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Victorian Architectural Details: Designs for Over 700 Stairs, Mantels, Doors, Windows, Cornices, Porches, and Other Decorative Elements - Paperback

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by A. J. Bicknell &. Co (Author)Originally published over 130 years ago by one of America's leading architectural firms, this volume provided prospective homeowners and other customers with a wide range of design alternatives. While the collection includes elevations and floor plans for a variety of handsome, private residences and commercial structures, the emphasis is on architectural details -- from cornices, dormer windows and piazzas, to balconies, fireplace mantels, and gable orname...

Victorian Woodturnings and Woodwork - Paperback

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by Blumer & Kuhn Stair Co (Author)Reproduced from a rare original, this 1893 catalog provides nearly 800 detailed illustrations of stair railings, mantels, gables, moldings, and ornaments. Its varied, unusual examples of woodwork make it particularly valuable - woodturners, cabinetmakers, architects, preservationists, restorationists, designers, and students of Victoriana will find it inspiring and instructive. Number of Pages: 137 Dimensions: 0.38 x 11 x 8.44 IN Illustrated: Yes Publicat...

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by Raphael Brandon (Author), J. Arthur Brandon (Author)In a rich retrospective of ecclesiastical architecture, the intricate geometry of classic Gothic design is revealed in 158 expert illustrations: windows, moldings, doorways, arches, roofs, porches, panels, hinges, and more. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.46 x 10.95 x 8.46 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: December 10, 2007

The Secrets of Architectural Composition - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Cortland Curtis (Author), J. S. Weiner (Introduction by)Well arranged, logical, and aptly illustrated, this classic survey covers every aspect of the design process. It addresses architectural principles as well as their practical application, examining general questions of scale, balance, proportion, and symmetry and presenting detailed treatments of doors, windows, walls, stairways, columns, and other features.Long acknowledged as a valuable resource for students and teachers a...

Electrographic Architecture: New York Color, Las Vegas Light, and America's White Imaginary - Hardcover

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by Carolyn L. Kane (Author)Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their ecli...

The Most Famous Landmarks in the World: History and curiosities explained for children and adults - Hardcover

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by Samuel John (Author)Do you wish to expand your children's knowledge of famous global landmarks, inspire awe in them, give them some sense of place, destination, and wish them to learn these engineering marvels in a fun and exciting way that will leave them etched in their minds?And are you looking for a fun, exciting guide that puts together the most popular engineering marvels from various parts of the globe and presents them in a visually appealing manner that's easy to digest for a grow...

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by Alan Crawford (Author)Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex and playful than any other work in Britain at that time. His interiors, many of them designed in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, are both spare and sensuous; creating a world of heightened aesthetic sensibility, especially inside the Willow Tea...

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by Kenneth Frampton (Author)Le Corbusier is probably the most famous and certainly the most controversial architect of the twentieth century. His impact on the urban fabric around us and on the way we live has been gigantic because of the richness and variety of his work and his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themeshis perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unite d'Ha...

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by Anne Massey (Author)From the nineteenth-century Arts and Crafts movement to the present day--from Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, the Modern Movement, and Art Deco to High-Tech and green design--every style of interior design since 1900 is charted in this wide-ranging survey. Design in the twentieth century saw many changes in direction, including the emergence of professional interior decoration and its evolution into interior design. Interiors, domestic and other, are explored and placed within th...

The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru - Hardcover

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by Michael E. Moseley (Author)But this glittering culture only obscured the rich and diverse civilizations that had preceded it: Chavin, Moche, Nazca, Tiwanaku, Huari, and Chimu. Described as a masterly study and an outstanding volume on its first publication, The Incas and Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures and civilizations of ancient Peru. Now this classic text has been fully updated for the revised edition. New discoveries over the ...

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by Peter Hall (Author)In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the decisions of the professional bureaucrats, community activists, and politicians involved in the planning process. He draws on an eclectic body of theory from political science, economics, ethics, and long-range future forecasting to suggest ways to forestall such grand mistakes in the future. For this edition, Hall has added ...

On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco - Paperback

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by Richard Longstreth (Author)Richard Longstreth provides a detailed picture of the early careers of four architects-Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, Ernest Coxhead, and A.C. Schweinfurth-who had a decisive impact on the course of design in the San Francisco Bay Area and who stand as significant contributors to American architecture.Back JacketRichard Longstreth provides a detailed picture of the early careers of four architects - Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, Ernest Coxhead, and A. C. Schweinfu...

From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America - Hardcover

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by Mary N. Woods (Author)This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural profession emerged in early American history. Mary Woods dispels the prevailing notion that the profession developed under the leadership of men formally schooled in architecture as an art during the late nineteenth century. Instead, she cites several instances in the early 1800s of craftsmen-builders who shifted their identity to that of professional architects. While struggling to survive as designers and sup...

Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich Volume 22 - Hardcover

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by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (Author)Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship.In the second half of the twentieth century, the German people's strugg...

A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner Banham - Paperback

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by Reyner Banham (Author), Mary Banham (Editor), Sutherland Lyall (Editor)Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essays, polemics, and reviews drawn from more than three decades of Banham's writings.The volume, which includes discussions of ...

Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology - Hardcover

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by Hidenobu Jinnai (Author), Kimiko Nishimura (Translator)Tokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II. Does anything remain of the old city?The internationally known Japanese architectural historian Jinnai Hidenobu set out on foot to rediscover the city of Tokyo. Armed with old maps, he wandered through back alleys and lanes, trying to experience the city's space as it had been lived by earlier residents. He found that, despite an almost completely ...

Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris - Paperback

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by Andrew McClellan (Author)Founded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre-with the greatest collection of Old Master paintings and antique sculpture assembled under one roof-became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. Andrew McClellan chronicles the formation of this great museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire. More than a narrative history, McClellan's account explor...

Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for Los Angeles Region - Paperback

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by Greg Hise (Author), William F. Deverell (Author), Laurie Olin (Afterword by)In 1930 the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region," to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and public beaches. It is a model of ambitious, intelligent, sensitive p...

Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History Volume 2 - Paperback

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by Leonie Sandercock (Editor)The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. While the official story of planning celebrates the state and its traditions of city building and regional development, these stories focus on previously una...

Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery - Hardcover

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by Mary C. Comerio (Author)Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies of six recent urban disasters-Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina, Hurricane Andrew in Florida, the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes in California, as well as earthqua...

Geodesic Math and How to Use It - Paperback

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by Hugh Kenner (Author)It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, Geodesic Math and How to Use It again presents a systematic method of design and provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical specifications for orthodox geodesic domes, as well as for a variety of elliptical, super-elliptical, and ot...

The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History - Paperback

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by Edward Casey (Author)In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, The Fate of Place is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to space and place. A centr...

The Dynamics of Architectural Form, 30th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Rudolf Arnheim (Author)In this classic volume, Rudolf Arnheim, an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts, turns his experienced eye to the visual aspects of buildings, amplifying his theories with new features specific to the medium of the architect. Arnheim explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture with his customary clarity and precision. Of particular interest is his thorough analysis of order and disorder in design, the nature of visual s...

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Rudolf Arnheim (Author)What determines the overall organization of visual form in the works of painting, sculpture, and architecture? Artists have sometimes ventured practical rules of thumb, and mathematicians have looked for formulas that would prescribe ideal spatial relations between shapes. This companion to Rudolf Arnheim's classic, Art and Visual Perception, shows how compositional form makes sense only when it utilizes visual symbols of the life experience that makes art meaningful...

Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai - Paperback

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by Anne Rademacher (Author)A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Building Green explores the experience of environmental architects in Mumbai, one of the world's most populous and population-dense urban areas and a city iconic for its massive informal settlements, extreme wealth asymmetries, and ecological stresses. Under these conditions, what does it mean to lea...

Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America - Paperback

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by Magali Sarfatti Larson (Author)Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with a new "deconstructionist" style--she analyzes the complex tensions that exist between economic interest, professional status, and architectural pro...

The Cathedral: The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Construction - Paperback

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by Alain Erlande-Brandenburg (Author)The popular image of the traditional western city has usually been dominated by the cathedral, whose sheer size seemed to create an isolated physical and spiritual focal point. In this iconoclastic study, the author sets out to reverse some of the romantic myths which have accrued about the medieval cathedral, in particular that the cathedral was a separate entity, self-sufficient, sublime and apart. Here the cathedral is shown to be a dynamic, evolving an...

The Idea of Cultural Heritage - Paperback

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by Derek Gillman (Author)The idea of cultural heritage has become widespread in many countries, justifying government regulation and providing the background to disputes over valuable works of art and architecture. In this book, Derek Gillman uses several well-known cases from Asia, Europe, and the United States to review the competing claims that works of art belong either to a particular people and place, or, from a cosmopolitan perspective, to all of humankind. Noting the importance of cul...

Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer, and Artist - Paperback

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by David P. Billington (Author)This comprehensive biography traces the life and works of Robert Maillart, one of the most important engineers and designers of the twentieth century. His career developed around a central issue of modern technological society: the debate between two antithetical views of engineering opposing applied science, which relied on general mathematical theories for understanding structures against design, which Maillart championed. Maillart considered structures not me...

Mosaics of the Greek and Roman World - Paperback

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by Katherine M. D. Dunbabin (Author)Mosaics reached their fullest development under the Romans who used them to decorate the floors of their houses and public buildings. This book gives a comprehensive and fully illustrated history of mosaics in the Greek and Roman world, and studies their development over a thousand years throughout the Roman Empire. Chapters are devoted to technique, to the role of mosaics in architecture, and to their social implications and the role of patrons. This book ...

Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' - Paperback

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by Vitruvius (Author), Ingrid D. Rowland (Editor), Thomas Noble Howe (Editor)For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Re...

Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process - Paperback

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by Rabun Taylor (Author)How were the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects carried out in practice? Each major phase of the building process is considered in the building histories of the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, and the great temples at Baalbek. New hypotheses are advanced on the raising of monolithic columns, the construction sequence of the Coliseum, and the vaulting of the Pantheon. The illustrations include archival and original photographs, as w...