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Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belie……続きを見る

Chartres Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia are emanations of the same idea: celestial Jerusalem. There are deep similarities between the two temples, with intrinsic messages that are usually ignored……続きを見る

How do architects use color? Do they adopt a different strategy or starting point for every project? Do they gradually cultivate individual color palettes, which develop alongside their body of buil……続きを見る

John Ruskin overturned Victorian society’s ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design is……続きを見る

Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London, En……続きを見る

In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. B……続きを見る

Based around an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando’s Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance ……続きを見る

Architectural practice in post-World War II Canada brought substantial change to the face of the Canadian built environment, led by the contribution of John C. Parkin. As senior partner at the Toron……続きを見る

Where Is My Home?: The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843–1902 is the first full-length study in English of the art and life of Mark Antokolskii, the widely recognize……続きを見る

The first biography of Anne Damer since 1908, The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist, by Jonathan Gross, draws on Damer’s notebooks and previously unpublished letters to explore the li……続きを見る

El arquitecto y diseñador español Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) es una importante e influyente figura en la historia del arte contemporáneo de España. El uso del color, la utilización de diferentes mater……続きを見る

The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable story of Moses Ezekiel and his rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century I……続きを見る

Michelangelo war, genau wie Leonardo, ein “universeller” Künstler: Maler, Baumeister, Bildhauer und Dichter. Er war der Hauptmeister der italienischen Hochrenaissance und Wegbereiter des Manierismus……続きを見る

The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the terms mean? Are they de facto design requirements?……続きを見る

Architects of Little Rock provides biographical and historical sketches of the architects working in Little Rock from 1830 to 1950. Thirty-five architects are profiled, including George R. Mann, Tho……続きを見る

Luke Him Sau/Lu Qianshou (1904–1991) is best known internationally and in China as the architect of the iconic Bank of China Headquarters in Shanghai. One of the first Chinese students to be trained……続きを見る

'A magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built' John Carey Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural……続きを見る

Schwester Monika (1815); anonym erschienener erotischer Roman, E. T. A. Hoffmann zugeschrieben. Diese Ausgabe ist ein wortgetreuer Neudruck der "editio princeps" des 1815 bei Kühn in Posen anonym er……続きを見る

Michel-Ange (Michelangelo Buonarroti) (Caprese, 1475 – Rome, 1564) Michel-Ange, comme Léonard de Vinci, avait plusieurs cordes à son arc et était à la fois sculpteur, architecte, peintre et poète. I……続きを見る

The design process of Will Alsop acts as a conduit for the dreams and aspirations of others. Moving from public consultation to the privacy of his painting studio – here ideas are born in the liquid……続きを見る

Architect Simón Vélez (b.1949 in Manizales, Colombia) has pioneered the use of structural bamboo since he first started out on his own at the age of 23. An extraordinary draughtsman with an intuitiv……続きを見る

Architects of Little Rock provides biographical and historical sketches of the architects working in Little Rock from 1830 to 1950. Thirty-five architects are profiled, including George R. Mann, Tho……続きを見る

The widely admired biographer of Bernard Berenson (“A triumph”ーWashington Post; “A perfect riot”ーMichael Holroyd; “Astonishing”ーLondon Sunday Times) and of Kenneth Clark (“Splendid, enthralling”……続きを見る

Blake, an author living in London, explains that the impetus for this biography of the great Dutch painter came from his own connection in childhood to a painting purchased by his grandmother 続きを見る

This antiquarian book contains a collection of musings, or ''chats'', pertaining to architecture, art, education, and society in general, written by one of America's most original and seminal archit……続きを見る

Bonn gehört zu den ältesten Städten Deutschlands, kann auf eine mehr als 2000-jährige Stadtgeschichte zurückblicken. Da gibt es viel zu erinnern und viel zu erzählen - von guten und auch von schlech……続きを見る

This book focuses on the lives and works of two of the very first women of European American ancestry to practice architecture in North America during the 19th century. Mother Joseph du Sacré-Coeur,……続きを見る

The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked arch……続きを見る

In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirat……続きを見る

Architecte et designer barcelonais, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) occupe une large place dans l’histoire de l’art espagnol. L’usage de la couleur, l’emploi de différents matériaux et l’introduction du mo……続きを見る