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Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places
ISBN: 9780816635153 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader Volume 5
ISBN: 9780816652648 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to brand cities and institutions, and the dizzying transformations of the skylines of Shanghai and Dubai, public awareness of architecture and design has perhaps never been higher. At the same time, architecture itself is undergoing an identity crisis as it confronts fundamental issues: the effect of digital technology on design, the pervasive impact of global capitalism, and whether to embrace or resist popular media and taste.
The... In response to the contentious process surrounding the selection of a design for the World Trade Center site, the use of spectacular buildings to b... |
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Historic Architecture in Alabama: A Guide to Styles and Types, 1810-1930
ISBN: 9780817311346 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richly illustrated and concisely organized, this architectural guide Robert Gamble outlines in detail the primary architectural currents Richly illustrated and concisely organized, this architectural guide |
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Architectural Variability in the Southeast
ISBN: 9780817354596 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast and includes research on the variation of construction techniques employed both above and below ground.
This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast and includes research on the variation of co...
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135,98 |
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Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture
ISBN: 9780820307503 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring America's material culture, "Common Places" reveals the history, culture, and social and class relationships that are the backdrop of the everyday structures and environments of ordinary people. Examining America's houses and cityscapes, its rural outbuildings and landscapes from perspectives including cultural geography, decorative arts, architectural history, and folklore, these articles reflect the variety and vibrancy of the growing field of vernacular architecture. In essays that focus on buildings and spaces unique to the U.S. landscape, Clay Lancaster, Edward T. Price,... Exploring America's material culture, "Common Places" reveals the history, culture, and social and class relationships that are the backdrop of the... |
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An Ornament to the City: Old Mobile Ironwork
ISBN: 9780820327006 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "iron lace" that graces the businesses, homes, squares, and cemeteries of Mobile, Alabama, is as vital a part of that southern port city as it is of New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah. Until now, its story has never been fully told. In this attractive volume, John S. Sledge's rich narrative, combined with evocative historic images and Sheila Hagler's stunning contemporary photographs, eloquently conveys as never before how ornamental cast iron defines Mobile's heart and soul. Cast iron was the wonder of the Victorian age, according to Sledge. In Mobile, the material's diverse... The "iron lace" that graces the businesses, homes, squares, and cemeteries of Mobile, Alabama, is as vital a part of that southern port city as it ... |
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Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City
ISBN: 9780821417003 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cincinnati was the first great city founded afterAmerican independence, and its prodigious growth reflected the rise of the new nation. Its architectureis a testament to that growth and to the importance of the city itself.Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City tracesthe city s development from the first town plans of the 1780s to the city that it is today, renowned for its dramatic architectural achievements. It is a fascinating story of patrons, politicians, architects, engineers, and planners building a city.Bringing the city s rich...
Cincinnati was the first great city founded afterAmerican independence, and its prodigious growth reflected the rise of the new nation. Its architectu...
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Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City
ISBN: 9780821417010 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cincinnati was the first "great" city founded after American independence, and its prodigious growth reflected the rise of the new nation. Its architecture is a testament to that growth and to the importance of the city itself. Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City traces the city's development from the first town plans of the 1780s to the city that it is today, renowned for its dramatic architectural achievements. It is a fascinating story of patrons, politicians, architects, engineers, and planners building a city. Bringing the city's...
Cincinnati was the first "great" city founded after American independence, and its prodigious growth reflected the rise of the new nation. Its archite...
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135,98 |
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Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9780821417591 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1910 John Merven Carrere, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities. The five essays in "Paris on the Potomac" explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C., which continued long after the well-known contributions of Peter Charles L Enfant, the transplanted French military officer who designed the city s plan.
Isabelle Gournay s introductory essay provides an overview and examines the context and issues involved in three distinct periods of French influence: the... In 1910 John Merven Carrere, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities. The fiv...
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Paris on the Potomac: The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9780821417607 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1910 John Merven Carrere, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, "Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities." The five essays in Paris on the Potomac explore aspects of this influence on the artistic and architectural environment of Washington, D.C., which continued long after the well-known contributions of Peter Charles L'Enfant, the transplanted French military officer who designed the city's plan. Isabelle Gournay's introductory essay provides an overview and examines the context and issues involved in three distinct periods of French...
In 1910 John Merven Carrere, a Paris-trained American architect, wrote, "Learning from Paris made Washington outstanding among American cities." The f...
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126,25 |
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The Early Architecture Of Western Pennsylvania
ISBN: 9780822937876 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of this long unavailable classic features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Containing 416 black-and-white photographs, 81 measured drawings and an extensive text, this volume presents a splendid array of the early dwellings, barns, and other outbuildings, churches, arsenals, banks, inns, commercial buildings, tollhouses, mills, and even tombstones of western Pennsylvania.
The new edition of this long unavailable classic features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton. Contai...
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Anasazi Architecture and American Design
ISBN: 9780826317797 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps.
Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban pl...
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97,10 |
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Anglo-Norman Castles
ISBN: 9780851159041 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The castles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries remain among the most visible symbols of the Anglo-Norman world. This collection brings together for the first time some of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from experts in history, archaeology and historic buildings. Castles remain a controversial topic of academic debate and here equal weight is given to seminal articles that have defined the study of the subject while at the same time emphasising newer approaches to the fortresses of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy. The studies in this volume range from...
The castles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries remain among the most visible symbols of the Anglo-Norman world. This collection brings together for...
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Discovering Church Architecture: A Glossary of Terms
ISBN: 9780852633281 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book helps to identify ecclesiastical architecture. It is a dictionary explaining in simple language over 600 terms likely to be encountered on a church visits and is illustrated with more than 300 drawings.
This book helps to identify ecclesiastical architecture. It is a dictionary explaining in simple language over 600 terms likely to be encountered on a...
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Discovering Cottage Architecture
ISBN: 9780852636732 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aids the recognition, understanding and historical interpretation of the surviving cottages in England and Wales. Their changing forms, quality and methods of building are explained and illustrated.
This book aids the recognition, understanding and historical interpretation of the surviving cottages in England and Wales. Their changing forms, qual...
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35,74 |
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Roman Public Buildings
ISBN: 9780859894753 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roman Public Buildings was first published in the Exeter Studies in History series in 1989. It examines the development of Roman architecture and the significance of different types of buildings for the political, social and economic history of the period. A glossary of technical terms is included.
Roman Public Buildings was first published in the Exeter Studies in History series in 1989. It examines the development of Roman architecture and the ...
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Rural Architecture
ISBN: 9780865340015 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stedman focuses on the numerous fascinating and picturesque aspects of rural architecture, specifically highlighting northern New Mexico and southern Colorado in splendid pen and ink drawings. (Architecture)
Stedman focuses on the numerous fascinating and picturesque aspects of rural architecture, specifically highlighting northern New Mexico and southern ...
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75,83 |
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Ageless Adobe: History and Preservation in Southwestern Architecture
ISBN: 9780865340343 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Iowa provides practical details on methods of preservation and maintenance for old adobe buildings. The over 200 illustrations and "how-to" directions enable the do-it-yourself home owner as well as the professional architect or contractor to plan and carry out renovation. (Architecture)
Iowa provides practical details on methods of preservation and maintenance for old adobe buildings. The over 200 illustrations and "how-to" directions...
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Centuries of Hands: An Architectural History of St. Francis of Assisi Church
ISBN: 9780865342347 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This church is one of the most widely recognized buildings in the United States. Since its original construction in the early nineteenth century, it has gone through many remodelings.
This church is one of the most widely recognized buildings in the United States. Since its original construction in the early nineteenth century, it h...
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87,23 |
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An Architectural Guidebook to Portland
ISBN: 9780870711916 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A graceful combination of eccentric and traditional architecture. Portland, Oregon, is a city widely known for its civic planning, preservation of historic buildings, attractiveness, and inviting atmosphere. Within the five-mile downtown district can be found skyscrapers, nineteenth-century cast-iron-front buildings, a riverfront park, old brick warehouses and breweries still in operation, a train station with a 150-foot clock tower, five bridges, and a rich assortment of museums, government buildings, and shops. With more than 250 entries, this comprehensive guide includes the following:...
A graceful combination of eccentric and traditional architecture. Portland, Oregon, is a city widely known for its civic planning, preservation of his...
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