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Author: Drawings By Jeanette Mcleod; Text By W. H. NewnhamBinding: PaperbackPublished: RIGBY LIMITED, 1971Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor wear and fraying...

Author: Tess Van Sommers; Uwe WhiteBinding: HardbackPublished: Rigby Limited AdelaideCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSydney Sketchbook presents a captivating visual journey through one of the world's most iconic...

BruceRickard was one of the most significant Australian architects of the twentiethcentury. A key member of the Sydney School, his practice spanned 60 years andhe produced some of the most...

In order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language; the definitions, function, and usage. The L anguage of Architecture provides...

Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: Tasmanian Trust for Historic Preservation, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume presents a comprehensive survey of Tasmania's architectural treasures....

Author: Barry Michael Leigh WebsterBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis scholarly work chronicles the distinctive architectural landscape of 20th-century Denmark,...

Sir John Soane's Influence on Architecture from 1791: A Continuing Legacy is the first in-depth study of this eighteenth-century British architect's impact on the work of others, extending globally and...

Author: Geoffrey FletcherBinding: HardbackPublished: THOMAS & HUDSON LTDCondition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSketching In Colour presents a comprehensive guide to mastering the art of...

Chambord occupies a special place among French Renaissance chateaux. Designed by Francis I as a hunting lodge for his friends and family and subsequently transformed into an immense residence, Chambord...

Author: J. Selkirk ProvisBinding: PaperbackPublished: Canberra, Pirie Printers ACT, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAn Elegant Little House presents a captivating architectural...

Author: Max E. OttoBinding: PaperbackPublished: Max E. Otto, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTasmanian Fanlights presents a detailed examination of the unique...

Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford's life soared...

Author: Robert BrannerBinding: PaperbackPublished: New York (George Braziller), 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe authoritative The Great Ages Of World Architecture by...

Whatever 'ugliness' is, it remains a problematic category in architectural aesthetics - alternately vilified and appropriated, either to shock or to invert conventions of architecture. This book presents eighteen new...

Author: Francis ThompsonBinding: HardbackPublished: Country Life Limited, 1951Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded and chipped DJ with missing pieces. This historical account Chatsworth: A Short History...

Somewhere Other is published to coincide with the opening of John Wardle Architects' installation as part of the curated Arsenale exhibition at the 16th International Biennale Architettura, held in Venice...

This monograph on the Australian and New Zealand architects, Architectus , presents 25 buildings with photographs, plans, sections and some details. Architectus was formed in 2001 based on a collaborative...

This text highlights and places into historical context 250 of Sydney's buildings, varying from colonial to contemporary architecture. Anecdotal notes and brief biographies of leading architects are accompanied by house...

Author: John SummersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Pleiades Books, 1945Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Cracked. Internally sound. Signed by the author with signed letter laid-in. Georgian...

Roman Public Buildings was first published in the Exeter Studies in History series in 1989. It examines the development of Roman architecture and the significance of different types of buildings...

These letters and sketches by Stanford White were left by Lawrence Grant White, when he died in 1956. He had mounted them in beautiful leather-bound books, each impetuously scribbled letter...

The book titled Ple Cnik, the Complete Works by the author Peter Kreeciec. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Focusing primarily on Rome and other cities of central Italy, James C. Anderson, Jr, describes the training, career path and social status of both architects and builders. He explains how...

Art lovers, art students, and vacation travelers to world-famous sites will relish this beautifully bound and lavishly illustrated book. It explores and explains the architectural elements of buildings and monuments--the...

The great architect Sir John Soane carried out over four hundred recorded architectural commissions in London. Although many never resulted in a finished building, these little-known commissions formed the backbone...

Delightful, eccentric, capricious, bizarre the English Rococo garden, an intriguing branch of eighteenth-century horticulture, was all these and more. This book relates the components of the Rococo garden to movements...

What is the secret of beauty in architecture Critics have puzzled over that conundrum for centuries, not least the architectural writers of the Victorian period. This book focuses on four...

The architecture of the Edwardian period and of the 1920s and 1930s is of growing interest to a new generation of architects and historians. The career of W.D. Caroe spanned...

Many buildings erected during the Victorian age had no precedents, such as railway stations, large hotels and factories. New structures had to be planned from first principles and architectural styles...

Originally presented as Slade Lectures at Oxford University, the chapters of this book address a non-specialist readership and do not hesitate to condemn familiar but second-rate buildings like the British...

Intended by medieval builders to be the greatest of the High Gothic cathedrals, Saint-Pierre Beauvais has achieved notoriety among historians because it was indeed the tallest structure of its kind...

This book is designed as a companion to the author's book about the association between Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll - "Gardens of a Golden Afternoon". Lutyens was a humanist...

Building Paris provides an overview of the various architectural services that collectively gave shape to the French capital during a period of explosive growth, from 1830 to 1870. In his...

The book titled The Architecture of the French Enlightenment by the author Allan Braham. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Looks at eighteenth-century palaces, churches, theaters, libraries, museums, prisons, hospitals, and banks, discusses their various styles, and discusses the development of urban planning.

In this first modern history of St James's Palace, the authors shed new light on a remarkable building that, despite serving as the official residence of the British monarchy from...

This is the essential companion to the terms used in the "Pevsner Architectural Guides". Pevsner's famous designations E. E. and Perp. are among the terms clearly explained in this informative...

In this groundbreaking volume, conventional assumptions about one of England's greatest and most influential classical architects are turned on their head. Traditionally, Inigo Jones has been looked upon as an...

At first a successful painter of the Roman Baroque, Pietro (Berrettini) da Cortona (1597-1669) soon emerged as an architect of equal stature. This book is the first to focus full...

In this book, Mark Girouard tells how he became intrigued by architecture as a small boy. Combining anecdote and information about both buildings and their inhabitants, he writes of the...

The Louvre, the Place Royale (now the Place des Vosges), the Place and rue Dauphine, the Pont Neuf and the Hopital Saint Louis were part of a building programme initiated...

This is the second of a three-volume set of the complete Sangallo workshop drawing collection housed at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484-1546) and his...

The age of the Baroque-a time when great strides were made in science and mathematics-witnessed the construction of some of the world's most magnificent buildings. What did the work of...

The book titled Palazzo Altemps by the author F. Scoppola. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For centuries, Paris has been the undisputed center of France. Just as the capital has always dominated the country's fortunes, it has also played and continues to play a unique...

The book titled Architectural Outsiders by the author Roderick L. Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book presents twelve of the richest houses in Britain, each an archetype of its age, and looks at them both as architectural masterpieces and as evidence of the life...