Powers Matchless is the first book-length study on the Baldachin inside St. Peters, Rome (1624-1633). It situates the monument in the center of ...
Continue Reading →Memory and Modernity focuses on the first project of the renowned nineteenth-century French architect and theorist Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the restoration of the Romanesque ...
Continue Reading →Spitäler, Wasserkraftwerke, Hightechlabors, Schatzkammern, Verkehrstunnel, der Bundesratsbunker und geheime Kavernen: Die unterirdische Schweiz ist strahlend und kurios. Jost Auf der Maur hat sich ...
Continue Reading →Unter “Architekturtheorie” versteht man gewöhnlich denjenigen Teil der Kunstliteratur, der sich mit Architektur befasst. Architekturtheorie manifestiert sich in den verschiedenartigsten Texten, vom Roman ...
Continue Reading →This publication is the fourth in the symposium series of Studies in the History of Art, intended to document such gatherings and stimulate ...
Continue Reading →As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, ...
Continue Reading →A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The ...
Continue Reading →Focusing on images and descriptions of movement and spectacle – everyday street activities, congregations in market piazzas, life in the Jewish ghetto and ...
Continue Reading →The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century. Publication history is a ...
Continue Reading →The present volume has been compiled in response to the ever increasing demand for the original documents on the arts. Its aim is ...
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