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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: The political landscape: constellations of authority in early complex polities Author: Smith, Adam T Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Archaeology \| Political Theory \| Geography Publisher's Description: How do landscapes - defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations - contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic re . . . [more] Matches in book (107): ...Gate). (All photographs by author. ) architecture, the physical organization of... ...277–83 . Forbes, T. 1983 . Urartian Architecture . Oxford : BAR International .... ...Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Re-assurance . Montréal :... Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J.B. Jackson Author: Wilson, Chris 1951 Dec. 23- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Architecture \| Landscape Architecture \| Geography \| American Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes - a far more recent development - has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepeni . . . [more] Matches in book (235): ...J.B. JACKSON AS A CRITIC OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE... ...3. HOROWITZ, "J.B. JACKSON AS A CRITIC OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE"... ...elements" into concrete methods that architecture students can apply directly... Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Matches in book (42): ...Inscriptionum Arabicarum EMA Creswell, Early Muslim Architecture MAE Creswell,... ...The Muslim Architecture of Egypt RCEA Institut français d’archéologie orientale... ...EMA , vol. 1. C. Mango, Byzantine Architecture (New York: Abrams, 1976), 98,... Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Symbolist art theories: a critical anthology Author: Dorra, Henri 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory \| Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and critics, along with Dorra's learned commentary. Fi . . . [more] Matches in book (46): ...Ornament in Architecture (1892)... ...Ornament in Architecture (1892)... ...2— DECORATIVE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE... Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection, one that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and co . . . [more] Matches in book (49): ...Sacred Text and Architecture... ...Women as Patrons of Architecture... ...and burial are also vividly expressed in art and architecture (figs. 19–21).... Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Frontiers of supercomputing II: a national reassessment Author: Ames, Karyn R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Computer Science \| Physics Publisher's Description: This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Su . . . [more] Matches in book (235): ...HPC Architecture... ...3— VECTOR PIPELINE ARCHITECTURE... ...Vector Architecture in the 1990s... Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Domestic individualism: imagining self in nineteenth-century America Author: Brown, Gillian Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| Gender Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...of, 19 -20; in Gothic Revival architecture, 77 ; political economy of, 14 -16,... ...Cabin as, 36 , 37 Gothic Revival architecture, 71 -77 Grimke, Angelina, 26 -27,... ...of, 229 n7; and Gothic Revival architecture, 72 , 93 ; in House of the Seven... Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: France and the cult of the Sacred Heart: an epic tale for modern times Author: Jonas, Raymond Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Religion \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monu . . . [more] Matches in book (37): ...Bataille, Georges . Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille .... ...Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture . Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1975 .... ...Labrouste and the Neo-Grec . In The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts ,... Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States Author: Groth, Paul Erling Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen . . . [more] Matches in book (35): ...235 –236, 242 , 244 Vernacular architecture, x –xi, 18 Vice districts, 120 –121,... ...Ellen Hayward, "Urban Vernacular Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore,"... ...and commercial socializing. The architecture of the no-family house also... Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Origins of architectural pleasure Author: Hildebrand, Grant 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Architecture \| Environmental Studies \| Psychology Publisher's Description: Do survival instincts have anything to do with our architectural choices - our liking for a certain room, a special stairway, a plaza in a particular city? In this engaging study Grant Hildebrand discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appe . . . [more] Matches in book (90): ...The Unique Epitome of Perilous Architecture... ...The Refuge and the Prospect in Architecture... ...chronicle. 22. Vincent Scully, Architecture (New York: St. Martin's Press,... Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Apartment stories: city and home in nineteenth-century Paris and London Author: Marcus, Sharon 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| Urban Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In urban studies, the nineteenth century is the "age of great cities." In feminist studies, it is the era of the separate domestic sphere. But what of the city's homes? In the course of answering this question, Apartment Stories provides a singular and radically new framework for understanding the u . . . [more] Matches in book (151): ...International, n.d. "English Domestic Architecture." The Builder 1, no. 36 (... ...S. H. Designs for Cottage and Villa Architecture . London: Thomas Kelly, n.d. [... ...1991. Brown, Richard. Domestic Architecture . London: George Virtue, 1841. "... Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslims Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Islam \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to co . . . [more] Matches in book (132): ...Art and Architecture... ...Art and Architecture... ...and spatial context that is exemplified in Islamic art and architecture.... Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ancient Titicaca: the evolution of complex society in southern Peru and northern Bolivia Author: Stanish, Charles 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Archaeology \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: One of the richest and most complex civilizations in ancient America evolved around Lake Titicaca in southern Peru and northern Bolivia. This book is the first comprehensive synthesis of four thousand years of prehistory for the entire Titicaca region. It is a fascinating story of the transition fro . . . [more] Matches in book (175): ...The Ideology of Imperial Expansion: Art and Architecture... ...A PROPOSED SEQUENCE OF ELITE STELAE AND ARCHITECTURE FOR THE FORMATIVE PERIOD... ...to form settlement clusters around larger sites with corporate architecture.... Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990 Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies \| History \| Architectural History \| European History Publisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more] Matches in book (125): ...THE ARCHITECTURE OF MEMORY... ...Richard . Modernism in Italian Architecture, 1890–1940 . Cambridge, Mass. : MIT... ...Germany: The Case of Industrial Architecture . Oxford : Berg Publishers , 1995 .... Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Prayers in stone: Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.E Author: Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Art \| Art and Architecture \| Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unl . . . [more] Matches in book (98): ...Greek Architecture... ...frieze was ever realized in stone architecture is now impossible to tell. 58... ...polychromes." In Couleur et architecture ( IAS = Ingénieurs et architectes... Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexico at the world's fairs: crafting a modern nation Author: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair - whe . . . [more] Matches in book (132): ...Seven Mexican Art and Architecture in Paris... ...Seven Mexican Art and Architecture in Paris... ...Zeynep. Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century... Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe Author: Cohen, Richard I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Jewish Studies \| European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, c . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...105–111. ———. Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning . Cambridge,... ...200 , 203 , 204 , 208 , 239 ; architecture of, 5 , 8 ; behavior in Amsterdam,... ...H. Krinsky, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning (Cambridge,... Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Landscapes of power: from Detroit to Disney World Author: Zukin, Sharon Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Politics \| Postcolonial Studies \| Urban Studies \| Geography \| Economics and Business Matches in book (103): ...Fantasy in Vernacular Architecture... ...256 Architects, 39 , 46 ; superstar, 47 -49. See also Architecture; names of... ...individual architects Architecture, 11 , 16 , 38 , 42 -48, 49 , 142 , 260 ;... Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Representation of places: reality and realism in city design Author: Bosselmann, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture \| Architectural History \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how t . . . [more] Matches in book (73): ...1976. Vitruvius. Ten Books of Architecture. Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan.... ...Taylor, 1803. Rossi, Aldo. The Architecture of the City. Cambridge: MIT Press,... ...Scruton, Roger. The Aesthetics in Architecture. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton... Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Gothic enterprise: a guide to understanding the Medieval cathedral Author: Scott, Robert A 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medieval Studies \| Architecture \| European Studies \| Christianity \| European History \| Architectural History \| Sociology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical i . . . [more] Matches in book (74): ...the Gothic Period, and Gothic Architecture, 218. Von Simson, Gothic Cathedral,... ...Royal Abbey, 1278–1280. ” Herbert A. Simon, “The Architecture of Complexity. ”... ...Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, 46–47.... Similar Items

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