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In the early 1850s, John Ruskin published The Stones of Venice, a history of Venetian architecture. He asserted the mora......more

"Mr. Isaacs" is a singular written by using F. Marion Crawford, an American creator known for his diverse frame of work.......more

The third volume of Arnold Schwartzman’s photographic trilogy explores the world’s most sensuous architecture of the 189......more

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A crash course in designing and constructing buildings Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture ......more

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The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen in......more

First published in 1954, ’Stolen Legacy’ by George J.M. James is a bold and uncompromising book. James argues that the ’......more

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Academic architectural education started with the inauguration of the Académie d’Architecture on 3 December 1671 in Fran......more

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If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality,......more

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The Romans: An Introduction is a concise, readable and comprehensive survey of the Roman world, which explores 1,200 yea......more

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent diseas......more

The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in ......more

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From Aesthete to Ziffern, Baby-Language to Verbosity, Badgers to Railway Stations: this gloriously serendipitous diction......more

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The Renaissance in the 19th Century examines the Italian Renaissance revival as a Pan-European critique: a commentary on......more

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure......more

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A ground-breaking study of the late Georgian phenomenon of the ’architect-designed cottage’, this study of small buildin......more

This book explores the landscape of Stradbally Hall from the perspective of four groups, with varying positions and agen......more

This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as th......more

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This introduction sets out the origins and evolution of the mechanics institute, a nineteenth century phenomenon, emergi......more

Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this publication surveys the magnificent spectrum of projects undertaken by ......more

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre-Fran ois-L onard Fontaine (1762-1853) des......more

Im 19. Jahrhundert erlebte Ungarn noch nie dagewesene soziale, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklungen. Mit dem ste......more

City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome s image, visual and literary, ......more

If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty writes Lars Sp......more

With an eye for detail as much as expanse, Karl Friedrich Schinkel made his name as a painter and designer, and above al......more

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During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism ......more

A history of Britain’s architectural masterpieces from the Georgians to today, with 200 magnificent pictures....more

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The Idea of the Cottage in English Architecture is a history of the late Georgian phenomenon of the architect-designed c......more

British architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) fundamentally shaped the architecture, art, and design of the Angl......more

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Until the 20th century, the world of architecture and building was considered a male domain, but long before this, women......more

The name of the architect Victor Baltard is inseparable from the Halles Centrales of Paris, the complex of iron-and-glas......more

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