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Introduction to Japanese Architecture provides an overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. It begins with a discussion of prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of contemporary trends in areas as diverse as country inns, underground malls, and...

Enjoy this thorough exploration of Balinese design with stunning photographs of the most exemplary architecture and interiors in Bali. Bali has long been a creative inspiration for the world — providing exciting new architectural ideas that are emulated today in homes and hotels everywhere....

If the aim of graphic design is to communicate meaning clearly, there's an irony that the field itself has struggled between two contradictory opposites: rote design resulting from a rigorous, fixed set of rules, and eccentric design that expresses the hand of the artist but fails to communicate with...

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into...

The Palladian style dominated British architecture for most of the 1700s, until the rise of the Adam style, which held sway for the final decades of the eighteenth century. Brothers Robert and James Adam were almost single-handedly responsible for infusing Georgian architecture with the sensibilities...

A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together. He defines...

Enjoy Every Moment Like the Danish Do! Denmark is said to be the happiest country in the world... The Danish people owe their happy life to the art of hygge, meaning intimacy, coziness and joy. Hygge teaches to enjoy life from the comfort of your house. Get together and learn...

A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter of the Mona Lisa, forever famous as a sculptor and an inventor, Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest minds of both the Italian Renaissance and Western...

According to Wikipedia: "John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic, stage writer, and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Ruskin's essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian eras."

If you are searching for a succinct yet thorough introduction to Mexican painting in the modern age, you have arrived. Spanning more than 150 years of history, Mexican Painting: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is academically formidable, yet captivating and accessible to every reader.Learn the role...

During my education I discovered that there was a lack of information available for architecture students especially in terms of achieving the results they wanted at university. Therefore, I created an ebook entitled 100 Tips for architecture students.  The layout is simple, and the tips are...

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.  

Les plus grands spécialistes pour comprendre la sculpture Plus de 400 articles composent la table des matières de ce Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs qui embrasse l’histoire de l’art universel et aborde tous les styles et toutes les époques. Une somme unique, empruntée à l’Encyclopædia...

Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was the construction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (532-537 CE). This book examines the edifice from the perspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty and the meaning of art in early Byzantium. Byzantine aesthetic thought...