The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
Mark E. Reinberger and Elizabeth McLean
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Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style...
Framing Sukkot: Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture
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The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates...
Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning
Chiara Tornaghi and Sabine Knierbein
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Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container,...
Architecture, Death and Nationhood: Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy
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In the nineteenth century, new cemeteries were built in many Italian cities that were unique in...
American Imperial Pastoral: The Architecture of Us Colonialism in the Philippines
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In 1904, renowned architect Daniel Burnham, the Progressive Era urban planner who famously "Made No...
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism: Critical Encounters Between Giorgio Agamben and Architecture
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The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio...
The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It...
Material Revolution 2: New Sustainable and Multi-Purpose Materials for Design and Architecture
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Following the huge success of Material Revolution, this second volume addresses the rapid...
God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse
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This title was first published in 2001. God's House, at Ewelme, is an extraordinary survival from...
Color - Communication in Architectural Space
Gerhard Meerwein, Bettina Rodeck and Frank H. Mahnke
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While people's reactions to color vary widely, in design questions it is still possible to establish...