Metro Books, 2008. — 256 р. — ISBN 978-1-78212-797-0. This book takes a bird's eye view of architecture in time, and explores the different ways architects have responded to civilizations, giving them the buildings and cities they deserve. Synopsis From ancient amphitheatres to modern ziggurats, the art of building affects us all. The History of Architecture is an inspirational...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 304 p. — (Bollingen series 35.34). In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le...
The Crowood Press, 2023. — 191 p. Dry stone walls – the thousands of miles of stone ribbon stretching across the landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, Yorkshire Dales and Cotswolds – use construction methods which have existed for thousands of years. Indeed, dry stone structures in the Orkney Islands and Ireland are even older than the Egyptian pyramids. A dry stone wall is...
The History Press, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN: 1625859694, 9781625859693 Western Pennsylvania's infrastructure is renowned for traversing valleys, mountains, rivers and everything in between. Early surveying in the region delineated state and local boundaries that allowed for the mapping of canals, railroads and roadways. Engineers developed bridges, ground transportation systems...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 288 p. Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious. Yet, as Persian Kingship and Architecture argues, the institution of kingship has historically played a pivotal role in articulating the abstract notion of ‘Iran’ since...
Countryman Press, 2018. — 208 р. — ISBN: 978-1682682241. Colonial, Neoclassical, Queen Anne, Craftsman―what distinguishes one architectural style from another? This unique book will allow readers to recognize the architectural features and style of virtually any house they encounter. Here, architect John Milnes Baker explains the historical, cultural, and technical influences...
Routledge, 2020. — 386 p. The Shaping of Three Capitals explores the impact of political history on the built environment of the Eternal City. The book divides Rome's history into three main periods: the rulership of the early kings from the 8th to the 6th centuries BC; the period of Etruscan culture and architecture up to the end of the Roman Empire in 5th century AD; and, the...
The Crowood Press, 2023. — 160 p. Lavishly illustrated and accessibly written, Classical Architecture takes the reader on a journey through the history of this iconic architectural genre, starting with an introduction to its origins in ancient Greece, through its resurgence across Europe during the Renaissance, to its influence on modern-day architectural design in locations as...
Goose Lane Editions, 2022. — 200 p. The legacies of theaters, hotels, fire stations, flour mills, and more — torn down, burned down, and otherwise lost — are uncovered in this bittersweet collection. Using archival photographs, blueprints, and written reports, Raymond Biesinger has rendered a selection of Canada’s most iconic lost buildings in his signature minimalist style....
White Owl, 2021. — 200 p. Unlock the secrets of Paris's charm with this handy visual guidebook. Learn the history of the city's most famous landmarks, grasp their fascinating details and discover dozens of lesser known architectural gems. Whether you are a Paris regular or visiting for the first time, this guide will help you understand how the city acquired its unique and...
Routledge, 2019. — 290 p. Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colonialism remain embedded within the urban fabric of many European capitals. Neocolonialism and Built Heritage addresses the sustained presence and influence of historic built environments and processes...
Picador, 2017. — 640 p. Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents―gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen―as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed...
William Collins, 2015. — 500 p. Featuring over 200 photographs, this stunning book by renowned television historian Dan Cruickshank tells the history of architecture through the stories of 100 iconic buildings Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 162 p. The basilica, as described here by the architect Mario Di Salvo, is symbolic of the history of Christianity in Ethiopia. Early evidence from the sixth and seventh centuries survives only in the form of ground plans of the churches excavated by archaeologists over the past century. All have been found in what was then the ancient kingdom of Abyssinia,...
Fayard, 1964. — 393 p. Jamais encore, l’architecture monastique n’avait fait l’objet d’une étude d’ensemble. Et cependant elle a constellé l’Europe du Moyen Age, nous léguant une multitude d’abbayes et d’églises qui nous frappent par la puissance et l’originalité de leurs constructions, comme par la beauté des sites dans lesquels elles s’élèvent généralement. Bénédictins et...
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2010. — 608 р. — ISBN: 978-1579128562. Five hundred stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic, and interesting examples of architecture in one of the world's most beloved cities The greatest buildings, monuments, and structures of New York come to life in these inspiring, neighborhood-by-neighborhood photographic tours. Each building...
White Owl, 2019. — 176 p. Rome’s architectural remains date as far back as the city’s founding in the 8th century BCE. The primitive settlement that began on the Palatine Hill grew over the next thousand years to the caput mundi—the capital of the world—the largest, most powerful presence in the ancient Western world. Along the way, Rome’s architectural styles, whether...
Dover Publications, 2007. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0486455963 Язык: английский Замечательная презентация домов начала двадцатого века предлагает широкий спектр проектов архитекторов США того времени. Переиздание этой редкой книги демонстрирует великолепный массив жилищ, от коттеджей и бунгало до больших особняков. Каждый дом тщательно иллюстрируется и сопровождается полными планами этажей.
CCB Publishing, 2011. — 204 p. This newly updated and revised second edition of A Story in Stones explores the relationship between Portugal and Ethiopia during the XVI and XVII centuries from the unique perspective of stonework. Through research and many years of working in the field, J.J. Hespeler-Boultbee examines the first early Renaissance links between the principal...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2019 — 544 p. — ISBN 9781616896454, 1616896450 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Foreword Kenneth Frampton...
ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2001. 1052 p. — ISBN: 1-57607-112-X (hardcover), ISBN: 1-57607-569-9 (eBook).
An architect once described the built environment as "the manifestation of the human spirit in stone, wood, and steel." In this new volume, readers can explore the most innovative and magnificent architectural expressions of the human spirit, from pre-history to the present, from all...
University of Georgia Press, 1972. — 209 p. The middle Georgia area—including Baldwin, Hancock, Jasper, Johnson, Putnam, Washington, and Wilkinson Counties—is a vast living museum of classic southern architecture. First published in 1972, this sweeping survey remains one of the best books on the topic, covering primitive, Gothic, Greek Revival, and Victorian styles, and beyond....
The History Press, 2024. — 312 p. Much more than an ‘excellent gazetteer’; this detailed study of the county’s castles, monuments and towers shows who was responsible for the defence of the Anglo-Scottish border whilst Henry V was at Agincourt. Subsequent surveys show how in 1584 Christopher Dacre forwarded a bold project that linked a string of towers forming a defence against...
Lux, 1980. — 43 S. itten im Häusergedränge der Altstadt steht der gotische Dom. Gar nicht dahinpräsentiert wie die oft so herrisch prunkenden Schlösser mit dep Freiräumen ihrer Vorplätze, die sie, Abstand wahrend, zwischen sich und das Volk gelegt haben. Der Dom ist ein Teil der menschenbewegten Stadt, die ihn mit ihren Giebeln umdrängt und oft genug ihre kleinen Behausungen...
White Owl, 2022. — 128 p. Since the early days as rolling hills crisscrossed with streams, London has come a long way to be one of the most exciting and innovative cities in the world. From the first Roman settlement 2000 years ago to the high tech and high rise buildings of today, the history of London is a story of experimentation, determination and triumph. A city at the...
HMH Books, 2010. — 272 р. — ISBN 978-0547342405, 0547342403 This new book—inspired by three classic, award-winning books—reveals the how and why behind some of the most fascinating and enduring structures humankind has ever created. Macaulay has revised texts based on new research, created gorgeous new drawings, in some cases wholly re-imagined scenes from the books—bringing...
Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, 2019. — 873 S. — (Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Basel-Stadt X). Auch wenn die Türme des Münsters heute nicht mehr die Basler Skyline dominieren, ist der markante Bau hoch über dem Rheinknie noch immer eines der zentralen Monumente der Stadt ABB. 2. Die Bedeutung der einstigen Kathedrale – sie blieb nach der Reformation die...
Oxford University Press, 1990. — 432 p. — ISBN13: 978-0195066654. For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth,...
I.B. Tauris, 2007. — 357 p. Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, Traditional Buildings presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of...
Routledge, 2020. — 396 p. Architecture History, Theory and Preservation critically explores the historic development, theoretical underpinnings and conservation practices of architecture. Complete with 170 full color images, this volume presents architectural and urban examples, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, chronologically and thematically examining contextual issues...
Batsford, 2021. — 256 p. A fascinating insight into Britain’s industrial past as evidenced by its buildings, richly illustrated with intricate line drawings.Industrial Britain goes far beyond the mills and machine houses of the Industrial Revolution to give an engaging insight into Britain’s industrial heritage. It looks at the power stations and monumental bridges of Britain,...
Birkhäuser, 2023. — 231 p. — (Mathematics and the Built Environment 7). — ISBN 978-3-031-26735-2. This book reviews Dante Bini’s inventions and designs, focusing on his form-resistant Binishell and other pneumatic construction systems. Dante Bini’s double profile of architect and builder underpins the narrative of the entire book. It is used to analyse the evolution of the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. — viii+212 p. Mark Richard presents an original theory of meaning, as the collection of assumptions speakers make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and evolving through the interactions of speakers with their...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 256 р. Dorchester-on-Thames and its abbey have been subjects of antiquarian interest for more than 450 years, and during that time much has been written about them. They are, however, still far from being comprehensively studied and recorded. Indeed, the most substantial architectural description of the medieval church was written as long ago as 1845, and a...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 113 р. Westminster Abbey is one of the most important and well-known medieval buildings in Europe but, despite being studied by generations of scholars, there is still much to learn about its history and architecture. The lantern over the centre of the church is a case in point. Edward the Confessor built a great tower here, which is depicted on the Bayeux...
Westview Press, 2016. — 640 p. More than fifteen years after the success of the first edition, this sweeping introduction to the history of architecture in the United States is now a fully revised guide to the major developments that shaped the environment from the first Americans to the present, from the everyday vernacular to the high style of aspiration. Eleven...
Batsford, 2021. — 160 p. Architectural Drawings casts light on the magnificent architectural drawings of neo-classical architect, teacher and collector, Sir John Soane that are otherwise concealed in archives. This book, featuring artworks handpicked from what was probably the first comprehensive collection of architectural drawings in the world, numbering 30,000 at the time of...
Pindar Press, 1987. — 530 p. Civilizations of great diversity have succeeded each other or co-existed in Eastern Turkey, and most of them have left monuments of high quality. Hittite, Urartian, Hellenistic, Roman, Syrian, Byzantine, Armenian, Arab, Seljuk and Ottoman, their remains are all represented in the region. These include some of the most important sites in Near Eastern...
Pindar Press, 1989. — 578 p. This second volume continues with a description of the fine Georgian monuments of the Tao region, including Ihan, Ök Vank, and Haho. The Pontus region comes next, the centre of the medieval Greek empire of Trebizond. The many Byzantine churches of Trabzon itself are covered, including Aya Sofya and the nearby monasteries of Sumela and Vazelon. The...
Pindar Press, 1989. — 530 p. In this third volume the regions covered are to the south and east of the Taurus range, beginning with the Upper and Lower Euphrates, which includes the Byzantine and Turkish buildings of Harput, Malatya and the Keban region, where there are also a number of churches and monastic sites. The following section, on the Tigris region, runs from the...
Pindar Press, 1990. — 536 p. The initial section here covers the monuments of the important Hellenistic kingdom of Commagene, and includes Edessa (Urfa), the capital of a Crusader state, where there are also significant Islamic buildings. The final section, on the Hatay, focuses on the city of Antioch, with Seleucid, Roman and Byzantine remains, and the castles of the Crusader...
Wołowiec: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2013. „Wanna z kolumnadą” Filipa Springera to pasjonująca opowieść autora o planowaniu przestrzennym w Polsce. Tuż przed wojną Polska miała jeden z najlepszych systemów planowania przestrzennego w Europie! Wiele krajów brało z nas przykład. Po wojnie jednak system został scentralizowany i odszedł w zapomnienie. Dziś już nikt nie planuje ani...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 219 p. — (World of Art). Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture in antiquity, the classical style has long dominated the history of western architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Sir John Summersons timeless text, as relevant today as it was when first published, distils the visual language of architecture into its core...
Routledge, 2019. — 576 p. This is the first comprehensive study of the reception of classical architecture in different regions of the world. Exploring the impact of colonialism, trade, slavery, religious missions, political ideology and intellectual/artistic exchange, the authors demonstrate how classical principles and ideas were disseminated and received across the globe. By...
Dover Publications, 1985. — 256 p. The art of fortification had reached a high state of development even at the dawn of history. Powerful military works, dating from the remotest periods, have been found in Asia Minor, in Greece, and in the basins of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile rivers. The medieval castle, with its strategic, crenellated ramparts and aura of legend...
Pavilion Books, 2018. — 208 p. Gain fascinating insight into Britain’s architectural heritage from 1914 to 2014. Through one building per year over the century, we can see the wide range of designs that emerged and how housing styles were adapted to suit urban life. Stunning photography and commentary written by leading architectural critics and design historians—including...
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 717 p. — (Oxford history of art). American architecture is astonishingly varied. From Native American sites in New Mexico and Arizona, and the ancient earthworks of the Mississippi Valley, to the most fashionable contemporary buildings of Chicago and New York, the United States boasts three thousand years of architectural history. It is...
Primus Verlag, 2012. — 210 S. Ob Gotik oder Großraumbüro: 'Architektur verstehen' macht mit den wichtigsten Techniken, Gestaltungsmethoden und Aufgaben der Baukunst bekannt. Zentrale Themen sind die Baumaterialien, der Werkprozess, die sakralen und profanen Grundtypen der Architektur, die Stadtplanung sowie die Symbolik. Den Abschluss bilden einige grundsätzliche Überlegungen...
Countryside Books, 2012. — 224 p. The English country house is an imposing record of aristocratic wealth, innovative architecture and fashionable interior design; a glorious museum of world art and personal history bottled up in one unique building. More than this, it reflects the whims of its owners, their family’s ancestry, and the lives of the countless staff who helped develop...
John Murray, 2020 — 336 p. A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths and temples, from the tower of Salisbury Cathedral to the engine houses, mills and...
John Murray, 2020. — 336 p. A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths and temples, from the tower of Salisbury Cathedral to the engine houses, mills and...
М.: Родина, 2019. — 787 с.: ил. Книга рассматривает современные и исторические особенности формирования и развития стилистических направлений в архитектуре Америки. В отличие от архитектуры других стран, где рождению стилей предшествуют долгие годы преодоления идеологической и культурной инерции, архитектура США, благодаря необыкновенной социальной мобильности, специфике...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2022. — 210 с. — ISBN 978-5-227-10223-2. Где бы ни родился человек, ему нужен дом, жилище… Самые первые люди в далёкие-далёкие времена прятались в пещерах и строили шалаши, затем научились комбинировать ветки, шкуры и другие природные материалы. Дальше — больше, у каждого народа сложился свой собственный тип жилья: изба — бревенчатый дом в лесной зоне...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2021. — 704 с. — (Очерки визуальности). Как архитектору приходит на ум «форма» дома? Из необитаемых физико-математических пространств или из культурной памяти, в которой эта «форма» представлена как опыт жизненных наблюдений? Храм, дворец, отель, правительственное здание, офис, библиотека, музей, театр… Эйдос проектируемого дома – это инвариант...
Перевод: А. Ибатуллин. — СПб: Алетейя, 2024. Книга британского искусствоведа Деборы Ховард - незаменимый путеводитель по архитектурной истории Венеции, прослеживающий эволюцию ее строений от древности до наших дней. Впервые изданная на русском языке, ее работа представляет собой уникальное исследование, наполненное редкими, тщательно проанализированными сведениями, с...
М.: БММ, 2003. — 416 c. В этой книге вы найдёте все самые важные даты и факты, а также исторический контекст и архитектурные особенности красивейших замков и крепостей Европы. Увлекательные рассказы и изумительные по красоте фотографии превращают чтение этой книги в настоящее удовольствие. Богато иллюстрированная книга о замках Европы. Замки и дворцы Германии (Аугустусбург,...
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