Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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Aesop's FablesAesop's Fables - Translated by George Fyler Townsend THE TALE, the Parable, and the Fable are all common and popular modes of conveying instruction. Each is distinguished by its own special characteristics. The Tale consists simply in the narration of a story either founded...
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Architettura comacinaArchitettura comacina ... abbiamo il coraggio di affermare che, secondo l'animo nostro, la rozza, ma feconda architettura italiana, la quale, in difetto di nome pi proprio, s'usa chiamare lombarda, diventer con gli anni, svolta ed ingentilita e rimodernata che sia, l'architettura della nuova Italia....
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The Later RenaissanceThe Later RenaissanceThe general rules by which this series is governed have been fully stated by the Editor in the first published volume, The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory. It will therefore not be necessary for me to do more than...
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La vita Italiana nel Rinascimento: Conferenze tenute a Firenze nel 1892La vita Italiana nel Rinascimento: Conferenze tenute a Firenze nel 1892 Vi ricordate della tragedia di Vittorio Alfieri intitolata: La Congiura de' Pazzi? Come opera d'arte non gran che, lasciando stare anche l'alterazione quasi grottesca dei fatti storici, dei caratteri e persino dei nomi...
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The Autobiography of Phineas PettThe Autobiography of Phineas PettIt might be supposed that so ancient a craft as that of shipbuilding would have left some trace in contemporary records of its activities, the methods of its technique, and the personalities of those engaged in it. Yet although references...
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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3)Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) - Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630Certain spelling inconsistencies have been made consistent; for example, variants of Michelangelo's last name have been changed to Buonarroti. Archaic spellings in...
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The Chapel of the Holy Spirit in the Church of St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, S.WThe Chapel of the Holy Spirit in the Church of St. Peter's, Cranley Gardens, S.W.Transcribed from the 1909 edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries, Local Studies department, for allowing their copy to be...
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The Boys' Book of SubmarinesThe Boys' Book of SubmarinesAnd yet while of course you know that a submarine can travel on or under the water, dive like a porpoise and destroy an enemy ship by shooting a torpedo at her, do you know exactly how an undersea boat...
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Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of LettersPetrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters - A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the RenaissanceDuring the fifteen years which have elapsed since the appearance of the first edition of this volume...
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Fra Tommaso Campanella, Vol. 2Fra Tommaso Campanella, Vol. 2 - la sua congiura, i suoi processi e la sua pazziaI. Al declinare del giorno 8 novembre 1599, le quattro galere provenienti dalla Calabria giungevano in vista di Napoli, e poco dopo un battello spiccavasi dal Regio tarcenale, come...
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Les origines de la Renaissance en ItalieLes origines de la Renaissance en ItalieVII La Renaissance italienne commence, en ralit, antrieurement Ptrarque, car dj, dans les ouvrages des sculpteurs pisans et de Giotto, de mme que dans l'architecture du XIIe et du XIIIe sicle, les arts sont renouvels. Dante lui-mme, qui...
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Famous Scots Series, 14Norman MacleodIf any modern minister has a place, though it were the least, among the worthies of his nation, he must have been a surprising personality. When Scottish life was based on Calvinism, and there was a Stuart deforming the Kirk at the swords...
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Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial VirginiaSome Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia Various types of watercraft used in Colonial Virginia have been mentioned in the records. The dugout canoe of the Indians was found by the settlers upon arrival, and was one of the chief means of...
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The Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its PossibilitiesThe Submarine in War and Peace: Its Development and its PossibilitiesJules Verne, in 1898, cabled to a New York publication: "While my book, 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,' is entirely a work of the imagination, my conviction is that all I said in...
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An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own LifeboatAn Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own LifeboatIt is the object of this work to show that, in our eagerness to make the ocean liner fast and luxurious, we have forgotten to make her safe. The safest ocean liner was the Great Eastern; and...
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Wonderful Development of Peter the Great's Pet Projects, according to His Last Will and TestamentWonderful Development of Peter the Great's Pet Projects, according to His Last Will and Testament. - American Invention as an Aid to Russia's Grasp on Asiatic Territory.Peter the Great may justly be credited with having been the greatest civilizer of his race. To him...
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Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3)Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) - Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Other errors are indicated by red dotted underlining. Hover the cursor over the underlined...
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Boat-Building and BoatingBoat-Building and BoatingThis is not a book for yacht-builders, but it is intended for beginners in the art of boat-building, for boys and men who wish to make something with which they may navigate the waters of ponds, lakes, or streams. It begins with...
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The Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and ArchitectureThe Cathedrals of Great Britain: Their History and ArchitectureIn this volume I have attempted to give an architectural[v] description of all the cathedral churches of England, Wales, and Scotland, together with a brief history of each see. In order to include any adequate account...
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The Symbolism of Churches and Church OrnamentsThe Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments - A Translation of the First Book of the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum The interest which has lately been displayed, as on all subjects connected with Ecclesiology, so more especially on the symbolical bearing of Church Architecture, has...
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