Mark Swenarton is an architectural historian, critic and educator. He was founding editor of the international journal Construction History and co-founded and edited the monthly review Architecture Today. He was head of architecture at Oxford Brookes University and was the first James Stirling chair of architecture at Liverpool University, where ......
The first illustrated account of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception at Farm Street in Mayfair. Written by leading authorities in their fields.
Describes the evolution of Penn State's Beaver Stadium (originally Beaver Field) and its iconic status for the Penn State community. Traces the history of the stadium within the context of the university’s history and explores how fans have experienced football games from 1887 to the present.
Liane Lefaivre is Professor and Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. She has been a visiting Fellow at MIT and the National University of Singapore and is a researcher at the Technical University of Delft.
The Social, Architectural and Landscape History of a Great English Count
Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled park bordered by the marshes and dunes of the North Norfolk coast. Built, owned and occupied by the Coke family since 1612, it is at the centre of a major agricultural estate; a treasure house whose paintings, classical sculpture, books, manuscripts ......
Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression
Explores the history of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, originally known as Westmoreland Homesteads, which was founded in 1934 as part of the New Deal homestead subsistence program.
Celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Georgian Group, founded in 1937 to protect the architectural legacy of buildings and gardens dating from 1700 to 1840.
Rudolf Steiner gave thousands of lectures in his lifetime, usually without notes, and, with very few exceptions, with nothing more than chalk and a blackboard if he chose to accompany his speech with some kind of visual illustration. A notable exception is the presentation that constitutes the main part of this book. Given in June 1921, in Bern ......
Sanjay Patils tryst with architecture began in his early childhood as he soaked up the environs that surrounded him in his birthplace, Nashik. Moving on to formal education in architecture at the Sir JJ College of Architecture in Mumbai, Sanjay returned to his hometown in 1981 to immerse himself into a meaningful and sensitive architectural ......
