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| 1. |  | Title: A medieval mirror, Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500  Author: Wilson, Adrian Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | Architecture Publisher's Description: The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation," is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and inclu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | Architecture Publisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architecture | Philosophy | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects - from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Contemplating the ancients: aesthetic and social issues in early Chinese portraiture Author: Spiro, Audrey Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Architecture | China Publisher's Description: Drawing on a wide variety of contemporaneous sources from Chinese history, literature, religious writings, and art and literary criticism, Spiro provides the modern reader with an aesthetic and social context for understanding early Chinese portraiture. Contemplating the Ancients introduces portrait . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico/ Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History Publisher's Description: Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico - made of earth, of stone, of wood - are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Conceiving of urban design in terms of architectural actions and reactions, Attoe and Logan propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" better suited to specifically American circumstances than the largely European models developed in the last thirty years for the remaking of cities.After exploring . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The building program of Herod the Great Author: Roller, Duane W Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Architecture | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Herod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 B.C., is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. An essential aspect of Herod's responsibilities as king of Judaea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art History | California and the West Publisher's Description: One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrate . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The fate of place: a philosophical history Author: Casey, Edward S 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Architecture | Intellectual History | Geography Publisher's Description: In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philos . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: From craft to profession: the practice of architecture in nineteenth-century America Author: Woods, Mary N 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | United States History Publisher's Description: This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural profession emerged in early American history. Mary Woods dispels the prevailing notion that the profession developed under the leadership of men formally schooled in architecture as an art during the late nineteenth century. Instead, she cite . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The origins of modernism in Russian architecture Author: Brumfield, William Craft 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the sear . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The forgotten hermitage of Skellig Michael Author: Horn, Walter William 1908- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Architecture | Art | Architectural History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: This book is a dramatically told and visually stunning account of a ninth-century hermitage discovered on the South Peak of Skellig Michael, an island off the west coast of Ireland. It is the story, pieced together from fragmentary remains, study, and conjecture, of a man's attempt to live on a tiny . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Toward a simpler way of life: the arts & crafts architects of California Author: Winter, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Architecture | Architectural History | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture - California's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of Ameri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: A critic writes: essays by Reyner Banham Author: Banham, Reyner Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art | American Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of essay . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Making the invisible visible: a multicultural planning history Author: Sandercock, Leonie 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Geography | Urban Studies | Sociology | Architecture | Physical Anthropology Publisher's Description: The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | 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] Similar Items |