HAVING been called on, a few years ago, to make frequent journeys between this country and the Riviera, the author was greatly impressed with the extraordinary variety and abundance of the ancient architectural monuments of Provence. This country was found to contain not only special styles of Mediæval Art peculiar to itself, but likewise an epitome of all the styles which have prevailed in Southern Europe from the time of the Romans. It proved to...

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Travels in South Kensington is a memoir and travelogue by Moncure Daniel Conway. Conway was an American abolitionist minister and author who spent the larger part of his life in England and France. Here he examines the district of Kensington in London with a view to detailing its decorative art and architecture.

"The Country House (with Designs)" by Alexis de Châteauneuf, Charles Lock Sir Eastlake. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers...

Sylvia Lavin is professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture. Architecture's growing intimacy with new types of art Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural...

Written in a chatty, reader-friendly style, IF YOU'RE GOING TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY employs stories from the author's own relocation to the country to illustrate practical information anyone who shares his dream of escaping the physical, mental and spiritual confinement of big city life can apply toward successfully following in his footsteps. With chapters on the "Do's & Don'ts" of selecting country property, financing the purchase, building VS remodeling,...

Este libro propone una visión contemporánea del problema del habitar colectivo en las grandes metrópolis, y vincula la problemática del borde, del límite y la frontera, tan presentes en el habitar colectivo, con la desmaterialización del mismo a su mínima expresión haciendo uso de la técnica de la triangulación estructural del espacio. En el proyecto, los bordes entre estructura portante y estructuración espacial se difuminan, como así...

Entrados en el siglo XXI, ya podemos tener cierta perspectiva para interpretar la evolución de la arquitectura desde finales del siglo pasado hasta la actualidad y detectar las características más destacables del reciente cambio de siglo. Continuación del libro Después del movimiento moderno. Arquitectura de la segunda mitad del siglo XX (Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1993), en este estudio Josep Maria Montaner revisa la arquitectura que abarca de...