Meaning in Western Architecture [Revised] 0847803198, 9780847803194

The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture 9780226632759

How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronologic

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The Apocalypse: Controversies and Meaning in Western History

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Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning 9781474469159

Winner of the American Publishers Association's Award for an outstanding Professional and Scholarly title and the A

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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.

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Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture 9780816634767, 0816634769, 0816634777

Architecture An exploration of technology's role in architecture and, in turn, humanity's understanding of nat

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The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament 9781474482202

Collects Yasser Tabbaa’s writings on transformations in Islamic architecture and ornament in relation to parallel theolo

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Love in the Western World [Revised] 0691013934, 9780691013930

In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Deni

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Islamic Architecture. Form, Function and Meaning [2 ed.] 074861379X

This book contains only one man’s view of Islamic architecture; it does not pretend to summarise the accepted views of t

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Man's Search For Meaning [Revised Ed] 067166736X, 9780671667368

Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death

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Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning 9780231501729

This classic text—continually in print for more than half a century—analyzes the architecture of societies in western Eu

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