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Richard Norman Shaw
`A masterpiece among architectural biographies'.---Sir Simon Jenkins, Evening Standard --
A World History of Architecture
The Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius declared firmitas, utilitas, and venustas-firmness, commodity, and delight- to be the three essential attributes of architecture. These qualities are brilliantly explored in this book, which uniquely comprises both a detailed survey of Western architecture, including Pre-Columbian America, and an introduction to architecture from the Middle East, India, Russia, China, and Japan. The text encourages readers to examine closely the pragmatic, innovative, and aesthetic attributes of buildings, and to imagine how these would have been praised or criticized by contemporary observers. Artistic, economic, environmental, political, social, and technological contexts are discussed so as to determine the extent to which buildings met the needs of clients, society at large, and future generations.
Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks
"Every description of the world we inhabit embodies certain processes of describing. In Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks researchers from the fields of anthropology, architecture and fine art reflect on the descriptive practices characteristic of their respective disciplines, and the potential of alternative modalities of description to challenge the boundaries that divide them. Contributors focus on the interconnections between writing, imaging, drawing and reading, exploring the many ways in which different media and notational systems can be used in contexts of learning to facilitate the movement of knowledge across the three disciplines. "--Book jacket.
Papers of Richard Norman Shaw, 1867-1940
ShR/1/3 A volume of abstracts taken by Robert Norman Shaw from his father's account books, 1863-1912, with some accounts of Agnes Shaw and her estate, 1912-1932 (75 leaves, ms.): it includes details of fees received for unexecuted projects and competition assessorships and the premiums received from his many articled pupils.
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Before the Bauhaus
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Architecture
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A History of Interior Design
Delivers the inside story on 6,000 years of personal and public space. John Pile acknowledges that interior design is a field with unclear boundaries, in which construction, architecture, the arts and crafts, technology and product design all overlap.
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