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 ...
Continue Reading βOne of history’s most published architectural treatises, this Renaissance volume solidified the architectural canon of the past five centuries. In these pages, the distinguished architect ...
Continue Reading βMachiavelli’s Florentine Histories originated under Medici patronage at a moment in which, after the death of Lorenzo the younger in May 1519, Cardinal Giulio de’ ...
Continue Reading βProbably dating from the first century AD, De Eloutione is an ancient treatise on good writing practices that draws on works by Aristotle and Theophrastus. ...
Continue Reading βCalvin’s Harmony of the Law is his commentary on the books Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Whereas the majority of Calvin’s commentaries are chronologically arranged–beginning ...
Continue Reading βOriginally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation β what today ...
Continue Reading βThis compelling biography covers Nickel’s youth on Chicago’s West Side, his army service in the mid-1940s, his studies at the Institute of Design, and his ...
Continue Reading βRepublication of a classic 1926 study that looks at mouldings from historical, practical, aesthetic, and perceptual points of view. With the revival of interest in ...
Continue Reading βX-Ray Architecture explores the enormous impact of medical discourse and imaging technologies on the formation, representation and reception of twentieth-century architecture. It challenges the normal ...
Continue Reading βElements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, faΓ§ade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks ...
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