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History of architecture

Hardcover. William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston's extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century. Ramparts of Empire is a detailed and engaging study of his life and works. Num Pages: 322 pages, c. 150 b&w illustrations, 8 pages of colour. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AMX; TBX; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 273 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1282.
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905816040
ISBN
9781905816040
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.78

Hardback. Investigates America's changing attitudes toward medieval art around the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of Princeton University and its role as a major patron of Gothic Revival art and architecture. Series: Publications of the Art Museum, Princeton University. Num Pages: 128 pages, 65 color illus. 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; ACV; ACX; AGC; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1085.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691154015
ISBN
9780691154015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Part of the Buildings of Wales series, this title describes the historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire, wherein, prehistoric hill-forts and standing stones, Roman encampments, Early Christian monuments, ruined castles and the enigmatic remains of early industry enhance the landscapes of this wild and beautiful region. Series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales. Num Pages: 800 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKWC; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 780.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
800
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300185089
ISBN
9780300185089
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.99
€ 55.15

Paperback. .
Publisher
Wooden Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904263944
ISBN
9781904263944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.31

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 240. Weight in Grams: 2540.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857222431
ISBN
9788857222431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 53.00

Hardcover. Presents a new way of understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: as rhetorical constructs. The author traces common analogies between rhetoric and architectural space that date back to late antiquity, and then shows how those links were translated into wood, stone, and space under specific local conditions. Num Pages: 336 pages, 36 halftones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: ACK; AMN; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 188 x 26. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226191805
ISBN
9780226191805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 39.88

Paperback. Features overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced-and plausible-conception of the world. This volume includes images tied to the history of twentieth-century architecture with anonymous graphic materials and pictures. It will redefine our concept of modernity. Translator(s): Thomson, Graham. Num Pages: 160 pages, 130 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AJ; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Editorial Tenov S.L. Spain
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9788493923143
ISBN
9788493923143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.17

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Full Colour Throughout. BIC Classification: AM; AMB; AMX. Dimension: 246 x 189. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471166419
ISBN
9781471166419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.04

Paperback. Explores the rich and fascinating history of Penzance through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures. Series: In 50 Buildings. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445665863
ISBN
9781445665863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 133 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJP; AMVD; AMX; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816679300
ISBN
9780816679300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. From the Middle Ages, parsonages - vicarages and rectories, and later manses, presbyteries and chapel. This study draws on the evidence of architecture, official documents, private records, literary accounts and contemporary and modern images to build a picture of parsonages and their occupants. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AMN; AMX; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149. .
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784421373
ISBN
9781784421373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.40

Hardcover. An elegantly illustrated guide to the largely unrecognized treasures of England's remarkable parish churches, "the supreme treasury of English vernacular art and memory." Illustrator(s): Barker, Paul. Num Pages: 304 pages, Full colour photographs throughout (9 full page images per chapter with a long caption fo. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AGR; AMX; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 892.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472917638
ISBN
9781472917638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.56

Paperback. Explores the rich and fascinating history of the city through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures. Series: In 50 Buildings. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 1DBKESF; AMX; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445659879
ISBN
9781445659879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.42

Hardcover. Num Pages: 544 pages, 104 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AMCR; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Zone Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935408734
ISBN
9781935408734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.08

Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with the author's own black and white line drawings and diagrams Num Pages: 304 pages, Black and white line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 246 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1332.
Publisher
Pimpernel Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910258378
ISBN
9781910258378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.15

Hardback. An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory Num Pages: 232 pages, 63 color + 63 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AC; AMX; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 254 x 22. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300218718
ISBN
9780300218718
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.91

Hardback. Greek temples captivate anyone with an interest in antiquity, and the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columnar orders that clad them launched the classical architectural tradition down to modern times. This title proposes new theories in both areas as it elucidates the nature and function of Greek architecture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 colour images + 230 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; AMX; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 268 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1426.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300182767
ISBN
9780300182767
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 280 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486795744
ISBN
9780486795744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.71

Hardback. Num Pages: 60 pages, 50 illus. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 280. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9783932565823
ISBN
9783932565823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.70

Hardcover. The aim of the study is to analyze and describe in detail one of the most important trends in architecture in the 19th and 20th centuries: the evolution, leading from the closed, hermetic spaces of the early cultures and the Middle Ages to the open space and transparency of the 19, and 20th/21st centuries. Num Pages: 240 pages, 515 illus. BIC Classification: AMC; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 244 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1388.
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9783936681550
ISBN
9783936681550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.04
€ 46.22

Hardcover. Old Cuba presents an insider s view of the splendid colonial-era sites of the storied island nation, from the grand apartments and magnificent cathedral of Old Havana to the plantation homes of Pinar del Rio. Num Pages: 208 pages, 180 Colour Photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJC; ACN; ACQ; ACV; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 229. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847858477
ISBN
9780847858477
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.48
€ 53.32

Paperback. Editor(s): Groves, Nicholas. Num Pages: Colour and b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; AMN; AMX; HBJD1; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Lasse Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993306921
ISBN
9780993306921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages, 66 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226478050
ISBN
9780226478050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.65

Paperback. Translator(s): Palandri, Jenny Condie. Series: Writing Architecture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 340 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AMA; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
The MIT Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262527613
ISBN
9780262527613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.99

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