History of architecture books

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Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys

Author: Dugald Butler
ISBN: 9789357918060
Format: Paperback
$37.62

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

A Treatise on the Garden of Jiangnan: A study on the Art of Chinese Classical Garden

A Treatise on the Garden of Jiangnan: A study on the...

Author: Hongxun Yang ,  Aibin Yan
ISBN: 9789811669262
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book presents a study into the art of Jiangnan classical garden. Jiangnan (“the south of the Yangtze River”) refers...  Read More >>

At Home: A Client's Appreciation for Authentic Architecture

At Home: A Client's Appreciation for Authentic Architecture...

Author: Deborah Lencioni Lapp
ISBN: 9781938938719
Format: Paperback
$73.92

"With more than 100 color photos, author Deborah Lencioni Lapp tells the story of her life in the houses she's called...  Read More >>

Don McCullin: Journeys across Roman Asia Minor

Don McCullin: Journeys across Roman Asia Minor

Author: Don McCullin (Photojournalist) ,  Barnaby Rogerson
ISBN: 9780995756670
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Don McCullin's photographs explore the mountains, valleys and coast of western Turkey, hunting out the most poignant...  Read More >>

Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary

Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas...

Author: Carolyn L. Kane
ISBN: 9780520392601
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative...  Read More >>

The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform...

Author: Irene Cheng
ISBN: 9781517907464
Format: Paperback
$62.99

How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society In the middle of the...  Read More >>

Seismic Conscious Architecture: An Evaluation Tool for Architects

Seismic Conscious Architecture: An Evaluation Tool for...

Author: Mandeep Singh
ISBN: 9788119549139
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Architecture is an all-encompassing field touching innumerable facets of human life. It is the coming together of...  Read More >>

Alexander Ross: The Remarkable Story of A Highland Architect

Alexander Ross: The Remarkable Story of A Highland Architect...

Author: Calum Maclean
ISBN: 9781916389113
Format: Hardback
$93.15

A celebration of the life and work of Alexander Ross, an architect or extraordinary talent and skill. Born in Inverness,...  Read More >>

The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s

The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s...

Author: Anat Geva
ISBN: 9781648431357
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Introduces an architectural analysis of selected modern American synagogues and reveals how they express American...  Read More >>

Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu

Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power...

Author: Marnie Feneley
ISBN: 9789813250536
Format: Hardback
$188.89

Integrating the latest archaeological and historical work on Angkor, extensive art historical analysis of the figure...  Read More >>

The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform...

Author: Irene Cheng
ISBN: 9781517907457
Format: Hardback
$270.00

How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society In the middle of the...  Read More >>

Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America’s White Imaginary

Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas...

Author: Carolyn L. Kane
ISBN: 9780520392595
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative...  Read More >>

Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous

Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous

Author: Phillip James Tabb (Texas A&M University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032408293
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book explores thin places, such as wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design,...  Read More >>

Ancient Egypt's Wisdom Revived

Ancient Egypt's Wisdom Revived

Author: Nuri 'Isam
ISBN: 9782348321764
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The ancient Egyptians believed that the material world as well as the imaginal inner world was infused with spirit...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural...

Author: Duanfang Lu (The University of Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138940178
Format: Hardback
$410.00

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History features twenty-nine chapters written by leading architectural...  Read More >>

American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979

American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979...

Author: Susanneh Bieber (School of Architecture at Texas A&M University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032262680
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to...  Read More >>

Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis Carroll

Design Theory, Language and Architectural Space in Lewis...

Author: Caroline Dionne (The New School, Parsons School for Design, USA)
ISBN: 9781032285009
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume offers spatial theories of the emergent based on a careful close reading of the complete works of nineteenth...  Read More >>

Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous

Thin Place Design: Architecture of the Numinous

Author: Phillip James Tabb (Texas A&M University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032408286
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores thin places, such as wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design,...  Read More >>

Demut der Baukunst: Rudolf Schwarz und Emil Steffann

Demut der Baukunst: Rudolf Schwarz und Emil Steffann...

Author: Manfred Sundermann
ISBN: 9783757804787
Format: Paperback
$47.26

In Freundschaft widmete Rudolf Schwarz am 24.11.1931 in Aachen Emil Steffann sein Buch ''Wegweisung der Technik'....  Read More >>

Region

Region

Author: Simon Richards ,  Robert Schmidt III (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032422978
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book explores how the concept of ‘region’ has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice....  Read More >>

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping...

Author: Stefan Al
ISBN: 9781324052098
Format: Paperback
$29.95

The global boom in skyscrapers—why it’s happening now, how they’re made and what they do to cities and people  Read More >>

Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries

Private Life and Privacy in the Early Modern Low Countries...

Author: Michael Green ,  Ineke Huysman
ISBN: 9782503604442
Format: Hardback
$330.00

This volume investigates the origins of one of the most important notions of the contemporary society: privacy....  Read More >>

Region

Region

Author: Simon Richards ,  Robert Schmidt III (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032422572
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores how the concept of ‘region’ has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice....  Read More >>

The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate

The Visibility of Modernization in Architecture: A Debate...

Author: Gevork Hartoonian
ISBN: 9781032191232
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist...  Read More >>

Evolution of Darb al-Ahmar

Evolution of Darb al-Ahmar

Author: Basara
ISBN: 9781928138495
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This is a book of the formation of a Mamluk street. The street in question is that leading first east and then south...  Read More >>

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