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History of architecture
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Architecture: A History in 100 Buildings
Dan Cruickshank
Architecture; History of architecture
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This stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories... [more]
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The History of Architecture
Michael Stephenson
Architecture; History of architecture
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Civilizations can be judged, at least to some extent, by their man-made structures. For certain early cultures that left limited... [more]
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Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect
Anthony Alofsin
Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Individual artists, art monographs; Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture; Biography: arts & entertainment
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A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing... [more]
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Australia: Architectural Guide
Sarah Zahradnik
Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Architecture; History of architecture
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The Architectural Guide Australia presents over 200 projects in the vast island continent that is home to natural wonders,... [more]
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Gropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus
Fiona MacCarthy
Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture; Biography: arts & entertainment; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Walter Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the vision... [more]
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The Great Book of Ancient Egypt New Edition: In the Realm of the Pharaohs...
Zahi Hawass
History of art: ancient & classical art; History of architecture; History; Classical history & classical civilisation; Egyptian archaeology & Egyptology
Hardback
Brimming with close-up photographs of the statuary, stelae, sarcophagi, wall paintings, reliefs, artefacts, and, of course,... [more]
$79.99
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Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium
Bissera V. Pentcheva
Religious buildings; History of architecture; History; Orthodox & Oriental Churches
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Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history,... [more]
$69.00
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Citadel of the Saxons: The Rise of Early London
Rory Naismith (King's College London, UK)
History of architecture; History; Medieval history; Church history; Economic history
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Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fourth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. [more]
$40.00
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Versailles
Colin Jones
History of architecture; History; European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
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A magisterial overview of the creation, extension and adaptation of the palace of Versailles and its environs, and an exploration... [more]
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Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England...
Kate Hubbard
History of architecture; Biography: historical, political & military; History; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700
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The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British... [more]
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Patterson: Houses of Aotearoa
Andrew Patterson
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture
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A selection of beautiful houses set amid the world's most stunning landscapes, designed by award-winning New Zealand architect... [more]
$90.00
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Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
Tom Nancollas
Architecture; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; History of architecture; Social & cultural history; Maritime history
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Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes... [more]
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Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
David Frye
History of architecture; History; General & world history
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and visit some of the seventy border walls that have been erected in just... [more]
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City of Light
Rupert Christiansen
History of architecture; History; European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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A sparkling, authoritative account of the reinvention of Paris in the mid-nineteenth century as the most beautiful, exciting... [more]
$35.00
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Brutal Bloc Postcards: Soviet era postcards from the Eastern Bloc
Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell
Photographs: collections; History of architecture; History; Marxism & Communism
Hardback
A collection of previously unpublished postcards from the former Eastern Bloc - sinister, funny, poignant and surreal, they... [more]
$45.00
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The Iconic House: Architectural Masterworks Since 1900
Dominic Bradbury
Art & design styles: from c 1960; Architecture; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; History of architecture
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Presents over 100 of the world's most significant residential buildings, now published in a compact format to create a handy... [more]
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50 Wonders of the World: A Visual Journey from Macchu Picchu to Angkor Wat...
Hugh Thomson
History of architecture; Travel & holiday; Travel writing
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From Stonehenge to the Empire State Building, and from Angkor Wat to the Pyramids, this book surveys every continent to discover... [more]
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The Battle for Home: Memoir of a Syrian Architect
Marwa al-Sabouni, Roger Scruton
Architecture; Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture; Memoirs
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Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness... [more]
$19.99
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Phantom Architecture: The Fantastical Structures the World's Great Architects...
Philip Wilkinson
Architecture; History of architecture
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Phantom Architecture tells the stories of some fifty unbuilt buildings, describing how they were conceived, exploring their... [more]
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Unlocking the Church: The lost secrets of Victorian sacred space
William Whyte
Religious buildings; History of architecture; History; Social & cultural history; Church history
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Unlocking the Church is the story of a revolution. The Victorians transformed how churches were understood, experienced, and... [more]
$38.95
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Chasing the Sky: 20 Stories of Women in Architecture
Dean Dewhirst
Art & Architecture; Architecture; Residential buildings, domestic buildings; History of architecture; Gender studies: women
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Chasing the Sky is a book that showcases twenty of Australia's leading women... [more]
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Castles: Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
Marc Morris
Residential buildings, domestic buildings; History of architecture; History; British & Irish history; Medieval history; Military history
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Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth,... [more]
$51.95
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Venice and its Jews: 500 Years Since the Founding of the Ghetto
Donatella Calabi
History of architecture; History; Social & cultural history; History of religion; Jewish studies
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Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the creation of the Venice ghetto, and accompanies an exhibition currently taking... [more]
$29.99
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Archiflop: A guide to the most spectacular failures in the history of modern...
Alessandro Biamonti
Architecture; History of architecture
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With a tongue in cheek approach, this book presents a selection of the most spectacular architectural flops from the 20th... [more]
$55.00
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The Ten Most Influential Buildings in History: Architecture's Archetypes...
Simon Unwin (University of Dundee, UK)
Architecture; History of architecture
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Even the most inventive and revolutionary architects of today owe debts to the past, often to the distant past when architecture... [more]
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