Over a period of forty years, Helene Binet has photographed both contemporary and historical architecture - this is the complete monograph of her work, with two extensive critical essays. Marco Iuliano details Helene Binet's background, from her childhood in the Italian fishing village of Sperlonga and in Rome, through her early 'discovery' of ......
The Koenigstein Fortress, located not far from Dresden on a rocky plateau high above the Elbe River, is considered one of the most interesting and best preserved fortifications in Europe. It has a long eventful history dating back to the Bronze Age. Koenigstein was first mentioned in documents in 1241. It was not until the end of the 16th century ......
Contemporary Museum Architecture in China and the Arabian Peninsula
Karen Exell is Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Qatar, and a consultant at Qatar Museums. She directed the MA in Museum and Gallery Practice at UCL Qatar from 2011-2015, after teaching museums studies and holding curatorial positions in university museums in the UK for several years.
Abandoned Architecture and Objects from Seven Continents
'Global Remains' offers a visionary collection of the different places around the world that have struck the perceptive eye of acclaimed photographer Michael Clinton
Throughout London's two-thousand-year history, architecture has expressed the identity of the city's diverse communities. From Franciscan friars to merchant bankers, royal dynasties to grocers and tailors, the ideals and wealth of these groups have been reflected in magnificent buildings and public spaces. Gilded City tells the fascinating history ......
Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon
On the banks of the Potomac River, Mount Vernon stands, with its iconic portico boasting breathtaking views and with a landscape to rival the great gardens of Europe, as a monument to George Washingtons artistic and creative efforts. More than one million people visit Mount Vernon each yeardrawn to the stature and beauty of Washingtons family ......
From musty medieval dungeons to modern concrete cellblocks, prison architecture reveals much about how a society sees fit to control and contain those who transgress its boundaries. Forms of Constraint is the first general volume to consider how prison design has evolved over the centuries, how it has taken shape in various corners of the globe, ......
