounds building services, unearthing the “back story” of heating and cooling and explaining how these systems figure in the strategies and ambitions of well-known architects. If you want to know exactly how structures like the Larkin Building or the Seagram Building were cooled, this is the book for you.”—Elizabeth Shove West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material CultureTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on TerminologyIntroduction: Air-Conditioning and the Historiography of Modern Architecture1. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building and Mechanical Cooling, 1890-19102. Industrial Air-Conditioning from the Daylight Factory to the Windowless Factory, 1905-403. The Architecture of Air-Conditioning in Movie Theaters, 1917-404. Air-Conditioning Comes to the Nation’s Capital and the South, 1928-605. The First Air-Conditioned Tall Buildings, 1928-326. Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Windowless” Buildings for SC Johnson Company and the Air-Conditioned Tower7. Air-Conditioned Glass Buildings in the Mid-Twentieth Century8. Louis I. Kahn’s Architecture and Air-Conditioning to the 1970sCoda: Air-Conditioning and the New Consciousness of Energy in Architecture Since the 1970sAppendix: Compressive Refrigeration and the Heat PumpNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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University of Washington Press Kirtland Cutter Architect in the Land of Promise
Book SynopsisIn the early years of twentieth century, Spokane was singled out for praise in the West for the quality of its architecture and the impressive way it had rebuilt after the devastating fire of 1889. Major credit for the city's distinctive character was extended to Kirtland Kelsey Cutter. This book provides a study of his work.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Whippoorwill Farm 2. The Education of an Artist 3. Spokane Falls: Architecture on the Frontier (1886-1889) 4. Cutter and Poetz: Rebuilding Downtown Spokane (1889-1891) 5. The Search for a Northwest Architecture (1892-1896) 6. Cutter and Malmgren: Mansions for Spokane's New Leaders (1897-1903) 7. Function and Fantasy (1898-1906) 8. Spokane and Seattle (1906-1909) 9. Summer Camps in the Wilderness (1902-1920) 10. The Davenport Hotel and Other Commercial Buildings (1908-1916) 11. Variations on an Old English Theme (1908-1920) 12. Mediterranean Influence (1913-1921) 13. Casting a Lot in Wonderland (1921-1923) 14. Palos Verdes and the California Style (1923-1934) 15. Long Beach: The Last Years (1925-1939) Conclusion Appendix 1: Cutter's Draftsmen and Partners Appendix 2: Cutter's Buildings and Projects Notes Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press The History and Architecture of Chethams School
Book SynopsisChetham's School and Library is an exceptional example of 15th century collegiate architecture. First built as a lodge for the clergy serving Manchester cathedral, it survived the turbulence of the Reformation and eventually became Humphrey Chetham's charity school and free public library.
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Yale University Press The Architecture of British Transport in the
Book SynopsisTransport buildingsrailway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garagesare such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at the architecture of British transport buildings of the twentieth century, a period during which transportation systems, methods, and even purposes underwent enormous change. The contributors to the book consider transport buildings both well known and unfamiliar from a variety of intriguing viewpoints. They explore the design and promotion of the London Underground, the battle between road and rail, the intentions of architectsto glamorize travel, to calm fears, to accommodate huge numbers of travelersand the political and cultural significance of the transport buildings that have become a major part of modern life. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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Yale University Press Lancashire Liverpool and the SouthWest
Book SynopsisIncluding maps, plans, and colour photographs, this work is a guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire. It contains a general introduction that provides a historical and artistic overview. It also features the great port of Liverpool, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city.Trade Review"'The inheritors of Pevsner have exceeded his achievement with no compromises. This is a great feat of publishing in the best tradition of architectural history.' Colin Amery, Times Literary Supplement 'The greatest endeavour of popular architectural scholarship in the world.' Jonathan Meades, The Observer 'They are reference books in the best sense, bursting with information and invaluable to architectural scholars and the lay enthusiast alike.' John Chisholm, The Daily Telegraph"
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Yale University Press David Adjaye
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth analysis of the stunning designs of one of the world's most captivating and prominent architects
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Yale University Press Oxfordshire Oxford and the SouthEast
Book SynopsisThe newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East OxfordshireTrade Review“Oxford is filled with masterpieces, which is why walking its streets, preferably with this book in hand, is an inexhaustible delight.”—Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph“An undertaking achieved by no other country. Its editors should certainly be raised to the higher peerage. Cancel next year’s holiday and buy the lot.”—Christopher Howse, Oldie“This is a magnificent achievement and essential for anyone who wants to explore the buildings of Oxfordshire.”—John Goodall, Country Life“Simon Bradley’s new edition of Oxford and the South-East is a magnificent feat of scholarship that should find its place in the Christmas stocking of every Oxonian student and don.” —John Adamson, The Critic
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Yale University Press Birmingham and the Black Country
Book SynopsisThe latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black CountryTrade Review“Each revision of the Pevsner architectural guides — with their copious additional details and superb colour photography — opens readers' eyes to what should have been obvious...Seldom has this been more evident than with the latest volume, Birmingham and the Black Country.”—Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph“A tirelessly comprehensive book…[This is] a city of rich oddities and pleasingly bewildering contrasts.”—Jonathan Meades, The Oldie "The updated Buildings of England series get better and better, but Andy Foster's Birmingham and the Black Country is especially worthy of celebration...It is fair to say that it is a region that has rarely been the focus of sustained admiration, so much of the contents are revelatory...The book is a triumph."—Otto Saumarez Smith, Friends of Friendless Churches
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Yale University Press Reassessing Rudolph
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Yale University Press The Guggenheim
Book SynopsisThe captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildingsTrade Review“[Dal Co] sets out again to trace the circumstances that enabled the realization of a building so resistant to the orthodoxy hardening around it. Drawing from correspondence, theoretical discussions, technical analyses, and substantial previous scholarship, he illustrates the charged climate surrounding the genesis of the Guggenheim, condensing decades into a narrative of overlapping events to arrive at new interpretations of Wright’s masterpiece.”—Kelly Chan, Metropolis“Dal Co . . . [makes] a strong case for the Guggenheim as a masterpiece. No architect less visionary than Wright—or less dedicated to his own vision—could have accomplished so much.”— Stanley Abercrombie Interior Design"An absorbing history and technical analysis behind the design of the landmark structure."—Suzanne Stephens, Architectural Record'…copiously illustrated introduction to the most loved and loathed museum building.’ — James Hall, TLS, 17 November 2017 “Delving deep into the epic process of the Guggenheim Museum’s construction, Francesco Dal Co marvelously walks the psychological tightrope between client, architect, the city of New York and all the people—professional and otherwise—who expressed their opinions publicly.”—Frank Gehry“Icon and iconoclast hold equally for subject and author in this compelling account of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Juxtaposing a rich trove of archival sources with new trajectories of interpretation, Francesco Dal Co argues convincingly for the building’s “timelessness,” all the while reminding us that Wright’s now beloved building was once at the heart of seminal controversies.”—Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University“Francesco Dal Co’s rich history of the Guggenheim Museum is a revelation—an elegant and beautifully written book as definitive as Wright’s enigmatic masterpiece.”—Tod Williams, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects“Francesco Dal Co has written the most eloquent and insightful synopsis of New York’s Guggenheim Museum to date.”—Anthony Alofsin, FAIA, author of Wright in New York (forthcoming)"This lucid story shows how Wright sustained his revolutionary concept for the Guggenheim Museum amidst many difficulties, ultimately transforming the modern art museum."—Joseph M. Siry, Wesleyan University
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Yale University Press Surrey
Book SynopsisA newly expanded volume on England’s pre-eminent ‘Home County,’ exploring its mix of rural and urban architecture as well as its many major historic buildings Trade Review“Objective, detailed and comprehensive.”—Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph“It aims to profile architecture of quality both familiar and unfamiliar. It’s a task this volume undertakes in exemplary fashion (despite the challenge of being prepared in part during the pandemic). Even allowing for the fact that Surrey has been subject to destructive and sprawling development, what this volume really demonstrates is the astonishing amount there is for the architectural enthusiast of every period to enjoy in the county.”—John Goodall, Country Life“As the great series draws to a close, it has never looked better.”—Andrew Saint, Victorian Magazine“Much bigger and far more comprehensive than its predecessors, hugely improved by the splendid colour photographs, many by Robert Forster.”—James Stevens, The Critic
£54.00
Yale University Press Never Again
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a high-quality production with magnificent photographs...The text contains a serious discussion of the history and philosophy of war cemeteries (by no means confined to the Great War) and explores the differing aesthetics and objectives of the various warring nations.”—Richard Mawrey, The Historic Gardens Foundation Newsletter “A wonderful photographic voyage into a variety of European war cemeteries dating from the First World War to the present”—Jonathan Trigg, Church Monuments
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Yale University Press Restoring Williamsburg
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Yetter and Lounsbury’s book is a fascinating dive into not only the immediate before and after of Williamsburg, but is an excellent primer for those who may not be familiar with this iconic Virginia city."—Daily Beast“Whether you’re planning to visit Colonial Williamsburg, or if you’re simply drawn to the significance of the area’s history, Restoring Williamsburg will be an instrumental companion and a highly readable resource.”—Williamsburg Visitor“Whether you need a new coffee table book or simply enjoy visiting historic towns, Restoring Williamsburg by George Humphrey Yetter and Carl R. Lounsbury will take you back through an ambitious transformation of a town to its celebrated 18th century past.”—Mary Ann Moxon, The Virginian-Pilot
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Little, Brown & Company One World Trade Center Biography of the Building
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Lighthouse An Illuminating History of the Worlds
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Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc Architect
Book SynopsisIn this completely revised and up-to-date edition, the world's most accomplished architects-Gehry, Pei, Meier, Nouvel, Piano, and 37 more-express their views on creativity, inspiration, and legacy in this visually stunning, one-of-a-kind collection.
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Little, Brown Book Group Beyond the Footpath Mindful Adventures for Modern
Book Synopsis''A treasure-trove of inspiration . .. [Beyond the Footpath] shows us how to make the most of the calm beauty of the natural world that surrounds us, as well as offering practical guidance on where to find - and how to travel to - those special places'' Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path''Inspirational yet practical. With mindful exercises and tracks to take. Discover the benefits of being a modern pilgrim'' Country Living''A brilliant solution to restoring balance and rediscovering meaning'' The Simple ThingsAN INSPIRING GUIDE TO WALKING MINDFULLY TO PLACES OF MEANINGA pilgrimage - long, short, secular or religious - gives you the opportunity to step out of your day-to-day routine and follow a path that promises meaning, a little magic and the space to breathe.Beyond the Footpath will take you on a journey to places of spiritual or personal significance - and show you hTrade ReviewWalk off your worries with the help of Clare Gogerty's new book Beyond the Footpath . . . Proof that you don't need to sit still to be mindful. Just put one foot in front of the other * Scotsman *Beyond the Footpath is a treasure-trove of inspiration, whether you simply love to visit beautiful places or seek the solace of a long-distance walk. It shows us how to make the most of the calm beauty of the natural world that surrounds us, as well as offering practical guidance on where to find - and how to travel to - those special places * Raynor Winn, bestselling author of The Salt Path *Inspirational yet practical. With mindful exercises and tracks to take. Discover the benefits of being a modern pilgrim * Country Living *A brilliant solution to restoring balance and rediscovering meaning. Clare rekindles a connection with the world of nature and a sense of stillness * The Simple Things *[Beyond the Footpath] serves up a rare secular view on France's Lourdes or Mount Kailash in Nepal, as well as challenges that tug at the soul, such as tracing a river to its headwaters or even exploring a city at lunch. Wherever your heart calls is a pilgrimage, its author seems to say, and we heartily concur * Wanderlust *
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The 99 Invisible City
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