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Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centres
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 75.00The design principles necessary to create functional and dynamic contemporary mosques can be hard to grasp for those unfamiliar with the Islamic faith. 'Design Criteria for Mosques and Islamic Centers' provides an easy-to-use and practical set of guidelines for mosque design, illustrated with 300 line drawings. Case studies of urban mosques in New... more...
Sacred Buildings
Springer 2008; US$ 119.00The building of religious structures represents a rare opportunity for the architect to concentrate on the creation of volume, space, and form. Sacred architecture is far less determined than other building tasks by functional requirements, norms, and standards. As a rule, it is free to unfold as pure architecture. Thus in design terms this building... more...
Quel avenir pour quelles églises ? / What Future for Which Churches?
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2006; US$ 29.25Des spécialistes européens et nord-américains analysent les expériences vécues et formulent des propositions concernant l'avenir et la propriété de ces nobles bâtiments, leur vocation et leur usage. Ils évaluent également les défis que posent la planification urbaine et la gestion de tels édifices... more...
Les églises du Québec
Presses de l''niversite du Quebec 2005; US$ 22.50À travers les épopées de l'édification et de la conservation des églises, les auteurs nous convient à un récit sur l'imaginaire québécois. Et sur ses avatars qui nous ramènent aux mésaventures universelles du patrimoine; Les églises du Québec. Un patrimoine à réinventer... more...
Lost Churches of Mississippi
University Press of Mississippi 2010; US$ 35.00Lost Churches of Mississippi is a collection of archival photographs, postcards, and drawings of more than one hundred notable churches and synagogues vanquished by fire, disaster, development, or neglect. Constructed primarily from the mid-1800s through the early 1900s, these places of worship were often among the most visually prominent and architecturally... more...
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...
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...
Himmlisches Jerusalem in Hildesheim
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009; US$ 32.60Hauptbeschreibung 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...









