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Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. SymposiumNadine Schibille The church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was inaugurated on 27 December 537 CE, less then six years after the emperor Justinian had commissioned a new church to be built on this site. The edifice replaced the earlier ...
Reports and Papers
Associated Architectural Societies1850-1931 (v. 1-40) include reports and papers of the Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society, and some years, of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society, of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society and of other similar ...
Designing Modern Childhoods: History, Space, and the ...
PreviewIn the book architectural historians, social historians, social scientists, and architects examine the history and design of places and objects such as schools, hospitals, playgrounds, houses, cell phones, snowboards, and even the McDonald ...
The Waterloo directory of Scottish newspapers and ...
John S. NorthTransactions and journal of the proceedings of the 2864 Glasgow archaeological society, The — Council of management 2865 Glasgow archaeological society, The — Transactions Architectural designs see Archaeology Architectural ...
The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape ...
Mark E. ReinbergerIbid., 119–21. 47. Stenton, 255–61. 48. Our thanks to Stephen G. Hague for this suggestion. Kimberley Skelton, “Redefining Hospitality: The Leisured World of the 1650s English Country House,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians ...
Buildings of the District of Columbia
Pamela ScottPamela Scott, Antoinette Joséphine Lee, Society of Architectural Historians. Contents List of Maps, xv Guide for Users of This Volume, xvi Looking at Washington, D.C., Antoinette J. Lee, 3 The Sum of Its Various Parts, 5; A City of ...
European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: ...
More editionsCambridge: Oleander, 2004. Pinto, John A. "Origins and Development of the Ichnographic City Plan." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 35 ( 1976): 35-50. Pinto, Karen C. "Ways of Seeing: Scenarios of the World in the Medieval ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the ...
Dirk SchubertThe Battle for Gotham, New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. New York, NY: Nation Books; Klemek, C., 2007. Jane Jacobs' Urban Village: Well Preserved or Cast Adrift? Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, ...
Building California: technology and the landscape
Michael R. Corbett3 (March 1927), 73-83. [Pelton. John Cotter]. Cheap Dwellings (San Francisco: The San Francisco Bulletin Companv, 1882). Peterson, Charles E., "Prefabs in the California Gold Rush. 184^." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 24 ...
American Architectural History: A Contemporary Reader
Preview... on Competitions in Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press,1989), pp. 115– 137. Reprintedby permission of MaryMcLeod and the Architectural Leagueof NewYork. Copyright © 1989bythe Architectural League ofNew York. Michael Sorkin ...
Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of ...
Jeffrey M. ChusidWinner of the Society of Architectural Historians' 2014 Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award; Winner of the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation's 2012 Historic Preservation Book Award
The Arthur Erickson Architectural Drawings: An Inventory of ...
Linda Mary FraserThis book is the first of a series that lists and makes accessible the architectural drawing collections at the Canadian Architectural Archives, the University of Calgary.
Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-century ...
Douglas HayRenowned social historians examine the gangs of criminals who tore apart English society.
Bungalow: From Heritage to Contemporary
Patrick ReynoldsIn this splendid book, edited by Nicole Stock, New Zealand's best architectural writers and historians document the bungalow's complex past and its varied and eminently modifiable present.
Historic Zuni Architecture and Society: An Archaeological ...
PreviewAn Archaeological Application of Space Syntax Thomas John Ferguson. The Structure of Architectural and Social Change. CHAPTER SEVEN The role of individuals and their relation to society is a central problem in anthropology, because ...
The Changing of the Avant-garde: Visionary Architectural ...
Terence RileyFeaturing 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic, and utopian architectural drawings mainly from ...
Mountain and Plain: From the Lycian Coast to the Phrygian ...
R. Martin HarrisonThe volume will be of interest to historians of the Near East and classical antiquity, to archaeologists, and to students of architectural history. Martin Harrison was Professor of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust
PreviewThis book demonstrates that, to the contrary, historians of the Jews have often insisted that the Holocaust be sequestered from their field, assigning it instead to historians of Europe, Germany, or the Third Reich.
Collected essays in architectural criticism
Alan ColquhounCollected Essays in Architectural Criticism is an indispensable anthology of writing by one of the most important voices in architectural theory of the last 50 years.
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
More editionsLawrence James FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AND THE HEALTH OF THE RAJ, Jharna Gourlay. Aldershot and Burlington (VT): Ashgate, 2003, ISBN 0-7546- 3364-0, 305 pp., £57.50. This is a book to delight any historian — massively researched, clearly and economically written, and with a full academic apparatus, but above all dealing with an important aspect of British India which will be new ground for almost all British historians. Most military historians will be vaguely aware that ...
Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America
PreviewPennsylvania,. 1682–1800. Jack. Marietta. and. G. S. Rowe. IN DEPICTING THE behavior of past peoples, historians of crime may employ a variety of records. One of them is the law. The legal code of a society depicts behavior that that society ...
Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production
PreviewHerfirm, Liminal Projects, has been exhibited atthe Architectural League ofNew York, andtheNational Building Museum, and wasselected bythe Architectural League ofNew York asNotable Young Architects. Recent design competition entries ...
The Great Events by Famous Historians
More editions"The Great Events by Famous Historians is a comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians.
Sources of Architectural Form: A Critical History of Western ...
Mark Gelernter"Sources of architectural form is a comprehensive and critical history of Western architectural theory from the ancient world to the present day .
Architecture & Ornament: A Visual Guide
Anthony WhiteDefines architectural terms, identifies various architectural ornaments and styles, and offers brief profiles of influential architects
Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New ...
Harry Francis MallgraveThis poses a compelling challenge to conventional architectural theory... This is the first book to consider these new scientific and humanistic models in architectural terms.
Newport Through Its Architecture: A History of Styles from ...
James L. YarnallA comprehensive architectural history of America s greatest living architectural laboratory."
The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern ...
Christopher LongLavishly illustrated with new photography and architectural plans, this important book enhances our understanding of the development of modernism and of architectural theory and practice.
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