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  • Modern Sacred Art and the Church of Assy by Rubin, William Stanley
    William Stanley Rubin

    Modern Sacred Art and the Church of Assy

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago: Municipal Economy. Especially Prepared for Study in the Schools of Chicago., Auspices of the Chicago Plan Comm by Moody, Walter Dwight 1874-1920
    Walter Dwight 1874-1920 Moody

    Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago: Municipal Economy. Especially Prepared for Study in the Schools of Chicago., Auspices of the Chicago Plan Comm

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Smaller Italian Villas and Farmhouses by Lowell, Guy 1870-1927
    Guy 1870-1927 Lowell

    Smaller Italian Villas and Farmhouses

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Homes for Living: the Finest Home Designs From the Works of Samuel Paul, Architect by Architectural Plan Service Inc
    Architectural Plan Service Inc

    Homes for Living: the Finest Home Designs From the Works of Samuel Paul, Architect

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The Cathedrals of Spain by Harvey, John Hooper
    John Hooper Harvey

    The Cathedrals of Spain

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands by Crain, Edward E.
    Edward E. Crain

    Historic Architecture in the Caribbean Islands

    The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands....
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  • The Classical Orders of Architecture by Chitham, Robert
    Robert Chitham

    The Classical Orders of Architecture

    This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation of the Classical Orders. The new edition of this successful title now includes the proportions in both metric and imperial measurements to make the orders more accessible and to provide a valuable reference for...
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  • The Pottery of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Paice, Patricia
    Patricia Paice

    The Pottery of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

    A slim but useful study of utilitarian domestic pottery from Ancient Egypt. The author presents scenes involving pots from published Egyptian tombs. The pictures, reproduced in line drawings, show ceramics used in milking, water carrying, bread-making, brewing, wine-making, cooking and consumption. The book also...
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  • Europe by Night: Great Buildings in Great Cities by Wicksteed, Julian
    Julian Wicksteed

    Europe by Night: Great Buildings in Great Cities

    Julian Wicksteed's love of travel, history, and architecture has seen him crisscross the European continent many times over the years. His love of wandering the deserted streets after the daytime crowds have disappeared is illustrated in this book of night time long-exposure images of...
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  • Hidden Architecture: Buildings That Blend in by Griffiths, Alyn
    Alyn Griffiths

    Hidden Architecture: Buildings That Blend in

    - An inspired selection of buildings that blend into their environment- Highlights 50 of the world's most important projects by leading architects worldwide- By expert Alyn Griffiths, a regular contributor to magazines such as Wallpaper* and Dezeen and author of The Future CityThis book...
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  • Walla Walla by Monahan, Susan
    Susan Monahan

    Walla Walla

    Walla Walla is a town that has seen elegant buildings erected during a period of early prosperity and has benefited from a determined commitment to preserve these architectural treasures more than 100 years later.Author: Susan MonahanISBN-10: 1540251691ISBN-13: 9781540251695Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)Language: EnglishPublished: 04/04/2022Pages: 98Format:...
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  • Traveling to Bahamas. A Local Guide to New Providence and Nassau Paradise Islands by Jerry, Sampson Uzo
    Sampson Uzo Jerry

    Traveling to Bahamas. A Local Guide to New Providence and Nassau Paradise Islands

    Traveling to Bahamas. A Local Guide to New Providence and Nassau Paradise Islands. The culture of the Bahamas includes a mix of African and European influences. People from the Caribbean and the Americas have also affected it. Social conventions and daily life: Most Bahamians...
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  • An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges by McFetrich, David
    David McFetrich

    An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges

    Bridges are one of the most important artifacts constructed by man, the structures having had an incalculable effect on the development of trade and civilization throughout the world. Their construction has led to continuing advances in civil engineering technology, leading to bigger spans and...
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  • Bloomsbury - A Square Mile: A History and Guide by Arnold, Edward
    Edward Arnold

    Bloomsbury - A Square Mile: A History and Guide

    Bloomsbury is the vibrant, intellectual and cultural heart of London that proudly sits within the southern part of the London Borough of Camden. One can meander through dignified Georgian streets and beautiful garden squares which link us to an extraordinary circle of writers, artists...
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  • Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England by Garner, Lori Ann
    Lori Ann Garner

    Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England

    In Structuring Spaces: Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England, Lori Ann Garner illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within the vernacular verse of early medieval England, portrayals that consistently demonstrate a shared aesthetic between literary texts and...
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  • The Historiography of Modern Architecture by Tournikiotis, Panayotis
    Panayotis Tournikiotis

    The Historiography of Modern Architecture

    The history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has always exerted a powerful influence on architecture. Indeed, the study of modern architecture cannot be separated from a fascination with the texts that have tried to explain...
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  • The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 by Bailey, Gauvin Alexander
    Gauvin Alexander Bailey

    The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962

    Most monumental buildings of France's global empire - such as the famous Saigon and Hanoi Opera Houses - were built in South and Southeast Asia. Much of this architecture, and the history of who built it and how, has been overlooked. The Architecture of...
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  • Waking a Leviathan: From Historic Atlanta Sears to Ponce City Market by Grau, Dustin Aric
    Dustin Aric Grau

    Waking a Leviathan: From Historic Atlanta Sears to Ponce City Market

    Constructed in 1926, the regional headquarters for the Sears, Roebuck & Company stood along Ponce de Leon Avenue and served the southeast United States for over 50 years. As catalog fulfillment gave way to department stores and Internet commerce, so did this building give...
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  • Rural Architecture, or, Designs for Villas, Cottages, Etc.: in the Italian, Gothic, Elizabethan, Old English, and Swiss Styles, With Descriptions and by Field, M. (Marriott) 1803?- Author
    M. (Marriott) 1803?- Author Field

    Rural Architecture, or, Designs for Villas, Cottages, Etc.: in the Italian, Gothic, Elizabethan, Old English, and Swiss Styles, With Descriptions and

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • The Builder's Jewel, or, The Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer: Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made Familiar to the Meanest Capacity, f by Langley, Batty 1696-1751
    Batty 1696-1751 Langley

    The Builder's Jewel, or, The Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer: Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made Familiar to the Meanest Capacity, f

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum by Gallo, Luciana
    Luciana Gallo

    Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum

    This book analyses the rich and remarkable collection of archaeological drawings, now housed in The British Museum, drawn in Greece by a team of architects and artists in the service of Lord Elgin during his ambassadorial expedition to the Levant (1799-1803). Luciana Gallo offers...
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  • Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by Rossi, Corinna
    Corinna Rossi

    Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt

    Corinna Rossi explores the use of numbers and geometrical figures by the Ancient Egyptians in their architectural projects and buildings. Whereas previous architectural studies have searched for "universal rules" to explain the entire history of Egyptian architecture, Rossi reconciles the approaches of architectural historians...
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  • The Urban Image of Augustan Rome by Favro, Diane
    Diane Favro

    The Urban Image of Augustan Rome

    The Urban Image of Augustan Rome examines the idea and experience of the ancient city at a critical moment, when Rome became an Imperial capital. Lacking dignity, unity, and a clear image during the Republic, the urban image of Rome became focused under the...
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  • Monastic Architecture in France: From the Renaissance to the Revolution by Evans, Joan
    Joan Evans

    Monastic Architecture in France: From the Renaissance to the Revolution

    France is a country so rich in architecture that it is not surprising that some of its fine buildings receive little attention. Amongst the Romanesque and Gothic churches and the Renaissance ch teaux, the domestic architecture of the monasteries has been overlooked. Originally published...
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  • Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London by O'Brien, Patrick
    Patrick O'Brien

    Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London

    This innovative work in comparative urban history explores why outstanding achievements in material and intellectual culture in early modern Europe tended to cluster in certain maritime cities. Patrick O'Brien, his coeditors and eighteen distinguished historians from Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain, and North America, have...
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  • Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture by Spiro, Audrey
    Audrey Spiro

    Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture by Spiro, Audrey
    Audrey Spiro

    Contemplating the Ancients: Aesthetic and Social Issues in Early Chinese Portraiture

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America by Larson, Magali Sarfatti
    Magali Sarfatti Larson

    Behind the Postmodern Facade: Architectural Change in Late Twentieth-Century America

    Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects--from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, identified with...
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  • The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition by Arnheim, Rudolf
    Rudolf Arnheim

    The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition

    What determines the overall organization of visual form in the works of painting, sculpture, and architecture? Artists have sometimes ventured practical rules of thumb, and mathematicians have looked for formulas that would prescribe ideal spatial relations between shapes. This companion to Rudolf Arnheim's classic,...
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  • A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner Banham by Banham, Reyner
    Reyner Banham

    A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner Banham

    Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of...
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  • Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reichvolume 22 by Rosenfeld, Gavriel D.
    Gavriel D. Rosenfeld

    Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich Volume 22

    Munich, notorious in recent history as the capital of the Nazi movement, is the site of Gavriel Rosenfeld's stimulating inquiry into the German collective memory of the Third Reich. Rosenfeld shows, with the aid of a wealth of photographs, how the city's urban form...
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  • On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco by Longstreth, Richard
    Richard Longstreth

    On the Edge of the World: Four Architects in San Francisco

    Richard Longstreth provides a detailed picture of the early careers of four architects-Bernard Maybeck, Willis Polk, Ernest Coxhead, and A.C. Schweinfurth-who had a decisive impact on the course of design in the San Francisco Bay Area and who stand as significant contributors to American...
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  • The Building Program of Herod the Great by Roller, Duane W.
    Duane W. Roller

    The Building Program of Herod the Great

    Herod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 B.C., is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. An essential aspect of Herod's...
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  • Great Planning Disasters by Hall, Peter
    Peter Hall

    Great Planning Disasters

    In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the decisions of the professional bureaucrats, community activists, and politicians involved in the planning process. He draws on an eclectic body of theory...
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  • The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture by Hendrix, John Shannon
    John Shannon Hendrix

    The Contradiction Between Form and Function in Architecture

    Continuing the themes that have been addressed in The Humanities in Architectural Design and The Cultural Role of Architecture, this book illustrates the important role that a contradiction between form and function plays in compositional strategies in architecture. The contradiction between form and function...
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  • Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt: Supercrit #1 by Rattenbury, Kester
    Kester Rattenbury

    Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt: SuperCrit #1

    The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major...
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  • The Roman House in Britain by Perring, Dominic
    Dominic Perring

    The Roman House in Britain

    This authoritative and original work sets the results of recent archaeological research in the context of classical scholarship, as it explores three main aspects of Romano-British buildings: * general characteristics of form and structure* the ways in which they were built and decorated* the...
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  • Buildings and Power: Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types by Markus, Thomas a.
    Thomas a. Markus

    Buildings and Power: Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types

    The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The battles fought over class, ideology and language are represented most clearly in the explosion of new building...
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  • Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations by Szücs, J.
    V. I. Arnold

    Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations

    Since the first edition of this book, geometrical methods in the theory of ordinary differential equations have become very popular and some progress has been made partly with the help of computers. Much of this progress is represented in this revised, expanded edition, including...
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  • Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts by Yan, Liu
    Liu Yan

    Woven Arch Bridge: Histories of Constructional Thoughts

    This book focuses on the woven arch bridge, an arch-shaped structure that is one of the most extraordinary timber building traditions of the world. The woven arch bridge exists widely in different cultures and its specific nature is conceptualized by the author as a...
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  • Architectural History Retold by Davies, Paul
    Paul Davies

    Architectural History Retold

    How much do you know about Greek architecture? Roman? Gothic? The Renaissance? Modernism? Perhaps more importantly, do you know how these are connected or how one style evolved to become another? Or what happened historically during each of these periods? Architectural History Retold is...
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  • Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World by McKay, Alexander G.
    Alexander G. McKay

    Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World

    This attractively illustrated book surveys Roman domestic architecture from the time of the Etruscans to the late Roman Empire.In Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World, Alexander G. McKay examines simple houses, mansions, estates, and palatial buildings, and he pays particular attention to...
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  • Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space by Temple, Nicholas
    Nicholas Temple

    Disclosing Horizons: Architecture, Perspective and Redemptive Space

    This study examines the influence of perspective on architecture, highlighting how critical historical changes in the representation and perception of space continue to inform the way architects design. Since its earliest developments, perspective was conceived as an exemplary form of representation that served as...
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  • Lost Palaces of Hawai'i: Royal Residences of the Kingdom Period by Kam, Ralph Thomas
    Ralph Thomas Kam

    Lost Palaces of Hawai'i: Royal Residences of the Kingdom Period

    The remains of Kaniakapp--King Kamehameha III's summer residence--bear no traces of the feast that once served ten thousand of his subjects gathered in celebration of Hawaiian sovereignty. Although not all historic Hawaii residences are still standing, the pictures, photographs, and comprehensive maps in this...
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  • Drawing Architecture: The Finest Architectural Drawings Through the Ages by Thomas, Helen
    Helen Thomas

    Drawing Architecture: The Finest Architectural Drawings Through the Ages

    An elegant presentation of stunning and inspiring architectural drawings from antiquity to the present dayThroughout history, architects have relied on drawings both to develop their ideas and communicate their vision to the world.This gorgeous collection brings together more than 250 of the finest architectural...
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  • The One World Tartarians (Black and White): The Greatest Civilization Ever Erased From History by Lee, James W.
    James W. Lee

    The One World Tartarians (Black and White): The Greatest Civilization Ever Erased From History

    This book could very well be the greatest revisionist history book ever written in modern times to date about the Greatest Lie about our common world history. The Tartary civilization encompassed most of the World we know today. From Russia to China to Africa...
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  • Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays by Evans, Robin
    Robin Evans

    Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays

    A re-edition of Robin Evans' classic essay anthology Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, originally published by the Architectural Association (AA) in 1997. Featuring a new introduction, the book is the first in a new series of essay anthologies entitled AA Documents....
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  • Gothic: An Illustrated History by Luckhurst, Roger
    Roger Luckhurst

    Gothic: An Illustrated History

    A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film The word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and feared, and haunted places and people. In Gothic, Roger Luckhurst offers readers an...
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  • Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings -- Revised and Updated by Dupré, Judith
    Judith Dupré

    Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings -- Revised and Updated

    A landmark bestseller that "captivates the eye, mind, and imagination," (The New York Times), Skyscrapers is a unique and colossal celebration of the world's most significant and striking super-structures. Uniquely designed to showcase the full color images of the world's tallest buildings, Skyscrapers explores...
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  • Noah's Ark: Essays on Architecture by Damisch, Hubert
    Hubert Damisch

    Noah's Ark: Essays on Architecture

    From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's "Blur" Building, a distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about architecture's origin and development.Trained as an art historian but viewing architecture from the perspective of a "displaced philosopher," Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a...
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