A Companion to Contemporary Drawing / Kelly Chorpening, Rebecca Fortnum, Dana Arnold
Textbook on the power, condition, and expanse of contemporary fine art drawing. his textbook: Demonstrates ways contemporary ...
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A companion to Islamic art and architecture / Flood, Finbarr Barry, Necipoğlu, Gülru
The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays ...
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Adaptive Reuse in Architecture : A Typological Index / Liliane Wong
Presents 50 spectacular conversion and reuse projects worldwide, including buildings such as the TWA Hotel at NewYork's ...
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Alvar Aalto Houses / Jari Jetsonen, Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen, Markku Lahti
Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed nearly one hundred single-family houses. Aalto, who is also ...
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Alvar Aalto and the future of architecture / Robert Cody, Angela Amoia
Exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and sensory experience by means of digital simulations ...
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Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline / Mark Jarzombek
In this book, acclaimed architectural theorist Mark Jarzombek examines this tension head-on, and uses it to rethink the nature ...
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Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves
The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the deep intellectual dimensions of ...
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Barcelona : urban architecture and community since 2010 / Sandra Hofmeister, Heide Wessely
Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising ...
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Building Meaning : An Architecture Studio Primer on Design, Theory, and History / Tamara Metz
An essential introduction to the complex relationship between form making, historical analysis, and conceptual explorations. ...
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If...Then
he creates houses and other buildings that are snugly energy-ef?cient and sit lightly on the land. Introduction 10 Camera-Ready ...
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Materials and Meaning in Architecture: Essays on the Bodily Experience of Buildings / Nathaniel Coleman
Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional ...
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Ottoman Baroque : The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul / Unver Rustem
A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world. With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation ...
Continue readingReframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial / Olga Bush
Resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through ...
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The Poetics of Arabian Suqs : A Hermeneutic Reading of the Development of Arabian Sūqs from the Pre-Islamic Era to Present / Jasmine Shahin
Investigates the history of Arabian sūqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ...
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Trophies of Victory: Public Building in Periklean Athens / T. Leslie Shear Jr.
Greek military victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataia during the Persian Wars profoundly shaped fifth-century politics ...
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