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Programs and Manifestos on 20TH-century Architecture (70 Edition)
by Ulrich Conrads  Publisher Comments The present volume offers eloquent testimony that many of the master builders of this century have held passionate convictions regarding the philosophic and social basis of their art. Nearly every important development in the modern architectural...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture 2 Volumes
by Gordon Campbell Publisher Comments The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture spans every art form, medium, and civilization the fall of the Roman Empire, The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical ArtandArchitecture is a comprehensive reference source on this important field of...
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Modern Architecture Since 1900 3RD Edition Rev
by William J R Curtis Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis and interpretation. Technical, economic, social and...
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Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
by R A Scotti Publisher Comments In this dramatic journey through religious and artistic history, R. A. Scotti traces the defining event of a glorious epoch: the building of St. Peteras Basilica. Begun by the ferociously ambitious Pope Julius II in 1506, the endeavor would span two...
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The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest
by Lawrence Kreisman and Glenn Mason Publisher Comments This magnificent compendium is the first comprehensive exploration of the Arts and Crafts legacy in the Pacific Northwest. It traces the movement from its nineteenth century English beginnings to its flowering in Washington and Oregon through the 1920s...
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The English Manor House: From the Archives of Country Life
by Jeremy Musson Publisher Comments An English manor house represents an architectural ideal. For generations it has embodied civilized taste. These houses have formed a core part of Country Life features over the decades and this book contains fantastic photography of them. Here are...
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand 
Publisher Comments Buildings have often been studied whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. Architects (and architectural historians) are interested only in a building's original intentions. Most are dismayed by what happens later, when a...
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Brunelleschi's Dome (00 Edition)
by Ross King
Powells.com Staff Pick Of the many transformations that architecture has undergone throughout history, none is more important to the Renaissance than Filippo Brunelleschi's dome design for the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence. Few books have introduced...
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The Baroque Architecture of Sicily
by Maria Giuffre Publisher Comments The marvels of Sicilian Baroque—the dramatic power of its architecture and the emotional power of its decorative art - are well known. Numerous studies have been made, ranging from a focus on the major Sicilian towns or on architectural themes like...
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Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine)
by William S. (edt) Saunders Publisher Comments The complexity and scale of the environmental problems confronting humanity today provoke a wide range of responses, from indifference to anger to creativity. Among a growing number of architects, landscape architects, and planners, however, these...
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Le Corbusier in America: Travels in the Land of the Timid
by Mardges Bacon Publisher Comments Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern...
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Building the Future: Building Technology and Cultural History from the Industrali Revolution Until Today
by Ulrich Pfammatter Publisher Comments Spanning the last two centuries??????and offering cogent analyses of how we will build in the future??????this volume presents over one hundred case studies of built structures that illustrate the marriage of building technology and culture. Including...
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How to Read Buildings: A Crash Course in Architectural Styles
by Carol Davidson Cragoe Publisher Comments This practical primer is a handbook for decoding a building's style, history, and evolution. Every building contains clues embedded in its design that identify not only its architectural style but also the story of who designed it, who it was built for...
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Western Architecture: From Ancient Greece to the Present (World of Art)
by Ian Sutton Synopsis A survey of the history of architecture in Europe and North America from ancient Greece to the present. Sutton focuses on the technological achievements of architects and on aesthetic considerations whilst stressing that architecture is both a part of...
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Global History of Architecture (07 Edition)
by Francis D.k. Ching Publisher Comments A global perspective on architectural history– for the first time in one book Written by a stellar team of architectural educators, this richly illustrated reference is packed with detailed photographs and features drawings by the world-renowned...
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Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860-1900
by Mark Girouard Synopsis Describes the Queen Anne movement, in architecture, furnishings, gardens, and picture books, and examines schools, businesses, and homes constructed in this style....
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Ten Books on Architecture
by Vitruvius Publisher Comments The most important book ever written on architecture. Early Roman aesthetics, technology, classical orders, site selection, all other aspects. Morgan translation....
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Architecture or Techno-Utopia: Politics After Modernism
by Felicity D Scott Publisher Comments In Architecture or Techno-Utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines...
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Romanesque Ireland
by Tadhg O'keefe Book News Annotation O'Keeffe (archaeology, U. College Dublin, Ireland) has written a useful and scholarly overview of the history of the scholarship and current archaeology of Ireland's Romanesque architecture. His analysis of each monumentaccompanied by b&w plates of...
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The Sceptical Chymist (Chemistry)
by Robert Boyle Publisher Comments "Its contents cannot be appreciated without reference to the scientific climate of the seventeenth century, particularly in this country. The physicists of that period--Boyle calls them Ôhermetick philosophers'--upheld the Aristotelian doctrine...
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