Following the huge success of Material Revolution, this second volume addresses the rapid development of material research and presents materials new to the market since 2010. The signifi cance of ...

A necessary evil or a fascinating design task?Designing circulation areas is about making building components and spaces accessible in the horizontal and vertical direction while taking into account a wide ...

For the engineers of Bollinger + Grohmann, it is of central importance to understand design and construction in the planning process as a unit. That is why they see their ...

A Century of Russian Art, 1900-2000 focuses on the artists, ideas and movements which contributed to Russias cultural renaissance during the first years of the twentieth century and continued to ...

Filled with beautiful photographs and informative essays, this volume presents the genius of A. Quincy Jones, whose collaborative nature provides a timely example for todays architects. While the architect A. ...

Height is not the only distinguishing feature of the Commerzbank Tower. As this illustrated guide to its design and construction reveals, this iconic structure is also the worlds first ecological ...

For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City's skyscrapers begins in the key period ...

Up-to-date surveys of archaeological knowledge of different periods/regions of Africa's past Draws on expertise of a varied set of international authors, including many living and working within African institutions Demonstrates ...

Exposition du 4 mai au 22 septem bre 2013 au Musée Christian Dio r de Granville . De son enfance normande passée à Granville, dans un environnement naturel semblable à ...

Emile Gallé was a leading figure of the Art Nouveau movement in France and a multifarious artist. Internationally renowned for his glasswork, his lamps are now highly sought after and ...

The Codex Borgia, a masterpiece that predates the Spanish conquest of central Mexico, records almanacs used in divination and astronomy. Within its beautifully painted screenfold pages is a section (pages ...

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While ...

Paintings by Renaissance masters Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Durer, and Hans Holbein the Younger are among the works featured in this lavish volume, the first to comprehensively study the ...

This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography and chronology of the ...

OREFICERIA,PITTURA,SCULTURA,TESSUTI XI-XIV SEC. MEDIOEVO,XV-XVIII SEC. RINASCIMENTO In una esposizione finora unica nel suo genere, Arte civica a Firenze fra Medioevo e Rinascimento presenterà quelle opere d'arte nate originariamente per arricchire ...

Centering Animals in Latin American History writes animals back into the history of colonial and postcolonial Latin America. This collection reveals how interactions between humans and other animals have significantly ...

As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century world opinion ...

As the sons and daughters of clergy, many of Britain's most popular writers have grown up in rectories, parsonages, and vicarages-Jane Austen, Alfred Tennyson, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Edmund de ...