Five Architects, originally published in 1975, grew out of a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held ...
Continue Reading →Emil Kaufmann (1891 in Vienna – 1953 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) was an Austrian art and architecture historian. He was the son of Max Kaufmann (died ...
Continue Reading →Essays by renowned Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (born 1965) are compiled in this volume. Written over the span of 20 years, these essays were composed ...
Continue Reading →Athanasius Kircher (1602–80) stands out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of ...
Continue Reading →The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization ...
Continue Reading →A collection of essays written essentially by members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, exploring certain ...
Continue Reading →The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (French: La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir) is a 1979 book by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, in ...
Continue Reading →Excerpt from Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari Vasari, and tell the tales as nearly as I can in his own words. His treatment ...
Continue Reading →I quattro libri dell’architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), written in Italian. It was ...
Continue Reading →The so-called Sienese sketchbook of the famous architect and engineer Giuliano da Sangallo was originally in the library of Sienese scholar Giovanni Antonio Pecci. The ...
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