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Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Revised Edition
A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Written with reader accessibility in mind, this comprehensive handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture will be an invaluable resource for any student of Eastern art history, Chinese arts and crafts, and anyone interested in commonly held Chinese beliefs and their origins.
In Chinese...
Writing the Modern City
Literature, Architecture, Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing...
London by Design
The Iconic Transport Designs that Shaped our City
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
*An excellent Christmas gift for Londoners and history enthusiasts.*
Curated and designed by the experts at The London Transport Museum, this collection showcases London's 100 greatest transport design icons from the past 150 years.
From TfL's exclusive Johnston font; Westminster Station's...
by Robin Guenther, Gail Vittori
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
"With this book, Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us how critical our green building mission is to the future of human health and secures a lasting legacy that will continue to challenge and focus the green building movement, the healthcare industry, and the world for years to come."
—From the...
Architectures et villes de l'Asie contemporaine
Héritages et projets
Language: French
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Le rôle des héritages dans la manière de concevoir et de produire les villes : l'exemple de l'AsieLes cultures spatiales des villes d’Asie sont approchées ici du point de vue de leurs singularités et spécificités, tant historiques que contemporaines, dans la conception et la transformation de...
Bali Houses
New Wave Asian Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This Balinese design book, containing over 300 beautiful photos and extensive commentary will add a distinctive tropical flair to your interior decorating and architecture.
The phenomenon loosely termed "Bali style" has been the subject matter for countless books on art, architecture,...
by Hans Maes
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What...
The Myth of the Orient
Architecture and Ornament in the Age of Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume commemorates the 160th anniversary of the Selamlik of Oberhofen Castle near Thun – one of the most significant Swiss Orientalist interiors, designed by the Bernese architect Theodor Zeerleder (1820–1868) – by presenting the latest research on the spectacular smoking room inspired...
by Mark Dudek
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This is the standard design guide on schools architecture, providing vital information on school architecture.
Mark Dudek views school building design as a particularly specialised field encompassing ever changing educational theories, the subtle spatial and psychological requirements of growing...
by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese historical...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In questo lavoro “Progettare Paesaggio, Landscape as Infrastructure” si confrontano: da un lato le stimolanti proposte progettuali redatte dal gruppo di studenti della Harvard Graduate School of Design guidati dalla docente Paola Cannavò; dall’altro l’analisi del territorio portuense ed ostiense...
House Museums in Italy
new cultural itineraries: poetry, history, art, architecture, music, arts & crafts, tastes and traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
A journey across the country to discover the simple houses and splendid royal palaces chosen from amongst the many stately homes and mansions Italy has to offer. Houses selected not only for their beauty or the fame and importance of their inhabitants, but because they tell a story - always different,...
Easter Island's Silent Sentinels
The Sculpture and Architecture of Rapa Nui
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
It may be the most interesting and yet loneliest spot on earth: a volcanic rock surrounded by a million square miles of ocean, named for the day Dutch explorers discovered it, Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722. Here people created a complex society, sophisticated astronomy, exquisite wood sculpture, monumental...
Anti-Ugly
Excursions in English Architecture and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Since 2004 Gavin Stamp, one of Britain’ s most eminent and readable architectural historians, has written a monthly column for Apollo, the esteemed architecture and fine art magazine. The subject is simply whatever in design or architecture happens to take his fancy. It might be the splendid reopening...