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  • Architectural Orders

    (Grove Art Essentials)

    by M. Wilson Jones, Eugene Dwyer, Sergio L. Sanabria, Margaret Lyttleton, Nicola Coldstream ...
    Series series Grove Art Essentials Series
    Discover the critical vocabulary of Western architecture and the enduring influence of the five classical orders within this fully illustrated Grove Art Essentials volume. Beginning with the syntax of columns and entablatures in ancient Egypt, the authors outline the development of the classical orders and their variations in ancient Greece and Rome, tracing the revival and adaptation of these ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Architecture of Madness

    Insane Asylums in the United States

    by Carla Yanni ...
    Series series Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture
    Elaborately conceived, grandly constructed insane asylums—ranging in appearance from classical temples to Gothic castles—were once a common sight looming on the outskirts of American towns and cities. Many of these buildings were razed long ago, and those that remain stand as grim reminders of an often cruel system. For much of the nineteenth century, however, these asylums epitomized the widely ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Engineers

    A History of Engineering and Structural Design

    by Matthew Wells ...
    This innovative new book presents the vast historical sweep of engineering innovation and technological change to describe and illustrate engineering design and what conditions, events, cultural climates and personalities have brought it to its present state.Matthew Wells covers topics based on an examination of paradigm shifts, the contribution of individuals, important structures and influential ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Bazaar in the Islamic City

    Design, Culture, and History

    Edited by Mohammad Gharipour ...
    The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $28.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spencer Mansion

    A House, a Home, and an Art Gallery

    by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor ...
    Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author Robert Ratcliffe Taylor describes the original appearance of the house, designed by William Ridgway Wilson for Alexander Green and his family, as well as its inhabitants over the decades. Also known as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Famous Assassinations of History

    by Francis Johnson ...
    The thirty-one assassinations, famous in history, which are narrated in this volume, have never before had their stories told in a collected form in any language. The accounts of them were scattered through the historical works of all nations, and through many volumes of private memoirs, which had to be scanned for proper and trustworthy material. It is hoped that their presentation in this form ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The MacArthur Highway and Other Relics of American Empire in the Philippines

    by Joseph P. McCallus ...
    It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines. Although the nation was given its independence in 1946, American cultural authority remains.In order to locate and lend significance to the relics of American empire, Joseph McCallus retraces the route Gen. Douglas MacArthur took during his liberation of the country from the Japanese in 1944 ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • The Green Braid

    Towards an Architecture of Ecology, Economy and Equity

    Edited by Kim Tanzer, Rafael Longoria ...
    Series series The ACSA Architectural Education Series
    This volume presents the discipline’s best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Early European Castles

    Aristocracy and Authority, AD 800-1200

    by Oliver H. Creighton ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    Medieval castles were, alongside the great cathedrals, the most recognisable buildings of the medieval world. Closely associated with concepts of justice, lordship and authority as well as military might, castles came to encapsulate the period's very essence.Looking at above and below-ground evidence and examining a wide variety of sites - from towering donjons to earth and timber castles - in ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Authentic Reconstruction

    Authenticity, Architecture and the Built Heritage

    Edited by John Bold, Peter Larkham, Robert Pickard ...
    Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment. These questions are most pertinent when buildings have been destroyed in disaster or war, and the built fabric is being reconstructed to reinstate traditional or historic appearances in place of what was lost.Authentic Reconstruction examines this idea of reconstruction, using it as a ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Oppression

    The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumental Building Economy

    by Paul B. Jaskot ...
    Series series Architext
    This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. Through an analysis of such major Nazi building projects as the Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds and the rebuilding of Berlin, Jaskot ties together the development of the German building economy, state architectural goals and the rise of the SS as a political ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Slavery in the City

    Architecture and Landscapes of Urban Slavery in North America

    Edited by Clifton Ellis, Rebecca Ginsburg ...
    Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period. This groundbreaking collection of essays brings together studies from diverse disciplines, including ... Read more

    $33.99 USD