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This wide-ranging book provides for the first time a complete view of German Gothic church architecture. Architectural historian Norbert Nussbaum surveys church construction from the early thirteenth to the early sixteenth century in the German-language regions(...)
German gothic church architecture
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This wide-ranging book provides for the first time a complete view of German Gothic church architecture. Architectural historian Norbert Nussbaum surveys church construction from the early thirteenth to the early sixteenth century in the German-language regions of medieval Europe. These areas of the Holy Roman Empire--including Bohemia, Austria, northern Switzerland, Alsace, Silesia, and East Prussia--were hereditary fiefdoms at the time, and their diverse cultures contributed to the extreme variety of German Gothic. Nussbaum looks at this rich period of architectural history from many perspectives and offers an informative tour of dozens of German Gothic churches, spectacular for both their beauty and variety. Soon after the Gothic first influenced German builders in the thirteenth century, it developed in several directions, Nussbaum shows. The differences are reflected in the great cathedral lodges of Cologne and Strasbourg, the conscious poverty of form expressed by the Mendicant orders, and red brick churches on the North Sea and Baltic coasts. A fourteenth-century synthesis of these styles was at last achieved in Prague Cathedral, the only great church financed by a German kaiser, Charles IV. In the fifteenth century, German Late Gothic style--unlike the monarchy-supported style of Germanyís neighbors to the west--evolved as cities undertook the financing of parish churches. This period of design culminated with the construction of transcendent churches early in the sixteenth century, characterized by high, sculptured towers and audacious, sometimes fantastic vault structures.
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January 1900, London
History until 1900
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Set amid the imperial extravagances of the American Renaissance to the Roaring Twenties (1890-1935), an era redolent with the well-publicized achievements of such famed designers as Stanford White, Richard Morris Hunt, Carrère & Hastings, and John Russell Pope, it astounds one to learn that the one authentic genius among them was a publicity-shy Philadelphian without any(...)
American Splendor : the residential architecture of Horace Trumbauer
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Set amid the imperial extravagances of the American Renaissance to the Roaring Twenties (1890-1935), an era redolent with the well-publicized achievements of such famed designers as Stanford White, Richard Morris Hunt, Carrère & Hastings, and John Russell Pope, it astounds one to learn that the one authentic genius among them was a publicity-shy Philadelphian without any kind of social connections whose formal education did not extend beyond the 10th grade. Yet the supremacy of Horace Trumbauer in the field of classically-inspired residential design is acknowledged by such diverse voices as art connoisseur Joseph Duveen, modernist icon Philip Johnson, and author Aldous Huxley. "American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer," will place the achievements of this master creator of the American Great House before a wider and more discerning public. Working with clients whose names comprise a veritable who's who of America's industrial and financial moguls, Trumbauer's prodigious body of work graced both the exclusive enclaves of Newport, Rhode Island, Long Island, Philadelphia's Main Line and Elkins Park, and the vaunted precincts of New York's Fifth Avenue and Washington DC's Embassy Row. Allied with the finest landscape designers and interior decorators of his time, Trumbauer's elegant mansions represent the ultimate expression of a nation's ambition for grandeur and supremacy since those of the Italian Renaissance. Devoid of any wish for personal fame or artistic recognition, he hoped that his work would ultimately speak for itself. As "American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer" demonstrates, it most certainly and eloquently does. In this first monograph on Horace Trumbauer, American Splendor introduces the genius of this American master architect to the world.
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Pour qui découvre la Bretagne, une évidence s’impose : la plupart des maisons construites au cours des dernières décennies présentent un air de parenté qui caractérise désormais le paysage. Ce néo-régionalisme peut intriguer : et si ces maisons faisaient écran au démantèlement du monde dont elles se prétendent héritières et garantes…
La maison ou l'identité galvaudée
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Pour qui découvre la Bretagne, une évidence s’impose : la plupart des maisons construites au cours des dernières décennies présentent un air de parenté qui caractérise désormais le paysage. Ce néo-régionalisme peut intriguer : et si ces maisons faisaient écran au démantèlement du monde dont elles se prétendent héritières et garantes…
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November 2003, Rennes
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In 'The world in Venice', Bronwen Wilson brings to a fore an unprecedented range of printed images and archival materials pertaining to Venice and Venitian life. Her analysis is informed by a rich selection of historical and art historical litterature and conceptualized through the strategic use of theoretical debates.
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November 2004, Toronto, Buffalo, London
The world in Venice : print, the city, & early modern identity
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In 'The world in Venice', Bronwen Wilson brings to a fore an unprecedented range of printed images and archival materials pertaining to Venice and Venitian life. Her analysis is informed by a rich selection of historical and art historical litterature and conceptualized through the strategic use of theoretical debates.
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Assise : où trouver les maîtres primitifs : Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti
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Ce guide propose aux touristes de visiter une des villes les plus fascinante d'Italie, en parcourant cinq itinéraires thématiques sur les traces des grands artistes qui ont raconté et célébré la spiritualité de François d'Assise. Le lecteur pourra ainsi suivre l'histoire artistique d'un des monuments les plus importants de la chrétienté, la basilique Saint-François(...)
Assise : où trouver les maîtres primitifs : Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti
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Ce guide propose aux touristes de visiter une des villes les plus fascinante d'Italie, en parcourant cinq itinéraires thématiques sur les traces des grands artistes qui ont raconté et célébré la spiritualité de François d'Assise. Le lecteur pourra ainsi suivre l'histoire artistique d'un des monuments les plus importants de la chrétienté, la basilique Saint-François d'Assise qui, pélerinage fréquenté depuis des siècles, a aussi été le berceau de la peinture italienne. Ces cinq itinéraires comprennent une notice biographique des artistes, un catalogue de photo ainsi que des pages thématiques dans lesquelles sont approfondis quelques aspects historiques et artistiques qui méritent une attention particulière, comme par exemple l'évolution de l'image de saint François.
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May 2004, Florence
History until 1900
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Syrie, Liban, Jordanie, Israël, Territoires palestiniens, Turquie, ont été depuis des millénaires le théâtre de confrontations majeures entre civilisations qui ont laissé derrière elles des monuments divers. On peut désormais mieux appréhender les influences réciproques entre belligérants, mesurer combien les facteurs de guerre propres au Moyen-Orient ont pu engendrer des(...)
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May 2004, Rennes
La fortification au temps des Croisades
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Syrie, Liban, Jordanie, Israël, Territoires palestiniens, Turquie, ont été depuis des millénaires le théâtre de confrontations majeures entre civilisations qui ont laissé derrière elles des monuments divers. On peut désormais mieux appréhender les influences réciproques entre belligérants, mesurer combien les facteurs de guerre propres au Moyen-Orient ont pu engendrer des solutions architecturales originales et innovantes.
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America's national park roads and parkways : drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record
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The roads within America's national park system reveal a wide range of technological, aesthetic, and philosophical concerns. Their design and construction epitomize the central challenge of national park management: how to balance environmental protection with public access. The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a division of the National Park Service, has(...)
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January 1900, Baltimore, London
America's national park roads and parkways : drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record
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The roads within America's national park system reveal a wide range of technological, aesthetic, and philosophical concerns. Their design and construction epitomize the central challenge of national park management: how to balance environmental protection with public access. The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a division of the National Park Service, has spent more than a dozen years documenting the history of this vital aspect of the national park experience. America's National Park Roads and Parkways brings together 331 measured and interpretive drawings commissioned by HAER to illustrate the physical characteristics, design strategies, construction practices, and visitor experiences of roads in national parks from Acadia to Zion and parkways from the Blue Ridge to the Natchez Trace. Also included are non–Park Service projects that utilized similar design strategies, including the Bronx River Parkway and the Columbia River Highway. The book documents thirty-one projects, explaining how roads shape visitor perceptions, highlighting key characteristics of individual park road systems, and connecting their design and construction to the broader history of American engineering and landscape architecture. More than a documentary record of historic design and construction practices, this book has practical applications for engineers, landscape architects, and cultural resource specialists in guiding design decisions, interpreting historic sites, and informing contemporary debates on preservation and environmental protection.
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January 1900, Baltimore, London
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Histoires d'architecture
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Du Panthéon de Rome aux villas de Louis I. Kahn, vingt-deux monographies de bâtiments, regroupés par familles - églises, villas, musées, bibliothèques, grands magasins et usines -, où chacun deux se livre à partir du programme singulier et de la conjoncture qui lui donnèrent naissance en sorte que ce ne soit pas l'époque qui explique le bâtiment, mais plutôt le bâtiment(...)
Histoires d'architecture
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Du Panthéon de Rome aux villas de Louis I. Kahn, vingt-deux monographies de bâtiments, regroupés par familles - églises, villas, musées, bibliothèques, grands magasins et usines -, où chacun deux se livre à partir du programme singulier et de la conjoncture qui lui donnèrent naissance en sorte que ce ne soit pas l'époque qui explique le bâtiment, mais plutôt le bâtiment qui dévoile son époque. Toutes les études sont illustrées par un abondant corpus de dessins analytiques originaux et par des photographies.
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Three thousand years ago the Greeks built monuments that have come to epitomize Western culture, such as the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena. In this book, a renowned architectural historian re-examines buildings and sites of Greek classical antiquity, not as expressions of pedantic, archaic rules, but as truly innovative paradigms - and shows how they gave rise to(...)
Classical Greek architecture : the construction of the modern
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Three thousand years ago the Greeks built monuments that have come to epitomize Western culture, such as the Parthenon and the Temple of Athena. In this book, a renowned architectural historian re-examines buildings and sites of Greek classical antiquity, not as expressions of pedantic, archaic rules, but as truly innovative paradigms - and shows how they gave rise to modern architecture. Classical Greek Architecture features fascinating archival photographs, site maps, and architectural plans. It discusses not only the technology but also the myths, rituals, social structures, and political conflicts that left their mark in the ultimate design of a given building. With chapters covering a range of topics from the status of Greek architecture today and the uses of the various types of buildings to the influences of African and Asian cultures on the Greeks, this is a thorough, scholarly, yet accessible work of reference.
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London’s modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and laborers in the unseen parts of Georgian London - can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era’s urban architecture and the lives of a culturally(...)
The small house in eighteenth-century London
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London’s modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and laborers in the unseen parts of Georgian London - can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era’s urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population. Peter Guillery discusses how and where, by and for whom the houses were built, stressing vernacular continuity and local variability. He investigates the effects of creeping industrialization (both on house building and on the occupants), and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth. Providing rich and evocative illustrations, he compares these houses to urban domestic architecture elsewhere, as in North America, and suggests that the eighteenth-century vernacular metropolis has enduring influence.
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July 2004, New Haven / London
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