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Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York's Public Spaces
ISBN: 9780816649105 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York City is home to some of the most recognizable places in the world. As familiar as the sight of New Year's Eve in Times Square or a protest in front of City Hall may be to us, do we understand who controls what happens there? Kristine Miller delves into six of New York's most important public spaces to trace how design influences their complicated lives.
Miller chronicles controversies in the histories of New York locations including Times Square, Trump Tower, the IBM Atrium, and Sony Plaza. The story of each location reveals that public space is not a concrete or... New York City is home to some of the most recognizable places in the world. As familiar as the sight of New Year's Eve in Times Square or a protest... |
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106,83 |
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Fractal Geometry in Architecture and Design
ISBN: 9780817637958 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. na broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of images Irather than of words. Modern communication techniques enable us to transmit and reconstitute images without needing to know a specific verbal sequence language such as the Morse code or Hungarian. International traffic signs use international image symbols which are not specific to any particular verbal language. An image language differs from a verbal one in that the latter uses a linear string of symbols, whereas the former is multi dimensional. Architectural renderings commonly show projections onto three mutual ly...
na broad sense Design Science is the grammar of a language of images Irather than of words. Modern communication techniques enable us to transmit and ...
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402,53 |
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Words about Mozart: Essays in Honour of Stanley Sadie
ISBN: 9780851157948 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Words About Mozart is published as a tribute to the late Stanley Sadie, musicologist, critic and editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Of the eleven essays presented here, three focus on compositional matters: Julian Rushton examines the dramatic meaning of a recurring motif in Idomeneo; Elaine Sisman sifts through the facts surrounding the genesis of Mozart's 'Haydn' quartets; and Simon Keefe matches up pairs of piano sonatas and concertos on the basis of their common compositional features. Cliff Eisen considers some problems of performing practice posed by the solo...
Words About Mozart is published as a tribute to the late Stanley Sadie, musicologist, critic and editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Music...
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461,50 |
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Politics and Culture in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of Industrial Architecture
ISBN: 9780854969456 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A valuable resource for students taking specialist options on Imperial Germany or the origins of modern architecture and design. This original book explores the relationship between politics and culture in turn-of-the-century Germany through the unusual medium of industrial architecture, which for a time brought together the disparate worlds of politics, art and commerce. It focuses on the efforts of reformers to improve the quality and character of the industrial workplace during the period when Germany was overtaking Britain as Europe's leading manufacturing power.
A valuable resource for students taking specialist options on Imperial Germany or the origins of modern architecture and design. This original book ex...
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664,76 |
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Shaping Communities: Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture V1 Volume 6
ISBN: 9780870499517 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together nineteen essays from an array of academic disciplines -- American studies, folklore, history, architectural history, and architecture -- which are currently contributing to the study of vernacular structures and places. Addressing places as distant from each other as rural Massachusetts and Hawai'i and building types as disparate as Native American houses in Alaska and vacation cottages in Florida, the contributors are unified in their concern with community building and place making.As the editors note, scholarship on vernacular forms once focused rather narrowly...
This volume brings together nineteen essays from an array of academic disciplines -- American studies, folklore, history, architectural history, and a...
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116,54 |
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Historic Homes of Minnesota
ISBN: 9780873515573 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historic Homes of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the early French traders along the Mississippi and St. Croix to the emergence of the school of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Through photographs and colorfully informative text, internationally known historian Roger Kennedy helps readers understand the unique styles of Minnesota's first homes, including the Mower House in Arcola, the first large house on the St. Croix; Alexander Ramsey's "Mansion House" in St. Paul, influenced by Pennsylvania Dutch... Historic Homes of Minnesota is the engaging story of the evolution of architectural styles in Minnesota from 1830 to 1914--from the influence of the e...
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102,44 |
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Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780874174892 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An engaging oral history of the 31ers who built Hoover Dam and the women who fed them, married them, and shared their lives. Building Hoover Dam is the most intriguing book yet written about one of the modern architectural wonders of the world. Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave first hand accounts of a fascinating group of eyewitnesses. Their stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents...
An engaging oral history of the 31ers who built Hoover Dam and the women who fed them, married them, and shared their lives. Building Hoover Dam is th...
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97,10 |
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The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy: The Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780887068058 / Angielski / Miękka / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ottoman Empire is approahced through analysis of its political economy based on world systems theory. Relations with Europe constituted one of the key factors that shaped the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Yet a comprehensive account of the nature, development, and consequences of these realtions has, until now, never been developed. This book moves beyond the narrow framework of Euro-Ottoman relations, and places Europe at the center of the expanding world economy as it examines the impact of this global system on the Ottoman Empire. Its main contention is that the dissolution of the...
The Ottoman Empire is approahced through analysis of its political economy based on world systems theory. Relations with Europe constituted one of the...
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127,84 |
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Building the Lone Star: An Illustrated Guide to Historic Sites
ISBN: 9780890969793 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,54 |
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In What Style Should We Build?: The German Debate on Architectural Style
ISBN: 9780892361984 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.
This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Hubsch's arg...
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112,44 |
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Southwell and Nottinghamshire: Medieval Art, Architecture, and Industry Vol. 21
ISBN: 9780901286918 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty papers, eleven of which were delivered at a British Archaeological Association congress in July 1995. Topics studied specific to Southwell Minster include the Romanesque East End; the Romanesque crossing capitals, the choir, and the chapter house. Additional papers examine features of other churches and abbeys of Nottinghamshire. Contributors include J McNeill, L Hoey, U Engel, M Thurlby, G Zarnecki and S Harrison.
Twenty papers, eleven of which were delivered at a British Archaeological Association congress in July 1995. Topics studied specific to Southwell Mins...
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704,38 |
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Southwell and Nottinghamshire: Medieval Art, Architecture, and Industry Vol. 21
ISBN: 9780901286925 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty papers, eleven of which were delivered at a British Archaeological Association congress in July 1995. Topics studied specific to Southwell Minster include the Romanesque East End; the Romanesque crossing capitals, the choir, and the chapter house. Additional papers examine features of other churches and abbeys of Nottinghamshire. Contributors include J McNeill, L Hoey, U Engel, M Thurlby, G Zarnecki and S Harrison.
Twenty papers, eleven of which were delivered at a British Archaeological Association congress in July 1995. Topics studied specific to Southwell Mins...
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228,27 |
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Papers of the Pottery Workshop 3rd International Congress of Egyptology, Toronto, September 1982
ISBN: 9780920808085 / Angielski / Miękka / 43 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brief abstracts of 18 papers presented to the third ICE in Toronto on the subject of ancient Egyptian pottery.
Brief abstracts of 18 papers presented to the third ICE in Toronto on the subject of ancient Egyptian pottery.
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Development and Character of Gothic Architecture
ISBN: 9781410207630 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reprint of the rewritten and enlarged second edition originally published in 1899. Contents: Preliminary Definition of Gothic The Sources of Gothic Gothic Construction in France - The Beginnings of Gothic Gothic Construction in France - Later Structural Developments Gothic Construction in France - Modes of Enclosure and General Forms Pointed Construction in England Pointed Construction in Germany Pointed Construction in Italy Pointed Construction in Spain Gothic Profiles in France Profiles of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries in England Profiles of the Twelfth and Thirteenth...
This is a reprint of the rewritten and enlarged second edition originally published in 1899. Contents: Preliminary Definition of Gothic The Sources of...
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119,15 |
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Egypt's Great Pyramid of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781425980269 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,03 |
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Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect
ISBN: 9781558492127 / Angielski / Twarda / 936 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the profession of landscape architecture in the United States is still obscure to most people, even landscape practitioners. One of the most important figures in this field was Charles Eliot, whose story is told in this richly detailed biography. It was written by his father, the president of Harvard College, in 1902, a few years after Eliot's death at age thirty-eight from spinal meningitis.
Like his colleague and partner Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., the younger Eliot was a figure of enormous talent and energy, and a major force in the profession. He emerges from his father's... The history of the profession of landscape architecture in the United States is still obscure to most people, even landscape practitioners. One of the...
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American Architects and Their Books to 1848
ISBN: 9781558492820 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect's Four Quests--"Medieval Modernist, American, Ecumenical
ISBN: 9781558494893 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following in the footsteps of "Boston Bohemia 1881-1900. Douglass Shand-Tucci's widely praised portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume tells the story of Cram's later career as one of America's leading cultural figures and most accomplished architects. With his partner Bertram Goodhue, Cram won a number of important commissions, beginning with the West Point competition in 1903. Although an increasingly bitter rivalry with Goodhue would lead to the dissolution of their partnership in 1912. Cram had already begun to strike out on his own. Supervising architect at Princeton,...
Following in the footsteps of "Boston Bohemia 1881-1900. Douglass Shand-Tucci's widely praised portrait of Ralph Adams Cram's early years, this volume...
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204,03 |
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Tennessee's New Deal Landscape: Guidebook
ISBN: 9781572331075 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The indelible stamp of the New Deal can be seen across American in the public works projects that modernized the country even as they provided employment during the Great Depression. Tennessee, in particular, benefited from the surge in federal construction. The New Deal not only left the state with many public buildings and schools that are still in active use, but is conservation and reclamation efforts also changed the lives of Tennesseans for generations to come.
In Tennessee s New Deal Landscape, Caroll Van West examines over 250 historic sites created from 1933 to 1942: courthouses,... The indelible stamp of the New Deal can be seen across American in the public works projects that modernized the country even as they provided employm...
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165,17 |
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Islamic Art and Archaeology in Palestine
ISBN: 9781598740639 / Angielski / Twarda / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity recognized for its incredible dynamism. Its unique contribution to the Islamic "macrocosm," however, never became the subject of extensive study. Numerous archeological excavations on this relatively small geographic area reveal the existence of extremely well preserved monuments of high architectural quality and exceptional religious value. This is what Myriam Rosen-Ayalon exposes in this thorough introduction to Palestinian Islamic art and archeology. In chronological...
Despite political upheavals under Muslim domination in the Middle Ages, Palestine was a center of great artistic activity recognized for its incredibl...
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