Sir Christopher Wren overcame a complete lack of formal training and scan firsthand knowledge of European architecture to become a master of his art. ...
Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-52), the first great American landscape gardener, was one of the earliest and most influential popularizers of something new on the ...
This timely book seeks to dispel two widely held misconceptions: first, that architects are no longer central to the making of buildings and, second, ...