History of architecture Books

This book consists of chapters that focus specifically on single figures that worked on Descriptive Geometry and also in Mechanisms Sciences and contain biographical notes, a survey of their work and their achievements, together with a modern...

When Seon (Zen) Buddhism was first introduced to Korea around Korea's late Silla and early Goryeo eras, the function of the "beopdang" (Dharma hall) was transfused to the lecture hall found in ancient Buddhist temples, establishing a pivotal area within...

A year after the second edition of his famous translation and commentary on Vitruvius, Daniele Barbaro published The Practice of Perspective, a text he had begun working on many years before. Barbaro was the first to publish a formal treatise entirely...

Architecture of Brazil: 1900-1990 examines the processes that underpin modern Brazilian architecture under various influences and characterizes different understandings of modernity, evident in the chapter topics of this book...

Few countries possess a richer architectural heritage than India, a country whose buildings are rooted in history, culture, and religion. As a results of India's global discourse with other regions around the world, there have been many influences that...

The Cathedrals And Churches Of The RhineThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we...

The Cathedral Builders: The Story Of A Great Masonic GuildThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the...

An Abridgment Of The Architecture Of Vitruvius: Containing A System Of The Whole Works Of That Author. To Which Is Added In This Edition The Etymology And Derivation Of The Terms Used In Architecture.First Done In French By Monsr Perrault, Of The Academy...

The Cathedrals Of Great Britain: Their History And ArchitectureThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the...

Edward Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is a monumental six-volume work that covers the history of the Roman Empire from the end of the 2nd century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The book is considered one of...

The Gradual Acceptance of the Copernican Theory of the Universe is a historical work by Dorothy Stimson. The book chronicles the development and acceptance of the heliocentric model of the solar system, which was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the...

Frank Lloyd Wright confronted us with two challenges when he wrote of his buildings that certain "basic principles behind the effects" "give to them all such vitality, integrity, and magic as they have." The first challenge: to uncover these...

Le livre intitul����� ""De La Condition Des Fous Et Des Prodigues En Droit Romain; Du Droit Resultant Des Constructions Faites Sur Le Terrain D'Autrui; These Pour Le Doctorat (1885)"" est �����crit par Henri Michau. Il s'agit d'une th�����se de doctorat...

El Bolet������n del Centro Art������stico de Granada (1892) es una publicaci������n editada por el Hospital de Santa Ana. Este libro contiene una colecci������n de art������culos y noticias relacionadas con el arte y la cultura en la ciudad de Granada en...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""�����ber Mittel und Zweck der vaterl�����ndischen Altertumsforschung: Eine Andeutung"" ist ein Buch von Karl Benjamin Preusker aus dem Jahr 1829. In diesem Werk besch�����ftigt sich der Autor mit der Frage, welche Mittel und Ziele die...

Das Buch ""Aesthetik In Umrissen V2 (1863)"" von Josef Bayer ist ein Werk �����ber �����sthetik, das im Jahr 1863 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es ist der zweite Band einer Serie und bietet eine umfassende Einf�����hrung in die �����sthetik. Das Buch...

The National Moulding Book Containing The Latest Styles Of Mouldings 1899 - Produced from the rare original in the collection of Gary Roberts, Toolemera Press Publisher. www.toolemerapress.comThe National Moulding Book Containing The Latest Styles...

Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business...

Focusing on the house-building boom of the interwar years, when Britain became a nation of homeowners, this book investigates the ways in which ordinary people expressed new class and gender identities through the design, architecture and decoration of...

This book tells the history of the many analogies that have been made between the evolution of organisms and the human production of artefacts, especially buildings. It examines the effects of these analogies on architectural and design theory and...

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe,...

Examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical changes in the representation and perception of space in history continue to inform the way architects design.

Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship between architecture and the disciplines of art and science. One of the...

Peter Murray's compelling and highly readable biography of the building presents both sides of the story. Using previously unpublished files and papers, Murray has managed to unravel one of the most intriguing architectural controversies of recent times...

Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which...

تأتي هذه الدراسة في سياقين اثنين، مُتلازمين ومتكاملين؛ يتجلى السياق الأول في مقاربة النص الرحلي مقاربة تاريخية معرفية، تعمل على استخلاص ما تكتنزه الكتابات الرحلية من معرفة تاريخية. أما السياق الثاني فيتجلى في إعادة النظر في مختلف الأحكام النقدية التي...

I have repeatedly heard this claim from critics of religion that "the most extensive wars, crimes, and human bloodshed have always been blamed on FAITH And FATE FAITH And FATE religion." Usually, the most significant evidence cited by these critics is...

Jože Plečnik's infrastructural interventions along the Ljubljanica and Gradaščica rivers in Ljubljana, Slovenia represent a built encyclopedia of design strategies for leveraging the spatial characteristics and functional demands of water to produce a...

About the BookFOR CHENNAI LOVERS AND HISTORY BUFFS, THIS IS A MUST- READ TO GET TO KNOW THE CITY AND ITS EVOLUTION CLOSELY.After years abroad - punctuated by occasional visits to a Madras remembered as a leisurely but gracious town of conservative people...

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de Troya, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:•Sumergirse en la época de la Antigua Grecia, en la que dioses y...

This tale is about life and events in three major cities: Liverpool, London and Paris, concerning Lili, a lass, as Northerner's call young women. Lili was born in Liverpool, and raised during the era of the Beatles and the Mersey Sound...

South African Tribes and their History. Race and Ethnic Influences. cultural backgrounds and origins all coexist in South Africa. The bigger groups are Zulus (21 %), Xhosas (17 %) and the Sotho (15%). Next are smaller minorities, such as the Tswana,...

Four generations of descendents of Thomas Jesse Elliott (1852-1883) and Clementine Mabel Watson (1849-1932) in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta in Canada Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania in the United States.

This is not a religious book, but a book about a once very important site.In Part One read about the History of Tynemouth Priory:Was Tynemouth originally a Mixed Monastery?Which Kings were buried in the Priory.The attacks by the Vikings and the Scots and...

The cosmic forces formed / Cyclical patterns / Galactic to sub-atomic / Order replicated itself / Life appeared on earth / Governed by one grand principle / Which embraces / Every living being... / And of course man / Very terse poem / Written by genes.....

Written for readers interested in cultural theory, history, and the politics of space as well as those engaged with architecture and the built environment, Conflicted Identities provides an engaging new perspective on power and identity as they relate to...

Sherwin P. Asrow, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1922, became a renowned Architectural Engineer working on numerous world-class Second Chicago School structures built between 1947 and 2009. Among these structures are Prudential Building (Chicago, IL),...

This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a special focus on India. It showcases how collaborative projects between architects and local communities can...

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.