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Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning NeighborhoodsCohousing Communities Explore a groundbreaking and holistic new approach to designing community-first neighborhoods In Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods, distinguished architect and affordable housing advocate Charles Durrett delivers a complete, start-to-finish guide for designing anything where the emphasis lies with the community. This...
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The Carpenter and the ArchitectA contemporary reminder of the importance of the carpenter and wood in Japanese architecture. When Japanese architecture is mentioned today, images of temples or pagodas generally come to mind. Others may think of more contemporary works: massive modular walls of rough concrete poured in...
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The Book of Requiems, 1450-1550: From the Earliest Ages to the Present PeriodReference work for musicologists, music theorists, performers, and music lovers Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. The Book of Requiems presents in-depth essays on the most important works in this tradition, from the origins...
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Piranesi and the Modern AgeThe complex appropriation of Piranesi by modern literature, photography, art, film, and architecture. The etchings of the Italian printmaker, architect, and antiquarian Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) have long mesmerized viewers. But, as Victor Plahte Tschudi shows, artists and writers of the modern era found...
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Matar Al Rey / To Kill the KingEL PODER ESTÁ EN LA SANGRE «JUEGO DE TRONOS NO ES NADA COMPARADO CON LAS INTRIGAS Y LA VIOLENCIA DE LA CASTILLA DEL SIGLO XIV . --JOSÉ LUIS CORRAL 1312. Ríos de sangre corren por el reino de Castilla y León tras la muerte...
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Visite Privee: Artists & Creatives at HomeVisite Privee is a fully updated follow-up to the bestselling Rendez-Vous (ISBN 9782875500373, published in October 2017). It showcases new portraits of passionate creatives from all over the world, in their own homes and workspaces. Creatives featured include: Gokelaere & Robinson (gallerist owners, Brussels...
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The Making of Place HouseThis tells the story of how a medieval abbey was converted into a Tudor mansion house in 1540. It became the major country residence for the earls of Southampton and a venue for many royal visits from Edward VI to Charles I.Author: Marilyn Wilton-SmithPublisher:...
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The Story of Architecture throughout the Ages (Yesterday's Classics)A detailed tour of architecture in the western world beginning with the Egyptian pyramids and ending with the skyscrapers of the early 20th century. In between the reader encounters the architecture of the Greeks, the Romans, the early Christians, and the Saracens, followed by...
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Abandoned, 2nd Edition: America's Vanishing LandscapeIn an expanded and updated edition, photographer Eric Holubow captures the melancholy, haunting beauty of decaying structures across the US. Across the United States, decaying ruins of once-thriving structures lie dormant and forgotten as time and nature leave their melancholy mark. Yet through this...
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Himalayan Style (Architecture, Photography, Travel Book): Shelters & SanctuariesFeaturing gorgeous photography of ancient Himalayan architecture, recent restoration projects, and modern trends in building and crafts, Himalayan Style celebrates the vitality, diversity, and potential of Himalayan forms and designs. Himalayan Style combines a treasury of beautiful full-color photographs and engrossing essays to offer...
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A Center for the Victims of Domestic Violence in New HavenThis new book focuses on an advanced graduate architecture studio at Yale led by Turner Brooks and Jonathan Toews for the design of a Family Justice Center for New Haven. This relatively new institution is designed to assist with domestic violence victims on many...
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That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole...
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Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos"The wonders and curiosities of the Islamic imagination await discovery by a new generation of readers in this superb and very enjoyable book by Travis Zadeh."--Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The astonishing biography of one of the world's most influential...
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Miguel Ángel. La Obra Completa. Pintura, Escultura, ArquitecturaBefore reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique--no artist...
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Anish KapoorFrom the sublime to the corporeal: an exquisite career survey of Anish KapoorWidely considered one of the most influential sculptors working today, British artist Anish Kapoor (born 1954) here constructs a career survey of his works within the exquisite Renaissance architecture of the Venetian...
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A+u 21:08, 611: Feature: Nenia Project - Smiljan Radic- Smiljan Radi's 25 key projects ranging from sculptures to buildings, all produced between 2010 and 2021, are presented here along with his own conceptual drawings and paintings are featured in this issueThis August issue of a+u features the work of Chilean architect Smiljan...
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Remember Me: Renaissance PortraitsHow Renaissance Old Masters expanded the terms and vocabulary of portraitureIn the Renaissance, artists across Europe produced lifelike portraits with new virtuoso realism and exactitude, immortalizing not only kings and noblemen but, increasingly, bankers, merchants and scholars. These paintings, busts, prints and drawings still...
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Fairmont: Grand by NatureA guided tour through the elegant and historic properties of Fairmont hotels and resortsCelebrating the architecture of the beloved Fairmont hotels and resorts, this volume presents both historic gems and innovative, avant-garde structures. It includes many of Fairmont's famous château-style resorts such as the...
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The Rise of RiverstoneShe was forced to watch her world burn.They should have killed her when they had the chance.Praed is a country of vast prairies and looming mountains where the elite make their homes along a mighty river. For hundreds of years, to wear the crown...
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Mike's Unforgettable St. Louis History, Volume 1Strange, serious, silly, and stupefying stories about St. Louis you won't be able to forget! Do you know about the Englishman who won St. Louis's 1904 Olympic marathon while drinking French brandy, bits of strychnine, and warm water from a car radiator? Or that...
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