Architecture
HIROSAKI MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Written by Tane, Tsuyoshi
The Complete Record of the Revival and Transformation of a 100-Year-Old Brick Warehouse into a Museum of Contemporary Art.
CONCRETE JUNGLE: TROPICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ITS SURPRISING ORIGINS
Combine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.
BOCA ROCOCO: HOW ADDISON MIZNER INVENTED FLORIDA'S GOLD COAST
Written by Seebohm, Caroline
Addison Mizner's Mediterranean-style mansions are much-admired Florida icons, where even today you can find many homes modeled with stucco walls and tiled roofs. In the paperback release of Boca Rococo, Caroline Seebohm's successful biography on the flamboyant architect is more accessible now than ever as it reaches more readers interested in the man himself.
STORIED STONE: REFRAMING THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART'S SOUTH INDIAN TEMPLE HALL
Written by Mason, Darielle
A behind-the-scenes history of the sixteenth-century South Indian temple hall installation in the Philadelphia Museum of Art Storied Stone weaves together memories and scholarship to illuminate the multilayered history of the sole example of historical Indian stone temple architecture publicly displayed outside the subcontinent.
HIGH LIFE: CONDO LIVING IN THE SUBURBAN CENTURY
Written by Lasner, Matthew
The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house.
SHIVA'S WATERFRONT TEMPLES: ARCHITECTS AND THEIR AUDIENCES IN MEDIEVAL INDIA
Written by Kaligotla, Subhashini
This handsomely illustrated volume explores the medieval Deccani temple complexes at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Pattadakal, with careful attention to their makers. The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century or earlier.
NEW ORLEANS: ELEGANCE AND DECADENCE
Written by Delehanty, Randolph
New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence 2nd edition focuses on the interiors, furnishings, art collections, and gardens of New Orleans' most eccentric and creative dreamers of the '90s.
SHOCK CITY: IMAGE AND ARCHITECTURE IN INDUSTRIAL MANCHESTER
Written by Crinson, Mark
A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world's first industrial city: Manchester From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the height of Manchester's global significance and the beginning of its decline, Shock City challenges the idea that Paris was the "capital of the ninetee
BUILDING GREATER BRITAIN: ARCHITECTURE, IMPERIALISM, AND THE EDWARDIAN BAROQUE REVIVAL, 1885 - 1920
Written by Bremner, G A
This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial" style.
PAINTING IN STONE: ARCHITECTURE AND THE POETICS OF MARBLE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Written by Barry, Fabio
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone.
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