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The rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian
architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff
of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as
contemporaries in the building yards of St. Peter's in Rome, became
the greatest architects of their era by designing some of the most
beautiful buildings in the world, and ended their lives as bitter
enemies. Engrossing and impeccably researched, full of dramatic
tension and breathtaking insight, "The Genius in the Design" is the
remarkable tale of how two extraordinary visionaries schemed and
maneuvered to get the better of each other and, in the process,
created the spectacular Roman cityscape of today.
Learn about key concepts behind the world's most incredible
buildings in The Architecture Book. Part of the fascinating Big
Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a
simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Architecture in this
overview guide to the subject, brilliant for novices looking to
find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike!
The Architecture Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic
through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in.
This captivating book will broaden your understanding of
Architecture, with: - A global scope, covering architecture from
all over the world - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and
graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big
subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy
to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of
understanding The Architecture Book is a captivating introduction
to buildings and the ideas, and principles that make them key to
the history and evolution of our built environment - aimed at
adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain
more of an overview. Here you'll discover the most important ideas,
technologies, and movements in the history of architecture and
structural engineering, through exciting text and bold graphics.
Your Architecture Questions, Simply Explained Learn about the
evolution of construction, from ancient and classical architecture
through Medieval, Gothic, and Renaissance buildings, Baroque and
Rococo, to 19th-century emerging modernism and postmodernism and
glittering skyscrapers. If you thought it was difficult to learn
about buildings and the ideas behind them, The Architecture Book
presents key information in a clear layout. Explore architectural
movements, styles and celebrated buildings from all over the world,
and stunning religious structures from mosques to churches, stupas
to pagodas and temples. The Big Ideas Series With millions of
copies sold worldwide, The Architecture Book is part of the
award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking
graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to
understand.
Lavishly illustrated account of forty magnificent country houses,
destroyed in the last century. The Lost Country Houses of Suffolk,
well-researched and written and copiously illustrated, will help
the reader to imagine the county's landscape refurnished with the
many elegant mansions which are now sadly lost. JOHN BLATCHLY
During the twentieth century some forty of Suffolk's finest country
houses vanished forever, a few by fire, but more frequently through
demolition, either because uneconomic to run, or through the
deterioration oftheir fabric. This book relates their tragic
stories, with lavish use of engravings, images and pictures to
bring to life what has now gone forever. It offers an account of
each house [its history, its family, its architect], with a
description of the buildings, and particular information on how it
came to be destroyed. The houses are put into their wider context
by an introductory section, covering the economic and social
circumstances which caused difficulties for the owners of country
houses at the time, and comparing the loss in Suffolk with losses
in England as a whole. Houses covered: Acton Place, Assington Hall,
Barking Hall, Barton Hall, Boulge Hall, Bramford Hall, Branches
Park, Bredfield House, Brome Hall, Campsea Ashe High House, Carlton
Hall, Cavenham Hall, Chediston Hall, Downham Hall, Drinkstone Park,
Easton Park, Edwardstone Hall, Flixton Hall, Fornham Hall, Hardwick
House, HenhamHall, Hobland Hall, Holton Hall, Hunston Hall,
Livermere Hall, The Manor House Mildenhall, Moulton Paddocks,
Oakley Park, Ousden Hall, The Red House Ipswich, Redgrave Hall,
Rendlesham Hall, Rougham Hall, Rushbrooke Hall, Stoke Park,
Sudbourne Hall, Tendring Hall, Thorington Hall, Thornham Hall,
Ufford Place.
In the 1970s, Lloyd Kahn found "An Illustrated Catalogue of One
William Cooper, Ltd., " in an obscure London bookstore. The Cooper
company manufactured portable greenhouses and plant frames, as well
as chicken coops, duck houses, rabbit hutches, rustic furniture,
and a variety of full-size buildings, all pre-cut at their London
plant and shipped to customers at home and in the colonies. This
fascinating book is a catalog of the company's plans, lovingly
reproduced, for everything from pre-fab greenhouses, chapels, and
barns to bentwood furniture. Equally useful to architects,
builders, designers, gardeners, homesteaders, farmers, and anyone
interested in old-world craftsmanship, the designs in this book
remain both intriguing and inspiring. The cover reproduces the
original's distinctive black and gold lettering on a red
background.
A Place in the Sun showcases two dozen inspiring homes from across
the country that are well-appointed, stunning, and filled inside
and out- with green materials, design, and decor. These
environmentally responsible, perfectly designed solar-powered
homes, here sumptuously photographed, will inspire readers to see
their homes as places that can blend sustainability and beauty. The
book vividly demonstrates that living green doesn't have to be
about sacrificing comfort and living with less. Incisive, clearly
written text offers profiles of the featured houses through
interviews with the homeowners and includes extensive practical
information in sidebars covering everything from green decorating
and earth-friendly remodeling to healthy home tips and shopping
resources. This is not a how to book, but it will feature extensive
details about how and why each homeowner achieved the dream of
green living. The reader will benefit from practical advice derived
from the experience of homeowners, builders, and architects, who
have all achieved the dream of creating not only a solar home but a
home that is green inside and out.
A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered
beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed
historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the visionaries
and ordinary workers who brought to life seven great wonders of the
world that still have the power to awe and inspire us today. Fueled
by Deborah Cadbury's characteristic scholarship and insight, this
extraordinary chronicle re-creates the human odyssey of how our
modern world was forged not only with rivets, grease, and steam but
also with blood, sweat, and extreme imagination. This P.S. edition
features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including
author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Ned Lutyens was England's most prolific architect since Sir
Christopher Wren, and his work still enhances our lives, from the
fountains of Trafalgar Square and the Cenotaph in Whitehall, to the
last 'castle' built in Britain and numerous country houses among
his 600 commissions. His collaboration with the garden designer
Gertrude Jekyll at places such as Hestercombe in Somerset and
Lindisfarne Castle can still be enjoyed by vistiors and the
memorials he designed to commemorate the dead of the First World
War impress all who tour the battlefields of northern France. Of
these, Thiepval Memorial to the Missing is the most awesome.
A revised and updated edition of the landmark work the New York
Times hailed as "a call to action for every developer, building
owner, shareholder, chief executive, manager, teacher, worker and
parent to start demanding healthy buildings with cleaner indoor
air." For too long we've designed buildings that haven't focused on
the people inside-their health, their ability to work effectively,
and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative
introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too
clear, Healthy Buildings breaks down the science and makes a
compelling business case for creating healthier offices, schools,
and homes. As the COVID-19 crisis brought into sharp focus, indoor
spaces can make you sick-or keep you healthy. Fortunately, we now
have the know-how and technology to keep people safe indoors. But
there is more to securing your office, school, or home than wiping
down surfaces. Levels of carbon dioxide, particulates, humidity,
pollution, and a toxic soup of volatile organic compounds from
everyday products can influence our health in ways people aren't
always aware of. This landmark book, revised and updated with the
latest research since the COVID-19 pandemic, lays out a compelling
case for more environmentally friendly and less toxic offices,
schools, and homes. It features a concise explanation of disease
transmission indoors, and provides tips for making buildings the
first line of defense. Joe Allen and John Macomber dispel the myth
that we can't have both energy-efficient buildings and good indoor
air quality. We can-and must-have both. At the center of the great
convergence of green, smart, and safe buildings, healthy buildings
are vital to the push for more sustainable urbanization that will
shape our future.
Abandoned Melbourne presents a collection of photographs of the
perennially awarded world's most liveable city rendered empty,
abandoned and in Covid lockdown during 2020. Abandoned Melbourne
depicts Melbourne vacant, with the CBD's places and spaces,
customarily buzzing, rendered motionless and without life.
Landscape photographer Gavin John, a long-term resident of
Melbourne, turned his camera and his focus onto vistas of a
different nature and reveals downtown Melbourne as it has never
been witnessed before.
Abandoned buildings are a viewfinder into our heritage and often
offer a story to tell us, but not everyone will be lucky enough to
hear these stories before these buildings are gone forever. It was
this line of thinking that grew the author's passion for
discovering and exploring abandoned buildings, heritage sites and
locations not normally seen by the public eye. With camera in my
hand, he set out to find, visit, photograph and document as many of
these locations as he could before their stories are lost forever.
With over 140 eye-catching images from abandoned places such as
eerie old factories, crumbling asylums, untouched country theatres,
forgotten homes, all mixed with a small insight into their history,
Abandoned Brisbane is a showcase of just some of the amazing
locations within a few hours' drive of Brisbane.
MoreySmith is one of Britain's foremost interior design practices.
The first book to showcase its work, Renew looks back on two
decades of ground-breaking, award-winning projects. Since founding
the business in 1993, Linda Morey Smith has built a reputation for
achieving the unachievable, transforming the dark, derelict and
uninspiring into light-flooded, sophisticated and uplifting spaces.
From London's Capital Radio, MoreySmith's first commission, to
current clients such as Moet Hennessy, Renew follows the practice's
visions as they take shape, always staying true to the original
vision.
Among MoreySmith's trademarks is the ability to work with difficult
period buildings, opening them up and injecting them with warmth
while remaining sensitive to the original structure and allowing it
to shine through. With a Foreword by Professor Jeremy Myerson,
Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College
of Art,
and an essay by Henrietta Thompson, Editor-at-Large for Wallpaper*,
Renew explores the process through which this is achieved, also
exploring the practice's frequent collaborations with artists and
the working methods that have ensured a dedicated loyalty when it
comes to both clients and workforce over the years.
Whether designing a home or a corporate headquarters, people are
central to every MoreySmith project, and this ability to infuse a
building with a sense of humanity is behind truly successful
interior architecture. Renew reveals the vision, attention to
detail, technical expertise and commitment necessary to make it a
reality.
With a body of work firmly at the heart of architectural theory and
discourse, Robert Maxwell is undoubtedly one of the most respected
architectural writers and educators of recent times. Emeritus
Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, Robert Maxwell
is a scholar known worldwide for critical writing that looks at
modern and contemporary architecture in relation to our wider
culture, including art, literature and music. A Few Years of
Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life brings together a
collection of over 30 of Maxwell's writings from the late twentieth
century to the present, through which are woven events and
occasions from his own diary that expand on debates in the world of
architecture throughout the period. Texts include "Richard Rogers:
an Evaluation", first published in Casabella in February 1994;
"Sounds and Sweet Airs at Stuttgart", a review of the Music School
at Stuttgart, in the RIBA Journal in October 1996; an obituary of
Philip Johnson in The Architectural Review, in March 2005; and
"Eisenman: The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture", in Building
Design in September 2006. This engaging collection, at once
intimate and autobiographical, insightful and perceptive, as well
as critical and theoretical, results in a rich description of the
culture of architecture across two decades towards the close of the
last century and during the early years of the present. A Few Years
of Writing: Interspersed with Some Facts of Life is the first of
two books of Robert Maxwell's writing to be published by Artifice,
with the second coming out in Spring 2013.
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