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Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 102.00Using key texts by Gottfried Semper, Mari Hvattum offers a reinterpretation of historicism. Hvattum focuses on Semper's two major concerns: an understanding of the ontological significance of art and architecture, and the rendering of art and architecture as the objects of scientific investigation and prediction. more...
The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral
Tiger of the Stripe 2006; US$ 12.00A revised and reset edition of the authoritative Victorian work. Professor Willis marries eyewitness accounts by Eadmer, Gervase and other sources, such as William of Malmesbury and Matthew Paris, with his own acute observations, creating a vivid impression of the Saxon, Norman and later cathedral. The text is interspersed with superb wood engravings... more...
The Image of an Ottoman City
BRILL 2004; US$ 157.00This urban and architectural study of Aleppo reconstructs the city?s evolution over the first two centuries of Ottoman rule and proposes a new model for the understanding of the reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms in a provincial setting. more...
Building Jewish in the Roman East
BRILL 2004; US$ 204.00Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean. But what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish first surveys the architecture of small rural villages in the Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as ?Jewish associations.? Finally,... more...
Conservation of Ruins
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00Despite growing international awareness of the presence and significance of ruined buildings and archaeological sites, and the increasingly sophisticated technology available for the collection of data about them, these sites continue to be at risk across the globe. Conservation of Ruins defines and describes these risks, which range from neglect,... more...
Building Jewish in the Roman East
Baylor University Press 2004; US$ 39.95Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean. But what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish surveys the architecture of small rural villages in Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as Jewish associations. Building Jewish also... more...
Re-forming Britain
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 55.95A study of how architects from the late 1920s onwards sought to establish modernism as the dominant ideology in British architecture and to convert the nation to their ideology. more...
History of Architectural Conservation
Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 68.95A History of Architectural Conservation expands knowledge about the conservation of ancient monuments, works of art and historic buildings. It includes the origins of the interest in conservation within the European context, and the development of the concepts from Antiquity and the Renaissance to the present day. Jokilehto illustrates how this development... more...
Beginnings - Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Early Sketches
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95Together with the National Library of Ireland, Architectural Press presents seventy previously unpublished drawings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The identification in the National Library of Ireland of three sketchbooks, from which these drawings have been selected, represents a significant addition to the body of early drawings by Mackintosh. The... more...
The Practice of Modernism
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 59.95In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design. Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the time, this new book examines the complex relationship... more...









