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On accident: episodes in architecture and landscape

by Eigen, Edward

fromWriting architecture

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These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable islands, inflammable skies, unvisited shores, plagiarised tabernacles. Taken together, they offer a group portrait of how certain things f…

In the theater of criminal justice: the Palais de justice in Second Empire Paris

by American Council of Learned Societies, Taylor, Katherine Fischer

fromPrinceton series in nineteenth-century art, culture, and so…

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Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe

by Bauditz, Basile

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Architectural drawings of the Italian Renaissance were largely devoid of color, but from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth, polychromy in architectural representation grew and flourished. Basile Baudez argues that colors appeared on paper when architects adapted the…

Ximing Monastery: History and Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddh…

by Wang, Xiang

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The companions to the history of architecture

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Architectural history retold

by Davies, Paul, Forgot, Emily

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Building: 3000 years of design engineering and construction

by Addis, Bill

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InHabit: people, places and possessions

fromCultural interactions

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Space, time and architecture: the growth of a new tradition

by Giedion, S., (Sigfried)

fromCharles Eliot Norton lectures

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"A classic first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, Space, Time and Architecture is an unparalleled work on the shaping of our architectural environment. The discussions of leading. architects - Wright, Gropius, Le Corbusier, M…

The Routledge Companion to Italian Fascist Architecture: Reception and Legacy

fromRoutledge Companions

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Indonesian houses

by Nas, Peter J. M., Schefold, Reimar, Domenig, Gaudenz

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The volume is intended to provide an introduction to all relevant vernacular architectural traditions and developments in western Indonesia. The 21 contributions, all written by researchers with long first-hand experience in the area they are dealing with, are arranged according…

New laboratories: historical and critical perspectives on contempor…

by Klonk, Charlotte

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New laboratory buildings are currently being planned all around the world. Are they different from or even better than their predecessors? To answer this question, the authors of this book have journeyed into the past and present of laboratory architecture. They discuss the imag…