(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028246)
Throughout Russian history, local craftsmen have shown remarkable skill in fashioning wood into items of daily use, from bridges and street paving to carts and boats to household utensils and combs. Russia has the largest forested zone on the planet...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816555628)
The dramatic split of the Hopi community of Orayvi in 1906 had lasting consequences not only for the people of Third Mesa but also for the very buildings around which they centered their lives. This book examines architectural and other e...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469682174)
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angolas three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Oct-2024, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469682181)
After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angolas three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships...Daugiau...
The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conce...Daugiau...
This book not only shows how architects can learn from traditional or vernacular dwellings in order to create habitations for the people of low-income groups in public housing scenarios, but also demonstrates how the architecture of the economically...Daugiau...
An essential collection of key readings and foundational sources in the study of the worlds vernacular and traditional building cultures. Vernacular Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources brings together for the first time a co...Daugiau...
The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and concept...Daugiau...
Dig deep into the origins of building. The ground, now often used as a passive foundation for going higher, is rife with possibilities. Bjarne Mastenbroek investigates the relationship architecture has, had, and will have, with site and nature. Disse...Daugiau...
In 1931, architect Ivan Il&;ic Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometers northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city stood in the traditional territory of speakers of the indigenous language of Ket. To...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Aug-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643360713)
Tabby construction was common along the Eastern Seaboard of the US from North Carolina to northeast Florida, with outliers inland, until the 1860s, says Brooker. With roots in North Africa (tabiyah), Iberia, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Jul-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, ISBN-13: 9781567926422)
The publication of the original Great Camps of the Adirondacks in 1982 helped launch new and much needed public attention to the importance and plight of Great Camps and the rustic architecture of the Adirondack region. Before Great Camps, there w...Daugiau...
A photographic atlas of the historic farms (masi) of Val Gardena, Sudtirol/Alto Adige in northern Italy, some dating back to the 13th century but now endangered. Text in Ladin, German, Italian with short abstract in English....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Feb-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: The American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9789774169021)
The ancient Egyptian tomb evolved rapidly over a period of about 2,500 years, from a simple backfilled pit to an enormous stone pyramid with complex security arrangements. Much of this development was arguably driven by the ever-present threat of tom...Daugiau...
Beautiful Villages gives a comprehensive review of rural construction practices in contemporary China through a number of projects, such as the intervention of artists and art exhibitions, industrialisation efforts....Daugiau...
The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled westernization and modernization ra...Daugiau...
This book presents 25 international housing schemes that draw on traditional vernacular principles whilst taking into account modern day materials, methods and financial or energy requirements. The aim is to show how, despite mass housing needs, we...Daugiau...
