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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century(...)
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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century(...)
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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century architecture in France and England, countries where Cartesian-school philosophical speculation and Anglo-Saxon philosophical empiricism wielded a determining influence. After analysing the developments of the classical tradition and its propagation throughout Europe, the book studies in depth the history of architectural movements, comprising neo-classicism, neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic architecture. The outstanding, forerunning personalities of this brilliant artistic period who, in the course of the nineteenth century, offered fecund theoretic and stylistic contributions, include Gottfried Semper, John Ruskin and Eugène Viollet-le Duc.
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"Architecture of the nineteenth century", issued in the "History of world Architecture" series, offers a complete survey of European architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining in particular the influence of the cultural trends of the period on the architects’ works. The first section of the book deals with the history of eighteenth-century architecture in France and England, countries where Cartesian-school philosophical speculation and Anglo-Saxon philosophical empiricism wielded a determining influence. After analysing the developments of the classical tradition and its propagation throughout Europe, the book studies in depth the history of architectural movements, comprising neo-classicism, neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic architecture. The outstanding, forerunning personalities of this brilliant artistic period who, in the course of the nineteenth century, offered fecund theoretic and stylistic contributions, include Gottfried Semper, John Ruskin and Eugène Viollet-le Duc.
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July 2002, Milan
July 2002, Milan
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Quelle est l'identité architecturale de Paris ? Sur quelles dispositions presque inconscientes repose le visage, si familier qu'on ne le détaille jamais, des rues de la capitale ? Comment au cours des siècles, s'est constituée l'architecture parisienne, et possède-t-elle des caractéristiques spécifiques ? Comment des débats, menés à un niveau international, ont-ils(...)
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Quelle est l'identité architecturale de Paris ? Sur quelles dispositions presque inconscientes repose le visage, si familier qu'on ne le détaille jamais, des rues de la capitale ? Comment au cours des siècles, s'est constituée l'architecture parisienne, et possède-t-elle des caractéristiques spécifiques ? Comment des débats, menés à un niveau international, ont-ils(...)
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Identification d'une ville : architectures de Paris
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Quelle est l'identité architecturale de Paris ? Sur quelles dispositions presque inconscientes repose le visage, si familier qu'on ne le détaille jamais, des rues de la capitale ? Comment au cours des siècles, s'est constituée l'architecture parisienne, et possède-t-elle des caractéristiques spécifiques ? Comment des débats, menés à un niveau international, ont-ils trouvé des applications parisiennes qui se sont imprégnées de la spécificité locale ? Et comment imaginer le Paris contemporain, en construisant l'architecture qui sera le patrimoine de demain, sans nostalgie mais en s'inscrivant dans une culture originale ? Autant de questions posées ici, de manière concrète, pour que Paris reste une capitale habitée, vivante, et en perpétuel devenir.
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Quelle est l'identité architecturale de Paris ? Sur quelles dispositions presque inconscientes repose le visage, si familier qu'on ne le détaille jamais, des rues de la capitale ? Comment au cours des siècles, s'est constituée l'architecture parisienne, et possède-t-elle des caractéristiques spécifiques ? Comment des débats, menés à un niveau international, ont-ils trouvé des applications parisiennes qui se sont imprégnées de la spécificité locale ? Et comment imaginer le Paris contemporain, en construisant l'architecture qui sera le patrimoine de demain, sans nostalgie mais en s'inscrivant dans une culture originale ? Autant de questions posées ici, de manière concrète, pour que Paris reste une capitale habitée, vivante, et en perpétuel devenir.
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March 2002, Paris
March 2002, Paris
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La saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans est un des tout premiers monuments industriels de l’Ancien Régime. L’ampleur du parti, l’éclat artistique, le graphisme savant, le projet visionnaire : tout est exceptionnel dans cette manufacture, que son auteur rêvait d’entourer d’une ville idéale à la campagne. En renouvelant l’expression des formes, elle ennoblit une puissance(...)
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La saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans est un des tout premiers monuments industriels de l’Ancien Régime. L’ampleur du parti, l’éclat artistique, le graphisme savant, le projet visionnaire : tout est exceptionnel dans cette manufacture, que son auteur rêvait d’entourer d’une ville idéale à la campagne. En renouvelant l’expression des formes, elle ennoblit une puissance(...)
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La saline royale d'Arc-et-Senans : un monument industriel : allégorie des Lumières
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La saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans est un des tout premiers monuments industriels de l’Ancien Régime. L’ampleur du parti, l’éclat artistique, le graphisme savant, le projet visionnaire : tout est exceptionnel dans cette manufacture, que son auteur rêvait d’entourer d’une ville idéale à la campagne. En renouvelant l’expression des formes, elle ennoblit une puissance financière redoutée, celle de la Ferme générale, chargée de collecter et de gérer, pour le roi, les ressources de l’impôt sur le sel, la gabelle. Mais, par le talent de son créateur, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), et par la commande de Louis XV lui-même, elle est plus encore : un des symboles de la monarchie éclairée et des réformes que celle-ci promut pour enrayer la contestation dans la société des Lumières et répondre aux mutations économiques, sociales et philosophiques. Fermée à la fin du XIXe, la saline faillit périr au début du XXè siècle. Sa vie chaotique parmi les monuments historiques, jusqu’à la Vè République qui y crée un centre culturel, révèle à la fois la fascination qu’exerce son architecture, unique au monde, et la difficulté d’associer, aujourd’hui, un imaginaire historique à ses espaces.
La saline royale d'Arc-et-Senans : un monument industriel : allégorie des Lumières
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La saline royale d’Arc-et-Senans est un des tout premiers monuments industriels de l’Ancien Régime. L’ampleur du parti, l’éclat artistique, le graphisme savant, le projet visionnaire : tout est exceptionnel dans cette manufacture, que son auteur rêvait d’entourer d’une ville idéale à la campagne. En renouvelant l’expression des formes, elle ennoblit une puissance financière redoutée, celle de la Ferme générale, chargée de collecter et de gérer, pour le roi, les ressources de l’impôt sur le sel, la gabelle. Mais, par le talent de son créateur, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), et par la commande de Louis XV lui-même, elle est plus encore : un des symboles de la monarchie éclairée et des réformes que celle-ci promut pour enrayer la contestation dans la société des Lumières et répondre aux mutations économiques, sociales et philosophiques. Fermée à la fin du XIXe, la saline faillit périr au début du XXè siècle. Sa vie chaotique parmi les monuments historiques, jusqu’à la Vè République qui y crée un centre culturel, révèle à la fois la fascination qu’exerce son architecture, unique au monde, et la difficulté d’associer, aujourd’hui, un imaginaire historique à ses espaces.
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March 2002, Paris
March 2002, Paris
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The Gothic Revival
The Gothic Revival
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‘The Gothic Revival’, writes Michael Lewis, ‘is more than a fashion craze for pointed arches and pinnacles. During its years of greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art, belief, society, and labour to intense intellectual scrutiny, using the Middle Ages as a platform from which to judge the modern world.’ It is the unique merit of "The Gothic Revival"(...)
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‘The Gothic Revival’, writes Michael Lewis, ‘is more than a fashion craze for pointed arches and pinnacles. During its years of greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art, belief, society, and labour to intense intellectual scrutiny, using the Middle Ages as a platform from which to judge the modern world.’ It is the unique merit of "The Gothic Revival"(...)
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‘The Gothic Revival’, writes Michael Lewis, ‘is more than a fashion craze for pointed arches and pinnacles. During its years of greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art, belief, society, and labour to intense intellectual scrutiny, using the Middle Ages as a platform from which to judge the modern world.’ It is the unique merit of "The Gothic Revival" that it gives as much attention to the ideas that gave Gothic architecture its emotional and intellectual power as it does to its great monuments. The eighteenth century admired the Gothic for its sense of decay and melancholy; the nineteenth century first cherished its religious piety, then its superb engineering. In the course of the Revival the Gothic was attached to social movements of every sort – from political liberalism to patriotic nationalism to labour reform. Like Marxism, which also drew lessons from medieval society, the Gothic Revival seemed to offer a comprehensive response to the dislocations and traumas of the Industrial Revolution. By the early twentieth century, the Gothic Revival had outlived its ideals. In recent years, however, the climate of opinion has changed, and we are ready to understand, appreciate and learn from it.
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‘The Gothic Revival’, writes Michael Lewis, ‘is more than a fashion craze for pointed arches and pinnacles. During its years of greatest influence, it subjected every aspect of art, belief, society, and labour to intense intellectual scrutiny, using the Middle Ages as a platform from which to judge the modern world.’ It is the unique merit of "The Gothic Revival" that it gives as much attention to the ideas that gave Gothic architecture its emotional and intellectual power as it does to its great monuments. The eighteenth century admired the Gothic for its sense of decay and melancholy; the nineteenth century first cherished its religious piety, then its superb engineering. In the course of the Revival the Gothic was attached to social movements of every sort – from political liberalism to patriotic nationalism to labour reform. Like Marxism, which also drew lessons from medieval society, the Gothic Revival seemed to offer a comprehensive response to the dislocations and traumas of the Industrial Revolution. By the early twentieth century, the Gothic Revival had outlived its ideals. In recent years, however, the climate of opinion has changed, and we are ready to understand, appreciate and learn from it.
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June 2002, London
June 2002, London
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The book emphasizes the leading subjects of the 16th-century Reniassance: the architects (Bramante, Vignola), the patrons (Leo X, Cosimo I de Medici), the artists (Michelangelo), and the cities (Rome, Venice, Florence).
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The book emphasizes the leading subjects of the 16th-century Reniassance: the architects (Bramante, Vignola), the patrons (Leo X, Cosimo I de Medici), the artists (Michelangelo), and the cities (Rome, Venice, Florence).
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Italian architecture of the 16th century
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The book emphasizes the leading subjects of the 16th-century Reniassance: the architects (Bramante, Vignola), the patrons (Leo X, Cosimo I de Medici), the artists (Michelangelo), and the cities (Rome, Venice, Florence).
Italian architecture of the 16th century
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The book emphasizes the leading subjects of the 16th-century Reniassance: the architects (Bramante, Vignola), the patrons (Leo X, Cosimo I de Medici), the artists (Michelangelo), and the cities (Rome, Venice, Florence).
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August 2002, New York
August 2002, New York
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When buildings speak: architecture as language in the Habsburg empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933
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(...)
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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(...)
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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 and its particular means of expression.
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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November 2008, Chicago
November 2008, Chicago
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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(...)
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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(...)
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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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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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December 2008, Chicago
December 2008, Chicago
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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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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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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.
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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September 2008, Baltimore
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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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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
June 2008, New Haven, London
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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.
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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June 2008, New Haven, London
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The history of architecture in the palm of your hand. Lavishly illustrated and super-condensed, this book is the perfect gift for any architecture buff. In the handy, pocket-size volume bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to informative introductions to significant architectural movements, time lines, and capsule biographies of great architects(...)
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The history of architecture in the palm of your hand. Lavishly illustrated and super-condensed, this book is the perfect gift for any architecture buff. In the handy, pocket-size volume bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to informative introductions to significant architectural movements, time lines, and capsule biographies of great architects(...)
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February 2008, New York
February 2008, New York
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Architecture: a world history
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The history of architecture in the palm of your hand. Lavishly illustrated and super-condensed, this book is the perfect gift for any architecture buff. In the handy, pocket-size volume bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to informative introductions to significant architectural movements, time lines, and capsule biographies of great architects and explorations of the masterpieces they created. From the pyramids to cathedrals to skyscrapers, this title takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the most spectacular examples of architecture from around the world and throughout time.
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The history of architecture in the palm of your hand. Lavishly illustrated and super-condensed, this book is the perfect gift for any architecture buff. In the handy, pocket-size volume bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to informative introductions to significant architectural movements, time lines, and capsule biographies of great architects and explorations of the masterpieces they created. From the pyramids to cathedrals to skyscrapers, this title takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the most spectacular examples of architecture from around the world and throughout time.
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February 2008, New York
February 2008, New York
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