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  • End of an Era

    de Sparky Witte ...
    This is the true story of the History of the Demolition of the 2 Cooper River bridges . The Grace was complete in August,1929 and the Pearman was completed in 1966. They allowed traffic to flow between Charleston, South Carolina and Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The Grace was built in 18 months, was a toll bridge and shortly after it was completed the country went into a deep depression. The ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

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  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    de Michael Kammen ...
    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Memory Palace

    A Book of Lost Interiors

    de Edward Hollis ...
    A brilliant, ambitious follow–up to The Secret Lives of Buildings, in which Hollis turns his focus from the great architectural constructions of the past to the now–vanished chambers they once contained.The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. one ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Bricks & Mortals

    Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

    de Tom Wilkinson ...
    We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The 1950s American Home

    de Diane Boucher ...
    Series Libro 740 - Shire Library USA
    Modern living began with the homes of the 1950s. Casting aside the privations of the Second World War, American architects embraced the must-have mod-cons: they wrapped fitted kitchens around fridges, washing machines, dishwashers and electric ovens, gave televisions pride of place in the living room, and built integrated garages for enormous space-age cars. So why was this change so radical? In ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    de Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture

    Edición de Elana Shapira, Alison J. Clarke ...
    This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M. ... Leer más

    $141.99 USD

  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    de Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires

    Encounters and Confluences

    Edición de Mohammad Gharipour ...
    The cross-cultural exchange of ideas that flourished in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries profoundly affected European and Islamic society. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires considers the role and place of gardens and landscapes in the broader context of the information sharing that took place among Europeans and Islamic empires in Turkey, Persia, ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD

  • Architecture as Experience

    Radical Change in Spatial Practice

    Edición de Dana Arnold, Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Architecture as Experience investigates the perception and appropriation of places across intervals of time and culture. The particular concern of the volume is to bring together fresh empirical research and animate it through contact with theoretical sophistication, without overwhelming the material.The chapters establish the continuity of a particular physical object and show it in at least two ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Mysteries In History For Kids: A History Series - Children Explore History Book Edition

    de Baby Professor ...
    Why is it important to go back to the past? Maybe because you want to understand the present and even foresee the future. It could also be because you want to see the struggles and experience the victories the past generations have seen. These, and more reasons, are cleverly written in the pages of this educational book for kids. Buy a copy today! ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Shadow-Makers

    A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture

    de Professor Stephen Kite ...
    The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history.Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD