Global History of Architecture, Hardcover

DescriptionUrban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and ...

DescriptionA global history of restaurants beyond white tablecloths and ma tre d's, Dining Out presents restaurants both as businesses and as venue...

Reducere. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism...

Reducere. History tells the story of mankind from prehistory to the present day using a unique visual approach, filled with timelines, images of artifacts, p...

DescriptionIn Timelines, John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format. Using concise, insightful, and ...

Founded in the late 1960s on Chile's Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge...

Reducere. Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one ...

Reducere. A groundbreaking examination of the role that wood and trees have played in our global ecosystem--including human evolution and the rise and fall o...

Reducere. A sweeping history of luxury--from the pharaohs to the plutocrats--celebrating the quintessential role of opulence in human evolution From diamonds...

Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Cultu...

DescriptionThis richly illustrated volume explores creativity in twentieth-century Iraqi art through the art collection of a pioneer architect. Fea...

Reducere. In this landmark book, Gol Kalev demonstrates how Zionism has turned into the organizing principle of Judaism. It has become the primary conduit th...

Bauhaus Imaginista marks the centennial anniversary of this fascinating and popular school of art, which championed the idea of artists working tog...