From Aalto to Ziggurat, this work is an accessible guide to architecture and its history. The book contains over 3500 entries and covers all periods of Western architectural history, from ancient times to the present day, in cultures ranging from Assyrian architecture to Flemish Mannerism. With entries for caternary, ingle-nook, misericord, and ...
For James D. Watson, the year 2003 was momentous: The 50th anniversary of the discovery, with Francis Crick, of the DNA double helix; the 35th anniversary of the publication of his best-selling memoir of the discovery, The Double Helix; the 35th anniversary of his appointment as Director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an institution he molded ...
Part of a series which is intended to arouse and satisfy popular interest in everyday objects this book describes the history and evolution of fanlights. The fanlight is one of the great contributions of Georgian architects to the street life of the British Isles and her former colonies. Himself a fanlight maker, the author describes the fanlights ...
The fanlight which epitomizes the Georgian town house flourished in the 18th century in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Liverpool, Bristol and all the Georgian towns, and spread to North America, and "colonial" architecture in South Africa and Australia. Charlotte Halliday's elegant watercolours and drawings are supported by a social architectural ...
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