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Hardcover : $40.00 Buy	Italia The Art of Living Italian Style Edmund Howard St. Martin's Press For over two thousand years, Italy has been a major source of cultural and artistic inspiration to the rest of the world. This book focuses on the most...

Hardcover : $49.50 Buy	Chateaux of the Loire Written by Thorston Droste and Axel M. Mosler I.B. Tauris This text presents the architecture, interiors, gardens and grounds of both the most important sites - Chambord, Blois, Chaumont, Amboise, Chenonceaux and...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	De Stijl and Dutch Modernism Critical Perspectives in Art History Michael White Manchester University Press The name De Stijl, title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917, is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major...

Trade Paperback : $28.95 Buy	Imperial Cities Landscape, Display and Identity Studies in Imperialism Edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert Manchester University Press The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow...

Trade Paperback : $56.00 Buy	The Making of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton Design and Drawings John Morley Philip Wilson Publishers The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, is one of the most famous and opulent royal extravaganzas in existence. This book reproduces all the important surviving designs,...

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The Monuments of Afghanistan

History, Archaeology and Architecture

Warwick Ball I.B. Tauris

Afghanistan, a country which for generations has inspired writers, travellers and explorers, does not lend itself to easy categorization. Straddling Central...

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Hardcover : $58.00 Buy	The Eagle's Nest Ismaili Castles in Iran and Syria Peter Willey Institute for Ismaili Studies Magnificent castles and fortresses in remote, mountainous regions were built for refuge and defensive purposes by the Ismaili Muslims of Iran and Syria fleeing...

Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Sinan Makers of Islamic Civilization Makers of Islamic Civilization J.M. Rogers I.B. Tauris In this concise and readable overview, J. M. Rogers considers the life, architecture and influence of the "Great Architect Sinan" (1489-1588). Sinan is...

Hardcover : $79.00 Buy	Cairo of the Mamluks A History of Architecture and its Culture Doris Behrens-Abouseif I.B. Tauris The Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun described Cairo under the Mamluks as "a city beyond imagination". The Mamluk sultans originated as a...

Hardcover : $50.00 Buy	Delhi's Red Fort by the Yamuna N.L. Batra Philip Wilson Publishers This book presents the story of the imposing fort of red sandstone built in Delhi by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan (1628-58). Declared a World Heritage Site in...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Monuments of Syria A Guide Ross Burns I.B. Tauris Syria is home to some of the world’s richest historical and archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Age through biblical and Byzantine times to the early...

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The Secret Lives of Buildings

From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

Edward Hollis Picador

Few man-made things seem as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Buildings are forced to adapt to...

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Trade Paperback : $29.99 Buy	Castles A History of Fortified Structures: Ancient, Medieval & Modern Charles Stephenson St. Martin's Griffin While the word “castle” conjures up an image of the classic medieval stone edifice, resplendent with towers and turrets, battlements and barbicans, and the odd...

Hardcover : $105.00 Buy	Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World Art, Craft and Text Library of Middle East History Edited By Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen I.B. Tauris Islamic civilization's reach across vast swathes of the globe has produced rich and diverse traditions of art, craft, and metalwork. It has left a legacy that...

Trade Paperback : $41.00 Buy	Monuments of Central Asia A Guide to the Archaeology, Art and Architecture of Turkestan Edgar Knobloch I.B. Tauris In this comprehensive account of the culture and history of Central Asia, Edgar Knobloch describes the main centers of the age-old civilization. Throughout the...

Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	Empire State Building The Making of a Landmark John Tauranac St. Martin's Griffin The Empire State Building is the companion volume to the Museum of the City of New York's definitive exhibition: "A Dream Well Planned: The Empire State...

Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Mussolini's Rome Rebuilding the Eternal City Italian and Italian American Studies Borden W. Painter Jr. Palgrave Macmillan A fascinating look at the architectural mark fascism left on one of the world's most beloved cities

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	The Minarets of Cairo Islamic Architecture from the Arab Conquest to the end of the Ottoman Period Doris Behrens-Abouseif; Contribution by Nicholas Warner; Photographs by Bernard O'Kane I.B. Tauris Minarets have defined Cairo’s skyline since its early history: they are one of the most characteristic features of Islamic architecture. In Egypt, where...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Traditional Buildings of the English Countryside An Illustrated Guide Geoffrey R. Sharpe I.B. Tauris No other country offers so rich and varied a heritage of traditional buildings as England. From windmills to water mills, cottages to castles, dovecotes to...

Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	Leon Battista Alberti Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance Anthony Grafton Hill and Wang A lucid biographical study of a key figure of European culture Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) was one of the most original, creative, and exciting figures...

Hardcover : $67.95 Buy	Cinema and Architecture: From Historical to Digital Francois Penz; Maureen Thomas British Film Institute A collection of the most notable contributions to the Cinema and Architecture Symposium held at the University of Cambridge in 1995, which included papers on...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Islamic Architecture in Iran Poststructural Theory and the Architectural History of Iranian Mosques International Library of Iranian Studies #34 Saeid Khaghani Tauris Academic Studies The architecture of the Islamic world is predominantly considered in terms of a dual division between "tradition" and "modernity" - a division which, Saeid...

Hardcover : $52.00 Buy	Florence A City with a View Text by Mario Sabbieti; Picture research by Ilka Singelmann Guaraldi and Auro Lecci Tauris Parke No visitors to Florence will ever forget their first view from the surrounding hills of the city's roofs and domes. From a distance, this extraordinary...

Hardcover : $49.95 Buy	Kingdoms of Ruin The Art and Architectural Splendours of Ancient Turkey Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch; Foreword by John Freely I.B. Tauris Turkey boasts a legacy of extraordinary richness and magnificence. From the dawn of civilization, Anatolia spawned great empires of her own -- Hittite,...

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