Hull is one of the great historic trading centers of northeast England. Severely hit by industrial decline, it has recently begun to see substantial ...
A fully illustrated, comprehensive record of Londons medieval Charterhouse, from its foundation in the 14th century to the present day, presented by the Survey ...
The most authoritative guide to the Lake District and surrounding area, this volume covers the outstanding vernacular architecture, unspoiled historic towns, and fine Victorian ...
Winner of the 2009 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by The American Society for Theatre Research. Shortly after the ...
Although numerous books on the Cultural Revolution have been published, they do not analyze the profound shift in aesthetic values that occurred in China ...
"Why Architecture Matters" is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements ...
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome ...
As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between ...
The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders ...
Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the ...
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Humanities category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers Winner of the 2008 PROSE ...
In this meticulously researched book, Eric Mumford traces how members of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), such as Walter Gropius, Josep Lluis ...
One of the most complex and fascinating artists working today, Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) has assembled a mesmerizing body of work that encompasses video, ...
