History of architecture Books
Penguin Random House LLC The Historiography of Modern Architecture The MIT Press
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Penguin Random House LLC The Architectural Theory of ViolletleDuc Readings and Commentary The MIT Press
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Building in the Text Alberti to Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Highly original yet well founded historically: an important contribution to the scholarship of the Italian Renaissance.”—Alastair Fowler,University of Edinburgh“While rhetoric has been central to the study of humanist writing devoted to art and architecture, the importance of artistic and architectural theory for literature has been largely overlooked. Eriksen’s new assessment, The Building in the Text, fills this void. The study not only discusses the significance of classical rhetoric for aesthetics; it also explores the ways in which Renaissance artistic theory, including architectural treatises, influenced Italian and Elizabethan literary culture.Eriksen offers an insightful exposition on the craft of writing, providing an interdisciplinary study of architectural metaphors and further exploring the visual natures of Renaissance literature and poetry.”—Deborah H. Cibelli Sixteenth Century Journal“Eriksen offers an insightful exposition on the craft of writing, providing an interdisciplinary study of architectural metaphors and further exploring the visual nature of Renaissance literature and poetry.”—Deborah H. Cibelli Sixteenth Century Journal“In this groundbreaking book.”—Douglas A. Brooks South Central Review“Roy Eriksen’s rich, learned and persuasive recent study under review here.”—Douglas A. Brooks South Central Review“The Building in the Text, by bringing together material from a number of sources and applying it to an analysis of how evolving rhetorical conventions shaped the compositional, structural, and visual from of early modern literary production, offers the reader an important interdisciplinary study of how architecture and rhetoric converged over time and emerged in the Renaissance in the form of writing and poetry that was recognizably architectonic and visual in nature.”—Douglas A. Brooks South Central Review
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Yale University Press The Escorial Art and Power in the Renaissance
Trade Review"The perfect subject for Henry Kamen, who has dedicated his life to challenging just about every myth and unquestioned assumption about Spain and its history. He takes on all interpreters, but above all, he takes on the ghosts of Philip II conjured up by his detractors and admirers."—Carlos Eire, Yale University
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Till We Have Built Jerusalem Architects of a New City
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Now I Sit Me Down
Book SynopsisA grand tour of the chair through the ages by our foremost writer on designHave you ever wondered where rocking chairs came from, or why cheap plastic chairs are suddenly everywhere? In Now I Sit Me Down, the distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair, Michael Thonet, and of the creators of the first molded-plywood chair, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social historyof different ways of sitting, of changing manners and attitudes, and of varying tastes. The history of chairs is the history of who we are. We learn how the ancient Chinese switched from sitting on the floor to sitting in a chair, and how the iconic chair of Middle Americathe BarcaLoungertraces its roots back to the Bauhaus. Rybczynski weaves a rich tapestry th
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Technology
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iUniverse The Crisis of the AfricanAmerican Architect Conflicting Cultures of Architecture and Black Power
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iUniverse Well Worth A Shindy The Architectural and Philosophical History of the Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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New Generation Publishing Lamberhurst Jewel of the High Weald Important Buildings and Walks
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments
Book SynopsisHow can a nation''s archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria''s? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria''s outstanding range of sites, accompanied by over 200 colour illustrations, to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the eastern Mediterranean where numerous world cultures intersected.Given the last 12 years of savage conflict, the author reports too on the plight of many of these monuments, addressing the common but unhelpful assumption that much of the country''s archaeological treasures have been ''destroyed''. A better approach is to recognise that Syria''s heritage can play a role in the country''s recovery and cannot simply be declared a write-off. This is a history which tells us much about how Syria''s mixture of traditions defy simplistic categorisation through modern definitions of cultures and identities.
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Leonaur Ltd The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages The Knights Templar Hospitaller and Others
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Xenophon Press LLC Dressage in the French Tradition
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Hampton Wick History Hampton Wick Brick by Brick Volume 3 Hampton Wick Brick by Brick High Street to Hampton Court
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Cornell AAP Publications Cornell Journal of Architecture 9
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Toolemera Press Mechanick Exercises Or the Doctrine of HandyWorks
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Freddy Silva The Divine Blueprint
Book SynopsisA fresh and insightful account of the origin of ancient temples and the role played by sacred sites in raising human consciousness.Can a temple transform an ordinary person into an extraordinary being?Ancient texts refer to temples as living beings, intermediaries between matter and spirit that serve to transform people “into gods, into bright stars.”They also describe a global flood in 9703 BC, and how groups of survivors — Seven Sages, Shining Ones, Followers of Horus — set out to “rebuild the former mansions of the gods” by creating a vast, interconnected network of power places upon the Earth’s energy hotspots. And the temples that rose from them would serve future generations whenever they lost their spiritual compass. What’s more, science has now discovered these portals are still working.Based on solid evidence, this original work uncovers the origin of sacred sites, the seven laws that transform ordinary locations into portals, how the measurable energy in ancient temples induces altered states of consciousness, and why we seek out these mysterious places.From Stonehenge and the sacred sites of Egypt, to India, the Americas, Pacific islands and the Far East, best-selling author Freddy Silva takes you on a 17,000-year journey of levitating stones, underwater ‘cities of knowledge’, 15-foot tall gods and the secret esoteric groups who kept this single-minded vision alive throughout recent history.Their aim? The transformation of every person on Earth.
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Panique Pty Ltd The Story of Sigiriya
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Potential Architecture Books Inc. Architecture Competitions and the Production of Culture Quality and Knowledge An International Inquiry
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Johannesburg Path of the Wicked
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Infodial Ltd The History of New Brighton Tower
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Construction History Society Studies in Construction History The Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Construction History Society
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Celtic Trails The Spiritual Meaning of Rosslyns Carvings
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Endres and Hobster Power and Protection Castles and Fortified Manor Houses of Medieval Britain Volume 2 Southern England 2
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Lulu.com The Tactics Strategies of the World Champion 18951912 Isidore Weiss in Draughts
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Lulu.com Pisa e lIslam Scontri e incontri dulle rotte del Mediterraneo
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Legare Street Press Architectural Metal Work
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Legare Street Press Architectural Metal Work
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Legare Street Press Artistic Architectural Sheet Metal Ornaments
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Legare Street Press Architectural Hygiene or Sanitary Science as Applied to Buildings
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Legare Street Press Greek Architecture 1
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Legare Street Press The Farmer His Own Builder
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Legare Street Press The Architecture of Ancient Egypt
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Legare Street Press Municipal Record v.15 Jan.Dec. 1922
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Legare Street Press Modern Cottage Architecture Illustrated From Works of Wellknown Architects
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Legare Street Press The Architect Engineer of California and the Pacific Coast v.39 Nov.Dec. 1914
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Legare Street Press Vitruvius the Ten Books on Architecture
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Legare Street Press Home Builders Plan Book
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Legare Street Press Farm Buildings
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Legare Street Press The Northern Lakes of Canada microform
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Legare Street Press An Introduction to English Church Architecture
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Legare Street Press Municipal Record v.11 Jan.Dec. 1918
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Legare Street Press Municipal Record vol.2 19081909
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Legare Street Press The Famous Fifty and Other Favorite Homes
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Legare Street Press Flems Views of Old Pittsburgh
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Legare Street Press Antient Irish Pavement Tiles Exhibiting Thirtytwo Patterns
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