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James "Athenian" Stuart The Rediscovery of Antiquity

Weber Soros Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300117134, Yale University Press, December 2006
480 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 500 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

The creation of the 'Greek style' and its pervasive impact in England and on the Continent during the third quarter of the eighteenth century was largely due to James Stuart's landmark multi-volume publication "Antiquities of Athens", co-authored wit...

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion Buildings of Wales

Lloyd Thomas, Orbach Julian, Scourfield Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300101799, Yale University Press, November 2006
550 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This sixth volume of the "Buildings of Wales" series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the South-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known,...

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Architecture

Architecture of Aftermath

Smith Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780226764696, ISBN: HB: 9780226764689, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
280 pp., 25.2x17.5 cm, 58 halftones

The September 11 terrorist attacks targeted, in Osama bin Laden's words, "America's icons of military and economic power". In "The Architecture of Aftermath", Terry Smith argues that it was no accident that these targets were buildings: architecture...

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America

Sprawl A Compact History

Bruegmann Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226076911, ISBN: HB: 9780226076904, University of Chicago Press, November 2006
306 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with the...

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Art Conservation

Architecture

Conservation of Decorated Surfaces on Earthen Architecture

Rainer Leslie, Rivera Angelyn Bass

ISBN: PB: 9780892368501, Getty Publications, October 2006
220 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 27 black&white illus., 70 colour illus.

For millennia, people of all cultures have decorated the surfaces of their domestic, religious, and public buildings. Earthen architecture, in particular, has been, and continues to be, a common ground for surface decoration, such as paintings, sculp...

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Shropshire Buildings of England

Newman John, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300120837, Yale University Press, September 2006
787 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The unspoiled county of Shropshire is among the most appealing in England for lovers of architecture. The county's many historic towns, of which Shrewsbury and Ludlow are the largest, are especially plentiful in Georgian and timber-framed buildings....

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Architecture

Douglas Garofalo

Rosa Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300120585, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2006
96 pp., 20.9x18.6 cm, 90 colour illus.

Announcing "A+D" (Architecture and Design), a new series from the Art Institute of Chicago, which highlights the work of important architects and designers from around the world. Innovatively designed by the New York firm 2X4, the titles are either h...

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Isle of Wight Buildings of England

Wharton Lloyd David, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300107333, Yale University Press, June 2006
348 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, colour illus.

This is a comprehensive guide to the buildings of the Isle of Wight. The beguiling architecture of the many towns, villages and resorts is explored in full, as are the charming villas and cottages ornes dotted around the spectacular coasts. But the I...

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History of Art

Architecture

Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920

Clegg Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300111200, Yale University Press, May 2006
356 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

In this unprecedentedly wide-ranging account of art, design, and architecture in the complex Central Europe of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its momentous last decades, Elizabeth Clegg achieves a forceful integration of political and cultural de...

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Traditional Buildings of Britain An Introduction to Vernacular Architecture

Brunskill R. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780304366675, Yale University Press, May 2006
208 pp., 24.6x18.9 cm

The third edition contains a completely new and exciting chapter on the Vernacular Revival, which carries the story forward from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and is illustrated with Dr Brunskill's fine drawings, a feature of the book...

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