This book has been prepared in conjunction with an Open University course entitled History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939. The book has been ...
Continue Reading βBefore the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as “art” but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of ...
Continue Reading βIn seeing printed reproductions as a form of response to Michelangelo’s work, Bernadine Barnes focuses on the choices that printmakers and publishers made ...
Continue Reading βThis collection of essays is the first-ever English anthology of her writings. It includes texts written when she was still living in Italy ...
Continue Reading βA beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to ...
Continue Reading βThe theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is ...
Continue Reading βThesis (Ph. D.)–Columbia University, 1934 Submitted in compliance of Mr. Bardbury’s Ph.D. The thesis is centered on the Vitruvian School of Architecture in ...
Continue Reading βThe famous American architect’s fascinating look at the early years of his pioneering work, which led to his being called the “father of ...
Continue Reading βJulian-David Le Roy’s The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece (1758; 2d ed., 1770) forms part of a trilogy of books ...
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