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The Persian RevivalThe Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture
One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on whether art historians should trace the origin of all Western—and especially Gothic—architecture to Roman ingenuity or to the Indo-Germanic Geist. Focusing on the discourses around this debate, Talinn Grigor considers the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies…
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Architectural Encounters in Asia PacificBuilt Traces of Intercolonial Trade, …
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the world's most dispersed and culturally diverse region. A wide-ranging collection of case studies uncover these forgotten connections, drawing together stories of migratory architects, imperial commodities, an…
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The Freedom of the City
"Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for, what we stay for, what we hunger for", wrote Charles Downing Lay, prominent American landscape architect and planner of the early 1920s. These words are relevant today as density and congestion are once again under siege, especially in our most productive and thriving cities. Published in 1926, The Freedom of the City by C…
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Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire
Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, best known for his magnificent palace and royal mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of El Escorial. However, neither the king's monastery nor his collections fully convey the rich artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In this book, Laura Fernández-González examines Philip's architectural and artistic projects, placing them within t…
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Landscape FieldworkHow Engaging the World Can Change Design
Refocusing on human inhabitants in landscape architecture Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the most pressing issues of our time, such as climate change and social inequality. Its…
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Designing Pan-AmericaU.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere
Coinciding with the centennial of the Pan American Union (now the Organization of American States), González explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. architects and their clients built a visionary Pan-America to promote commerce and cultural exchange between United States and Latin America. Late in the nineteenth century, U.S. commercial and political interests began eyeing the cou…
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Precious MetalGerman Steel, Modernity, and Ecology
With its incorporation into architecture on a grand scale during the long nineteenth century, steel forever changed the way we perceive and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H. Christensen shows that even as architects and engineers were harnessing steel's incredible properties, steel itself was busy transforming the natural world. Precious Metal explores this quintessentially modernist m…
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LE DISTANZE IN EDILIZIAProfili amministrativi, civili e processuali
La materia delle distanze tra costruzioni è nota ai professionisti per la bipolarità dettata dalla apparente semplicità dei disposti civilistici e i meno certi confini applicativi della normativa urbanistica, in particolar modo con riferimento all’art. 9 del D.M. n. 1444/1968 e alle sue connessioni con il regime della propriet&…
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The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches …
The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. Until the eleventh century, churches tended to have a single external western nave doorway. This design changed in the next two centuries. New …
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The Accidental PalaceThe Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
This book tells the story of Y?ld?z Palace in Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the palace is physically fragmented and has been all but erased from Istanbul's urban memory. At its peak, however, Y?ld?z was a global city in miniature and the center of the empire's vast bureaucratic apparatus. Following a chronological arc from 1795 to 190…
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