Coloring Europe: Bella Italia is a part of Waves of Color’s “Coloring Europe” line—a collection of coloring books that shows off the fun and culture of Europe’s most iconic locales.Color your favorite sights and scenes in the country of Italy, as you savor its cuisine, art, and architecture as if you were actually there. Enjoy a glass of wine at an outdoor cafe or take a nostalgic trip by gondola, as you experience Italy’s rich culture as brought to life by Il-Sun Lee’s evocative illustrations.
Coloring Europe: Majestic Croatia is a part of Waves of Color’s “Coloring Europe” line—a collection of coloring books that shows off the fun and culture of Europe’s most iconic locales.Discover the charms of Croatia as you travel its streets, viewing the country’s unique architecture built alongside some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes. Il-Sun Lee takes you on an unforgettable coloring book journey with detailed illustrations of one of Europe’s most undiscovered destinations, brimming with Old World charm and cultural beauty.
Studying the history of a project through its drawings, models, the client's profile, pictures of the construction site and the finished building, is a fundamental excursus, but it cannot replace the
A logbook that in 40 days covers over 50,000km across 3 continents and 14 countries, visiting 20 cities and more than 300 buildings. A tale around the planisphere to discover the architecture designed
Look and solve: this collection of gorgeous illustrations of fine architecture doubles as a fun spot-the-difference puzzle book! Take a world tour of stunning architecture, from Saint Basil&rsq
An insider's tour of golf course architecture shares the firsthand perspectives of such forefront designers as Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, and Ben Crenshaw, in a collaborative work that features dozens
In this book, Henrike Lange takes the reader on a tour through one of the most beloved and celebrated monuments in the world – Giotto's Arena Chapel. Paying close attention to previously overlooked details, Lange offers an entirely new reading of the stunning frescoes in their spatial configuration. The author also asks fundamental questions that define the chapel's place in Western art history. Why did Giotto choose an ancient Roman architectural frame for his vision of Salvation? What is the role of painted reliefs in the representation of personal integrity, passion, and the human struggle between pride and humility familiar from Dante's Divine Comedy? How can a new interpretation regarding the influence of ancient reliefs and architecture inform the famous “Assisi controversy” and cast new light on the debate around Giotto's authorship of the Saint Francis cycle? Illustrated with almost 200 color plates, this volume invites scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art
During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did Margaret Thatcher's government begin to privatise these new towns? By examining the most ambitious of these projects, Milton Keynes, Guy Ortolano recasts our understanding of British social democracy, arguing that the new towns comprised the spatial dimension of the welfare state. Following the Prime Minister's progress on a tour through Milton Keynes on 25 September 1979, Ortolano alights at successive stops to examine the broader histories of urban planning, modernist architecture, community development, international consulting, and municipal housing. Thatcher's journey reveals a dynamic social democracy during its decade of crisis, while also showing how public sector actors begrudgingly accommodated the alternative priorities of market l
