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Landmarks of Russian Architecture : A Photographic Survey
William Craft Brumfield
Paperback - $128.95
With the increase in travel to Russia and the demand for knowledge about various aspects of Russian culture, the architecture of that country, in its cultural and historical context, has gained a new significance for western readers. Landmarks of Rus ...
Public Intimacy : Architecture and the Visual Arts
Giuliana Bruno
Paperback - $38.95
In his thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making of public intimacy. As art melts into spatial construct ...
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
Jacob Burchkardt
Paperback - $222.95
'This is the first English translation of an extraordinary work of scholarship first published in Burckhardt's native German in 1867. Peter Murray, A British authority on Renaissance building, has done an admirable job of editing and revising it.'-Pa ...
Strange Details
Michael Cadwell
Paperback - $33.95
Confronted with the intricate construction details of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa's Querini Stampalia Gallery--steel joined at odd intervals, concrete spilled out of concatenated forms, stone cut in labyrinthine patterns--Michael Cadwell abandoned ...
Perspecta 38 : Architecture After All
Marcus Carter
Paperback - $33.95
The profession of architecture is increasingly characterized by divergent architectural ideas and divergent political, social, technological, and economic agendas. Much of current practice focuses on the process of architecture (its "how") rather tha ...
The Architectural Unconscious
James Casebere
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The Architectural Unconscious brings together two contemporary artists who address similar issues in architecture -- architecture as sculpture, as site, and as image -- in very different ways. James Casebere is known for the black and white and monoc ...
The Tao of Architecture
Amos Ih Tiao Chang
Paperback - $24.95
In a contemplative essay that develops a parallel between void, space, time, and the science of vision in Laotzu's philosophy and in modern architecture, Amos Ih Tiao Chang reveals the vitality of intangible, or negative, elements. He writes that the ...