With lively narrative and detailed illustrations, Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams trace the evolving relationship between technological innovations in firearms in sixteenth-century Italy and advances in Renaissance military architecture and city fortification. Through their use of paintings and drawings, extensive archival research and first-hand observation at the major sites of the Sienese wars, they vividly recreate the drama of the battlefield.

Firearms and Fortifications

Politics & Social Sciences

Pepper, Simon

Politics & Government

Univ of Chicago Pr

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Firearms & Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena

Adams, Nicholas

Arts & Photography

Public libraries have strangely never been the subject of an extensive design history. Consequently, this important and comprehensive book represents a ground-breaking socio-architectural study of pre-1939 public library buildings. A surprisingly high proportion of these urban civic buildings remain intact and present an increasingly difficult architectural problem for many communities. The book thus includes a study of what is happening to these historic libraries now and proposes that knowledge of their origins and early development can help build an understanding of how best to handle their future.

Books, Buildings and Social Engineering: Early Public Libraries in Britain from Past to Present

Black, Alistair

Bagshaw, Kaye

Reference

Routledge

Housing improvement: goals and strategy (Architectural Association. Paper)

Wittenborn

An exploration of the life and work of Liverpool based architect Herbert Rowse.

Herbert Rowse (Twentieth Century Architects)

Richmond, Peter

Jackson, Iain

Architecture

Historic England

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