Guide to the Architecture of London

JONES, E. / C. WOODWARD: A GUIDE TO THE ARCHITECTURE OF LONDON. LONDON, 1992, 432 p. figuras.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Arts & Photography

JONES, EDWARD

Woodward, Christopher

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

From Sir Christopher Wren’s churches to the Roman city wall of St. Pancras station, London boasts an array of impressive buildings from different periods. Every one worth seeing is right here in these pages: over 1,000 structures, along with street-finder maps showing their exact location and more than 1,100 photographs and illustrations. All the entries appear in chronological order within their geographical sections, and special features include a series of plans showing the development of the London squares. A general introduction outlines the history of London’s architecture from Roman times, and there’s background for each individual area.

A Guide to the Architecture of London

Architecture

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

We live in a world of relentless progress, and yet we cannot pull ourselves away from the enchantment of what once was: the hold that an abandoned building can exert on us, the spell cast by the remains of past settlement. In Ruins is a meditation on ruins and, most particularly, a history of our fascination with them. When we contemplate ruins, Woodward suggests, we contemplate the prospect of the future. Ruins are also the jigsaw pieces of what once was, the clues to a past whose allure is heightened by the fact that it has vanished. And, finally, Woodward shows us how ruins serve as the source of inspiration for the artist who sees beauty in decay and desolation; he quotes by way of example what he calls the finest sonnet Shelley ever wrote: "Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away."

In Ruins

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Pantheon

This book provides a concise introduction for small and medium sized architectural practices considering introducing computers or using them more widely.

Computing in Architectural Practice

Computers & Technology

Howes, Jaki

Software

Taylor&Francis

OVERSIZE HARDCOVER ILLUSTRATED EDITION WITH DJ

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

From Sir Christopher Wren€™s churches to the Roman city wall of St. Pancras station, London boasts an array of impressive buildings from different periods. Every one worth seeing is right here in these pages: over 1,000 structures, along with street-finder maps showing their exact location and more than 1,100 photographs and illustrations. All the entries appear in chronological order within their geographical sections, and special features include a series of plans showing the development of the London squares. A general introduction outlines the history of London€™s architecture from Roman times, and there€™s background for each individual area.

In this enchanting meditation on ruins, Christopher Woodward takes us on a thousand-year journey from the plains of Troy to the monuments of ancient Rome, from the crumbling palaces of Sicily, Cuba, and Zanzibar to the rubble of the London Blitz. With an exquisite sense of romantic melancholy, we encounter the teenage Byron in the moldering Newstead Abbey, Flaubert watching the buzzards on the pyramids, Henry James in the Colosseum, and Freud at Pompeii. We travel the Appian Way with Dickens and behold the Baths of Caracalla with Shelley. An exhilarating tour, at once elegant and stimulating, In Ruins casts an exalting spell as it explores the bewitching power of architectural remains and their persistent hold on the imagination.

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Chatto&Windus

An illustrated guide to the development of Barcelona's architecture which contains over 250 chronologically arranged entries with detailed descriptions of each building and help on finding their locations. The photographs were specially commissioned for the book.

The Buildings of Europe: Barcelona

Manchester Univ Pr

Barcelona (The Buildings of Europe)

Travel

Europe

The Buildings of Europe: Rome

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Guide to the Architecture of London

A Guide to the Architecture of London

In Ruins

Computing in Architectural Practice

A Guide to the Architecture of London

A Guide to the Architecture of London

In Ruins

The Buildings of Europe: Barcelona

Barcelona (The Buildings of Europe)

The Buildings of Europe: Rome