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Modern Architectural Theoryby Harry Mallgrave
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 43.00Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theorem, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave contextualizes architectural discourse within its social and political atmosphere. more...
The Bauhaus Groupby Nicholas Fox Weber
Knopf Publishing Group 2009; US$ 23.99Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well these figures’ lesser-known wives and girlfriends. In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany’s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s. Here are: Walter... more...
Architecture of Oppressionby Paul B. Jaskot
Routledge 1999; US$ 63.95This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system. more...
Story of the Roman Amphitheatreby D. L. Bomgardner
Routledge 2000; US$ 140.00David Bomgardner traces the origins and development of the Roman amphitheatre. This lucid and accessible work is beautifully illustrated with 141 plans and photographs. more...
German Architecture for a Mass Audienceby Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Routledge 2000; US$ 62.95This book illustrates the ways in which buildings designed by Germany's most celebrated twentieth century architects were embedded in widely held beliefs about the power of architecture to influence society. more...
The Seven Lamps of Architectureby John Ruskin
Electric Book Company 1998; US$ 4.95In August of 1848, John Ruskin and his new bride visited northern France, for the gifted young critic wished to write a book that would examine the essence of Gothic architecture. By the following April, the book was finished. Titled The Seven Lamps of Architecture, it was far more than a treatise on the Gothic style; instead, it elaborated Ruskin?s deepest convictions of the nature and role of architecture and its aesthetics. The book was published to immediate acclaim and has since become an acknowledged classic. more...
Roman Villasby J.T. Smith
Routledge 1998; US$ 155.00Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Romans and their social and economic development. more...
Architecture and Authority in Japanby William H. Coaldrake
RoutledgeCurzon 1996; US$ 64.95'This will be by far the best book on the place of architecture, especially monumental public architecture, in Japanese history and culture ... It is a major contribution to the cultural history of Japan.' - Martin Collcutt, Princeton more...
Dictionary of Islamic Architectureby Andrew Petersen
Routledge 1996; US$ 80.00With over 500 entries, and over 100 plans, sketch maps, photographs and illustrations, this work provides the fullest range of artistic, technical, archaeological, cultural and biographical data from the spread of Islamic culture. more...
Idea of Buildingby Steven Groak
Spon Press 1992; US$ 41.95This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings. In particular it raises questions about the kinds of knowledge we have and will need in designing, making and enjoying our buildings. more...