New Building in Old Cities
Writings by Gustavo Giovannoni on Architectural and Urban Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9781606068755,
Getty Publications,
July 2024
408 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 80 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
408 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 80 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
The highly influential writings by an important early advocate for the conservation of historic cities are made available for the first time in English.
The Italian architect, historian, and restorer Gustavo Giovannoni (1873-1947) was a key figure i...
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£65.00
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Shaping Roman Landscape
Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Decoration in Early Imperial Italy
ISBN: HB: 9781606068489,
Getty Publications,
August 2023
224 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 78 colour illus., 8 black&white illus., 24 maps
224 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 78 colour illus., 8 black&white illus., 24 maps
Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatises, its qualities were praised and sought out in everyday life, and contemporary perceptions of the natu...
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£55.00
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Invention of the Colonial Americas
Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844
ISBN: HB: 9781606067734,
Getty Publications,
August 2022
328 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 97 colour illus., 24 black&white illus., 3 tables, 4 charts
328 pp., 25,4x20,3 cm, 97 colour illus., 24 black&white illus., 3 tables, 4 charts
The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of changing theories and practices of government archives in Enlightenment Spain. It centers on an archive created in Seville for storing Spain's pre-17...
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Los Angeles
The Development, Life and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California
ISBN: PB: 9781606067550,
Getty Publications,
July 2022
356 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm
356 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm
No book on the emergence of Los Angeles, today a metropolis of more than four million people, has been more influential or elusive than this volume by Anton Wagner. Originally published in German in 1935 as Los Angeles: Werden, Leben und Gestalt der...
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£60.00
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Managing Energy Use in Modern Buildings
Case Studies in Conservation Practice
ISBN: PB: 9781606066973,
Getty Publications,
August 2021
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
This collection of ten case studies addresses the unique challenges surrounding the improvement of energy consumption and thermal comfort in modern buildings built between 1931 and 1969 and offers valuable lessons for other structures facing similar...
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£50.00
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Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930
Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates
ISBN: HB: 9781606066942,
Getty Publications,
August 2021
304 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
304 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, colour illus.
In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid...
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£60.00
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Robert Irwin: Getty Garden
Revised Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781606066560,
Getty Publications,
June 2020
144 pp., 22,7x19,1 cm, 75 colour illus.
144 pp., 22,7x19,1 cm, 75 colour illus.
Among the most beloved sites at the Getty Center, the Central Garden has aroused intense interest from the moment artist Robert Irwin was awarded the commission. First published in 2002, "Robert Irwin: Getty Garden" is comprised of a series of discus...
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£18.99
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Sarnath
A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164,
Getty Publications,
February 2020
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
192 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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£35.00
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Rare Treatise on Interior Decoration and Architecture
Joseph Friedrich zu Racknitz's Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leadi
ISBN: HB: 9781606066249,
Getty Publications,
January 2020
368 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
368 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
Baron Joseph Friedrich von Racknitz's pioneering Presentation and History of the Taste of the Leading Nations in Relation to the Interior Decoration of Rooms and to Architecture (Darstellung und Geschichte des Geschmacks der vorzuglichsten Voelker in...
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£75.00
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Tremaine Houses
One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America
ISBN: HB: 9781606066140,
Getty Publications,
November 2019
224 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
224 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm, illus.
From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, two brothers, Burton G. Tremaine and Warren D. Tremaine, and their respective wives, Emily Hall Tremaine and Katharine Williams Tremaine, commissioned approximately thirty architecture and design projects. Rich...
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£48.00
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