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Sacred Power, Sacred Space
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 24.99Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a primary function of church buildings is to represent and reify three different types of power:... more...
Roman Theatres
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 424.99This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive account of Roman theatre architecture. It contains information, plans, and photographs of every theatre in the Roman Empire for which there is archaeological evidence, together with a full analysis of how Roman theatres were designed, built, and paid for, and how theatres differ in different parts of the... more...
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 3
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 362.00The third volume in the survey of great houses of Medieval England and Wales examines Southern England. more...
Proportion
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 79.95This handbook provides readers with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underlie the main systems and illustrating these with examples of their use in historical and modern buildings. The main body of the text traces the interplay of abstraction and empathy... more...
African-American Architects
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 185.00African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings since 1865. Although many of these structures survive today, the architects themselves are virtually unknown. This unique reference work brings their lives and work to light for the first time. Written by 100 experts ranging from architectural historians to archivists,... more...
Women's Places
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 70.00What was different about the environments that women created as architects, designers and clients at a time when they were gaining increasing political and social status in a male world? Through a series of case studies, Women's Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960 , examines in detail the professional and domestic spaces created by women who... more...
The Emergence of Modern Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 75.00A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of architecture from the end of the tenth century in Europe to... more...
Tracing Modernity
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 67.95Drawng on architectural and urban history as well as philosophy and sociology, the book outlines the complex and conflicting roots of modernity by tracing its manifestations in architecture and the city. more...
Architects to the Nation
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 69.99This text traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office, that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe. more...
Historic Floors
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 115.00This is the first book in the UK to be devoted to historic floors. It introduces an important and largely neglected subject and considers conservation methods in a European context. It traces the history of some of the great floors of Europe from the fourth century B.C. and outlines the development of mosaic, tiles, marble and parquetry floors in... more...









