Arts / Architecture

The Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford: Society, Religion, School and Stage

de J.R. Mulryne

The guild buildings of Shakespeare's Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town's civic life. With its multi-disciplinary perspectives...

The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective

de Jr., Samuel Y. Edgerton

A history of linear perspective. With illustrations and chronological outline. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org) online version of the same title....

A Toronto Album 2: More Glimpses of the City That Was

de Mike Filey

A companion edition to A Toronto Album, this is a photographic journey through bustling Toronto from the late 1930s to the early 1970s.

Black Creek Pioneer Village: Toronto's Living History Village

de Helma Mika, Nick Mika & Gary Thompson

Black Creek Pioneer Village is a recreation of a typical crossroads community found in southern Ontario during the 1800s.

Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900: A Biographical Dictionary

de Mary Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance & Brian L. Meggitt

This comprehensive new three-volume guide to the early art and artists of Ohio is a compendium of hard-to-find information. The result of more than twelve years of research in community archives, newspapers,...

Osgoode Hall: An Illustrated History

de John Honsberger

Osgoode Hall is one of Canada's architectural treasures. It has been the seat of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 1832 and of several of the Superior Courts of the province for almost as long. It has become...

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

de Stewart Brand

Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly...

Behind Bars: Inside Ontario's Heritage Gaols

de Ron Brown

Travel across Ontario and visit Ontarios heritage jails, ranging in size from single cell lockups to massive monuments such as the Kingston Pen and the Don Jail.

The Pinecone

de Jenny Uglow

In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and...

Introduction to Architecture

de Francis D. K. Ching & James F. Eckler

A survey of the built environment distills the work of legendary author and illustrator Francis D. K. Ching into a single volume

Introduction to Architecture presents the essential texts and drawings of Francis...

A Global History of Architecture

de Mark M. Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash & Francis D. K. Ching

Praise for the First Edition

"Because of its exceptionally wide perspective, even architectural historians who do not teach general survey courses are likely to enjoy and appreciate it."

—Annali d'architettura...

The 1930s House Explained

de Trevor Yorke

The Art Deco exhibition in Paris in 1925 ushered in a new style of architecture based on the latest designs from Europe and American-flat roofs, plain facades, reinforced concrete and white paint inside and...

Timber Framed Buildings Explained

de Trevor Yorke

Timber framed buildings, whether they are medieval halls, barns, grand houses, or picturesque cottages, form one of the most delightful features of our historic towns and countryside. They catch our imagination...

Art as Music, Music as Poetry, Poetry as Art, from Whistler to Stravinsky and Beyond

de Dayan

An extraordinary fraternity of poets, painters and composers in Paris, between 1885 and 1945, built our modern notion of 'great art' on the principle that we must always think about the value of a work of art,...

New Asian Style: Contemporary Tropical Living in Singapore

de Jane Doughty Marsden & Masano Kawana

More than ever before, interior design is a global affair. And more than ever, Westerners are eager to try out elements of Asian design. This book is the ultimate resource for professional and amateur designers...

Cool Hotels: India, Maldives, Sri Lanka

de Kim Inglis, Jacob Termansen & Pia Marie Molbech

Cool Hotels showcases the best hotels in India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Be it a rustic retreat or a five-star, super-deluxe resort that can hold its own globally, all are at the cutting-edge of the new wave...

Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition

de Malcolm Quantrill

This is a unique and comprehensive study of the entire span of Finnish architecture in the 20th century. Using comparative critical analysis, the author weaves Aalto's contribution into his overview of the evolution...

Practice: Architecture, Technique and Representation

de Stan Allen

Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural...

Drawing/Thinking: Confronting an Electronic Age

de Marc Treib

This book addresses the question 'Why draw?' by examining the various dynamic relationships between media, process, thought and environment.

Highly illustrated, the book brings together authors from the fields...

Fran?ois Blondel

de Anthony Gerbino

First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize...