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  • House Numbers

    Pictures of a Forgotten History

    by Anton Tantner ...
    House numbers are small things that appear quietly on the walls, gates and porches of our homes and places of work. They seem to have come from nowhere and are now taken for granted in everyday life. But house numbers have their own history – one that is retrieved, assembled and presented here, for the first time, in vivid images from around the world.House numbers started their lives in a grey ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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    by Francis D. K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash ...
    A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURENOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.K. CHING!The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years of the built environment.Spanning from 3,500 BCE to the present, and organized along a global timeline, ... Read more

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  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    by Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • The Building of England

    How the History of England Has Shaped Our Buildings

    by Simon Thurley ...
    From awe-inspiring Norman castles, to the skyscrapers of today, Simon Thurley explores how the architecture of this small island influenced the world.The Building of England puts into context the significance of a country’s architectural history and unearths how it is inextricably linked to the cultural past – and present.Saxon, Tudor, Georgian, Regency, even Victorian and Edwardian are all well ... Read more

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  • Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism

    by Miles David Samson ...
    The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Interior Design: Conceptual Basis

    by Anthony Sully ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Maximizing reader insights into interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated. The major themes of this book are the seven concepts of planning, circulation, 3D, construction, materials, colour and lighting, which covers the entire spectrum of a designer’s activity. Analysing design concepts from the view of the range of possibilities that the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture

    Analytical Therapy for the Next Generation of Passive Sustainable Architecture

    by Amjad Almusaed ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture is a guide to innovative architectural design for architects, engineers and other specialists who are working with biophilic and bioclimatic architectural concepts.Biophilic and Bioclimatic Architecture has three parts:• Part I focuses on the relationship between architecture and human needs and the creation process, demonstrating the meaning of architectural ... Read more

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  • India

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Peter Scriver, Dr Amit Srivastava ...
    Series series Modern Architectures in History
    The modern architecture, planning and nation-building efforts that took place in India following the country’s independence in 1947 are widely regarded as exemplary of the internationalization of modernism in the mid-twentieth century. India became the site for works by some of the most important modernist masters, including Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, as well as the focus of numerous lesser ... Read more

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  • Beyond Live/Work

    The Architecture of Home-based Work

    by Frances Holliss ...
    Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workhome’. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten buildings. Despite having existed for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in every country across the globe this dual-use building type has long gone ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Canterbury and the Gothic Revival

    by Lawrence Lyle ...
    Canterbury Cathedral's medieval Gothic image survived centuries of religious discord, neglect and Georgian 'improvements'. From 1800, a new generation was re-inspired by the prevalent architectural and artistic 'Gothick' vogue. At this time, a passionately ambitious young architect, William Butterfield, created a Gothic missionary college in two years, and the Dean of Canterbury, who wanted the ... Read more

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  • Frontier Fictions

    Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946

    by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet ...
    In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD