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Desarrollo histórico de la jardinería y de la arquitectura del paisaje. Raz…
Llegar a los orígenes de las culturas ancestrales, de las religiones y de la mitología, es llegar al origen mismo del jardín. La Historia es el germen que nos sirve para el modelaje y adecuación del entorno, dando, con ello, lugar a un término más amplio y contemporáneo como es "la arquitectura del paisaje". Existen muchos paisajes, tantos como nuestra visión del territorio pueda abarca…
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Paseos singulares por MadridCentro y aledaños
Este es un libro singular, que no se entiende sin la particular mirada de su autora, sus profundos conocimientos de la villa de Madrid, obtenidos de innumerableslecturas e investigaciones y de no pocas horas invertidas en pasear con mirada curiosapor la capital y sus aledaños.Desde un puñado de miradores privilegiados para ver la ciudad a nuestrospies, hasta algunos jardines semiocultos; desd…
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Interior Paint Finishes and Effects
This practical book explains how to achieve amazing faux finishes and effects that are the foundations to decorative painting. Sharing the tricks of his trade, Stewart McDonald shows you how to transform any ordinary surface into an extraordinary masterpiece. With step-by-step sequences, he explains traditional, as well as contemporary techniques and finishes, which will inspire both beginners …
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Company SuburbsArchitecture, Power, and the Transformation of Michigan's Mini…
Winner of the 2022 Fred B. Kniffen Book Award from the International Society Landscape, Place, and Material Culture and the 2023 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum! Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula juts into Lake Superior, pointing from the western Upper Peninsula toward Canada. Native peoples mined copper there for at least five thousand years, but the indu…
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CUADERNO URBANO 39 - ESPACIO, CULTURA, SOCIEDAD
CUADERNO URBANO es una publicación científica con arbitraje internacional dirigida a la difusión de artículos y ensayos que se ocupan de la cuestión urbana —en el sentido más amplio del término— desde las disciplinas científicas, combinando trabajos empíricos, teóricos y ensayísticos que den cuenta de problemáticas locales, regionales y universales. La intención de la publicaci…
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American Home Life, 1880–1930A Social History of Spaces and Services
In the pivotal decades around the turn of the century, American domestic life underwent dramatic alteration. From backstairs to front stairs, spaces and the activities within them were radically affected by shifts in the larger social and material environments. This volume, while taking account of architecture and decoration, moves us beyond the study of buildings to the study of behaviors, par…
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Victor Hugos tintenschwarze KathedraleLesen im Netz der Arachne in »Notre-Da…
In der Schlüsselszene von Victor Hugos Roman Notre-Dame de Paris gerät eine Mücke in das Netz einer riesigen Spinne. Edi Zollinger macht daran bisher unentdeckte Erzählfäden sichtbar, die durch die europäische Literaturgeschichte bis zu Ovids Weberin Arachne, der Mutter der Dichtkunst, zurückführen. Es werden außerdem Radierungen von Dürer und Rembrandt in den Blick genommen, auf d…
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Tennessee Log BuildingsA Folk Tradition
Drawing on more than four decades of research, Tennessee Log Buildings examines one of the Volunteer State’s most precious—and fast-disappearing—traditions. From the pioneer era through the mid–twentieth century, folk builders in Tennessee used logs to construct cabins, barns, other outbuildings, schools, and churches. In warm, accessible prose that often makes this deep…
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Architectures of SecurityDesign, Control, Mobility
Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a "ferocious" architecture-an architecture, aesthetic, or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism. The text provides examples from urban spaces in both the …
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Experiencing American HousesUnderstanding How Domestic Architecture Works
A well-illustrated, holistic overview of how American domestic spaces have changed over four hundred years, Experiencing American Houses encourages readers to think creatively about houses in terms of their function as opposed to their appearance. This captivating volume helps the reader step into the lived experience of the evolving American house: understanding, for example, why a nineteenth-…
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