English | 2014 | ISBN: 0674048318 | 384 Pages | PDF | 3,3 MB Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine introduces readers to the panoply of public entertainment that flourished in Palestine from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE. Drawing on a trove...

2005 | 182 Pages | ISBN: 9004124667 | PDF | 1 MB Goddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition goes beyond the traditional sources that lie at the basis for determining the position of goddesses and women in India. Following the lead of a hermeneutics of surprise...

2015 | ISBN: 1138798185, 1138798177 | English | 126 Pages | PDF | 4 MB Helmut Holzapfel’s Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities. Urbanism and Transport...

2019 | ISBN: 0691179166 | English | 232 Pages | EPUB | 10 MB A novel interpretation of architecture, ugliness, and the social consequences of aesthetic judgment When buildings are deemed ugly, what are the consequences? In Ugliness and Judgment, Timothy Hyde considers the role of aesthetic judgment-and...

English | ISBN: 1138692964 | 2019 | 198 Pages | PDF | 28 MB How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings. That information comes in a variety of forms: drawings by hand and computer, models both physical...

by Kate Retford and Susanna Avery-Quash English | 2019 | ISBN: 1501337297 | 365 Pages | PDF | 14.4 MB For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised...

English | 2015 | ISBN: 1440590079 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 6 MB A crash course in designing and constructing buildings Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. Architecture 101 cuts out the boring...

English | 2016 | ISBN: 1118925548 | 432 Pages | PDF | 49 MB The ultimate interior designer’s guide to building systems and safety Building Systems for Interior Designers, Third Edition is the single-source technical reference that every designer needs, and an ideal solution for NCIDQ exam preparation....

2011 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 9400708866 | PDF | 4 MB The historical and empirical project presented here is grounded in a desire to theorize ‘religion-state’ relations in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, secular city-state of Singapore. The core research problematic of this project has emerged out of the...