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Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is widely considered to be the greatest American architect of all time; indeed, his work virtually ushered in the modern era and remains highly influential today. ...

Andrea Palladio is universally regarded as one of the most important architects of the Re-naissance. He was the first professional architect and was strongly influenced by Greek and Roman architecture, ...

With their centuries-long development, the English landscape garden, the formal French garden, as well as Japanese and Chinese gardens constitute an unparalleled repository of design solutions familiar throughout the world. ...

For years, the Benidorm urban development model has been criticised for encouraging high-rise buildings, overcrowding and land speculation. Yet, in contrast with different tourist resorts, where the coastline is systematically ...

Today the excitement in architecture derives from the tension between the need for privacy and the impulse toward community. This unique survey of buildings and interiors captures the multilayered experience ...

Ante la próxima descatalogación del libro, UTZON : INSPIRATION, VISION, ARCHITECTURE, libro de referencia en cualquier biblioteca de Arquitectura, lo ofrecemos con un 55% de descuento hasta el 10 de ...

Lauteur, spécialiste de lhistoire de la marqueterie apporte un éclairage inédit sur la vie dAndré-Charles Boulle. Il décrit lunivers dans lequel il vécut et nous montre un personnage aux nombreuses ...

Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or ...

This book, the latest work from one of Thailand's leading art historians, Piriya Krairiksh represents the culmination of 30 years research by the author and is sure to be a ...

En 1910, Le Corburier quitte le Jura suisse et entame un long séjour en Allemagne durant lequel, à Berlin notamment, il conçoit le projet du 'voyage dOrient' qui se déroule ...

The tomb of Pepyankh-the Middle is completely preserved, containing valuable information on various aspects of the Egyptian provincial administration and on daily life in the Sixth Dynasty. Both burial shafts ...

Las vidrieras españolas representan uno de los capítulos más ricos y originales de la historia del arte español. Pese a ello, hasta la publicación de este monumental estudio del profesor ...

Between 1350 and 1650, a vast number of bronze objects, both large and small, decorative and functional, were produced in Venice for domestic consumption and for the export market. Whether ...

If one thinks of Dutch painting in the Golden Age, names such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals and Johannes Vermeer immediately spring to mind. The exhibition The Bloemaert Effect adds a ...

Ambitiously designed community buildings, faceless mass housing developments, and a monumental emptiness are the defining features of Pyongyang - a city of three million inhabitants rising from the rubble to ...

This volume of essays combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. Originally presented at the American Comparative Literature ...

Between the red canyon walls of Canyon de Chelly in Arizona, in the heart of the Navajo Nation, stands an eight-hundred-foot sandstone rock formation known as Spider Rock. According to ...

The present volume presents the proceedings from the international workshop entitled Egypt and the Near East - the Crossroads, dedicated to the study of the relations between the two regions. ...

Pour la première fois, l'histoire délivre tous les éléments permettant de retracer le processus intellectuel qui a abouti à créer un nouveau style : l'art gothique. L'art gothique, voulu par ...

Longtemps les úuvres dart du Moyen Âge ont été placées sous le signe de lanonymat, jusquà ce que, ces dernières décennies, cette perception ait été balayée par une vague de ...