Filter by
Robert Adam's London
The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones. Each of Adam's projects explored in this book is plotted on Horwood's map of London (1792-99), enab…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781784914639
- Collation
- 1 online resource (160 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Set in Stone?War Memorialisation as a Long-Term and Continuing Process in the…
This book provides a holistic and longitudinal study of war memorialisation in the UK, France and the USA from 1860 to 2014. Moving beyond the social-political circumstances of a memorial's construction, this study examines memorialisation as a continuing and transformative process. It explores the many ways in which war memorials are repeatedly appropriated, and re-appropriated, undergoing bot…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781784912581
- Collation
- 1 online resource (196 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Hippodrome of GerasaA Provincial Roman Circus
The Hippodrome of Gerasa: A Provincial Roman Circus publishes the unique draft manuscript by the late architect and restorer Antoni Ostrasz, the study of Roman circuses and the complex fieldwork for the restoration of the Jarash Hippodrome, a work in progress abruptly ended both in writing and in the field by his untimely death in October 1996. The manuscript is presented as it is in order to r…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781784918149
- Collation
- 1 online resource (504 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850–1930(No)Home Away from Home
Unsettling traditional understandings of housing reform as focused on the nuclear family with dependent children, Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850-1930 is the first complete study of single-person mass housing in Germany and the pivotal role this class- and gender-specific building type played for over 80 years-in German architectural culture and society, the transnational Progre…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501342738
- Collation
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Monuments to FaithUkrainian Churches in Manitoba
Ukrainians first came to Canada a century ago, seeking a new life on the western prairies. They brought with them an ancient and rich cultural tradition, deeply rooted in Christianity. The most visible symbol of this tradition is the Ukrainian church with its distinctive cupolas. As soon as the settlers were established in the new land, they began to reshape their environment by building church…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780887553455
- Collation
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Costruito da dioPerché le chiese contemporanee sono brutte e i musei sono di…
Le chiese contemporanee assomigliano spesso a capannoni industriali, piscine, bar, autorimesse. Non hanno quasi mai la facciata, e i campanili sono un labile ricordo. All'interno sono spaesanti e asettiche come sale d'attesa e al posto della cupola c'è il soffitto che fa pensare non a Dio ma all'inquilino del piano di sopra. I rosoni sono sostituiti dai lucernai e le immagini sacre da anodine …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788860102096
- Collation
- 1 online resource (140 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
LArchitecture gothique, entre invention et réception (XIIe-XXe siècle)
Entre les XII e et XIII e siècles, l'architecture gothique se répand dans toute l'Europe et entre en contact avec les traditions constructives locales. La réception de modèles existants et l'invention de nouvelles expressions artistiques se conjuguent alors pour donner naissance à des œuvres inédites, créées dans des contextes historiques, géographiques et culturels différents par ra…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9782807615144
- Collation
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Architectures of RevoltThe Cinematic City circa 1968
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968—against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and homophobia—the exciting anthology Architectures of Revolt explores the degree to which the real events of political revolt in the urban landscape in 1968 drove change in the attitudes and practices of filmmakers and architects alike. In and aroun…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781439910054
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Barcelona y la modernidadLa ciudad como proyecto de cultura
Los últimos treinta años han ratificado la definitiva urbanización del planeta. En las ciudades se expresan los nuevos problemas del mundo y en ellas se buscan las mejores fórmulas para resolverlos. A lo largo del período algunas ciudades han vivido metamorfosis excepcionales, y Barcelona ha sido una de ellas.En clave de memoria vivida se vindica la experiencia de transformación de casi u…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788497844567
- Collation
- 1 online resource (164 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
El patrimonio industrial en EspañaPaisajes, lugares y elementos singulares
La generalización del proceso de producción industrial en los dos últimos siglos ha creado un amplio conjunto de edificaciones, maquinarias y territorios vinculados a la industrialización. Sin embargo, el posterior abandono y cierre de fábricas –aspecto muy llamativo de la modernización productiva emprendida a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX– ha dado origen a numerosos espacio…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788446043294
- Collation
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography