Arcturus Publishing, 2008. — 571 р. This book takes a bird's eye view of architecture in time, and explores the different ways architects have responded to civilizations, giving them the buildings and cities they deserve. Synopsis From ancient amphitheatres to modern ziggurats, the art of building affects us all. The History of Architecture is an inspirational guide to what...
Šviesa, 2007. — 166 p. Knyga skiriama unikaliam daugiasluoksniam, gilias europines šaknis turinčiam Lietuvos dvarų istorijos ir architektūros paveldui. Pateikiama duomenų apie dvidešimt daugiau ar mažiau išlikusių Lietuvos dvarų, jų istoriją, garsiąsias dvarininkų šeimas, kurių genealogija siekia senąsias lietuvių, lenkų, rusų ir kitų tautų gimines, apibūdinama rūmų ir kitų...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 234 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 6). This thesis explores the complexity and fluidity of Egyptian cultural identity in architectural form in Roman Egypt. It covers the period from the Roman conquest in 30 BC to the official recognition of Christianity in AD 325. The thesis focuses on the relationship between architectural form and layers of...
INAPH, 2021. — 561 p. — (Colección Petracos 4). Le présent volume rassemble diverses études qui, sous le titre “Bâtir en Afrique et en Ibérie pendant l’Antiquité”, ont pour principal objet d’analyser l’architecture, ou plutôt “l’art de bâtir”. Le croisement de méthodologies, d’hypothèses théoriques et d’approches pratiques d’une part et l’étude de paysages bâtis, d’édifices...
Çanakkale Araştırmaları Türk Yıllığı. — 2015. — Sayı 19. — s. 93-122. Çanakkale'de, Osmanlı döneminde Yıldırım Bayezıd'dan itibaren bölgeyi, özellikle boğazı korumak ve İstanbul'a Akdeniz'den gelecek saldırılara engel olmak amacıyla kaleler yapılmıştır. Yıldırım Bayezıd'dan sonra kale inşasına XIX. yüzyılın ilk yarısına kadar devam edilmiştir. Mevcut bazı kaleler onarılmış ve...
University of Chicago Press, 1986. — 372 p. In this widely acclaimed work, James Ackerman considers in detail the buildings designed by Michelangelo in Florence and Rome—including the Medici Chapel, the Farnese Palace, the Basilica of St. Peter, and the Capitoline Hill. He then turns to an examination of the artists architectural drawings, theory, and practice. As Ackerman...
Viking Press, 1961. — 286 p. Michelangelo Buonarroti was principally a sculptor and always claimed that architecture was not his profession; but, with a sculptor's vision, he saw buildings as dynamic organisms - metaphors of the human body - and he designed some of the most impressive architecture in all history. Among his best-known buildings are the Medici Chapel and the...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 306 p. — (Bollingen series 35.34). In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le...
Princeton University Press, 1985. — 304 p. — (Bollingen series 35.34). In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in England, and the modern villas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le...
Longanesi, 2014. — 363 p. Architetto che ha fatto una lunga esperienza di archeologo e che ama in maniera profonda il costruire degli antichi, Adam ha anche grandissime doti di intelligente divulgatore, come attesta, oltre a questo libro, anche un delicato documentario di analogo soggetto da lui girato in Italia pochi anni orsono. Per Adam la tecnica costruttiva antica nasce...
Routledge, 2005. — 368 p. With over 750 illustrations, Roman Buildings is a thorough and systematic examination of Roman architecture and building practice, looking at large-scale public buildings as well as more modest homes and shops. Placing emphasis on the technical aspects of the subject, the author follows the process of building through each stage -- from quarry to...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 309 p. — (BAR International Series 2000(I)/Sudan archaeological research society 17). This is a study of the churches of Nobadia – the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its territory has now been flooded by the successive Aswan dams, and much of the remainder has been surveyed by archaeologists, there is...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 213 p. — (BAR International Series 2000(II)/Sudan archaeological research society 17). This is a study of the churches of Nobadia – the most northerly of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. Since more than two-thirds of its territory has now been flooded by the successive Aswan dams, and much of the remainder has been surveyed by archaeologists, there is...
Phaidon, 2015. — 640 p. From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction, charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily...
Electa, 2000. — 110 p. Hadrian. The architectural plan of the villa. The rediscovery of the villa. The buildings of the hadrian's Villa. Pecile. The hundred chambers. The baths with Heliocaminus. The philosopher's chamber. The maritime theatre. Library courtyard. With bibliography. The Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana in Italian) is a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli,...
Electa, 2000. — 110 p. A practical, complete guide for those wishing to explore the monumental complex built by the Emperor Hadrian in 118 AC as a government palace and vacation residence. After a short historical profile of the Roman emperor, the volume examines the spaces and buildings of the residence, built over an earlier Republican-era villa from the 2nd century BC and...
Electa, 2000. — 117 p. Una guida per chi desidera avventurarsi nel monumentale complesso voluto dall’imperatore Adriano nel 118 d.C. come palazzo governativo e insieme sede di villeggiatura. Dopo un breve profilo storico della figura dell’imperatore romano, il volume presenta gli ambienti e gli edifici in cui si sviluppava la residenza, sorta su una precedente villa...
Gustavo Gili, 1996. — 152 p. In Mexico, as in other places and often in other times, the identification of a way of working, a style, a "correct" attitude with a tradition, as a stimulus to nationalist identification, has tended to channel creativity in the direction of the stereotype and the devalued imitation of the model being imitated, frustrating the expression of a rich...
Edizioni Ca'Foscari, 2023. — 182 p. — (Fonti, letterature, arti e paesaggi d’Europa/Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe 2). The book offers a greater understanding of the multiple layers of meaning that have been superimposed in the course of the Medieval and Modern Ages in the Rialto area. The authors follow the Leitmotiv of the memorial component that each...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. — 361 p. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 129 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 34). Il complesso di Baitokaike (Hoson Sulaiman) è considerato uno degli esempi più peculiari di santuari rurali romani in Siria che pongono la problematica relativa alla creazione dei luoghi di culto extraurbani e il loro sviluppo architettonico durante il periodo classico. Questo lavoro si propone di affrontare...
The Crowood Press, 2023. — 191 p. Dry stone walls – the thousands of miles of stone ribbon stretching across the landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, Yorkshire Dales and Cotswolds – use construction methods which have existed for thousands of years. Indeed, dry stone structures in the Orkney Islands and Ireland are even older than the Egyptian pyramids. A dry stone wall is...
The Crowood Press, 2023. — 316 p. Dry stone walls – the thousands of miles of stone ribbon stretching across the landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, Yorkshire Dales and Cotswolds – use construction methods which have existed for thousands of years. Indeed, dry stone structures in the Orkney Islands and Ireland are even older than the Egyptian pyramids. A dry stone wall is...
Arthistoricum, 2020. — 101 p. This “Timeline of Selected Historical Building Facades in Aleppo” highlights primarily exterior facades with a particular focus on doors and windows from the Seljuk period to modern times. The elements are chosen from 60 historical buildings including religious, commercial and residential buildings. The focus is on the presentation of a general...
Santo Tomas University Press, 1991. — 298 p. The book was written in the Filipino architecture students in mind. Although several books have already been written about Filipino architecture, they were not written for easy reading and comprehension by the students. This book is the first of two parts dealing with the study of Filipino architecture. It focuses on the architecture...
E. de Boccard, 1923. — 286 p. «Le premier style [les maisons rhodien] il est essentiellement gothique et occidental par le choix des profils et des formes archi-tectoniques, mais les motifs ornementaux perpétuent des thèmes byzantins : dents de scie, billettes, étoiles à quatre branches, pointes de diamant, rinceaux et feuillages stylisés.»
E. de Boccard, 1921. — 209 p. «Au cours d'un premier voyage à Rhodes, à la fin de l'été de 1909, j'éprouvai quelque surprise devant l'importance et l'état de conservation des monuments du moyen âge; il me sembla que les publications parues jusqu'à ce jour n'en donnaient qu'une idée incomplète, et je conçus le projet d'effectuer une étude méthodique de la Cité des Chevaliers de...
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2011. — 786 p. Se bem que a temática central da obra seja a arte edificatória, baseada, em parte, na análise histórica dos edifícios antigos estes são, no entanto e quase sempre, apresentados de forma geral e pouco pormenorizada, exceto no Livro VIII, que se refere aos ornamentos de edifícios públicos, apesar de o autor fazer uma chamada de...
Serindia, 2005. — 335 p. — (Volume One of Tibet Heritage Fund's Conservation Inventory). The Temples of Lhasa is a comprehensive survey of historic Buddhist sites in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The study is based on the Tibetan Heritage Fund's official five-year architectural conservation project in Tibet, during which the author and his team had unlimited access to the...
Undena Publications, 1978. — 100 p. — (Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 8). In this work, I attempt to show the importance of studying together the various elements of man's remains in the archaeological record. This is particularly true in historical archaeology and specifically in urban architecture. The method used here aims at integrating cuneiform sources, art objects, artifacts...
Macmillan , 1909. — 425 p. IN publishing this treatise on Greek Architecture I wish to acknowledge my obligations to many writers. These are all recorded in the List of Abbreviations at the end of the volume and in the references given in the text. But a more special acknowledgment is due to the scholars whose work has appeared in the publications of the German Government on...
Birkhäuser, 2016. — 144 p. Norwegian architecture has been in the international spotlight in recent years. Following the success of Made in Norway, this second volume presents a selection of 40 new examples of the best contemporary architecture Norway has to offer. These projects – large and small, rural and urban – are examples of how architects in Norway have reacted to the...
Birkhäuser, 2016. — 144 p. Norwegian architecture has been in the international spotlight in recent years. Following the success of Made in Norway, this second volume presents a selection of 40 new examples of the best contemporary architecture Norway has to offer. These projects – large and small, rural and urban – are examples of how architects in Norway have reacted to the...
Routledge, 2002. — 297 p. — (Planning, History and Environment Series). In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe, and France in particular, shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a...
Al-Maktoum Institute Academic Press, 2004. — 732 p. — (Monograph on Islamic Jerusalem studies 4). This monograph aims to introduce a definition of al-Aqsa Mosque and to understand its architectural development and evolution in the early Muslim Period within the Cultural Context of the Site. The book is an innovative and creative work on al-Aqsa which reveals a new dimension on...
Taschen, 1999. — 237 p. Manifestação de vigor e de fé, a arquitectura românica reflecte as perturbações religiosas, políticas e sociais por que passa a Europa dos séculos XI e XII. Marcados pela importância crescente das peregrinações, pela veneração das relíquias e pela reforma da vida monástica, nascem edifícios sagrados em grande número, a testemunharem a complexidade da...
Reichert Verlag, 2006. — 292 S. — (Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz, Kunst im ersten Jahrtausend. Reihe B: Studien und Perspektiven 21). Die Beiträge dieses Bandes entstanden anlässlich des Kolloquiums „Architektur und Liturgie“, das im Juli 2003 in Greifswald gehalten wurde. Dabei stand das Verhältnis zwischen Architektur und Liturgie in Ost und West in seinen...
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 356 p. — (Millennium-Studien 42). In Byzantium, the central structure is considered archetypical. This study shows that this assumption is only partly true. It presents the basilicas of the 7th to 15th centuries, addressing questions of typology, appointments, function, and the relationship to longitudinal and central constructions. It shows that the...
BAR Publishing, 2007. — 234 p. — (BAR International Series 1637). In this work the author explores the pre-historical defensive architecture in Crete by discerning five types of architectural feature: enclosure walls, tower-like structures; 'guard houses' and guardrooms. Before presenting the materials and analyses, the author outlines the history of the research, lists the...
Taschen, 1994. — 164 p. After the postmodernist and deconstructivist trends of the 1970s and 1980s, contemporary architecture seems to want to connect with classical modernism. This illustrated volume presents the dominant works of contemporary European architects as well as the projects of an avant-garde that will most certainly also have a decisive influence on the...
Brepols, 2007. — 392 p. — (Ritus et Artes 3). Medieval cathedrals and the various practices connected to them form an important and complex part of the European cultural heritage. The buildings themselves and their reception into the modern arts ensure their presence within today's cultural memories and sensibilities. In the mid-twelfth century, a new archbishop's seat was...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 273 p. — (Oxford History of Art). The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social change. Encompassing the entire continent, Renaissance Architecture examines the rich variety of buildings that emerged during these seminal centuries of European...
Reaktion Books, 2015. — 358 p. This book offers a comprehensive account of Russia’s architectural production from the late nineteenth century to the present, explaining how its architecture was both shaped by and came to embody Russia’s rapid cultural, economic, and social revolutions over the past century. Richard Anderson looks at Russia’s complex relationship to global...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006. — 349 p. — (Gennadeion Monographs IV). First published in 1953, this book presents a description of 16 of the larger medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese, occupied by the Venetians between 1685 and 1715. It is also a beautifully written celebration of some of Greece's most striking, but also least studied, architectural...
IWA Publishing, 2012. — 586 p. Evolution of Water Supply Through the Millennia presents the major achievements in the scientific fields of water supply technologies and management throughout the millennia. It provides valuable insights into ancient water supply technologies with their apparent characteristics of durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability. A...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 136 p. — (BAR International Series 2889). L'Architettura Rupestre è una particolare forma di architettura che presenta caratteristiche "costruttive" e morfologiche diverse da quelle tradizionali. Il volume propone una revisione delle procedure di acquisizione 3D, elaborazione e rappresentazione inerenti l'Architettura Rupestre attraverso uno studio...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 136 p. — (BAR International Series 2889). L'Architettura Rupestre è una particolare forma di architettura che presenta caratteristiche "costruttive" e morfologiche diverse da quelle tradizionali. Il volume propone una revisione delle procedure di acquisizione 3D, elaborazione e rappresentazione inerenti l'Architettura Rupestre attraverso uno studio...
Walter de Gruyter, 2010. — 682 p. — (Image & Context 8). This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich...
Harvard University Press, 1927. — 288 p. The early mediaeval architecture of Florence, of which the Baptistery and the church of San Miniato are the most important examples, is a very special development and distinct in many ways from the contemporary architecture of other principal Tuscan centres, as Pisa or Lucca. It is confined to a restricted area, for, with the exception...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 213 p. — (BAR International Series 2790). This book examines the development of the mosque from the hijra (A.H.1/A.D.622) to the fall of the Umayyad dynasty (A.H.133/A.D.750). The aims of the book are two-fold. Firstly, to consider how those mosques for which we only have literary evidence may be approached for study; and secondly, to trace the...