Tells the epic story of St Petersburg through its architecture, landscapes, literature and art.. The book showcases the surviving monuments of St Petersburg while examining what has been lost and what is being lost. Written by two experts on architecture and historic conservation, it includes over 100 commissioned photographs.

Product Description: By a mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever written on English garden history. For two centuries it mapped the whole landscape of the subject. However, the author was partial in the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernization, and the superiority of everything English to almost everything that had gone before...read more

Product Description: Sir William Temple, diplomat, statesman, and writer, retired to his garden in the 1680s and wrote what has become one of the key texts, not only of gardening, but also of the English aesthetic. It was he who introduced the idea of the charm of irregularity, and who gave it the allegedly Chinese name sharawaggi...read more

Provides a close-up visual look at one hundred important endangered cultural sites from around the world, ranging from the Angkor Archaeological District in Cambodia to Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park to ancient Pompeii.

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Product Description: The Pritzker Architecture Prize has often been described as the "Nobel of architecture" because of its great importance. It was established in 1979 to honor annually "a living architect of talent, vision, and commitment who has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Amery, Colin, Fischer Fine Art Limited

Product Description: The completion of the Sainsbury Wing by the American architects Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, marks the end of a lengthy architectural debate that has excited interest from both the Prince of Wales and the public. This book, by architectural historian and critic Colin Amery, is the authorized account of the story of this building, which has been designed to house the Early Renaissance Collection of the National Gallery...read more

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Product Description: A selection of the best drawings from the classic 1920 to 1930 AR series of looseleaf folders entitled A Practical Exemplar of Architecture. Long out of print, these folders represented a source of authentic 17th and 18th century stonework, woodwork, fireplaces, doorways and similar domestic details...read more

Shows architectural details and plans for recent projects by four London architects, including stores, apartments, restaurants, and college buildings

Shows public buildings, stores, homes, and hotels built by British architects in India, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and the United States, and discusses the impact of the British Empire