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Christopher Wren In Search of Eastern Antiquity

Hart Vaughan

ISBN: HB: 9781913107079, Yale University Press, April 2020
240 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart considers Christopher Wren's (1632-1723) interest in Eastern antiquity and Ottoman architecture, an interest that would animate much of his theory and practice....

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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cork: City and County Buildings of Ireland

Keohane Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780300224870, Yale University Press, March 2020
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

Comprehensive and easy to use, this guide covers the architectural riches of Ireland's largest county. The many atmospheric castles and tower houses include Carrigadrohid, Lohort, and Kanturk; among later country houses, Kilshannig and Fota represent...

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Building the Caliphate Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture

Pruitt Jennifer A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246827, Yale University Press, February 2020
216 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 71 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shi'i Muslim dynasty that dominated the Mediterranean world from the 10th to the 12th century. This period, considered a golden age of multicultural and interfa...

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Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect

Pitiot Cloe, Stritzler-Levine Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300251067, Yale University Press, February 2020
430 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray's career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The bo...

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Urban Improvise Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities

Kloeckl Kristian

ISBN: HB: 9780300243048, Yale University Press, February 2020
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

The built environment in today's hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based o...

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Patch Atlas Integrating Design Practices and Ecological Knowledge for Cities as Complex Systems

Marshall Victoria J., Cadenasso Mary L., McGrath Brian P., Pickett Steward T. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239935, Yale University Press, January 2020
128 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 104 colour illus.

Using a new, hybrid approach to urban land cover classification as an impetus to bring ecologists and urban designers together, this atlas is a unique conceptual tool to describe and analyze cities as complex systems. It brings together over a decade...

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Ecology

Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

Pickett Steward T. A., Cadenasso Mary L., Grove J. Morgan, Irwin Elena G., Rosi Emma J., Swan Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...

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Thomas Jefferson, Architect Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals

DeWitt Lloyd, Piper Corey, Neil Erik H., Burns Howard, Beltramini Guido, Guy Wilson Richard, Bergdoll Barry, Nelson Louis P., Wilson Mabel O.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246209, Yale University Press, January 2020
208 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 88 colour illus., 86 black&white illus.

Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance – particularly Palladian – and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republi...

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Never Again Gardens of Peace: A Landscape and Architectural History of War Cemeteries

Racine Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780300246490, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, December 2019
224 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

The wealth of splendid photography in this singular publication features military cemeteries and memorials, conveying their grace, solemn beauty, and deep emotional resonance. Hundreds of cemeteries and memorials from the First and Second World Wars...

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Emulating Antiquity Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo

Hemsoll David

ISBN: HB: 9780300225761, Yale University Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways...

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