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Ambitious and wide-ranging, this is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world ...
The fifty buildings presented here in chronological order represent the most compelling, intriguing, and awe-inspiring structures from all over the world. Along with the Pyramids ...
The Great Builders surveys the careers of forty great architects whose engineering skills were crucial to their success. Sixteen nationalities and seven centuries of architectural ...
Almost nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre in Paris every year to see its incomparable art collection. Yet few ...
A bestseller around the world when first appeared, this visually rich book casts a new eye on the beauty - and the drama - of black in ...
We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of ...
Gothic, Romanesque, Modernist, Metabolist... The variety of styles through architectural history can be bewildering. Whether it be a Gothic crocket or a simple Modernist join ...
This fascinating lexicon examines the quixotic architectural expressions found on select mid-20th-century modern commercial buildings in South Florida. Showcasing the work of 13 noted architects ...
A comprehensive tour of the magnificent Chateau de Chantilly, its superlative art collection, important stables, and beautiful gardens.
The Domaine de Chantilly is an exceptional ...
A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate our fascination with the houses of ...
Against a backdrop of Islamophobia, Europeans are increasingly airbrushing from history their cultural debt to the Muslim world. But this legacy lives on in some ...
It is an architectural concept as alluring as it is elusive, as futuristic as it is primordial. Megastructure is what it sounds like- a vastly ...
French photographer Jason Guilbeau has used Google Street View to virtually navigate Russia and the former USSR, searching for examples of a forgotten Soviet empire ...
This atlas of more than one thousand Modernist architectural masterpieces uncovers hidden gems while offering new perspectives on old favourites. In 2006, architectural designer and ...
For almost 10,000 years man has built in unbaked earth, not only simple dwellings but also palaces, temples and fortresses of the utmost grandeur ...