Architecture in Context

Designing in the Middle East

by Hassan Radoine

<p><em>Architecture in Context: Designing in the Middle East</em> provides a foundation for understanding the critical context of architecture and design in this region. It does this by:</p> <ul> <li>presenting a practical overview of ...

ISBN: 9781118719855

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Architecture of Ancient Rome. Chapter 5 of Brief Guide to the History of Architectural Styles

by Tatyana Fedulova

<p>Brief guide to the history of architectural styles is a full-color illustrated edition of the classic study of the history of European architecture from ancient world to Frank Lloyd Wright.<br />This handbook has been written by Tatyana ...

ISBN: 9781370482085

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Architecture of First Societies

A Global Perspective

by Mark M. Jarzombek

<p>“This book is the most comprehensively global and critically sensitive synthesis of what we now know of the material and socio-cultural evolution of the so-called First Societies. Written by a distinguished architectural historian and ...

ISBN: 9781118421055

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Architecture on the Borderline

Boundary Politics and Built Space

by Anoma Pieris

<p><em>Architecture on the Borderline</em> interrogates space and territory in a turbulent present where nation-state borders are porous to a few but impermeable to many. It asks how these uneven and conflicted social realities are embodied in ...

ISBN: 9781351594998

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Architecture since 1400

by Kathleen James-Chakraborty

<DIV><P>The first global history of architecture to give equal attention to Western and non-Western structures and built landscapes, <EM>Architecture since 1400</EM> is unprecedented in its range, approach, and insight. From Tenochtitlan’s Great

ISBN: 9781452941721

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Architecture's Historical Turn

Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern

by Jorge Otero-Pailos

<DIV><P><EM>Architecture’s Historical Turn</EM> traces the hidden history of architectural phenomenology, a movement that reflected a key turning point in the early phases of postmodernism and a legitimating source for those architects who first

ISBN: 9781452942698

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Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa

Lessons from Larabanga

by Michelle Apotsos

<p><em>Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa</em> shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of ...

ISBN: 9781317275541

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Architecture: Classic and Early Christian

by T. Roger Smith & John Slater

<p>This handbook is intended to give such an outline of the Architecture of the Ancient World, and of that of Christendom down to the period of the Crusades, as, without attempting to supply the minute information required by the professional ...

ISBN: 9788892518124

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Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance

After Trent

by Jesse M. Locker

<p>Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders. Rather than ...

ISBN: 9780429863363

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Art Nouveau Architecture

by M. J. Gradl & R. Beauclair

<p>&quot;These beautiful plates feature wonderful aspects of this revolutionary architecture including grand staircases, wrought iron balconies, ornate mantels, and intricate storefronts. Bright colours, floral and insect motifs, and fancy ...

ISBN: 9780486816258

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Artemisia Conquers Rhodes: Problems in the Representation of Female Heroics in the Age of Catherine de' Medici

by ffolliott, sheila

"The ancient queen Artemisia of Caria (r.353-351 BCE), [was] renowned especially for having supervised the construction and decoration of the elaborate funerary monument honoring her husband, Mausolus: a structure so significant that it gave its

ISBN: 9781599103457

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As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

<p>As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare based on the novel Rosalynde by Thomas Lodge, believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600. It features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted lines, &quot;All the ...

ISBN: 9782291037637

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At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort

by Rudolph, Nicole C.

<p> After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. <em>At Home in Postwar France</em> examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and ...

ISBN: 9781782385882

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Atlantis

by Gerhart Hauptmann

<p>Dr. Frederick von Kammacher has reached rock bottom. His best friend has recently died, his wife has gone insane, and with the publication of an embarrassingly erroneous work of research, he has jeopardized his reputation as a noted physician

ISBN: 9788829573035

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Aural Architecture in Byzantium: Music, Acoustics, and Ritual

by Bissera Pentcheva

<p>Emerging from the challenge to reconstruct sonic and spatial experiences of the deep past, this multidisciplinary collection of ten essays explores the intersection of liturgy, acoustics, and art in the churches of Constantinople, Jerusalem, ...

ISBN: 9781351786881

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Banaras Reconstructed

Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City

by Madhuri Desai

<p>Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and ...

ISBN: 9780295741611

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Baptism

A Divider of Churches and a Cause of Martyrdom—Is It a Basis of Division or a Solution for Unity

by Jesse Clarence Ford

<p>This book was perhaps more than forty years in writing, and it has been brought forward with deep conviction. I consider it a must. It was prepared to give mankind a living hope, and it is in obedience to His command. It is my deep conviction

ISBN: 9781490823942

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Baroque Visual Rhetoric

by Vernon Hyde Minor

<p>Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from the meanings it seeks to convey. Vernon Hyde Minor’s <em>Baroque Visual Rhetoric</em> probes this combination of style and message and – ...

ISBN: 9781442617704

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Baroque. Chapter 10 of Brief Guide to the History of Architectural Styles

by Tatyana Fedulova

<p>Baroque is 10th chapter of the series containing:<br />- Ancient Egypt<br />- Ancient Mesopotamia<br />- Cretan-Mycenaean<br />- Ancient Greece<br />- Ancient Rome<br />- Byzantine architecture<br />- Romanesque<br />- Gothic architecture<br ...

ISBN: 9781370729340

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Bayou Built

The Legacy of Louisiana's Historic Architecture

by Peter Mires

<p>Louisiana, the Bayou State, is famous for many things, including savory cuisine, great music, and a resident population whose mantra is <em>laissez les bons temps rouler</em>let the good times roll! The place is also noted for its historic ...

ISBN: 9781450263689

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