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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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180,16 zł |
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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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300,85 zł |
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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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145,18 zł |
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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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254,16 zł |
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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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141,91 zł |
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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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483,95 zł |
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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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109,77 zł |
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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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570,57 zł |
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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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27,25 zł |
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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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38,17 zł |
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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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191,05 zł |
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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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87,77 zł |
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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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109,77 zł |
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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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100,97 zł |
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Guide to the Architecture of Georgia
ISBN: 9780872498563 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the haunting grandeur of the Etowah Indian Mounds to the futuristic steel and glass of the Atlanta skyline, The Guide to the Architecture of Georgia spans 500 years and numerous miles to reveal the state's rich architectural heritage. Award-winning architect Tom Spector and free-lance photographer Susan Owings-Spector traveled Georgia's backroads and highways to catalog impressive examples of Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Neoclassical, Victorian, and Modern architecture that are open to the public and well worth a visit. The volume supplies all the information necessary to locate,...
From the haunting grandeur of the Etowah Indian Mounds to the futuristic steel and glass of the Atlanta skyline, The Guide to the Architecture of Geor...
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99,41 zł |
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Building Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture in a Rural Minnesota Parish
ISBN: 9780873513692 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The German Catholic immigrants who founded St. John the Baptist parish on the central Minnesota prairie effected a remarkable transfer of tradition to their new environment. In this study, Fred Peterson documents, analyzes, and interprets the community these settlers built between 1858 and 1915. He reveals how their folk culture, aesthetic values, and religious beliefs were directly embodied in the houses, dairy farms, and churches they planned and constructed.
Peterson's main focus is on some 30 distinctive farmhouses built with locally produced brick in and around Meire Grove,... The German Catholic immigrants who founded St. John the Baptist parish on the central Minnesota prairie effected a remarkable transfer of tradition to...
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104,44 zł |
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Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
ISBN: 9780874517712 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quintessential New England barn-photogenic, full of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage-is an endangered species. Of some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year are lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser's field guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns, and potato houses of New England is an attempt to document not just their structure but their traditions and innovations before the surviving architectural evidence of this rich rural heritage is lost forever. A recognized authority on historic barn...
The quintessential New England barn-photogenic, full of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage-is an endangered species. Of some 30,000 barns...
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109,20 zł |
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Shaker Architecture
ISBN: 9780887401534 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Each of the Shaker communities is represented with very interesting photographs of the buildings that made up their world. The Shakers expressed imagination through their environment, and the details of architecture became their tangible art, while they achieved enduring beauty through the functionalism and simplicity of their design.
Each of the Shaker communities is represented with very interesting photographs of the buildings that made up their world. The Shakers expressed imagi...
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117,05 zł |
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The Culture of Silence: Architecture's Fifth Dimension
ISBN: 9780890967850 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. German playwright Berthold Brecht once observed that "the Finns are silent in two languages." To those familiar with Finnish society and conversation, Brecht's remark aptly summarizes the difficulty of exchanging pleasantries, let alone ideas, with Finns. Those who have come up against these impenetrable boundaries have asked themselves if the problem is climatic, sociocultural, Gemeinschaft without Gesellschaft, or some other explanation for the manifest unwillingness to confront and engage.
The intent of these essays is to explore the notion of a "culture of silence" through the basis... German playwright Berthold Brecht once observed that "the Finns are silent in two languages." To those familiar with Finnish society and conversation,...
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229,05 zł |
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The Victory of the New Building Style
ISBN: 9780892365630 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return to basic geometries and to express the new social and economic realities.
In this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and...
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163,80 zł |
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