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Presents watercolor illustrations and plans for decorative garden ornaments called follies, popular in preRevolutionary France.

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains...

A bibliophile's journey through Dublin's rich heritage, storied lore, and lively craic: exploring bookshops, museums, and authors' watering holes, offering an experience for literature students, Irish natives, and tourists alike....

Many of us aspire to live the life of luxury by the sea. For the elite few, it's a fabulous reality soaking up their days in some of the world's...

Longford Castle is a fine Elizabethan country house, home to a world-class collection of art built up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Bouverie family and still owned...

The Complete Guide to Perspective strips this daunting subject back to its simplest principles and shows how, once these have been grasped, the other, apparently more complex rules simply build...

This volume begins with a comparison between the Parthenon and the Pantheon, whose simplicity and dignity represented a new level of sophistication in architecture based on a system of vaults...

This volume presents an extraordinary collection of images and covers the whole range of Greek architecture, from a thorough analysis of Minoan Crete-which marked the beginning of the history of...

This volume 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'...

Sir Hugh Casson was President of the Royal Academy 1976-1984 and is author of "London" and illustrator of Sir John Betjeman's "Summoned by Bells".

From as early as 1900 Finland, at that time ruled by Russia, was to see in architecture a political and social vehicle. Modern architecture, with the promises it held for...

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of communities for the...

The public's appetite for new and excitingly designed hotels is insatiable. Never before have hotels been so earnestly responsive to the zeitgeist. How else can we explain the latest trends...

A documentation of the Renault Centre (winner of four awards), describing how it was designed and engineered, using documentation from the Foster Associates' archives. The author argues that it is...

The English manor house represents an architectural ideal which has been central to the vision of the magazine Country Life. For this book, Jeremy Musson has selected 200 rare photographs...

The book titled Italian Gardens: A Visitor's Guide by the author Alex Ramsay. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

At its heart, this book is an examination of how a new structural material - mass-produced steel - came to be first applied to the buildings of one of the...

A simple shelter, somewhere peaceful, surrounded by nature. Wherever you dream of having your quiet place, these rural escapes are for anyone yearning for a different kind of existence. Cabin...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, Royal Heritage: The Story Of Britain's Royal Builders And Collectors, chronicles the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis architectural monograph presents a concise study of John Harry Grainger’s dual career, detailing...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive volume chronicles the rich tapestry of historical sites scattered across England and Wales, presenting a detailed overview of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsIt covers the history, politics, site, and design of the Australian Parliament House.

Edition: Second editionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Damage around jacket spine and folds. Binding firm and pages clearA landmark work in art history,...

Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markings A landmark work of architectural and Holocaust history, Auschwitz: 1270 to the...

A spectacular collection of 50 magnificent contemporary houses across the globe, each built to exist harmoniously amid the trees Take a walk through luscious jungles, get lost among snowy evergreens,...

Villages have existed in a similar form for millennia: but where did village halls come from, and why do they matter? What defines a modern village, and when does a...

This entertaining and informative book explores the world of architecture through a series of 101 questions and answers that cover a wide range of issues on its practice and theory....

This major survey gives an incisively critical account of the lives, theories and work of the architects of the Arts and Crafts movement, which began in England and quickly influenced...

An all-new showcase of the energetic work that's driving typography today -- from the most extreme "garage fonts" to the new digital typefonts.

Justinian's Great Church in Constantinople was the culminating architectural achievement of late antiquity and the first great masterpiece of the Byzantine world. For over 900 years it was Christendom's grandest...

The modern world's greatest structures capture the imagination and inspire wonder, whether they are places of worship, palaces of power or pleasure, skyscrapers, bridges, tunnels, canals, dams or colossal statues....

Robotics is the fastest-growing and most exciting area of development in architecture and architectural education for a generation, offering new paradigms for design and fabrication. Schools and practices around the...

Interior design, one sticker at a time! Get creative - with this inspiring sticker book for adults! Engage your inner designer with 20 vintage and contemporary interiors to design and...

With more than 2,000 four-color photographs on 1,000 pages, each of these books presents the most significant examples of luxurious living from recent years. "Houses of the World" - This...

A visual and comprehensive compilation of some the finest architectural drawings from Sir John Soane's extensive collection. Architectural Drawings casts light on the magnificent architectural drawings of neo-classical architect, teacher...

This long-overdue, eponymous first monograph of India Mahdavi takes us on a retrospective journey through the most emblematic realisations of the world-renowned Paris-based interior designer, internationally praised for her unique...

Burmese design, heavily influenced by its proximity to China and India, is a many-layered thing, interwoven with spiritual, religious and political messages. Burmese Design & Architecture takes an in-depth look...

Jonathan Glancey conducts an inspiring journey through 5,000 years of magnificent buildings, from ancient Sumeria to the spectacular glass-and-steel towers of today's cityscapes. An unprecedented collection of full-colour photographs, artworks,...

Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's great visionaries, both in the fields of furniture design (he created the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, for example) and...

The city of Vienna is unrivalled for its beautiful palaces. Once an imperial capital and a European metropolis, Vienna attracted noble families from all over the Holy Roman Empire and...

Big Ben is perhaps the most famous clock in the world. This title tells its story, from its conception in the 1830s, after fire destroyed the ancient Palace of Westminster,...

The 20th century witnessed some of the most exciting and innovative architecture the world has ever seen. New materials, rapidly evolving technology and progressive theories and techniques all resulted in...

When the World Trade centre was erected at the Hudson River's edge, it forever changed the character of the American city. In Divided We Stand , cultural critic Eric Darton...

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains...

A stunning celebration of bold colour design in our homes Many of us are too afraid to introduce bold colour into our clean, white homes. Yet colour is an essential...

A stunning celebration of bold colour design in our homes Many of us are too afraid to introduce bold colour into our clean, white homes. Yet colour is an essential...

Astonishing buildings created for casual amusements, the splendid pavilions and garden follies of prerevolutionary France are the glorious productions of an age now past-but they continue to speak to us...