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Your search for architecture in text, title, author, description found 929 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 101 - 120 of 929 book(s) | |
| 101. |  | Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | Victorian History | Asian History | South Asia | Pacific Rim Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Matches in book (28): ...in the Seventies under John Young,” Architecture (Australia) 13 (1924) pp. 5–13.... Similar Items...R. Metcalf, An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj, Berkeley:... ...Time. With a Description of its Architecture and Monuments. With Photographic... |
| 102. |  | Title: Masks of the spirit: image and metaphor in Mesoamerica  Author: Markman, Peter T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Art | Folklore and Mythology Matches in book (27): ...the most fascinating in all Maya architecture" (1981, 156). 98. Stierlin 1981,... Similar Items...D.C. 1963 An Album of Maya Architecture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.... ...Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture, no. 10. Washington, D.C. :... |
| 103. |  | Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...the Penitentiary: Fiction and Architecture of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century... Similar Items...of Virtue: English Prison Architecture, 1750–1840. Cambridge : Cambridge... ...anticolonial movement: communal architecture, haphazard classification systems,... |
| 104. |  | Title: The art of Richard Diebenkorn Author: Livingston, Jane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art Publisher's Description: Recognized as a major figure in postwar American painting, Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was an artist strongly identified with California but whose work is beloved throughout the United States and the rest of the world. This catalog is the most comprehensive volume on the artist now available. Jan . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...at Poindexter Gallery." Arts and Architecture , 73 (April 1956), p. 11. ———. "... Similar Items...at the Poindexter." Arts and Architecture , 75 (May 1958), p. 29. ———." Richard... ...on a studio sofa—and a glimpse of the architecture of Paris through the window.... |
| 105. |  | Title: Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture Author: Hanley, Susan B 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. H . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Teiji Itoh, Traditional Domestic Architecture of Japan (New York: Weatherhill/... Similar Items...temples from the palace-style architecture of the Heian and Kamakura periods. 17... ...English, see Hashimoto Sumio, Architecture in the Shoin Style: Japanese Feudal... |
| 106. |  | Title: Beyond recognition: representation, power, and culture Author: Owens, Craig Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Gender Studies | Sociology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Art Criticism Matches in book (21): ...exhibition at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (September 12-... Similar Items...in Catalogue 9. New York: Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1978, 2-... ...bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures . . .... |
| 107. |  | Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...as a focal point of a world imperium. So an architecture of windows and towers... Similar Items...was coordinated with an architecture of gates and courts.... ...This done, I analyze the architecture and ceremony of the governmental complexes... |
| 108. |  | Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | South Asia Publisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...Arabs, 72 Archer, Mildred, 44 architecture, of hill stations, 103 -6; parallels... Similar Items...Splendours of the Raj: British Architecture in India 1660-1947 . Harmondsworth:... ...1964. ———. An Imperial Vision: Indian Architecture and Britain's Raj . Berkeley:... |
| 109. |  | Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan Author: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Architecture and Manners... Similar Items...anti-Semitism, 222 archaism, 158 architecture, 14 , 201 -3, 292 ; manners and,... ...professionals. Focusing equally on architecture and ideology, Sand traces the... |
| 110. |  | Title: The urban wilderness: a history of the American city Author: Warner, Sam Bass 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Urban Studies | American Studies | United States History | Social Problems Publisher's Description: Sam Bass Warner, Jr., examines the historical roots of the major economic and social problems facing the U.S. in the 1990s. He documents the efforts, both failed and successful, to provide for basic human needs in the urban context, especially for decent housing and health care. For this edition, Wa . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies , New York, 1972.... Similar Items...pp. 59-61. . Anthony N. B. Garvan, Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial... ...October 1967), 588-612. . Garvan, Architecture and Town Planning , pp. 61-77;... |
| 111. |  | Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Ancient History Publisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Ibrahim, Kenchreai I, Topography and Architecture (Leiden 1978) 67-68. Argos: P.... Similar Items...of the Principles of Athenian Architecture (London 1888) 22-24, 27-35, 36-44;... ...Isthmia II, Topography and Architecture (Princeton 1973) 12, for a rectangular... |
| 112. |  | Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justice Author: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...THE FUGUE AS ARCHITECTURE... Similar Items...it is not that our faith in legal architecture is waning—only that our belief in... ...On Topographies of Law and the Architecture of Court Buildings. ” International... |
| 113. |  | Title: Spectacular nature: corporate culture and the Sea World experience Author: Davis, Susan G 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Popular Culture | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale - as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds - the park represents a careful coordination . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...13-28. 27. Derek Walker, Animated Architecture (London: Architectural Design,... Similar Items...for example, Derek Walker, Animated Architecture (London: Architectural Design,... ...special issue of Landscape Architecture 80, no. 6 (June 1990). 3. Former vice... |
| 114. |  | Title: Early Gothic Saint-Denis: restorations and survivals Author: Blum, Pamela Z Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art | Architectural History | Art History | Medieval Studies | Archaeology Publisher's Description: quality. Indeed, the well-preserved sculptural passages provide a key to the Early Gothic style as well as revealing the distinct imprints of three artists and their influences on each other. Blum's penetrating analyses of the restorative techniques and materials are accompanied by telling photograp . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...left a heavy-handed imprint on the architecture and ornament of the church.... Similar Items...1987), 267-77, 339-52. On the architecture of the eastern extension, see, inter... ...Villes sur arcatures," Urbanisme et architecture. Etudes écrites et publiées en... |
| 115. |  | Title: Nationalism and the Nordic imagination: Swedish art of the 1890s Author: Facos, Michelle Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art History | European Studies Publisher's Description: This richly illustrated book is a lucid introduction to a largely neglected manifestation of Modernism that came out of fin-de-siècle Sweden. Michelle Facos presents the first study in English to seriously examine the movement known as Swedish National Romanticism. Her work is especially valuable in . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...divisions, one sculpture, one architecture, and one female. Significantly, six... Similar Items...Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, edited by Christopher Reed. London:... ...history, legend, and indigenous architecture and their desire to establish the... |
| 116. |  | Title: Total confinement: madness and reason in the maximum security prison Author: Rhodes, Lorna A. (Lorna Amarasingham) Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Medicine | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this rare firsthand account, Lorna Rhodes takes us into a hidden world that lies at the heart of the maximum security prison. Focusing on the "supermaximums" - and the mental health units that complement them - Rhodes conveys the internal contradictions of a system mandated to both punish and tre . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century... Similar Items...of Virtue: English Prison Architecture, 1750–1840 . Cambridge : Cambridge... ...such as the mutual shaping of architecture and modern state power, helps to... |
| 117. |  | Title: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world Author: Katō, Shūichi 1919- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Asian History | Japan | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey f . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...Ajia kenchiku no genzai (Asian architecture today). 1996 AGE 77 March: resigned... Similar Items...in the history of Meiji architecture. 4 His eldest son was Professor Tatsuno... ...the first Japanese professor of architecture at the same college on his return... |
| 118. |  | Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Sociology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...al-Taraqqi, 1899. Antonius, Soraya . Architecture in Lebanon . Beirut: Khayat's,... Similar Items...Press, 1989. Ragette, Friedrich . Architecture in Lebanon: The Lebanese House... ...Beirut 1920–1940: Domestic Architecture between Tradition and Modernity .... |
| 119. |  | Title: Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio Author: Cox-Rearick, Janet Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History Publisher's Description: Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel - saints, symbols, and scriptural stories - hold personal and political meanings? Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 154 . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...over the church. For the original architecture of the chapel, see H. Saalman, "... Similar Items...on the History of Landscape Architecture, ed. E. B. MacDougall, 5, 1980, pp.... ...Paris, 1954, pp. 271-73, on the architecture of the chapel, with a diagram of... |
| 120. |  | Title: Martyred village: commemorating the 1944 massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane Author: Farmer, Sarah Bennett Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Among German crimes of the Second World War, the Nazi massacre of 642 men, women, and children at Oradour-sur-Glane on June 10, 1944, is one of the most notorious. On that Saturday afternoon, four days after the Allied landings in Normandy, SS troops encircled the town in the rolling farm country of . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...Memory and the Mortality of Architecture," Oppositions 25 (Fall 1982): 6.... Similar Items...The Environmental Memory: Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas. New... ...Memory and the Mortality of Architecture." Oppositions 25 (Fall 1982): 2–19.... |