Search Results: Authors starting with E from Springhead Books

Ontario: University of Waterloo, 1981. Soft cover. Good. Special issue of Contact : Journal of Urban and Environmental Affairs. xxiv, 427 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Shelf wear to edges, pencil underlinings throughout, reading creases to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

305 p., ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. First edition, first printing. Cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Shelf wear and laminate lifting to edges, small chip to front cover bottom edge, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Part of the important Society of Architectural Historians series. xix, 603 p : ill., maps ; 25 cm. First edition, first printing. Blue cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Listed in Hill's 'Buildings in Print: 100 influential and inspiring illustrated architecture books', this book is a graphic guide to ornaments in the twentieth century. It unveils the function of ornament as the agent for specific affects, dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity. The book looks at recently built buildings and their use of: cladding; screens and screening; surface pattern; colour; light to add ornament. The drawings in this book are entirely the work and interpretation of students at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. 189 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

This symposium took place in Boulder, CO from October 15th to 17th, 2018. The volume contains 36 scientific contributions cutting across planning, control, design, perception, networking, and optimization, all united through the common thread of distributed robotic systems. xvi, 528 p., illus., mostly color. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

xiii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. First edition, first printing. Green leatherette boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, some creasing to cover, spine faded, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

xviii, 303 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Illustrated boards, slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

This is a first-stop book for people interested in getting to grips with digital humanities whether as a student or a professor. Doing Digital Humanities looks at the practicalities of how digital research and creation can enhance both learning and research and offers an approachable way into this complex, yet essential topic. 408 pages, ill. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Architecture Rausch opens discussion on architectural training in this volatile time, and who better to articulate those challenges (as well as to challenge the limits of the profession) than the students who will face them in the twenty-first century? The book presents works by students from a studio at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany's largest science and engineering school. Among the editors are faculty members whose cutting-edge work includes the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig and projects with Daniel Libeskind. Parallel text in English and German. 303 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, architect's stamp and signature on front free endpaper, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Geffrye Museum: Part One, 1675-1830, 16 September 2003 to 18 January 2004; Part Two, 1830-1914, 9 March to 18 July 2004. 207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. Shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, reading crease to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

This Compendium is the first comprehensive survey of the group in any language. It includes extensive selections from the work of Oulipians, analyses of their important works, and descriptions of their methods. Contents: I. Directions for use -- II Prologue -- A Hundred Thousand Billion poems / by Raymond Queneau -- III. Oulipo -- IV. Oulipopo -- V. Oupeinpo -- VI. Ou-x-pos. Includes a complete translation of Queneau's 100,000,000,000,000 poems. 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Revised and updated ed. Shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Contents: Degas as a portraitist ; A chronology for Degas as a portraitist / Jean Sutherland Boggs -- Portraits as pictures : Degas between taking a likeness and making a work of art (tableau) / Emil Maurer -- Between convention and innovation : the portrait in France in the nineteenth century / Pierre Vaisse -- Portraiture between tradition and avantgarde : Proust and Degas / Luzius Keller -- Degas's printed portraits / Barbara Stern Shapiro -- Degas's copies / Emil Maurer -- Degas's early self-portraits / Felix Baumann -- Family portraits ; Friends and acquaintances / Tobia Bezzola -- Facing defacement : Degas's portraits of women / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Au Milieu des Artistes et des Hommes de Lettres / Marianne Karabelnik -- Portraits and genre / Tobia Bezzola -- Portraits : painting and photography / Antoine Terrasse. Accompanies exhibition held at the Kunsthaus, Zurich, 2 December 1994 - 5 March 1995 and at the Kunsthalle, Tübingen, 18 March 1995 - 18 June 1995. 372 pages : illustrations (some… Read More

The 21st century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations. This volume inspects 26 museums and discusses the cultural and geographic environment for each one. It also provides an assessment of museum functionality in modern times. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1 April - 25 June 2006, and touring internationally until August 2011. 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), plans, portraits ; 31 cm. Second, revised and expanded edition. Silver cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

This book is a comprehensive reader analysing the role of modern architecture, city planning and consumption in the construction of the Swedish welfare state. The book draws mainly from the formative phase of the Swedish model, but also on European and American examples, and attempts to highlight the contradictions and complexities of the process of modernisation. 222 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

This is a book of sixteen essays including contemporary and historical case studies, which explore issues of authorship, attribution and intellectual property in architecture. The book examines how individual architects have tried to maintain their status by defending the origins and intentions of their work and their signature style. Covers topics including: domestic space; eighteenth century landscape gardens; twentieth century Berlin; postmodernism and the "Death of the Author"; the work of Ernst Neufert, Cedric Price and Lewis Carroll. 205 pages : illustrations (some colour), plans ; 25 cm. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Well-illustrated catalogue for an exhibition at Sotheby's S2 Gallery, 6 June - 4 July 2019. Texts by Kenny Schachter, Roger Hilton, Simon Hucker, Andrew Lambirth, Rose Hilton. 135 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 23 cm. Published in an edition of 1000 copies. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Substantial exhibition catalogue devoted to Lotto's portraits, it follows this nomadic painter's footsteps from his native Venice to Treviso, Bergamo, Rome, and the Marches through portraits produced over the course of five decades. They reveal a variety of influences ranging from Antonello da Messina to Titian and including his master Alvise Vivarini, Giovanni Bellini, Albrecht Dürer, Giorgione, Raphael, and Leonardo. Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, June 19-September 30, 2018; National Gallery, London, England, November 5, 2018-February 10, 2019. 369 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 30 cm. Minimal shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Contents: The reasons for an exhibition: Gentile between Gothic and Renaissance / Lorenza Mochi Onori -- The art of Gentile da Fabriano / Keith Christiansen -- Gentile disappears from Fabriano, but returns some centuries later. A short history of the nineteenth-century dispersal of certain works by Gentile and their partial reunification for this exhibition / Laura Laureati -- Catalogue / introductions by Andrea De Marchi -- I. At the court of Gian Galeazzo Visconti: the Pavia Panel -- II. Angels stripped in gold: the Perugia Madonna -- III. Gentile in Venice: the Valle Romita polyptych -- IV. Gentile returns to Fabriano: the stigmatization of St. Francis -- V. The legacy of Gentile in Fabriano -- VI. In Florence: the Strozzi altarpiece and the polyptych of San NiccoloÌ€ Oltrarno -- VII. Siena and Rome, in the service of Pope Martin V. Contents: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Spedale di Santa Maria del Buon GesuÌ€, Fabriano, Italy, Apr. 21-July 23, 2006. 335 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.… Read More

ix, 204 pages, [23] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color). Second printing 1996. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Contents: Giotto after the Restoration / Francesca Flores d'Arcais -- Giotto's pictorial cycle ; The Restoration / Giuseppe Basile -- Frescoes / entries by Valerio Da Gai. 453 pages : chiefly color illustrations, plans ; 28 cm. First English edition, first printing. Beige cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Heavy book, will require extra postage for overseas purchase.