3,973円 " In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBM’s corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. W...

7,031円 In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated thr...

5,168円 Kingston is remarkable in that the visual evidence of its place in Canadian history and in Canadian architecture is still here: many of its older streets are lined with houses built of stone, and charming old limestone farm houses are found even in new subdivisions, surrounded now by modern, spli...

7,827円 Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City s...

29,583円 Studies in Hellenistic Architecture is a detailed analysis of the development of the major building-types of the Hellenistic age – the mid-fourth century B.C. to the time of the Roman conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean. In this meticulous work, Frederick E. Winter reveals how the architects of...

1,500円 Extrait : "Ecrire une histoire générale de l'art et de la fortification depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours est un des beaux sujets livrés aux recherches des archéologues, et nous ne devons pas désespérer de le voir entreprendre ; mais on doit convenir qu'un pareil sujet exigerait des connaissan...

4,503円 The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs ...

1,500円 "Un hiver à Paris, écrit par Jules Janin, est un roman captivant qui nous plonge au cœur de la Ville Lumière pendant la saison la plus froide de l'année. Publié en 1846, ce livre nous transporte dans un Paris pittoresque et enchanteur, où les rues pavées sont recouvertes d'un manteau de neige éti...

1,500円 Extrait : "Le 16 avril 1876, jour de Pâques, de Béhérah vient mouiller devant le port du Pirée. Il doit repartir le même jour, pour Alexandrie, mais en faisant escale à Rhodes. Nous allons grossir le nombre de ses passagers. Le Pirée est dans une fiévreuse agitation. En effet, quelques jours aupa...

1,500円 "Promenades dans toutes les rues de Paris est un ouvrage incontournable pour tous les amoureux de la Ville Lumière. Écrit par le Marquis de Rochegude, Félix, ce livre propose une exploration minutieuse et passionnante de chaque rue de Paris, offrant ainsi une véritable immersion dans l'histoire, ...

11,275円 Beyond Live/Work: the architecture of home-based work explores the old but neglected building type that combines dwelling and workplace, the ‘workhome’. It traces a previously untold architectural history illustrated by images of largely forgotten buildings. Despite having existed for hundreds, i...

12,933円 This collection of previously unpublished essays from a diverse range of well-known scholars and architects builds on the architectural tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics as developed by Dalibor Veseley and Joseph Rykwert and carried on by David Leatherbarrow, Peter Carl and Alberto Pérez...