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EARTHOPOLIS : A BIOGRAPHY OF OUR URBAN PLANET

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power ...

PHILOSOPHER LOOKS AT ARCHITECTURE, A

What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture ...

PANTHEON. FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT, THE

The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD ...

SOME ACCOUNT OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN SPAIN. 2 VOL

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street (1824-81) was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-century Britain. ...

MODERN QUANTUM MECHANICS

CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH FIRST FOR SCHOOLS 2 STUDENT'S BOOK WITH ANSWERS

A HISTORY OF GARDEN ART : FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. VOL I

Marie Luise Gothein (1863-1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated into ...

A HISTORY OF GARDEN ART : FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. VOL II

Marie Luise Gothein (1863-1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated into ...

CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH FIRST 1 FOR SCHOOLS FOR REVISED EXAM FROM 2015 STUDENT'S BOOK

AN ESSAY ON THE PICTURESQUE, AS COMPARED WITH THE SUBLIME AND THE BEAUTIFUL "AND, ON THE USE OF STUDYING PICTURES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVI"

Frustrated by what he saw as the over-grooming prevalent in British landscape gardening and associated with the work of Capability Brown, Uvedale Price (1747-1829) ...

TREATISE ON THE DECORATIVE PART OF CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 2 VOLUME SET

Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to further his career in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. He also became the ...

TREATISE ON THE DECORATIVE PART OF CIVIL ARCHITECTURE VOLUME 1

Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to further his career in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. He also became the ...

BRICK AND MARBLE IN THE MIDDLE AGE. NOTES OF A TOUR IN THE NORTH OF ITALY

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street (1824-81) was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-century Britain. ...

TREATISE ON THE DECORATIVE PART OF CIVIL ARCHITECTURE VOLUME 2

Sir William Chambers (1722-96), architect and furniture designer, wished to further his career in the 1750s by publishing on architecture. He also became the ...

REMARKS ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES ESPECIALLY OF ITALY

Professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Robert Willis (1800-75) mostly lectured on mechanism, and was elected an honorary member ...

SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART VOLUME 3

Alexander Lindsay (1812-80) was the head of an aristocratic family who owned vast coalfields in Lancashire, generating enormous wealth. Educated at Eton and Trinity ...

SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART VOLUME 1

Alexander Lindsay (1812-80) was the head of an aristocratic family who owned vast coalfields in Lancashire, generating enormous wealth. Educated at Eton and Trinity ...

SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN ART VOLUME 2

Alexander Lindsay (1812-80) was the head of an aristocratic family who owned vast coalfields in Lancashire, generating enormous wealth. Educated at Eton and Trinity ...

ARCHITECTURE OF THE SACRED. SPACE, RITUAL AND EXPERIENCE FROM CLASSICAL GREECE TO BYZANTIUM

In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical ...

FORMAL GARDEN IN ENGLAND, THE

First published in 1892, this work by the architect Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856-1942), illustrated by Francis Inigo Thomas (1865-1950), uses historical evidence to vindicate ...