Traces the modernisation process of architectural education in Middle Eastern and North African countries between the 19th and 20th centuries....Loe edasi...
Written against the backdrop of ten years of visits and studies in 220 Gothic cathedrals, Gothic iconic local churches, and neo-Gothic cathedrals, this Element examines the idea of historical religious structures as hybrid media spaces shaping conte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009849210)
Written against the backdrop of ten years of visits and studies in 220 Gothic cathedrals, Gothic iconic local churches, and neo-Gothic cathedrals, this Element examines the idea of historical religious structures as hybrid media spaces shaping conte...Loe edasi...
Beginning Again with the Classical Orders reconsiders well-established understandings of the ancient Greek Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic architectural orders. Antonios Thodis examines their uses in temples, material remains, and ancient literat...Loe edasi...
How do you restore churches and sacred spaces after the devastation of confessional violence and warfare? This study analyses how this was achieved and the multiple agents involved, amidst the on-going political upheaval and Catholic renewal in the L...Loe edasi...
The Takkiyya Muavin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shii Isla...Loe edasi...
Highly illustrated fascinating local exploration of Bradfords historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this city....Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of Leicestershires and Rutlands historic churches, will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting these attractive counties in England....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837051816)
A richly illustrated and comprehensive guide, this volume explores over 1,450 cathedrals and abbeys across Britain, detailing their architecture, history, liturgy, and monastic life while highlighting their enduring religious and cultural significan...Loe edasi...
This book examines the adaptive reuse of Roman Catholic churches through twenty-five case studies from Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. It addresses the complex intersection of theology, heritage conservation, and contemporary social...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of Lincolnshires historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England....Loe edasi...
GURDWARAS ARE CENTRAL TO THE SIKH ETHOS. IN THE PRESENCE OF THE GURU GRANTH SAHIB, SIKHS PRAY, LISTEN TO GURBANI, AND SEEK ITS MESSAGE. THE SPIRIT OF SIKHISM LIVES THROUGH THE RITES OF BANI, KIRTAN, KATHA, SEWA, AND LANGAR. GURDWARAS ARE TRULY ABO...Loe edasi...
This edited volume focuses on the study of artificial illumination in medieval churches relative to visual, artistic, spatial, ritualistic, symbolic, and scientific considerations....Loe edasi...
A celebration of this luminous jewel of a church, which serves as a memorial to all those who tragically lost their lives on 9/11 and provides a place of quiet reflection open to all.The original Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church wa...Loe edasi...
Hagia Sophia—a building whose domes have defined Istanbul’s skyline for over 1500 years—has led many lives. Initially a church, subsequently a mosque, then a museum, the structure is today a monument of world heritage, even as its official status rem...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253074133)
From the fifteenth-century onwards, followers of the Sufi poet Shah Nematullah Vali navigated land and sea routes through Central Asia, Iran, and India, acting as agents of power, mobility, and cross-cultural exchange. Along the way, they built shr...Loe edasi...
From the fifteenth century onwards, followers of the Sufi poet Shah Nematullah Vali navigated land and sea routes through Central Asia, Iran, and India. Along the way, they built shrines whose poetry, spatial configuration, and materiality created...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Nov-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837723133)
Analyzes the restoration of St. Davids Cathedral in Wales using previously unpublished texts. This study of a previously unpublished manuscript is a significant witness to the vigorous life of St. Davids Cathedral, as well as to the ch...Loe edasi...
Lost Synagogues of Europe recreates in vivid color paintings and chronicles the life stories of seventy-seven majestic- and destroyed-synagogues built from the early 1600s to 1930 and spanning sixteen countries, helping to revive a thriving European...Loe edasi...
The graveyards and cemeteries of Perthshire contain many fascinating historical tales, often with interesting superstitions attached. In this book Scottish historian Charlotte Golledge takes readers on a tour through the history of Perthshire’s buria...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of Cumbria’s historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England. Cumbria is the third largest county in England, formed in 1974 from the historic countie...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of Somersets historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this splendid county in England....Loe edasi...
This is simply the best book ever written on the single largest Buddhist monument in the world —Patricia Welch, author and lecturer on Asian artBorobudur is the largest Buddhist monument in the world—a masterpiece containing thousand...Loe edasi...
This book examines mid-20th-century Anglican church architecture in Britain, from the 1935 to the 1975, exploring how it was shaped by liturgical changes, social shifts, and artistic influences. It investigates the theoretical foundations of moder...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of County Durham’s historic churches. The well known and those waiting to be discovered by a wider audience Pennine hills, uncultivated moorland, dramatic dales, picturesque villages, market towns and a magnificent c...Loe edasi...
Traces the modernisation process of architectural education in Middle Eastern and North African countries between the 19th and 20th centuries....Loe edasi...
Written against the backdrop of ten years of visits and studies in 220 Gothic cathedrals, Gothic iconic local churches, and neo-Gothic cathedrals, this Element examines the idea of historical religious structures as hybrid media spaces shaping conte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009849210)
Written against the backdrop of ten years of visits and studies in 220 Gothic cathedrals, Gothic iconic local churches, and neo-Gothic cathedrals, this Element examines the idea of historical religious structures as hybrid media spaces shaping conte...Loe edasi...
Illustrated in colour, Cotswold Churches is the quintessential guide. After an Introduction in which the David Verey analyses the qualities which give character and unity to the churches of the Cotswolds (an area which is here defined in a rewarding...Loe edasi...
A critical exploration of how digital technologies are reshaping global heritage conservation, storytelling, and the politics of preservation. As digital technologies increasingly shape how we preserve, interpret, and experience the pa...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of Northamptonshires historic churches. Will encourage all those who live in the county or are visiting to discover the history on their doorsteps....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The British Academy, ISBN-13: 9781805966548)
This study brings together for the first time a large corpus of wills relating to windows and their glazing, using a wide range of published and unpublished wills and benefitting from fieldwork undertaken to relate bequests to existing fabric and gl...Loe edasi...
The two volumes, with numerous color photographs and drawings, contain the first complete study of Protestant church building in Early Modern Europe (16th-18th centuries). The variety of building materials and the abundance of spatial solutions show...Loe edasi...
Sari: The Warren Moon Series in Art and Archaeology
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299355203)
Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined our understanding of this important Hellenistic architect. Here, in the first volume dedicated to him in more than two decades, new ev...Loe edasi...
Beginning Again with the Classical Orders reconsiders well-established understandings of the ancient Greek Corinthian, Doric, and Ionic architectural orders. Antonios Thodis examines their uses in temples, material remains, and ancient literat...Loe edasi...
How do you restore churches and sacred spaces after the devastation of confessional violence and warfare? This study analyses how this was achieved and the multiple agents involved, amidst the on-going political upheaval and Catholic renewal in the L...Loe edasi...
Attempts the first systematic overview of the Ellora cave temples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, excavated between 600–1000 CE that are a stunning testament to ancient Indian art.Ellora attempts the first systematic overv...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781915722584)
As more groups take ownership of the buildings, spaces and services that matter to them, architects are being asked to work in new ways. As more groups take ownership of the buildings, spaces and services that matter to them, archit...Loe edasi...
The Takkiyya Muavin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an event of seminal significance to Shii Isla...Loe edasi...
New commercial opportunities were seized as church controls ended, with fast-growing urban populations demanding space for their dead. The results were magnificent: new combinations of layout, planting and myriad memorials arose, reflecting the ecle...Loe edasi...
Highly illustrated fascinating local exploration of Bradfords historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this city....Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of Leicestershires and Rutlands historic churches, will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting these attractive counties in England....Loe edasi...
Excavation at Hereford Cathedral took place in 1993, prior to the construction of the Mappa Mundi Museum and new archive library. This revealed extensive remains, some potentially dating back to the 7th/8th century, including timber-built buildings a...Loe edasi...
Architects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries that Rome is rightly called the »eternal city«. Rome is eternal above all because it was always young, always »in its prime«. Here the buildings that defined the West appeared over m...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837051816)
A richly illustrated and comprehensive guide, this volume explores over 1,450 cathedrals and abbeys across Britain, detailing their architecture, history, liturgy, and monastic life while highlighting their enduring religious and cultural significan...Loe edasi...
This book examines the adaptive reuse of Roman Catholic churches through twenty-five case studies from Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. It addresses the complex intersection of theology, heritage conservation, and contemporary social...Loe edasi...
A fascinating exploration of Lincolnshires historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England....Loe edasi...
GURDWARAS ARE CENTRAL TO THE SIKH ETHOS. IN THE PRESENCE OF THE GURU GRANTH SAHIB, SIKHS PRAY, LISTEN TO GURBANI, AND SEEK ITS MESSAGE. THE SPIRIT OF SIKHISM LIVES THROUGH THE RITES OF BANI, KIRTAN, KATHA, SEWA, AND LANGAR. GURDWARAS ARE TRULY ABO...Loe edasi...
This edited volume focuses on the study of artificial illumination in medieval churches relative to visual, artistic, spatial, ritualistic, symbolic, and scientific considerations....Loe edasi...
Every great church makes a statement, and it is seldom simply theological. An offering of thanks to a beloved minister, a monument to a powerful ruler, a colonialist vaunt – a church is never really just a church. Ornate or spartan, immense or int...Loe edasi...
