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Here is the evolution of the American house : social, technological as well as architectural. Much of the technical information comes from the survey sent out by the author to curators and historic site managers around the country, and data from the survey forms the basis of the appendix, which gives technological profiles of more than one hundred homes from the 17th(...)
Open house : a guided tour of the American home, 1637 - present
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Here is the evolution of the American house : social, technological as well as architectural. Much of the technical information comes from the survey sent out by the author to curators and historic site managers around the country, and data from the survey forms the basis of the appendix, which gives technological profiles of more than one hundred homes from the 17th century to the 20th century.
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March 1999, New York
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Firmly rooted in Indian religion, cosmology and society, this book describes the evolution of architecture on the Indian sub-continent and the neighbouring countries of south-east Asia from the earliest times to the rise of Islam at the end of the 11th century in the north and in the 17th century in the south. This book is part of the small-format series (...)
India and South-East Asia: The Buddhist and Hindu Tradition
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Firmly rooted in Indian religion, cosmology and society, this book describes the evolution of architecture on the Indian sub-continent and the neighbouring countries of south-east Asia from the earliest times to the rise of Islam at the end of the 11th century in the north and in the 17th century in the south. This book is part of the small-format series "A History of Architecture".
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April 1998, London
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Bas Meeuws' photographs are of an old-fashioned beauty and at the same time radically contemporary. Flower by flower he composes his still lifes, but digitally: the basis for Meeuws' monumental works are digital photographs of individual flowers. They nod to the Dutch masters of the 17th-century with their love of luxury, but also their eye for the ephemeral.
Bas Meeuws: Flower pieces. A photographic journey
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Bas Meeuws' photographs are of an old-fashioned beauty and at the same time radically contemporary. Flower by flower he composes his still lifes, but digitally: the basis for Meeuws' monumental works are digital photographs of individual flowers. They nod to the Dutch masters of the 17th-century with their love of luxury, but also their eye for the ephemeral.
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How does architecture relate to 17th century Dutch painting? Architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats analyze the painting of Pieter De Hooch to discover housing design trends of the time, a period which marks when everyday life started to be represented in art. This was the starting point for an architecture workshop at the University of New South Wales in Sydney,(...)
Through the canvas:architecture inside Dutch paintings
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How does architecture relate to 17th century Dutch painting? Architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats analyze the painting of Pieter De Hooch to discover housing design trends of the time, a period which marks when everyday life started to be represented in art. This was the starting point for an architecture workshop at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, proposing new architectural designs through examining De Hooch's art.
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Art Theory
Building America
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This book offers a vast survey of 400 years of architecture, from the structures of 17th-century settlers to current trends in postmodernism. In chronological order, the 22 two-page chapters each consist of a brief introductory narrative supported by numerous fully captioned illustrations. An eclectic assortment of topics is presented, including periods ("The Jazz Age"),(...)
Building America
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This book offers a vast survey of 400 years of architecture, from the structures of 17th-century settlers to current trends in postmodernism. In chronological order, the 22 two-page chapters each consist of a brief introductory narrative supported by numerous fully captioned illustrations. An eclectic assortment of topics is presented, including periods ("The Jazz Age"), places ("The White City"), styles ("The International Style"), and building types ("Houses of Worship").
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Behind the stately canal facades of Amsterdam lies a green and silent world largely invisible to traffic and pedestrians. The designers of the 17th century ring of canals stipulated that the plots that came with the houses should be filled with green, not with brick a specification that is still observed up until today. Here, the history and beauty of these gardens are(...)
Gardens
May 2006, Amsterdam
Behind the facades : gardens of canal houses in Amsterdam
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Behind the stately canal facades of Amsterdam lies a green and silent world largely invisible to traffic and pedestrians. The designers of the 17th century ring of canals stipulated that the plots that came with the houses should be filled with green, not with brick a specification that is still observed up until today. Here, the history and beauty of these gardens are comprehensively documented in an accessible way through text and photographs
Gardens
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Like other emerging mega-cities of the world, Dhaka has been growing exponentially, particularly since it became the capital of the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971. Today, a visitor's first impression of this city could be bewildering. Dhaka is a quintessential 21st century urban narrative of whirlwind modernity. This guidebook focuses on 25 buildings,(...)
DAC Dhaka: architectural travel guide
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Like other emerging mega-cities of the world, Dhaka has been growing exponentially, particularly since it became the capital of the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971. Today, a visitor's first impression of this city could be bewildering. Dhaka is a quintessential 21st century urban narrative of whirlwind modernity. This guidebook focuses on 25 buildings, representing different architectural phases since the Mughal era, beginning in the early 17th century. The featured buildings communicate larger ideas about the city's building tradition, represent an architectural trend, influence the architectural scene, and offer a spatial story in the evolution of the city.
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In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world’s foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented—or ignored—by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist, and Surrealist artists exploited the(...)
Shadows: the depiction of cast shadows in Western art
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In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world’s foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented—or ignored—by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist, and Surrealist artists exploited the device of the cast shadow to enhance the illusion of realism or drama in their representations. First published to accompany an exhibition at the National Gallery, London, in 1995, it is reissued here with additional color illustrations and a new introduction by esteemed scholar Nicholas Penny.
Art Theory
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Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia, and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their introduction to 17th-century Europe(...)
Coffee, tea, and chocolate: consuming the world
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Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia, and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their introduction to 17th-century Europe revolutionized drinking habits and social customs. It also spurred an insatiable demand for specialized vessels such as hot beverage services and tea canisters, coffee cups and chocolate pots. This beautiful book demonstrates how the paraphernalia associated with coffee, tea, and chocolate can eloquently evoke the culture of these new beverages and the material pleasures that surrounded them. Contributors address such topics as the politics of coffee consumption in 18th-century Germany; 18th-century visual satires on the European consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate; and the design history of coffee pots in the United States between the colonial period and the present.
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Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection(...)
Design, Periods and Styles
March 2008, Rotterdam
Chairs: catalogue of the Delft faculty of architecture collection
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Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In the catalogue, the entire collection of over 240 chairs is presented for the first time. Each object is accompanied by images and a thorough description. Also, the book offers comprehensive texts on key designs in the collection, showing the diversity of the collection which consists of world famous designs, 17th, 18th and 19th century designs, everyday household chairs and rare pieces of furniture that have never been published before. Among the designers presented are Verner Panton, Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer and Droog Design.
Design, Periods and Styles