The Row House in Washington, DCA History

With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house. Row houses have long been an important component of the housing stock of many major American cities, predominantly sheltering the middle classes comprising cle…

The Garden in the MachinePlanning and Democracy in the Tennessee Valley Autho…

The Tennessee Valley Authority was the largest single agency created under the auspices of the New Deal legislation. Until 1933, when the project was initiated, the Tennessee Valley was known romantically as "a region of untapped potential" and, less romantically, as one of the most impoverished and isolated areas of the country. The TVA was responsible for three large-scale environmental proje…

Resplendent SynagogueArchitecture and Worship in an Eighteenth-Century Polish…

This unique exploration of a lost religious and cultural artifact breathes new life into a forgotten but fascinating aspect of eighteenth-century Polish Jewry.   Thomas C. Hubka, an architectural historian, immersed himself in medieval and early modern Jewish history, religion, and culture to prepare for this remarkable study of the eighteenth-century Polish synagogue in the town of Gwozdz…

A Descriptive Guide to the City of Strassburg and its Cathedral

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CommuneDesigned in California

A Town and Country magazine design pick, a monograph of the work of a California lifestyle and interior design firm, from the company's founders.   Commune was established in Los Angeles in 2004 by four like-minded souls—Roman Alonso, Steven Johanknecht, Pamela Shamshiri, and Ramin Shamshiri—with a common mission: to enhance life through design and to blur the lines between disciplines, er…

New York Design at Home

A photographic tour through designers' own spaces, from a Greenwich Village town home to a Park Slope brownstone and beyond. Designers' homes often serve as laboratories where they are free to experiment. These spaces are filled with the designer's most personal and cherished objects, furnishings, and artwork that are concentrated expressions of their style and interests. New York Design at Hom…

Women Architects and PoliticsIntersections between Gender, Power Structures a…

In the late 1960s, the feminist scholar Kate Millet broadly defined »politics« as arrangements of power which enable individuals collectively to assert authority over others. Taking this definition, case studies by scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States explore the gendered professional in the 20th century as she navigated arrangements of power including organised religion, emanci…

History of the Templars Knights

THE extraordinary and romantic career of the Knights Templars, their exploits and their misfortunes, render their history a subject of peculiar interest. Born during the first fervour of the Crusades, they were flattered and aggrandized as long as their great military power and religious fanaticism could be made available for the support of the Eastern church and the retention of the Holy Land,…

Monumental LiesCulture Wars and the Truth about the Past

The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'. Yet long-standing concepts such as 'authenticity' in heritage are undermined and trivialised by gatekeepers such as UNESCO. At the same,…

El logos enamorado; homosexualidad y filosofía en la Grecia antigua

María R. Gómez Iglesias nos ofrece un ensayo acerca de la sexualidad griega, sobre todo en su faceta homoerótica, que mezcla estudio textual e iconográfico. Muy completo en sus fuentes, sin complejos en las conclusiones, el texto nos brinda un recorrido por la historia de Grecia exhaustivo y profundo.Conoce, pues, qué opinaban los griegos de su sexualidad y cómo la afrontaban desde un pun…