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  • Visions of Utopia

    by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, Martin Marty ...
    Series series New York Public Library Lectures in Humanities
    From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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    Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500

    by Robert Liddiard ...
    Castle studies have been transformed in recent years with a movement away from the traditional interpretation of castles as static military structures towards a wider view of castles as aesthetic symbols of power, with a more complicated relationship with the landscape. Supported by numerous colour photographs of the most `tangible' remains of the Middle Ages, this clearly written and very ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Designs

    Biological Analogy in Architecture and the Applied Arts

    by Philip Steadman ...
    This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and considers how recent biological thinking has relevance for design.Architects and designers have looked to biology for inspiration since the early 19th ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Victorian Gothic House Styles

    by Trevor Yorke ...
    Gothic is a potent word. For many people it conjures up images of dark, atmospheric castles, ruined abbeys, and horror stories set in misty graveyards. All this could not be further from the truth. Some 150 years ago Victorian Gothic architecture was a colourful, innovative and exciting departure from the foreign Classical styles that had been dominant for so long. It heralded a fresh, vibrant era ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico

    Edited by Edward R. Burian ...
    Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned ... Read more

    $23.79 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

  • Place, Race, and Story

    Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation

    by Ned Kaufman ...
    In Place, Race, and Story, author Ned Kaufman has collected his own essays dedicated to the proposition of giving the next generation of preservationists not only a foundational knowledge of the field of study, but more ideas on where they can take it. Through both big-picture essays considering preservation across time, and descriptions of work on specific sites, the essays in this collection ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Interior Urbanism

    Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

    by Professor Charles Rice ...
    Vast interior spaces have become ubiquitous in the contemporary city. The soaring atriums and concourses of mega-hotels, shopping malls and transport interchanges define an increasingly normal experience of being 'inside' in a city. Yet such spaces are also subject to intense criticism and claims that they can destroy the quality of a city's authentic life 'on the outside'.Interior Urbanism ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Seismic Assessment, Behavior and Retrofit of Heritage Buildings and Monuments

    Edited by Ioannis N. Psycharis, Stavroula J. Pantazopoulou, Manolis Papadrakakis ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book assembles, identifies and highlights the most recent developments in Rehabilitation and retrofitting of historical and heritage structures. This is an issue of paramount importance in countries with great built cultural heritage that also suffer from high seismicity, such as the countries of the eastern Mediterranean basin. Heritage structures range from traditional residential ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Florentine Villa

    Architecture History Society

    by Grazia Gobbi Sica ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day.Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation of the Florentine Villa, the author:analyzes the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Camera Constructs

    Photography, Architecture and the Modern City

    Edited by Andrew Higgott, Timothy Wray ...
    Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly influences how architecture is represented, imagined and produced. Camera Constructs is the first book to reflect critically on the varied interactions of the different practices by which photographers, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Architecture and Politics in Nigeria

    The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016

    by Nnamdi Elleh ...
    In 1975, the Nigerian authorities decided to construct a new postcolonial capital called Abuja, and together with several internationally renowned architects these military leaders collaborated to build a city for three million inhabitants. Founded five years after the Civil War with Biafra, which caused around 1.7 million deaths, the city was envisaged as a place where justice would reign and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD