History of architecture

Gardens are a type of landscape art created by the hands of human beings.

Fully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the cream of Britain's historic country houses cared for by the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design.

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Gray rock fences built of ancient limestone are hallmarks of Kentucky's Bluegrass landscape.

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While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served.

'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea.

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All Saints’ Church, Brixworth lies 7 miles north of Northampton.

All Saints’ Church, Brixworth lies 7 miles north of Northampton.

This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.

This lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive architectural study of 87 individual temples and sanctuaries built in the Roman East between the end of the 1st century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE, within a broad region encompassing the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.

This attractive booklet is a guide to two walks around the historic town of Sandwich, once one of the great ports of medieval England.

This attractive booklet is a guide to two walks around the historic town of Sandwich, once one of the great ports of medieval England.

Humour, as much as any other trait, defines British cultural identity.

Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence.

In Mies Contra Le Corbusier, Gevork Hartoonian embarks on a captivating exploration of the architectural ideologies embodied in the works of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier.

Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history.

Through Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow, established experts, designers, and newer scholars from the world of 'Islamic architecture', broadly conceived, consider the field's changing nature and continued relevance in our rapidly globalizing context.

Through Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow, established experts, designers, and newer scholars from the world of 'Islamic architecture', broadly conceived, consider the field's changing nature and continued relevance in our rapidly globalizing context.

The Great Houses of the prehistoric and early medieval periods were enormous structures whose forms were modelled on those of domestic dwellings.

The Great Houses of the prehistoric and early medieval periods were enormous structures whose forms were modelled on those of domestic dwellings.

Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy.

Westminster Abbey contains the only surviving medieval Cosmatesque mosaics outside Italy.

The story of modernity told through a cultural history of twentieth-century PragueSetting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "e;city of light,"e; Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "e;the capital of the nineteenth century.

First full archaeological study of the urban environment of Norwich when its power was at its height.

Major interdisciplinary study of medieval church porches, bringing out their importance and significance.

A beautifully illustrated guide to the medieval church towers of the Northern Province of England.

This book presents the first systematic overview and analysis of the deep connection between Scharoun and China, offering insights into East-West cultural exchange and enriching existing understandings of modernism.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition.

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic.

In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France.

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans.

With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities.

In 1926 Barry Dierks, a young American architect, arrived in Paris and fell in love with France.

The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination and decay, looking at representations of both thriving cities and ones which are struggling, abandoned or simply in transition.

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire remained the grandest and most powerful of Middle Eastern empires.

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration.

William Blake famously imagined 'Jerusalem builded here' in London.

England's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years.

This volume brings together an interesting range of papers discussing medieval buildings across Europe.

This volume brings together an interesting range of papers discussing medieval buildings across Europe.

Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and western Europe and are scattered across landscapes from Pomerania to Portugal.