De Re Aedificatoria, by Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), was the first modern treatise on the theory and practice of architecture and in its time ...
Christine Boyer faces head-on the crisis of the city in the late twentieth century, taking us on a fascinating journey through theaters and museums, ...
The products of engineering design are everywhere, but who or what determines their form and function? Their surfaces are usually cold, seemingly objective, as ...
Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina argues that architecture ...
With this astonishing collection of tree portraits,Thomas Pakenham has produced a new kind of tree book.The arrangement owes nothing to conventional botany. The trees ...
Few Renaissance theorists have influenced the development of western architecture as much as Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554). The collection of books which represents his lifetime's ...
This text is a comprehensive and illustrated discussion of the origin of birds and of avian flight. Ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia, author ...
Weaving together the biographies of the Scottish architect Charles Cameron and Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, this work focuses mainly on the story ...
In full color, this book documents the work of his pioneering 44-year career-advertising, corporate-identity programs, product styling, packaging, exhibits, murals, annual reports, posters, books, ...
Although the Shakers are best known today for their furniture and their innovative approach to design, the nineteenth-century Shaker communities were especially successful in ...
Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in three contemporary first world cities in an attempt to map the real geographies of colonialism ...
Environmental issues and questions of global change are now firmly established on the international political agenda. This book provides a wide-ranging survey of the ...
Hugo Ball--poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic--was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In ...
