wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Looking Beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism
ISBN: 9780813936437 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is one of the most important architectural preservationists of the recent past. Looking beyond the Icons offers a generous and diverse selection of his writings over the past twenty-five years. The author explores a variety of topics related to midcentury (ca. 1945-70) preservation efforts, including practical, intellectual, and psychological dilemmas associated with preserving the recent past, preservation-related deficiencies... Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard ... |
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395,19 zł |
Looking Beyond the Icons: Midcentury Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism
ISBN: 9780813936444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard Longstreth is one of the most important architectural preservationists of the recent past. Looking beyond the Icons offers a generous and diverse selection of his writings over the past twenty-five years. The author explores a variety of topics related to midcentury (ca. 1945-70) preservation efforts, including practical, intellectual, and psychological dilemmas associated with preserving the recent past, preservation-related deficiencies... Renowned for his extensive work in architectural history and historic preservation as an educator, scholar, activist, and public lecturer, Richard ... |
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215,70 zł |
Sustainability & Historic Preservation: Toward a Holistic View
ISBN: 9781611493375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these two spheres. To date, discussions of the relationship between historic preservation and sustainability have generally focused on the energy consumption of buildings. The nine chapters in this book show how that agenda can and should be expanded by examining many other facets of the environment, including agricultural lands, urban waterworks, irrigation systems, natural settings, an arboretum, and post-World War II suburbs. Written by specialists...
Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these ...
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382,54 zł |
Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice
ISBN: 9780816650996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Preservation has traditionally focused on saving prominent buildings of historical or architectural significance. Preserving cultural landscapes-the combined fabric of the natural and man-made environments-is a relatively new and often misunderstood idea among preservationists, but it is of increasing importance. The essays collected in this volume-case studies that include the Little Tokyo neighborhood in Los Angeles, the Cross Bronx Expressway, and a rural island in Puget Sound-underscore how this approach can be fruitfully applied. Together, they make clear that a cultural landscape... Preservation has traditionally focused on saving prominent buildings of historical or architectural significance. Preserving cultural landscapes-th... |
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121,09 zł |
Frank Lloyd Wright: Preservation, Design, and Adding to Iconic Buildings
ISBN: 9780813935430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright are not immune to the social and environmental forces that affect all architecture. Because of the popular recognition and historical significance of his work, however, the stakes are unusually high when his buildings are modified in any way. Any additions or changes must meet the highest standards; how exactly this can be achieved is the debate that fuels this compelling new book. The essays collected here are authored by many of the top professionals in the fields of architecture and preservation. Some of the contributors worked directly on the... The buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright are not immune to the social and environmental forces that affect all architecture. Because of the popular reco... |
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305,45 zł |
On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco
ISBN: 9780520214156 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 455 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
Richard Longstreth provides a detailed picture of the early careers of four architects--Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, Ernest Coxhead, and A.C. Schwein...
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293,18 zł |