This series featuring distinguished works of architectural history by emerging and established scholars was distributed by the MIT Press for the Architectural History Foundation, a nonprofit publisher of scholarly books in this field, which operated from 1978 until 1994. This series is no longer active.
Bit by bit Quinan brings to life a key achievement of American architecture, from the saga of its creation to the inconsistencies of its reputation. He traces the elements of its exceptional structure,...
This is the first complete biography of the inimitable society architect Addison Mizner, whose Spanish Revival buildings created a new style of resort architecture for Palm Beach and south Florida during...
Drawing on previously untapped notarial archives in Paris's Minutier central, Hilary Ballon provides a rich and original account of the crucial period between 1605 and 1610 when Paris was transformed from a medieval city decimated by war and neglect into a modern capital.
The Topkapi Palace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
by Gülru Necipoglu
ISBN: 9780262140508
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 1992
Gülru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic otherness of the East.
Drawing on previously untapped notarial archives in Paris's Minutier central, Hilary Ballon provides a rich and original account of the crucial period between 1605 and 1610 when Paris was transformed from a medieval city decimated by war and neglect into a modern capital.
Establishes Reichensperger as the major figure in the German neo-Gothic movement, not only through his buildings, but through his writings and manifestos as well.
Enriched by over 500 illustrations, many of them by the author, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity is an important sourcebook for this ancient institution.
Foreword by Paul Goldberger Only recently has the period between the two World Wars emerged as pivotal in the redefinition of American taste. The work of James Gamble Rogers (1867-1947) represents a...
