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Product Description: This ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture â yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is consigned to oblivion. In pre-modern Europe, the architect built not just with imagination, brick and mortar, but with time, using vast quantities of duration to erect monumental buildings that otherwise would have been impossible...read more
Hardcover:
9780300165920, titled "Building-in-Time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion" | Yale Univ Pr, December 14, 2010, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: This ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture â yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is consigned to oblivion.
Hardcover:
9780300118315 | Yale Univ Pr, January 30, 2017, cover price $60.00
Paperback:
9780521728256 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2008), cover price $54.99
Product Description: Moving back and forth between the long view of historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this lavishly-illustrated survey explains specific qualities of periods in depth and the complex illuminating differences between them in social, intellectual, and aesthetic terms...read more
Hardcover:
9780131830653 | 2 reprint edition (Prentice Hall, December 26, 2002), cover price $220.80 | About this edition: Moving back and forth between the long view of historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this lavishly-illustrated survey explains specific qualities of periods in depth and the complex illuminating differences between them in social, intellectual, and aesthetic terms.
Product Description: Moving back and forth between the long shot on historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this insightful, lively and original analysis also accepts the conventional period and thematic structures of architectural history and the canon of great buildings...read more
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9780130918413, titled "Architecture, from Prehistory to Postmodernity" | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, June 1, 2002), cover price $97.67 | About this edition: Moving back and forth between the long shot on historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this insightful, lively and original analysis also accepts the conventional period and thematic structures of architectural history and the canon of great buildings.
9780810906075 | 2nd edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2002), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Completely revised and updated to include a new chapter on the most important and provocative works of contemporary architecture from 1980 to 2000, a definitive volume vibrantly traces the history and development of architecture from the prehistoric eraCompletely revised and updated to include a new chapter on the most important and provocative works of contemporary architecture from 1980 to 2000, a definitive volume vibrantly traces the history and development of architecture from the prehistoric era to the present, featuring a unique interpretation of architecture accompanied by bold illustrations.
9780131833654 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Moving back and forth between the long shot on historical trends and close-ups on major works and crucial architectural themes, this insightful, lively and original analysis also accepts the conventional period and thematic structures of architectural history and the canon of great buildings.
9789990076349 | 2 edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 2002), cover price $0.02
Product Description: Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780521555029 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $115.99 | About this edition: Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century.
Traces the development of architecture from Stonehenge to the new AT&T Building in New York and looks at important movements, architects, and buildings
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9780810910775 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1986, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of architecture from Stonehenge to the new AT&T Building in New York and looks at important movements, architects, and buildings
9780131833524 | Prentice Hall Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $85.00
An account of the origins, historical context, fifteen-year construction, and continuing symbolic import of the Bartholdi monument
Paperback:
9780140084931 | Rev sub edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1986), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An account of the origins, historical context, fifteen-year construction, and continuing symbolic import of the Bartholdi monument
Hardcover:
9780130447029 | Prentice Hall, January 1, 1986, cover price $41.95 | also contains Esther Through the Centuries | About this edition: Traces the development of architecture from Stonehenge to the new AT&T Building in New York and looks at important movements, architects, and buildings
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