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Fortress-Churches of Languedoc
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 30.00Traces the relationship between religious and military realms in medieval Europe by examining fortress-churches. more...
Slow Guide to London
Hardie Grant Books 2010; US$ 29.95The antithesis of trendy, "Slow London" celebrates all that's local, natural, traditional, sensory and most of all gratifying about living in London. It's an inspirational lifestyle guide for locals who want to live more and fret less. Readers are invited to rise up - in their own sweet time, of course - against the culture of speed,... more...
Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of Classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondos work places them within the context of eighteenth-century intellectual thought. more...
Downtown Chicagos Historic Movie Theatres
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 49.95The story of downtown Chicago--its early development, later struggles, and current restoration--is mirrored in the history of the theatres that occupied its streets. This vivid chronicle tells the tale of the Windy City's theatres, from mid-nineteenth century vaudeville houses to the urban decline and renewal of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.... more...
Live-Work Planning and Design
Wiley 2012; US$ 85.00“Although the live-work concept is now accepted among progressive urban design and planning professionals, the specifics that define the term, and its application, remain sketchy. This encyclopedic work is sure to change that, providing the critical information that is needed by architects, planners and citizens.” -Peter Katz, Author,... more...
The Churches and Chapels of Wales
University of Wales Press 2011; US$ 25.00This book provides a comprehensive guide to the most important church and chapel buildings in Wales from the early Middle Ages to the present day. more...
Old Capitol
University of Iowa Press 1988; US$ 24.95Built between 1839 and 1842, the domed structure of Iowa City's Old Capitol served as the third territorial capitol and the first state capitol of Iowa. In 1857, when the state government was moved to Des Moines, Old Capitol became the first building of the new University of Iowa. It remains today the centerpiece of this handsome campus. The... more...
Himmlisches Jerusalem in Hildesheim
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009; US$ 33.05Hauptbeschreibung 1010 legte Bischof Bernward den Grundstein für St. Michael in Hildesheim. Die doppelte Symmetrie des frühromanischen Baukörpers, sein ikonoplastisches Programm im Innern und die anmutende Ästhetik insgesamt ließen die Kirche immer als das Ideal der mittelalterlichen Weltsicht erscheinen, als Ort der christlichen Botschaft vom ewigen... more...
Robert Grossteste
Academia Verlag 2012; US$ 33.37Robert Grosseteste: Philosophy of Intellect and Vision focuses on two important areas in the philosophy of Robert Grosseteste at the beginning of the thirteenth century: Philosophy of Intellect and Philosophy of Vision. These two areas of Grosseteste's philosophy have not been thoroughly explored, nor their importance established. more...
The Architecture of Failure
John Hunt Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99Against those who considerarchitecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, the Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has been suppressed, ignored... more...









