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  • 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

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  • Unbuilt Toronto

    A History of the City That Might Have Been

    by Mark Osbaldeston ...
    Series Book 1 - The City That Might Have Been
    Unbuilt Toronto explores never-realized building projects in and around Toronto, from the citys founding to the twenty-first century. Delving into unfulfilled and largely forgotten visions for grand public buildings, landmark skyscrapers, highways, subways, and arts and recreation venues, it outlines such ambitious schemes as St. Alban's Cathedral, the Queen subway line and early city plans that ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

    Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture

    by Hugh Howard ...
    Yes, they make rather an odd couple-but, truly, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Fiske Kimball (1888-1955) are the Johnson and Boswell of the story of American architecture. If not for Dr. Fiske Kimball, we might never have known that Thomas Jefferson was an architect. Though he was hailed as a brilliant statesman, Jefferson was all but unknown as an artist and an architect for nearly a century. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • History of Western Europe

    by James Robinson ...
    History, in the broadest sense of the word, is all that we know about everything that man has ever done, or thought, or hoped, or felt. It is the limitless science of past human affairs, a subject immeasurably vast and important but exceedingly vague. The historian may busy himself deciphering hieroglyphics on an Egyptian obelisk, describing a mediæval monastery, enumerating the Mongol emperors of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Castles in Context

    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

    $21.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II

    by Mary Carol Miller ...
    As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians about her books on lost mansions and landmarks, enthusiasts brought her more stories of great architecture ravaged by time. The twenty-seven houses included in her new book are among the most memorable of Mississippi's vanished antebellum and Victorian mansions. The list ranges from the oldest house in the Natchez region, lost in a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Architecture, Liberty and Civic Order

    Architectural Theories from Vitruvius to Jefferson and Beyond

    by Carroll William Westfall ...
    This book brings to light central topics that are neglected in current histories and theories of architecture and urbanism. These include the role of imitation in earlier centuries and its potential role in present practice; the necessary relationship between architecture, urbanism and the rural districts; and their counterpart in the civil order that builds and uses what is built. The narrative ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Constitutional Modernism

    Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933-1959

    by Timothy Hyde ...
    How does architecture make its appearance in civil society? Constitutional Modernism pursues this challenging question by exploring architecture, planning, and law as cultural forces. Analyzing the complex entanglements between these disciplines in the Cuban Republic, Timothy Hyde reveals how architects joined with other professionals and intellectuals in efforts to establish a stable civil ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Impressions of a Decorator in Rome, Illustrated

    by Frederic Crowninshield ...
    Noted painter, writer and artist Frederic Crowninshield takes us on a decorator's tour of Rome in the 1890's. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Sympathy of Things

    Ruskin and the Ecology of Design

    by Lars Spuybroek ...
    'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Baroque Visual Rhetoric

    by Vernon Hyde Minor ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s Baroque Visual Rhetoric probes this combination of style and message and – equally importantly – the methodological basis on which the critical art historian comes to establish that meaning.Drawing on a breathtaking range of critical literature, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Power in Stone

    Cities as Symbols of Empire

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    Empires have always built cities in their image. From ancient Persia to the Third Reich, imperial powers have sought to reflect their power and influence through a show of magnificence and a reflection of their values. The transposition to stone of the whole imperial edifice has been found throughout the ages to be an effective way both of overawing the populace and intimidating its opponents. It ... Read more

    $31.99 USD