Architecture

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by Alexander Tzonis (Author), Liane Lefaivre (Author)This fascinating introduction to classical art and architecture is the first book to investigate the way classical buildings are put together as formal structures. It researches the generative rules, the poetics of composition that classical architecture shares with classical music, poetry, and drama, and is enriched by a variety of examples and an extensive analysis of compositional rules. The 205 line drawings make up a discourse of their...

Nature and the Idea of a Man-Made World - Paperback

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by Norman Crowe (Author)Over the course of this century, nature has increasingly been relegated to the province of environmentalists while cities and towns have been turned over to developers and planners. Norman Crowe seeks to overcome this division into the respective realms of specialists by recognizing the independence of both the natural and the manmade through an understanding of the often hidden roots of the world we contrive for ourselves. Crowe argues that we have lost a vital balanc...

Smart Design: Disruption, Crisis, and the Reshaping of Urban Spaces - Paperback

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by Richard Hu (Author)This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners in the fields of urban design, planning, architecture, urban development, and urban studies.Author BiographyRichard Hu is an award-winning urban planner, and an educator and scholar. His work and interests integrate urban design, urban science, and urban policy to address contemporary ur...

Husserl and Spatiality: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Space - Paperback

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by Tao Dufour (Author)Husserl and Spatiality is an exploration of the phenomenology of space and embodiment, based on the work of Edmund Husserl. Author BiographyTao DuFour is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. Number of Pages: 250 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 31, 2023

How the Maya Built Their World: Energetics and Ancient Architecture - Paperback

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by Elliot M. Abrams (Author)Maya architecture is often described as "massive" and "monumental," but experiments at Copan, Honduras, convinced Elliot Abrams that 300 people could have built one of the large palaces there in only 100 days.In this groundbreaking work, Abrams explicates his theory of architectural energetics, which involves translating structures into volumes of raw and manufactured materials that are then multiplied by the time required for their production and assembly to deter...

Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico - Paperback

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by Edward R. Burian (Editor)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 the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and archi...

Palaces and Power in the Americas: From Peru to the Northwest Coast - Paperback

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by Jessica Joyce Christie (Editor)Ancient American palaces still captivate those who stand before them. Even in their fallen and ruined condition, the palaces project such power that, according to the editors of this new collection, it must have been deliberately drawn into their formal designs, spatial layouts, and choice of locations. Such messages separated palaces from other elite architecture and reinforced the power and privilege of those residing in them. Indeed, as Christie and Sarro ...

Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture - Paperback

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by Terry G. Jordan (Author)Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.Back JacketOnce too ...

The Courthouse Square in Texas - Paperback

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by Robert E. Veselka (Author)With its dignified courthouse set among shade trees and lawns dotted with monuments to prominent citizens and fallen veterans, the courthouse square remains the civic center in a majority of the county seats of Texas. Yet the squares themselves vary in form and layout, reflecting the different town-planning traditions that settlers brought from Europe, Mexico, and the United States. In fact, one way to trace settlement patterns and ethnic dispersion in Texas is by...

Architecture in Texas: 1895-1945 - Paperback

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by Jay C. Henry (Author)Texas architecture of the twentieth century encompasses a wide range of building styles, from an internationally inspired modernism to the Spanish Colonial Revival that recalls Texas' earliest European heritage. This book is the first comprehensive survey of Texas architecture of the first half of the twentieth century. More than just a catalog of buildings and styles, the book is a social history of Texas architecture. Jay C. Henry discusses and illustrates buildings ...

Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology - Paperback

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by David B. Williams (Author)Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks a...

The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival - Paperback

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by Yasser Tabbaa (Author)The transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. Yasser Tabbaa explores with exemplary lucidity the geometric techniques that facilitated this transformation, and investigates the cultural processes by which meaning was produced within the new forms. Iran, Iraq, and Syria saw the development of proportional calligraphy, vegetal and geometric arabesque, muqarnas (s...

Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics - Paperback

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by Robert Mugerauer (Author)In this pioneering book, Robert Mugerauer seeks to make deconstruction and hermeneutics accessible to people in the environmental disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental studies, and cultural geography. Mugerauer demonstrates each methodology through a case study. The first study uses the traditional approach to recover the meaning of Jung's and Wittgenstein's houses by analyzing their historical, intentional contexts. The second...

Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture: Figural Motifs in Western Anatolia and the Aegean Islands - Paperback

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by Pamela A. Webb (Author)Joseph Brooker s synthesis lucidly summarizes more than seventy years of Joyce criticism. This is the first broad study of how James Joyce s work was received in the Anglophone world, accessibly written for both academic and lay readers. Brooker shows how the reading of Joyce's work has moved through different critical paradigms, periods, and places, and how Joyce s writing has given generations of readers a way to discuss the major issues of the modern world."Back J...

Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century - Paperback

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by Sandy Isenstadt (Editor), Kishwar Rizvi (Editor)This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's new materials, methods, and motives.Architecture,...

The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area - Paperback

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by Richard A. Walker (Author), William Cronon (Foreword by)Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman AwardFinalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008).The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis...

The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port - Paperback

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by Nancy Um (Author)Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India. Merchants and shipowners from Asian, African, and European shores flocked to the city to trade ...

A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture - Paperback

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by Will Fellows (Author)From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings, revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, saving artifacts and documents of historical significance. A Passion to Preserve explores this authentic and complex dimension of gay men's lives by profiling early and contemporary preservationists from throughout the United States, highlighting contributions to the larger culture tha...

Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders - Paperback

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by William R. Drennan (Author)The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright's legion of biographers-a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan's exhaustive...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin: Illustrated by Vintage Postcards / - Paperback

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by Randolph C. Henning (Author)From the McDonald s hot coffee case to the cattle ranchers beef with Oprah Winfrey, from the old English "Assize of Bread" to current nutrition labeling laws, what we eat and how we eat are shaped as much by legal regulations as by personal taste. Barry M. Levenson, the curator of the world-famous (really ) Mount Horeb Mustard Museum and a self-proclaimed "recovering lawyer," offers in Habeas Codfish an entertaining and expert overview of the frustrating, fright...

Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume 1: Books I-V of Tutte L`opere D`architettura Et Prospetiva - Paperback

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by Sebastiano Serlio (Author), Vaughan Hart (Translator), Peter Hicks (Translator)Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century; despite this, his writings have been virtually inaccessible until now. This translation of Serlio's five-volume treatise--he died before publishing two further volumes--replaces the only other English version, one that was produced in 1611 from an inaccurate Dutch translation of the Italian original. ...

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by Benjamin D. Price (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 enough to be preserved, rep...

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by Roger B. Ulrich (Author)This book presents an authoritative and detailed survey of the art of woodworking in the ancient Roman world. Illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs, Roman Woodworking covers topics such as the training and guild memberships of Roman carpenters, woodworking tools and techniques, the role of timber in construction and the availability of trees, and interior woodwork and furniture making. It also includes an extensive glossary of fully defined terms. ...

The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright; Revised Edition - Paperback

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by Vincent Scully Jr. (Author)As the definitive study of the complex inspirations and cultural influences that were fused in the Shingle Style of wooden suburban and resort buildings of the period 1872 to 1889, Mr. Scully's book has received much critical acclaim. He presents the published designs and the written statements of the architects, as well as contemporary criticisms of the buildings to analyze the development of the Shingle Style from Richardson's early work to Wright's first hous...

The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An Urban Appraisal - Paperback

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by William MacDonald (Author)The author of a classic work on the architecture of imperial Rome here broadens his focus to present an original study of urban architecture in Roman market towns, port cities, veterans' colonies, and major metropolitan centers throughout the empire. "Simply the best book on Roman urbanism [that] I know. . . . A formidable breakthrough. It brings to life the genius of Roman urbanism and reveals its continuing relevance for present urban planning and architecture."...

Architecture and the Text: The (S)Crypts of Joyce and Piranesi - Paperback

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by Jennifer Bollmer (Author), Jennifer Bloomer (Author)In this profoundly original book, Jennifer Bloomer addresses important philosophical questions concerning the relation between writing and architecture. Drawing together two cultural fantasies from different periods-one literary and one architectural-Bloomer uses the allegorical strategies she finds in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to analyze three works of Giambattista Piranesi (Campo Marzio, Collegio, and the Carceri). Bloomer argues tha...

Understanding Ordinary Landscapes - Paperback

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by Paul E. Groth (Editor), Todd W. Bressi (Editor)How does knowledge of everyday environments foster deeper understanding of both past and present cultural life? In this book authorities in social history, architectural history, American studies, cultural geography, and landscape architecture explore aspects of the emergent field of cultural landscape studies, demonstrating the value of investigating the many meanings of ordinary settings. While traditional studies in this field have been of ...

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by R. W. Brunskill (Author)This description of Timber Building in Britain, now in its second edition, by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings defines the status of this authoritative and extensively illustrated book. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.6 x 7.4 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 01, 2006

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by John Summerson (Author), Howard Colvin (Foreword by)Inigo Jones, the first English classical architect, was famous in his own time and was the posthumous sponsor of the Palladian movement of the eighteenth century. This authoritative and elegantly written book, first published in 1966, reassessed Jones's life and career, cleared away the myths of attribution that surround his work, and reassigned to him projects that had disappeared from his oeuvre. Summerson's classic text is enhanced by ...

The Intrepid Art Collector: The Beginner's Guide to Finding, Buying, and Appreciating Art on a Budget - Paperback

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by Lisa Hunter (Author)Ready to upgrade your artwork from framed Monet posters but intimidated by what you see in galleries? In The Intrepid Art Collector, Lisa Hunter shows you how to start a fine art collection without spending a fortune. This accessible, jargon-free resource contains up-to-date information on the most popular original art--everything from photography and posters to African art and animation--including where to find it and how to buy it at a fair price. Easy-to-use checklis...

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down - Paperback

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by J. E. Gordon (Author)For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back-or give way under-thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. J. E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.Author BiographyJ. E. Gordon, formerly a profe...

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by John Ruskin (Author)"It is in Venice, and in Venice only, that effectual blows can be struck at this pestilent art of the Renaissance. Destroy its claims to admiration there, and it can assert them nowhere else." This was Ruskin's war cry as he entered the now almost forgotten Battle of the Styles on the side against "the school which has conducted men's inventive and constructional faculties from the Grand Canal to Gower Street."But first the reader must know the difference between right ...