Having Words collects together for the first time ten essays by the pioneering architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown. Educated in the ...
Continue Reading →This comprehensive, prize-winning guide introduces the reader, whether visitor or resident, to the unparalleled visual wealth and historical interest found in London’s neighbourhoods, ...
Continue Reading →The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who ...
Continue Reading →This is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed ...
Continue Reading →Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture, the only architectural treatise to have survived from antiquity, was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian ...
Continue Reading →This book is both an analysis of the Bastille as cultural paradigm and a case study on the history of French political culture. ...
Continue Reading →First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when ...
Continue Reading →In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and ...
Continue Reading →Architecture Culture 1943-1968 is an anthology of seventy-four international documents with critical commentary. Both a sourcebook and a companion history of architecture, the ...
Continue Reading →In the 1790s and early 1800s, the art world experienced two big events: First came the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy and ...
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