Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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InnocentThe year is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at its peak and the legitimacy of the royal family is suspect. Meanwhile, deep in the forests of western England, a baby is born. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother...
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Ruin and Redemption in ArchitectureLost, forgotten, reimagined, and transformed: the compelling beauty of abandoned, reinvented, and rescued architectureThis book captures the awe-inspiring drama of abandoned, forgotten, and ruined spaces, as well as the extraordinary designs that can bring them back to life - demonstrating that reimagined, repurposed, and...
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Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide: East Coast USAA curated list of more than 250 must-see destinations organized geographically from Maine to FloridaFeaturing architecture by some of the biggest Mid-Century names, including Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Philip Johnson, each of the more than 250 buildings is located...
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Ornament Is Crime, Modernist Architecture: Modernist ArchitectureAn unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present dayAuthor: Albert Hill, Matt GibberdPublisher: Phaidon PressPublished: 06/19/2017Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.60lbsSize: 11.40h x 9.90w x 0.90dISBN: 9780714874166About the AuthorMatt Gibberd is a Founding Director of The Modern House, a London-based...
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Princess of the Reformation: Jeanne d'AlbretAn inspiring true story of how one princess changed the course of history The Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther in 1517 was growing. Jeanne D'Albret, a beautiful French princess in the 1550s was faced with a choice: risk her life and royal position...
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The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle AgesA leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an...
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Landscape as Urbanism: A General TheoryA definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanism It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another--or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by...
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Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade - Updated EditionNearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity,...
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A History of Art HistoryAn authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through...
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The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of EuropeModern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this...
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Canterbury TalesA vigorous treatment of The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Pardoner's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. "This carefully researched and lively edition...is richly and beautifully produced....One could not ask for a more enticing introduction to Chaucer's world." -- Publishers Weekly.Author:...
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The Middle AgesSince the fifteenth century, when humanist writers began to speak of a "middle" period in history linking their time to the ancient world, the nature of the Middle Ages has been widely debated. Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried...
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Roman ForumOne of the most visited sites in Italy, the Roman Forum is also one of the best-known wonders of the Roman world. Though a highpoint on the tourist route around Rome, for many visitors the site can be a baffling disappointment. Several of the...
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Corrupting Sea Mediterranean HThe Corrupting Sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the Mediterranean region over some 3,000 years. It offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong.Author: Horden,...
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Store Design: A Complete Guide to Designing Successful Retail StoresAs a professional working with retail clients and their facilities, Store Design is an invaluable resource for all project stakeholders in the retail environment. It's a concise but complete overview of the design perspectives critical to creating spaces that excite, energize, and, most importantly,...
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Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth IThe riveting true story of how Ireland came to be, told through eyewitness accounts from a thousand years of struggle "A fascinating mixture of mythology and actual historical events. . . . Lovers of Irish and medieval literature will relish this book."--Booklist For the...
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern WorldEstablished by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews -- and with burning at the stake -- its targets were more numerous and its...
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Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century SpainBranded by the Spanish Inquisition as an "evil dreamer," a "notorious mother of prophets," the teenager Lucrecia de León had hundreds of bleak but richly imaginative dreams of Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy and scandal. Based upon surviving transcripts of...
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Warehouse Home: Industrial Inspiration for Twenty-First-Century LivingAs space for land development in cities shrinks and city dwellers tire of cookie-cutter apartment towers, a love for historical buildings has returned. The initial interest in lofts began in SoHo, New York, in the 1970s, and the love of warehouse buildings--often in attractive...
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A Chronology of Architecture: A Cultural Timeline from Stone Circles to SkyscrapersRoman architect and engineer Vitruvius defined architecture's characteristics to include firmitas, utilitas, and venustas--essentially, structural integrity, usefulness, and beauty. Amazingly, all three Vitruvian characteristics can be found one way or another in most buildings and constructions from antiquity through the present. A Chronology of...
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