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Great Escapes Greece. the Hotel Book - Hardcover

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by Angelika Taschen (Editor)Greece's ancient art and culture form the cradle of Western civilization--numerous monuments and museums tell to this day of the country's rich history. Greece is unique also by virtue of its breathtaking landscapes, the hospitality of its inhabitants, and its fabulous hotels, making it the dream destination of many travelers. The fresh and healthy cuisine, the crystal clear sea, and the canvas-worthy sunsets do the rest--a trip to Greece is pure delight. Angelika ...

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by Magdalena Droste (Author)In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and sculpture to ceramics. This best-selling reference work is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, the world's ...

Living Wild: How to Plant Style Your Home and Cultivate Happiness - Hardcover

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by Hilton Carter (Author)In Living Wild, bestselling plant stylist, author, designer and family man Hilton Carter explores multiple ways to style your home with plants--and cultivate happiness along the way. The therapeutic benefits of living with and tending plants are well known--they offer a connection to the natural world that nurtures our mental and physical health. In Living Wild, Hilton Carter shows how to create a lush, stylish space with flourishing plants that bring life to your hom...

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by Barbara Lamprecht (Author), Peter Gössel (Editor)In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow panoramic views over mountains, gardens, palm trees, and pools. Neutra moved to the United States from his native Vienna in 1923 and settled in Los Angeles. He displayed his affinity with architectural settings early on with the Lovell House, set on...

The Adventures of the Explorers' Club in New York City - Hardcover

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by Lori Floyd (Author), Sylwia Filipczak (Illustrator)Join the adventures of Skye and Sydney, two young friends who enjoy taking photos and exploring new places. On a trip to New York City with their mothers, the girls discover exciting attractions such as the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the American Museum of Natural History, and even the Museum of Ice Cream!The Adventures of the Explorers' Club in New York City is the first book in a series for young explorer...

At Home: Evocative & Art-Forward Interiors - Hardcover

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by Brian Paquette (Author)Evoking memories of the past and aspirations for the future to create unique contemporary interiors.Interior design should not be sterile or static; it's a living extension of art meant to be touched, used, and admired. This mindset is the heart of Brian Paquette's interiors. Beginning with the motto, "Function and comfort, first and always," Paquette explores each client's interests and lifestyle to create homes that reflect their identity, history, and aspirations....

The Little Book of Living Small - Hardcover

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by Laura Fenton (Author)A comprehensive guide to small-space secrets and real-life solutions for living in 1,200 square feet or less.The Little Book of Living Small offers practical, everyday advice for managing a tight footprint. It features twelve case study homes in which style-savvy, small-space dwellers (from singles to families of four) open their doors and share their design secrets. Stylistically these homes range from urban to rural, minimalist to bohemian, with the unifying thread t...

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by James Steele (Author), Peter Gössel (Editor)Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angeles, Schindler took cues from notions found in Cubism and the International Style to shape his unique vision: a style he called "space architecture," combining geometrical shapes, bold lines, and materials such as wood and concrete, with space as a med...

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by Arnt Cobbers (Author), Peter Gössel (Editor)In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining "form-givers of the 20th century." Today, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. As a Bauhaus pioneer, even his earliest work was marked by a material restraint; the balance of texture, color, and shape; and a symbiosis of local and global, big and small, rough and smooth. In this essential introductory monograph, we survey Breuer's...

Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating - Hardcover

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by Lauren Liess (Author)"Stunningly simple, this field guide is a survival book for any budding decorator." ―USA Today "Not-always-conventional ideas for livening up any space with art." ―Country Living "Tons of tips, advice and sources." ―Elements of Style Lauren Liess, an interior designer and founder of the popular blog Pure Style Home, fuses her love of design and the great outdoors into all her work. In Habitat: The Field Guide to Decorating, Lauren invites readers to bring nature insid...

The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid - Hardcover

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by Jeanette Winter (Author), Jeanette Winter (Illustrator)A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2017 Parents' Choice Recommended Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed architect's life and her triumph over adversity from celebrated author-illustrator Jeanette Winter. Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, and dreamed of designing her own cities. After studying architecture in London, she opened her own studio and started designing buildings. But as a Muslim w...

Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections Castle - Hardcover

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by Stephen Biesty (Illustrator), Richard Platt (Author)History comes alive in this incredible children's illustrated book about castles. Slicing through different areas of a medieval fortress, extraordinary views reveal the people busy inside, preparing for battle as an enemy army approaches. Packed with facts, you'll find out what it takes to build a massive 14th-century castle, dress a knight in armor, or prepare a feast fit for a king or queen. From the drawbridge to the dungeon, Cross-Sec...

Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections - Hardcover

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by Stephen Biesty (Author)This children's book explores the innermost workings of some extraordinary buildings and machines. From helicopters to submarines, skyscrapers to coal mines, open up a fascinating world packed with unique and detailed cutaway drawings. Whether it's a Spanish galleon or a medieval castle, each cross-section slice or exploded view reveals what's going on inside. See the people swarming inside the Empire State Building, the workers busy backstage at the opera house, and...

Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India's Ancient River - Hardcover

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by Anthony Acciavatti (Author)Beyond the dense urbanism of Mumbai (Bombay) or the IT centers of Bangalore and Hyderabad lies the Ganges River basin--today home to over one-quarter of India's billion-plus population--a space historically defined by a mythological constellation of terrestrial sites imbued with celestial significance. Not only is it one of the most densely populated river basins in the world, but it also undergoes dramatic physical changes with the onslaught of the wet monsoon, ...

A Place to Call Home: Tradition, Style, and Memory in the New American House - Hardcover

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by Gil Schafer III (Author), Eric Piasecki (Photographer)For award-winning architect Gil Schafer, the most successful houses are the ones that celebrate the small moments of life--houses with timeless charm that are imbued with memory and anchored in a distinct sense of place. Essentially, Schafer believes a house is truly successful when the people who live there consider it home. It's this belief--and Schafer's rare ability to translate his clients' deeply personal visions of how they want ...

American Icons Volume 2: Building the Nation: Transformations and Resilience

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Report copyright infringementby Gestalten (Editor), Sam Lubell (Editor)Building on the foundation laid by American Icons, American Icons Volume 2 continues the exploration of American architecture, chronicling its evolution and the iconic structures that define the nation's skylines. Showcasing 80 projects and enriched with four insightful essays, this sequel delves into the architectural diversity spanning from private residences to public museums and towering skyscrapers. Organized by eras ...

Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Gee (Author)Hostel, House and Chambers is the first comprehensive study of the campaigns to house a new generation of working women, the specialised design of the buildings and the women whose lives were changed by this architectural movement. After 1900, the rapid rise of women working as clerks, secretaries or typists, in London and other cities, created an urgent need for affordable and respectable accommodation. Building on models of elegant Victorian...

New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide

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Report copyright infringementby David Felsen (Author)New York City is blessed with an incredible array of public sculptures. One overlooked aspect of this collection is its monuments of Black Americans, each with its own remarkable story. The first appearance of a Black person in a city monument came in the Civil War Soldiers' Monument in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery in 1876, but this was a nameless symbolic figure. It wasn't until 1945 that Booker T. Washington became the first identifiabl...

Guide to the Construction of Gothic Details

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Report copyright infringementby F. Roseling (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Todd Inglert (Author)Contemporary Practices in Architectural Drawing and Illustration: Volume I is the first textbook in a two-volume series that helps students better understand and embrace the importance of both hand-drawn and digital drawings in architecture, engineering, and construction. Volume I provides students with an introduction to the history, theory, and process of architectural drawing and emphasizes the importance of a deliberate drawing pro...

Abundance Not Capital: The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo

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Report copyright infringementby Angelika Fitz (Editor), Elke Krasny (Editor), Architekturzentrum Wien (Editor)What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture. Capital's voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of "never enough." The current realities of building involve extraction and exploitation, which, in turn, cause climate breakdown, environmental ruin, alienated labor conditions, and the de...

The House That She Built Coloring and Activity Book - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Mollie Elkman (Author), Georgia Castellano (Artist) Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2023

Everything is Design: The Hidden Ethics of Our Objects and Public Spaces

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Report copyright infringementby Alan J. Reid (Author)Ethics - to put it concisely - is 'mindful well-being'. It is a set of standards that guides how we treat ourselves, one another, and the environment. When we design things for public use, we also communicate an ethical perspective. When we use things designed for us, we adopt their ethics. This book synthesizes several different disciplines as they relate to design, ethics, and the built environment. Our objects, according to philosophers ...

Insect Intelligence: An Illustrated Study of Insect Art and Design for the Real World

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Report copyright infringementby R. Clay (Author), Lula Crowder (Illustrator)Insect Intelligence: A Study of Insect Art and Design for the Real World is a 21st-century speculative adaptation of Insect Manufactures, originally published in 1847 by R. Clay, a printer in London. The original volume, written by an unknown scholar for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, has been reimagined in this new edition, which features both original illustrations and text alongside updated images a...

Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts

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Report copyright infringementby Abdul Karim Bangura (Author), Leonid A. Zhigun (Author)This book is the first comprehensive work on Russian Fractals in indigenous artifacts. While existing works focus on universal phenomena, such as liquid crystal or finance, none explore the intersection between Fractals and Russia. 'Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts' therefore investigates how indigenous Russian cultures have a wonderful Fractal heritage that was originally tied to socially just and ...

Agrippa I: A Comprehensive Archaeological Study of the Last King of Roman Judaea and a True Crime Inquiry

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Legge (Author)Agrippa I: A Comprehensive Archaeological Study of the Last King of Roman Judaea and a True Crime InquiryDelve into the fascinating world of Agrippa I, the last king of Roman Judaea, through this meticulously researched and riveting exploration. Written by a classical archaeologist and doctor of medicine candidate with prior degrees in classical studies and the biological sciences, this book offers a comprehensive archaeological study of...

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Report copyright infringementby Arata Isozaki (Contribution by), Yoshiharu Matsumura (Photographer), Manfred Speidel (Contribution by)A captivating and comprehensively illustrated study of the seventeenth-century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, JapanAn outstanding example of Japanese architecture, Katsura has inspired countless architects from Bruno Taut and Le Corbusier to Tadao Ando and Kenzo Tange, and is often considered a precursor of Modernist tendencies.Now available in a new format, ...

Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Whiting (Author)Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the small stages of local bars clubs, pubs, and discotheques. When the stories of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the New York punk hardcore and post punk scenes are told, iconic venues such as The Cavern, The Marquee and CBGB's serve as the settings of their early chapters Small live music venues such as these are pivotal in the na...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry F. Lenning (Author) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.34 x 11 x 8.25 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1951

The Early Baroque Era: From the late 16th century to the 1660s

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Report copyright infringementby Curtis Price (Editor) Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 0.85 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 09, 1993

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Cruttenden Mace (Author), Herbert Eustis Winlock (Author)The Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht is a book written by Arthur Cruttenden Mace and published in 1916. The book is a detailed account of Mace��s excavation of the tomb of Senebtisi, a high-ranking official of the Twelfth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, located in the Lisht necropolis. The book contains a description of the tomb��s architecture, decorations, and artifacts, as well as Mace��s int...

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Report copyright infringementby Noah Biklen (Editor)Urban Intersections: São Paolo documents the collaboration of Edward P. Bass Fellow Katherine Farley, senior managing director of the international real estate developer Tishman-Speyer and Yale adjunct professor Deborah Berke, assisted by Noah Biklen, at the Yale School of Architecture. The book features ways to examine the process of urban design and development in São Paolo, Brazil, a rapidly growing global mega-city, with all its attendan...