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Preservation EducationSharing Best Practices and Finding Common Ground
Over the past twenty years, there has been a fundamental shift in the institutional organization of historic preservation education. Historic preservation is the most recent arrival in the collection of built environment disciplines and therefore lacks the pedagogical depth and breadth found in allied endeavors such as architecture and planning. As the first degree programs in preservation only…
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Green Interior DesignThe Guide to Sustainable High Style
"An essential introduction to sustainable domestic design." —Dwellmagazine How to Achieve Style and Sustainability Green Interior Design is the most comprehensive guide to sustainable building, designing, and decorating on the market. This beautifully illustrated guide covers every detail of your home—from the drywall to the finial on the curtain rod—and how to fin…
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Fallen IdolsTwelve Statues That Made History
A timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments that explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past. An Economist Best Book of the Year In 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced, and in some cases, hauled down statues of Confederate icons, slaveholders…
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Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings
The quintessential New England barn–photogenic, full of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage–is an endangered species. Of some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year are lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser's field guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns, and potato houses of New England is an attempt to document n…
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Lahore: The Architectural Heritage
This guide to Lahore narrates the history of the city and, with the help of maps, photographs, and line drawings, explores the background to numerous historic buildings from the Mughal, Sikh and Colonial eras.
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Agra: The Architectural Heritage
Few people know just how much more there is to Agra than the Taj Mahal. A recent listing by INTACH has identified many beautiful ruined Mughal gardens, tombs and mosques, colonial buildings, and havelis along the winding lanes of the old city. For those who want to range wider than the normal tourist route, Lucy Peck's new book takes the visitor through historic Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, reveali…
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Gaudí. Símbolos del éxtasis
La obra de Gaudí solo puede comprenderse plenamente cuando se percibe el papel fundamental que el símbolo juega en ella, el cual revela no solo su profunda relación con la tradición hermenéutica que funde el cristianismo con el romanticismo, sino también los sutiles hilos que lo unen con el sentimiento estético presente en las obras de coetáneos suyos como Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Ni…
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Habitar maravillosamente el mundoJardines, palacios y moradas espirituales en…
En la España de los siglos XV a XVII, con los grandes viajes y la exploración de mundos desconocidos, aparece una nueva conciencia de la tierra y del tiempo expresada mediante nuevas representaciones literarias y artísticas. El mundo, hasta entonces cerrado, se transforma en un universo infinito. El arte de construir jardines o palacios, de narrar un viaje experimental o una búsqueda poéti…
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La vida secreta de los edificiosDel Partenón a Las Vegas en trece historias
«Hollis combina una actitud iconoclasta con un brillante estilo para crear una especie de contrahistoria de la arquitectura y narra la biografía posterior de esos "maravillosos y quiméricos monstruos" que son los edificios.»Washington Post«En el libro de Hollis hay pasión y compromiso; tras leerlo volvemos al mundo más observadores y rebosantes de preguntas.»The Times Literary Supplemen…
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Leonardo e il Rinascimento nei Codici napoletani : Influenze e modelli per l'…
L'opera, a cura di Alfredo Buccaro e Maria Rascaglia, con la collaborazione di Daniela Bacca, Francesca Capano, Maria Gabriella Mansi, Maria Ines Pascariello, Massimo Visone, è pubblicata in coedizione con CB Edizioni Grandi Opere (ediz. a stampa ISBN 978-88-97644-65-2). Catalogo dell'omonima mostra organizzata dal CIRICE dell'Università di Napoli Federico II con la Biblioteca Nazionale di Na…
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