California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage
ISBN: 9780816637973 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Nothing defines California and our nation's heritage as significantly or emotionally," says the California Mission Foundation, "as do the twenty-one missions that were founded along the coast from San Diego to Sonoma." Indeed, the missions collectively represent the state's most iconic tourist destinations and are touchstones for interpreting its history. Elementary school students today still make model missions evoking the romanticized versions of the 1930s. Does it occur to them or to the tourists that the missions have a dark history? California Mission Landscapes is an... "Nothing defines California and our nation's heritage as significantly or emotionally," says the California Mission Foundation, "as do the twenty-o... |
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Hybrid Modernity: The Public Park in Late 20th Century China
ISBN: 9781472445674 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China. It questions whether the fusion of international influences with the local Chinese design vocabulary in late 20th century China has created a distinctive approach to public park design that is novel. And, if so, how has this taken place, and what does it mean for landscape architecture and urbanism in China? It does so by examining the design of public parks built in post-Mao China since the reforms through a new theory - hybrid modernization -...
This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century China....
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686,78 zł |
Architecture of Minneapolis Parks
ISBN: 9781531639006 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,38 zł |
Bauen für die Weltgemeinschaft : Die CIAM und das UNESCO-Gebäude in Paris
ISBN: 9783110403473 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mit einem spektakularen Bauprojekt wollte die UNESCO in den 1950er Jahren der Idee internationaler Volkerverstandigung durch Kultur Ausdruck verleihen. Fur dessen Realisierung wandte sie sich an die fuhrenden Vertreter moderner Architektur, die CIAM, vertreten durch Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer u. a. Die Publikation legt durch eine detaillierte Quellenrecherche die Netzwerkstrukturen beider Organisationen offen. Sie zeigt auf, wie die UNESCO einen internationalen Kulturkanon auf der Basis moderner kunsttheoretischer Ideen und Konzepte der Vorkriegszeit zu etablieren... Mit einem spektakularen Bauprojekt wollte die UNESCO in den 1950er Jahren der Idee internationaler Volkerverstandigung durch Kultur Ausdruck verlei... |
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304,92 zł |
The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq
ISBN: 9781558761636 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The revolt of African slaves in Iraq from 869 to 883 AD - the revolt of the Zanj - was one of the greatest rebellions in world history and the first major uprising in the history of the African diaspora. In this text Alexandre Popovic offers a study of the revolt and its consequences.
The revolt of African slaves in Iraq from 869 to 883 AD - the revolt of the Zanj - was one of the greatest rebellions in world history and the first m...
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216,21 zł |
The Tao of Architecture
ISBN: 9780691175713 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea, developing the parallel with the aid of architectural drawings and Chinese paintings. Now with a new foreword by David Wang, this book reveals the vitality of intangible, or negative, elements. Chang writes that these qualities make architectonic forms "come alive, become human, naturally harmonize with one another, and enable us to experience them with human sensibility." The Tao of... Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this cl... |
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59,91 zł |
Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages
ISBN: 9781531621490 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those hustling to find lodging in the Berkshires today may not know they are repeating a two-hundred fifty-year-old ritual. In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the Berkshires played host to some of the most fascinating characters in American literature, politics, business, and the arts. They came with the warm breezes and left when they felt the first cold snap in the autumnal air. The Berkshires: Coach Inns to Cottages is a photographic record of Berkshire dwelling places from the rough simplicity of stagecoach inns to the glittering luxury of Gilded Age cottages....
Those hustling to find lodging in the Berkshires today may not know they are repeating a two-hundred fifty-year-old ritual. In the eighteenth, ninetee...
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Escape Home: Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss
ISBN: 9780997003468 / Angielski / Miękka / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Intimate and scholarly... Patient readers will be rewarded. An encyclopedic and epistolary family history, a eulogy for pre-Reich Vienna and an ode to midcentury modernism."
-- Kirkus Reviews "This jewel should not be called a book but a museum." -- Will Semler, author (Melbourne, Australia) "One of the more uplifting accounts of European emigre life that I have read in a long time.... It will touch you to tears right away, regardless of how many accounts of similar fates you believe to have studied and understood.... What a book " -- Volker M. Welter, author and... "Intimate and scholarly... Patient readers will be rewarded. An encyclopedic and epistolary family history, a eulogy for pre-Reich Vienna and an ode t...
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81,39 zł |
Policy and Law in Heritage Conservation
ISBN: 9781138172531 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book has been developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe. It examines key themes and objectives for the protection of the architectural and archaeological heritage in a range of European countries. The analysis of individual countries and the group as a whole gives an assessment of how advanced current mechanisms are and the ongoing problems that remain to be managed in order to safeguard the 'common heritage'.
This book has been developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe. It examines key themes and objectives for ...
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686,78 zł |
The Living Tradition of Architecture
ISBN: 9781138640481 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwelling and thinking. This is a timely appraisal of the field by some of its foremost contributors. Beyond modern misconceptions about tradition only relating to things past and conducive to a historicist vision, the essays in this volume reveal tradition as a living continuity and common ground of reference for architecture. This collection of essays brings together world-leading scholars, practicing architects and educators, Alberto Perez-Gomez,... The Living Tradition of Architecture explores the depth of architecture as it takes flesh in the living tradition of building, dwel... |
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864,83 zł |
Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection
ISBN: 9781138251151 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. This multi-faceted approach drives Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Despite three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. This volume...
Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, th...
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Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780968128879 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Architectural Capriccio: Memory, Fantasy and Invention
ISBN: 9781138246447 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leon Krier, this volume provides a kaleidoscopic, multilayered exploration of the Architectural Capriccio. It not only explains the phenomena within a historical context, but moreover, demonstrates its contemporary validity and appropriateness as a holistic design methodology, an inspiring pictorial strategy, an efficient rendering technique and an optimal didactic tool. The book shows and comments on a wide range of historic masterworks and...
Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and Leo...
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Whitemarsh Hall: The Estate of Edward T. Stotesbury
ISBN: 9781531621131 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whitemarsh Hall, known as "the Versailles of America," was one of the largest and most exquisite estates in North America. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, one of the wealthiest Philadelphians in the early twentieth century, commissioned renowned architect Horace Trumbauer to build the one-hundred-forty-sevenroom mansion in 1916 on three hundred acres just outside Philadelphia. Whitemarsh Hall, which took five years to build at an estimated cost of $10 million with all the furnishings, was a wedding present for his second wife. This book explores Whitemarsh Hall's construction, its heyday in the...
Whitemarsh Hall, known as "the Versailles of America," was one of the largest and most exquisite estates in North America. Edward Townsend Stotesbury,...
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Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and Its Territories, 1450 1750: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard
ISBN: 9781138248762 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and practices entangled in identity formations. This is particularly true when seen through a city as forceful and splendid as Venice. The essays in this volume investigate these connections between art and identity, through discussions of patronage, space and the dissemination of architectural models and knowledge in Venice, its territories and beyond. They celebrate Professor Deborah Howard s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and...
Cities are shaped as much by a repertoire of buildings, works and objects, as by cultural institutions, ideas and interactions between forms and pract...
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Gordon Matta-Clark S Conical Intersect: Sculpture, Space, and the Cultural Value of Urban Imagery
ISBN: 9781138269811 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre s understanding of art s function in relation to urban space. By engaging with Lefebvre s theory in conjunction with the perspectives of other writers, such as Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, and George Bataille, the book elicits a story that presents the artwork s significance, origins and legacies. Conical Intersect is a multi-media artwork, which involves the intersections of architecture, sculpture, film, and photography, as well as being a three-dimensional...
In this in-depth analysis, Peter Muir argues that Gordon Matta-Clark s Conical Intersect (1975) is emblematic of Henri Lefebvre s understanding of art...
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264,48 zł |
Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change
ISBN: 9781138206557 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundaries in search of a deeper understanding of architecture in the evolution of human culture and identity formation. From his earliest writings predicting the computer based revolution in customized architectural production, through his novel studies on tacit knowing in design or hybridization in regional and colonial architecture, to his radical theory of the extended self, Abel has been a consistently fresh and provocative thinker, contesting both... Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundari... |
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Architecture and Identity: Responses to Cultural and Technological Change
ISBN: 9781138206564 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundaries in search of a deeper understanding of architecture in the evolution of human culture and identity formation. From his earliest writings predicting the computer based revolution in customized architectural production, through his novel studies on tacit knowing in design or hybridization in regional and colonial architecture, to his radical theory of the extended self, Abel has been a consistently fresh and provocative thinker, contesting both... Expanding his collected essays on architectural theory and criticism, Chris Abel pursues his explorations across disciplinary and regional boundari... |
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Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830
ISBN: 9781469633527 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early America. In the eighteenth century, cities were constant objects of idealization, often viewed as the outward manifestations of an organized, civil society. As the physical objects that composed the largest portion of urban settings, town houses contained and signified different aspects of city life, argues Herman.
Taking a material culture approach, Herman examines urban domestic buildings from Charleston, South Carolina, to Portsmouth, New... In this abundantly illustrated volume, Bernard Herman provides a history of urban dwellings and the people who built and lived in them in early Americ...
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175,86 zł |
Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Arenas for Ritual Activity
ISBN: 9781784914370 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing. The introduction critically considers the literature relevant to the topic in order to identify the research gap. Chapter I attempts to reconstruct the structure of urban and rural houses in Graeco- Roman Egypt in the light of papyri and archaeology. This aims to establish the physical and spatial framework for the rituals considered in the...
This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rura...
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133,88 zł |