Architecture, History
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John Mills Van Osdel, Architect, and his Chicago
The Story of His Life, 1811 to 1891 by Burtram Collver Hopkins II
There is no question that Chicago is an architecturally significant city. But before Louis Henry Sullivan, John Wellborn Root, and Frank Lloyd Wright, before modernism, there lived a man whose designs built it from the ground up. Written by his...
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A Medieval Architect
William the Englishman by Elisabeta Paul
This book asks a single question. The question is, after completing his work at Canterbury Cathedral, where did William the Englishman go and what did he subsequently build. As you are holding this book you are invited to come along on this...
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A Silent Profession
Asylums, Prisons and Architects by Arthur Allen
If the words "beautiful prison" are hard to say, does that explain why architects seldom, if ever, talk or write about the artistic merits and functional failures of asylum and prison design? In an attempt to understand this silence, and the...
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Mom’s Museum and Dad’s Hobby
by Ib A. Larsen
For 41 years, the Larsen family held the custodial reins of Horsens Museum in Denmark. A unique story from the inside; a perspective held by the only two people who could call the Museum their childhood home, the Author, Ib Larsen and his sister...
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The Traveler's Guide to Greek Archaeology
Getting the Most from your Mediterranean Trip by Gregory A. Smith
Here is an indispensable guide for anyone embarking on cruise or trip around the countries that border the Mediterranean Sea. Read about the art and architecture of the ancient Greeks, whose world once extended from the shores of Asia Minor and...
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Romanesque Sculpture An Ecstatic Art
by Susan Marcus
Architectural sculpture, virtually abandoned for five hundred years following the demise of the Roman Empire, was revivified on the portals of Romanesque churches in eleventh and twelfth-century France and Spain. Long overdue is a reappraisal of...
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