History of Architecture
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Clotilde Brewster: Pioneering Woman Architect
Laura FitzmauriceCurrent price €54.14Original price €56.99Described by composer Ethel Smyth as brilliant, sociable, amusing and utterly original, Clotilde Brewster defied all the odds by becoming the first...
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The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social history...
William AshworthCurrent price €98.79Original price €103.99First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors whi...
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The Medieval Mediterranean between Islam and Christianity: Crosspollinations in Art, Architecture, and Material Culture
American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99ChristianIslamic encounters through religious arts, architecture, and material culture in the medieval eraThe coexistence of Christianity and Islam...
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Case Study Houses
Elizabeth A. T. SmithCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The Case Study House program (19451966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, ...
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The Imagining of Community in European Art and Architecture, 1140-1617: Envisioning Transcendence of, Authority in, and Foundations for Community
David B. GreeneCurrent price €94.75Original price €102.99Current price €94.75Original price €102.99Save 8% -
Adolf Loos
August SarnitzCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Adolf Loos (18701933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the countrys architectural ...
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Niemeyer
Philip JodidioCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (19072012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed ...
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Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan
Margaret W. MortonCurrent price €39.09Original price €45.99A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this ...
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Zaha Hadid
Philip JodidioCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, ...
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Niemeyer
Philip JodidioCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (19072012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed ...
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Zaha Hadid
Philip JodidioCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, ...
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Ando
Masao FuruyamaCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99In this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to encha...
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Niemeyer
Philip JodidioCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (19072012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed ...
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Neutra
Barbara LamprechtCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99In the architecture of Richard Neutra (18921970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek ...
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Gropius
Gilbert Lupfer & Paul SigelCurrent price €18.39Original price €19.99Walter Gropius (18831969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable in...
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Religious Buildings Made in Byzantium: Old Monuments, New Interpretations?
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The Art of the Architect
Michael G. ImberCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99The Art of the Architect celebrates the role that drawing and watercolor painting play in architecture. Architectural drawing as we know it dates f...
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City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
James Michael BuckleyCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West. Californias 1849...
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Hans Scharoun and China: The East Asian Depth of Neues Bauen
Liyang DingCurrent price €141.54Original price €148.99This book presents the first systematic overview and analysis of the deep connection between Scharoun and China, offering insights into East-West c...
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Ancient Cambodia: A Photo Journey and Archaeological Guide
Rodney C LhuillierCurrent price €99.89Original price €110.99Current price €99.89Original price €110.99Save 10% -
Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City
Scott ColmanCurrent price €30.39Original price €31.99This book brings to light the work and influence of the German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer a central fig...
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Easter Island: Secret History of a Lost Island
Samuel ShepherdCurrent price €20.89Original price €21.99Current price €20.89Original price €21.99Save 5% -
Defence Sites: Heritage and Future
WIT PressCurrent price €151.19Original price €167.99The conference aims to raise the knowledge of the scale, design and functions of military, naval and air force sites. It will bring a better unders...
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Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Practice from around the World
Kjell BrataasCurrent price €138.59Original price €153.99Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Pract...
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Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Practice from around the World
Kjell BrataasCurrent price €62.99Original price €69.99Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Pract...
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Asmara: Africa''s Jewel of Modernity
Gesa StedmanCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99Impressive photographs by Stefan Boness convey the unique atmosphere of Asmara as a living museum of modernity. Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, has...
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Le Guide Essentiel Des Monastres Historiques d''Europe: Un voyage travers des sanctuaires spirituels et des chefs-d''oeuvre architecturaux
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Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect
Keith HanleyCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Examining the wide-ranging implications of Ruskin's engagement with his contemporaries and followers, this collection is organized around three rel...
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Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and perman...
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The Afterlives of Monuments
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Monuments have been created, destroyed and rescued by competing communities and incoming ...
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Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico: The Casa de Montejo
C. Cody BarteetCurrent price €45.99Original price €49.99This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the buildings Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed id...
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...
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Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940: Creating Modern Living
Alla MyzelevCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Toronto - the largest and one of the most multicultural cities in Canada - boasts an equally interesting and diverse architectural heritage. Archit...
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The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare''s Stratford: Society, Religion, School and Stage
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The guild buildings of Shakespeares Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of ...
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The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare''s Stratford: Society, Religion, School and Stage
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The guild buildings of Shakespeares Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of ...
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Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day
Jan GadeyneCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western ...
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Unlocking the Chinese Gate: Manifestations of the Space In-Between in Early China
Galia DorCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
Simon JenkinsCurrent price €28.89Original price €33.99'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at ...
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Renewing Design with Communities: Another Way of Building
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a spec...
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The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...
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Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...
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Radicals, Rebels and Royals: A Pub Crawl through British History
Elspeth WillsCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99A beautifully illustrated alternative history book, tracing the history of the British Isles through its landmark pubs ...
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Historic Heart of Oxford University, The
Geoffrey TyackCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Oxfords university buildings are world-famous. Over eight centuries, starting in the twelfth century, the University the third oldest in Europe g...
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Teoría de la arquitectura. Textos pioneros de la arquitectura desde el Renacimiento a la actualidad
Taschen GmbHCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99If youve ever wondered what goes through architects minds when they design buildings, youll be happy to know that theres no shortage of brilliant r...
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Lager als Architektur: Kriegsflüchtlingslager der Habsburgermonarchie und Architektur der Moderne
Antje Senarclens de GrancyCurrent price €85.49Original price €89.99Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this b...
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Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Murat GülCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case i...
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