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Circa 1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas (Studies in the History of Art Series)
- ASIN: 0300114753
- ISBN: 9780300114751
- Manufacturer: NGW-Stud Hist Art
The years around 1700 were marked by transformations in European and colonial capital cities. This era saw the creation not only of palatial complexes and urban spaces appropriate to autocratic power, but also of essential infrastructure such as roads, ports, and fortifications. In addition, many of the civic structures and background buildings tha... [Read More]
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Architecture of the Nineteenth Century in Europe
- ASIN: 0847805301
- ISBN: 0847805301
- Brand: Brand: Rizzoli
- Manufacturer: Rizzoli
Book by Claude Mignot
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Cathedrals and Churches of Europe
- ASIN: 3848006901
- ISBN: 3848006901
- Brand: Borngasser Barbara
- Manufacturer: h.f.ullmann publishing
At the very heart of cities and villages, churches, cathedrals and basilicas have shaped the landscape in Europe to a great extent. Their architecture bears witness to the skills of craftsmen and the mystic fervor that led to their building. It reveals essential details about their architecture and historical meaning.
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Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937
- ASIN: 379132151X
- ISBN: 379132151X
- Manufacturer: Prestel Pub
pp. 271, b/w and color illustrations, "This is a study on the explosion of architectural ideas during the last decades of the Hapsburg Empire and in the first years of the new republics of Central Europe. Despite the cultural battleground of competing linguistic, ethnic, religious and natural traditions and aspirations, the region was nevertheless ... [Read More]
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When the Moors Ruled in Europe
- ASIN: B00SKTJ5QS
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The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
- ASIN: 0300119372
- ISBN: 9780300119374
- Manufacturer: Yale University Press
This wide-ranging study vividly presents the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a deadly outbreak of the plague that claimed one-quarter of the Venetian population. Analyzing reactions to this dramatic decade, Iain Fenlon throws fresh light on the historical machine that produced the distinct civic and cultural etho... [Read More]
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Medieval Architecture in Western Europe: From A.D. 300 to 1500 Includes CD
- ASIN: 0195112415
- ISBN: 0195112415
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
For the first time, instructors of Medieval Architecture have a selective survey that obviates the need to piece together teaching material from several sources. Medieval Architecture in Western Europe: From A.D. 300 to 1500 presents a selection of major monuments of Medieval European architecture in a single volume. Beginning with a study of struc... [Read More]
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The Genesis of Noto: An Eighteenth-Century Sicilian City (Studies in Architecture, Vol 21)
- ASIN: 0520035267
- ISBN: 0520035267
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
Described as the perfect Baroque city,” the southeastern Sicilian city of Noto was totally destroyed by an earthquake in 1693 and then rebuilt by ambitious citizens eager to match Italian achievements. The Genesis of Noto traces the complex history of Noto’s foundation and growth as a grid-planned Renaissance-Baroque utopia.
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Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A
- ASIN: 0060926791
- ISBN: 0060926791
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
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The Magic Square: Cities in Ancient China
- ASIN: 3930698021
- ISBN: 3930698021
- Brand: Brand: Axel Menges
- Manufacturer: Edition Axel Menges
The first complex presentation of Chinese urbanism in a Western language.
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Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture)
- ASIN: 0884021874
- ISBN: 0884021874
- Manufacturer: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
In 1988-89 the three hundredth anniversary of an important historical event, the ascension of William and Mary to the thrones of England and Scotland, was celebrated in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The symposium on Dutch garden art held at Dumbarton Oaks in May 1988 was the only scholarly event during the ... [Read More]
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Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture
- ASIN: 0300124899
- ISBN: 9780300124897
- Manufacturer: Yale University Press
In this engaging and handsome book, Cammy Brothers takes an unusual approach to Michelangelo's architectural designs, arguing that they are best understood in terms of his experience as a painter and sculptor. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on the built projects and considered the drawings only insofar as they illuminate those building... [Read More]
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Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning: With a translation of the 1889 Austrian edition of his City Planning According to Artistic Principles (Dover Architecture)
- UPC: 800759451180
- ASIN: 0486451186
- ISBN: 0486451186
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
First published in 1889, this revolutionary text by a noted Austrian architect and urban planner ignited a new age of city planning. Inspired by medieval and baroque designs, Camillo Sitte emphasized the creation of spacious plazas, enhanced by monuments and other aesthetic elements.Numerous illustrations highlight this classic, which features exte... [Read More]
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Mittel Europa: Rediscovering the Style and Design of Central Europe
- ASIN: 051758803X
- ISBN: 051758803X
- Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
The authors of the International Style Library turn their attention to the land east of the Danube as they travel through Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and the surrounding countryside to find in the architecture, interiors, and folk arts of the region a host of thriving design traditions accessible again after a long isolation.Full-color photographs.... [Read More]
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Landscapes in History, 2nd Edition (One Volume)
- ASIN: 0471293288
- ISBN: 0471293288
- Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
The definitive, one-stop reference to the history of landscape architecture-now expanded and revised This revised edition of Landscapes in History features for the first time new information-rarely available elsewhere in the literature-on landscape architecture in India, China, Southeast Asia, and Japan. It also expands the discussion of the moder... [Read More]
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The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London
- ASIN: 0300190220
- ISBN: 0300190220
- Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Centre BA
The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two momentous events: the restoration of the monarchy, in 1660, and the Great Fire six years later. S... [Read More]
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wall26 - Old Town in Europe at Sunset with Retro Vintage Filter Effect - Removable Wall Mural | Self-Adhesive Large Wallpaper - 100x144 inches
- ASIN: B06XDMYQ6V
- Brand: wall26
- Size: 100"x144"
- Manufacturer: wall26
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Florence: The City and Its Architecture
- ASIN: 0714839116
- ISBN: 0714839116
- Manufacturer: Phaidon Press
This book offers a comprehensive account of the architecture of Florence, setting the city's extraordinarily beautiful buildings within the political, economic, and cultural contexts in which they were made. The rapid expansion of its banking interests and its wool and textile industries brought Florence prosperity, and it became, under Medici powe... [Read More]
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Bella Tuscany
- ASIN: B000FBFOA0
- Manufacturer: Broadway Books
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Moderns Abroad: Architecture, Cities and Italian Imperialism (Architext)
- ASIN: 0415779855
- ISBN: 0415779855
- Manufacturer: Routledge
This volume studies the architecture and urbanism of modern-era Italian colonialism (1869-1943) as it sought to build colonies in North and East Africa and the eastern Mediterranean. Mia Fuller follows, not only the design of the physical architecture, but also the development of colonial design theory, based on the assumptions made about the colon... [Read More]
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