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This is the first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world. "Antiquity" traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish. Highly illustrated, with 1,200 colour photographs and 400 drawings, the book is divided into(...)
Antiquity :origins, classicism and the new Rome
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This is the first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world. "Antiquity" traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today's environments began to flourish. Highly illustrated, with 1,200 colour photographs and 400 drawings, the book is divided into ten sections progressing through time: West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean, Pre-Columbian America, Hellenic Hellenes Divided; Macedonians Ascendant Etruscans and Hellenistic Romans, Imperial Rome Christianity, and Empire Rome, and New Rome; The West: Imperial Revival and the Latin Cross; and The East: Imperial Survival and the Greek Cross. More than a catalogue of buildings, in this work Tadgell provides their political, technological, social and cultural contexts and explores architecture, not only as the development of form and space but as an expression of the civilization within which it evolves. The buildings are analyzed and illustrated with photographs and drawings while the societies that produced them are brought to life through a broad selection of their artefacts
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Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the 9th and 10th centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution of the Gothic which heralded new, structurally daring architecture. The(...)
The West: from the advent of Christendom to the eve of Reformation
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Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the 9th and 10th centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution of the Gothic which heralded new, structurally daring architecture. The book ends with the Italian rediscovery of Classical ideas and ideals and the emergence of the great Renaissance theorists and architects, including Brunelleschi, Alberti, and Bramante. As well as the palazzos, villas and churches of Renaissance Italy, this period saw the building of great chateaux in France, palaces in Germany and the golden-domed cathedrals of Russia.
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In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our(...)
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June 2004, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
The Greeks and the irrational
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In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?" Praised by reviewers as "an event in modern Greek scholarship" and "a book which it would be difficult to over-praise," this book was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series.
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A la suite du Concile de Trente et de la Contre-Réforme, la France, après l'Italie, développe au XVIIe siècle une nouvelle architecture religieuse. Innovation la plus remarquable, un dôme coiffe ces églises destinées à réaffirmer la foi catholique en face du protestantisme. Il devient l'élément phare d'une élégante architecture baroque, spécifiquement française. Toute une(...)
Dômes : Paris dômes sacrés du grand siècle
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A la suite du Concile de Trente et de la Contre-Réforme, la France, après l'Italie, développe au XVIIe siècle une nouvelle architecture religieuse. Innovation la plus remarquable, un dôme coiffe ces églises destinées à réaffirmer la foi catholique en face du protestantisme. Il devient l'élément phare d'une élégante architecture baroque, spécifiquement française. Toute une série d'édifices fleurissent ainsi à Paris, toujours plus vastes et plus ambitieux à mesure que grandit le pouvoir royal, qui les magnifie. La Révolutions s'empare plus tard de ces lieux, fascinée par leur forme antique qu'elle récupère à son profit tout en vandalisant leurs richesses. Le dôme perdure jusqu'à la veille de la seconde guerre mondiale. Étude d'une forme architecturale riche de significations, ce livre se lit comme un récit, et ses images révèlent des lieux souvent méconnus.
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Histoire de l'architecture
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Cette encyclopédie, qui couvre l'histoire des constructions humaines depuis les premiers abris préhistoriques jusqu'aux bâtiments les plus étonnants du XXIe siècle, s'adresse tout autant aux amateurs d'art et de tourisme urbain qu'au grand public.
Histoire de l'architecture
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Cette encyclopédie, qui couvre l'histoire des constructions humaines depuis les premiers abris préhistoriques jusqu'aux bâtiments les plus étonnants du XXIe siècle, s'adresse tout autant aux amateurs d'art et de tourisme urbain qu'au grand public.
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De la Vierge couronnée aux anges de l’Apocalypse représentés sur les vitraux, des statues des saints à la galerie des rois et au somptueux frontispice, Patrick Demouy livre les derniers secrets du grand chef-d’œuvre architectural de l’art gothique. Une visite hors du commun sur les traces des rois sacrés sous la voûte gothique. Le livre de référence pour comprendre(...)
Notre-Dame de Reims: sanctuaire de la royauté sacrée
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De la Vierge couronnée aux anges de l’Apocalypse représentés sur les vitraux, des statues des saints à la galerie des rois et au somptueux frontispice, Patrick Demouy livre les derniers secrets du grand chef-d’œuvre architectural de l’art gothique. Une visite hors du commun sur les traces des rois sacrés sous la voûte gothique. Le livre de référence pour comprendre l’histoire et les symboles de l’ancien sanctuaire de la monarchie française. Patrick Demouy est professeur d’histoire médiévale à l’université de Reims-Champagne-Ardenne.
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When buildings speak: architecture as language in the Habsburg empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933
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In When Buildings Speak, Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language(...)
When buildings speak: architecture as language in the Habsburg empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933
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In When Buildings Speak, Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language and its particular means of expression.
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2009 marks the centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago. Designed by Daniel H. Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, by the(...)
Burnham of Chicago: architects & planner
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2009 marks the centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago. Designed by Daniel H. Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, by the time he died in 1912, Burnham was one of the most famous architects in America as well as an internationally renowned city planner. Thomas S. Hines’s book is at once both a biography of Burnham and a vivid portrait of the birth and growth of an American city. In commemoration of the historic anniversary of Burnham’s Plan, this edition of Burnham of Chicago includes a new introduction by American history scholar, Neil Harris.
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This pioneering study explains how one of America's important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens.
Baltimore's alley houses: homes for working people since the 1780s
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This pioneering study explains how one of America's important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens.
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During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. Together, these cultural innovators helped forge new roles for women as influential thinkers, writers, and artists, and their creative achievements were publicly celebrated. Richly illustrated(...)
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June 2008, New Haven, London
Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings
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During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. Together, these cultural innovators helped forge new roles for women as influential thinkers, writers, and artists, and their creative achievements were publicly celebrated. Richly illustrated with portraits, prints, and personal artifacts, "Brilliant women" tells the story of this fascinating group of women. The authors chart the changing fortunes of the female intellectual and explore how a number of bluestocking women, such as artist Angelica Kauffmann, historian Catharine Macaulay, and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, used portraiture to advance their work and their reputations in a period framed by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. "Brilliant women" pays tribute to the friendships and achievements of these bluestocking women, presenting new information on the range of cultural activities in which they were engaged, as well as celebrating their legacy.
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