Architecture

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A Text-book of the History of Architecture
by Alfred D. F. Hamlin - Longmans, Green, & Co. , 1909
The aim of this book was to sketch the various periods and styles of architecture with the broadest possible strokes, and to mention the most important works of each period or style. Extreme condensation of architectural history was necessary.
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American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities
by Wayne Attoe, Donn Logan - University of California Press , 1992
The authors propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" suited to specifically American circumstances. With a series of case studies, they examine urban design successes that illustrate the principles and goals of catalytic architecture.
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Romantic Castles and Palaces: As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
by Esther Singleton - Dodd, Mead & Company , 1901
A collection of essays on forty-eight spectacular castles and palaces from around the world. The authors are Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc. The pictures were taken before the book was published in 1901.
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The Poetry of Architecture
by John Ruskin - Project Gutenberg
Of all embellishments by which the efforts of man can enhance the beauty of natural scenery, those are the most effective which can give animation to the scene, while the spirit which they bestow is in unison with its general character.
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Vanishing England
by Peter Hampson Ditchfield , 2008
This book is intended not to raise fears but to record facts. We wish to describe with pen and pencil those features of England which are gradually disappearing and to preserve the memory of them. It may be said that we have begun our quest too late.
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Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture
by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio - Harvard University Press , 1914
The only full treatise on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, this is the most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present.
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