Building And Construction from The Owl at the Bridge

"SBN 262 16031 5." Contents include: Measures and Values; Note on Technical Manuscripts Influenced by Brunelleschi; Beginnings of Brunelleschian Concepts; Brunelleschi's "Masonry Work"; The New Concepts for Construction: Vaulting without Armature, Confluence of Classic and Gothic, The Wood Chain, The Stone Chains, Brunelleschi as Structural Engineer; Drawings of Brunelleschian Machines; History of Brunelleschi's Machines; Brunelleschi as Patentee and… Ler mais sobre este item

Introduzione di Aldo Palazzeschi. "con una Pianta del centro distrutto di Firenze e 163 illustrazioni." Photographic record of those parts of Florence which were altered or destroyed as the city grew. 171 pages of text; 163 black & white illustrations. Very Good; pictorial dust jacket has small closed tears; slipcase beginning to come apart but still… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents include I. Background: The Vasari Tradition (Dates, Documents and Sources; Nineteenth Century Restorations and Discoveries); II. Recent Studies and Excavations-- 1957-1958 (General Problems; The Carolingian Origins: Trinita I; Trinita II-- ca. 1060 to ca. 1180; The Missing Link: Trinita III-- ca. 1175f.); III. The Church that Nicola Pisano Did Not Build: Santa Trinita IV [vii], 43 pages, 7… Ler mais sobre este item

"The Preservation Society believes that this comprehensive study of Providence from its original settlement in 1636 through three hundred and twenty years of subsequent development will be invaluable not only to local residents but to all concerned with the continuous history of civic and architectural change." --Foreword by Antoinette Downing. 320 pages, maps, illustrations; 28 cm. Bound in… Ler mais sobre este item

Three bookseller catalogues on the history of technological development in Britain and the U.S. "A Selection of Books Printed in North America or Great Britain, Made Up in Part of Works on Agriculture, Architecture, Art and Music, Cookery, Economics, Education, Design, Gardening and Landscape, International Exhibitions, Manufacturing, Medicine, Photography, Science, Social Conditions, Technology, Transportation; also Trade Catalogues and general… Ler mais sobre este item

In Italian. A compilation of artworks in L'Osservanza, a church on the outskirts of Siena in Tuscany (Italy; consecrated in 1451 by the archbishop Niccolò Piccolomini and completed around 1490). Contents: La basilica e il convento dell'Osservanza; L'architettura della basilica e del convento dell'Osservanza; Opere d'arte all'Osservanza; La libreria di coro dell'Osservanza e la miniatura senese del… Ler mais sobre este item

Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer, 1994. Hard Cover. viii, 380 p.; 25 cm. TNO Building and Construction Research Centre For Timber Research. Includes bibliographical references and index. The results of extensive laboratory testing of timbers, how they respond to moisure, the drying characteristics best for making lumber, shrinkage and expansion factors. Extensive, detailed, fact filled. Stock# 33,793. Vg, with… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover. 48 halftone views plus a map; 8 x 12.5 cm. Illustrates the wonderful American Gothic buildings constructed for the Centennial Exhibition. Two views are of Japanese structures. Bound in embossed maroon cloth stamped in gold; pocket-sized; Very Good+. Stock#32761/h.

Oxford, Malone Society, 1977. Hard Cover. xxiv, 59 p.; 22 cm. "The responsibility of the Office of Works was... maintenance and modification of... the various royal houses in London and the home counties... It also had an important role to play in royal entertainments, notably in the fitting out of rooms, erection of stages, and construction of stage machinery… Ler mais sobre este item

Pencil Points Press, Inc., NY, 1932. Periodical. Pencil Points Vol. XVIII no. 4, August 1932. 16, 519-594, 25-48 p., index of advertisers, illus. (incl. color) & diagrams throughout, plates incl. color, many advertisements. Includes Lamb, Heads vs. "Isms"; Pierre, "Good Buildings"; Swales, Architect & Grand Plan #6, Architect's Status & Development of Rome; Castle, Architect's Notes on Pen Drawing… Ler mais sobre este item

NY, Lyons Press, ©2000. Soft Cover. 243 p., illus.; 19 cm. Originally published as House Plans for Everybody, NY, Orange Judd, 1878. Floor plans are included for 40 individual designs for the perfect home, in city or farm. Written by an architect at the turn of the century, this book reflects the attention to detail and pride in construction… Ler mais sobre este item