wyszukanych pozycji: 23
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Edward Shaw of Boston: Antebellum Architect and Author -- An Introduction, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 106, Part 2)
ISBN: 9781606180624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is the first in-depth study of the career of an important antebellum American architect and author. It is a contribution to the history of architecture and the history of the book. In the quarter century after 1830, Edward Shaw designed dozens of town houses in Boston, including the landmark Adam Wallace Thaxer, Jr. house on Beacon Hill (1836). Shaw also published five influential books on architecture and structural materials, one of them reprinted in several editions to 1900. Research in Boston archives has unearthed building records and drawings for unbuilt Shaw designs. Also...
This is the first in-depth study of the career of an important antebellum American architect and author. It is a contribution to the history of archit...
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174,52 |
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Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University
ISBN: 9781580936590 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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326,08 |
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Among the Early Evangelicals: The Transatlantic Origins of the Stone-Campbell Movement
ISBN: 9780891125822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Among the Early Evangelicals charts a new course for the Stone-Campbell Movement. While Among the Early Evangelicals charts a new course for the Stone-Campbell Movement. While |
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110,10 |
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Reviving the Ancient Faith, 3rd Ed.: The Story of Churches of Christ in America
ISBN: 9780802877291 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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175,68 |
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The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston
ISBN: 9781558494367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Explores the process of collaboration in the creation of an American architectural masterpiece; Since its dedication in 1877, Trinity Church on Copley Square in Boston has been widely regarded as one of the most important and successful monuments of American architecture. It has long been halled as the cornerstone of the career of America's first celebrity architect, H. H. Richardson. But architecture is not solely the expression of individual genius. Buildings result from collaboration and compromise. They are the concrete manifestations of competing needs, desires, and expectations...
Explores the process of collaboration in the creation of an American architectural masterpiece; Since its dedication in 1877, Trinity Church on Copley...
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164,83 |
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Three American Architects: Richardson, Sullivan, and Wright, 1865-1915
ISBN: 9780226620725 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Louis Sullivan (1856-1924), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959). He traces the evolution of forms created during these architects' careers, emphasizing the interrelationships among them and focusing on the designs and executed buildings that demonstrate those interrelationships. O'Gorman also shows how each envisioned the building types demanded by the growth of nineteenth-century cities and suburbs the downtown skyscraper and the single-family...
O'Gorman discusses the individual and collective achievement of the recognized trinity of American architecture: Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-86), Lo...
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127,58 |
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Some Architects' Portraits in Nineteenth-Century America: Personifying the Evolving Profession Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 103,
ISBN: 9781606180341 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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155,13 |
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Accomplished in All Departments of Art : Hammatt Billings of Boston, 1818-74
ISBN: 9781558491489 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This work reconstructs the career of Hammatt Billings, one of the most versatile artists of the 19th century. Skilled in a wide range of media, Billings designed furniture, statuary, monuments, architecture, and public and private gardens, was a painter, and a private and public artist.
This work reconstructs the career of Hammatt Billings, one of the most versatile artists of the 19th century. Skilled in a wide range of media, Billin...
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184,22 |
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Chronicles of Onken
ISBN: 9781663274397 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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106,39 |
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Henry Austin: In Every Variety of Architectural Style
ISBN: 9780819568960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Winner of the Historic New England Book Prize (2009)
Winner of the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award (2010) Henry Austin's (1804-1891) works receive consideration in books on nineteenth-century architecture, yet no book has focused scholarly attention on his primary achievements in New Haven, Connecticut, in Portland, Maine, and elsewhere. Austin was most active during the antebellum era, designing exotic buildings that have captured the imaginations of many for decades. James F. O'Gorman deftly documents Austin's work during the 1840s and '50s, the time when Austin was... Winner of the Historic New England Book Prize (2009)
Winner of the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award (2010) Henry Austin's (1804... |
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125,80 |
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Isaiah Rogers: Architectural Practice in Antebellum America
ISBN: 9781625341228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Based largely on famous architect Isaiah Rogers's own diary, this book tells his story and adds much to our understanding of architectural practice in the United States before the Civil War and during the last half of the 19th century.
Based largely on famous architect Isaiah Rogers's own diary, this book tells his story and adds much to our understanding of architectural practice in...
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140,54 |
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Texas Wind
ISBN: 9781930997516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes that he's taken on more than he bargained for. The facts surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessman's daughter, twenty-year-old Mandy Traft, are far from clear. Did she run off with her boyfriend? Or has she been kidnapped? With each step Cody takes, the case becomes increasingly dangerous. Before long, he's been warned off, and bodies are starting to tumble. He knows he should get out while he still can. But he can't. Not until he finds Mandy....
When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes that he's taken ...
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76,39 |
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Texas Wind
ISBN: 9781930997509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "one of the great cult hardboiled novels of our time." Ed Gorman When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a straightforward missing person case, he soon realizes that he's taken on more than he bargained for. The facts surrounding the disappearance of Fort Worth businessman's daughter, twenty-year-old Mandy Traft, are far from clear. Did she run off with her boyfriend? Or has she been kidnapped? With each step Cody takes, the case becomes increasingly dangerous. Before long, he's been warned off, and bodies are starting to tumble. He knows he should get...
"one of the great cult hardboiled novels of our time." Ed Gorman When Cody, a Texas private investigator, is hired to look into what should be a strai...
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143,44 |
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How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution
ISBN: 9780452296015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur. Based on new research in evolutionary developmental biology on how a few select cells grow to create arms, legs, eyes, and brains that function together, Jack Horner takes the science a step further in a plan to "reverse evolution" and reveals the awesome, even frightening, power being...
A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur Over a decade ...
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91,22 |
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Maia:: A Dinosaur Grows Up
ISBN: 9781591523307 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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68,42 |
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The Eleven
ISBN: 9781489721914 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
cena:
130,95 |
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The Eleven
ISBN: 9781489721907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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40,67 |
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American Architects and Their Books to 1848
ISBN: 9781558492820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, twelve historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a period when the profession of architecture was first emerging in the United States.
As architects separated themselves from amateur and gentlemen designers on the one hand and masons and carpenters on the other, members of the profession were distinguished by their ability to draw and their possession of a common body... Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume...
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116,30 |
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American Architects and Their Books, 1840-1915
ISBN: 9781558496026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Since the Renaissance, architects have been authors and architecture has been the subject of publications. Architectural forms and theories are spread not just by buildings, but by the distribution of images and descriptions fed through the printing press. The study of an architect's library is an essential avenue to understanding that architect's intentions and judging his or her achievements. In this well-illustrated volume, a chronological sequel to American Architects and Their Books to 1848, twelve distinguished historians of architecture discuss from various points of view the books...
Since the Renaissance, architects have been authors and architecture has been the subject of publications. Architectural forms and theories are spread...
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164,83 |
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ABC of Architecture
ISBN: 9780812216318 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) ABC of Architecture James F. O'Gorman. Drawings by Dennis E. McGrath "May be the best-written work on the subject."--New York Times "Thank goodness for James F. O'Gorman, who has given us this refreshingly clear guide to the indispensable convergence of art and science we call architecture."--Forbes " O'Gorman's] mastery of the subject shows in his straightforward, lucid prose."--Publishers Weekly "James O'Gorman's ABC of Architecture takes its rightful place among the few paragons this century of clear and direct introductions to the field."--Robert Venturi ABC...
ABC of Architecture James F. O'Gorman. Drawings by Dennis E. McGrath "May be the best-written work on the subject."--New York Times "Thank good...
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96,90 |