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See one, do one, teach one' was the basis of David Watkin's training as a surgeon in the 1960s - a hands-off approach that was typical of the time. He would witness an operation and be expected to replicate it.

An architectural monograph on one of the most renowned classicist architects, this book presents approximately 30 projects, including state rooms at No 10 Downing Street, a library and residential building at Cambridge University, a Cathedral in Essex, a church in Bishopsgate, office buildings in Munich and Berlin, and more.

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Questa storia dell'architettura occidentale dagli Egizi ai giorni nostri ha come filo conduttore l'ordine classico, le sue origini, la sua diffusione e le numerose citazioni in epoche diverse. In una prospettiva storiografica originale, Watkin presenta con grande capacità divulgativa una vasta scelta di periodi, luoghi e oggetti architettonici talvolta trascurati che rendono questo manuale un riferimento per l'architettura europea e nordameric...

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There are few more historic and evocative places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. There Napoleon celebrated his festival of liberty. In this radical reappraisal David Watkin teaches us to see the Forum with new eyes and helps us to rediscover its rich history. This is as stimulating to the armchair traveller as it is useful as a guide to the Forum itself.'With verve, authority and no littl...

The complete works of distinguished artist and architectural illustrator Carl Laubin are brought together here for the first time in one accessible volume. From his earliest incorporation of whimsical ideas in his paintings, to the more elaborate and complex recent architectural compositions based on the buildings of Hawksmoor, Cockerell, and Ledoux, this volume incorporates the range of Laubin's work, and brilliance, as an artist. Illustrated...

The residential and institutional architecture and interior design by an eminent London-based classical architect. John Simpson is one of the world's leading practitioners of new classicism, a contemporary architecture movement that continues the practice of classical and traditional architecture and embraces the virtues of durability, functionality, and beauty. Simpson's design ethos revolves around the notion that architecture is a public ar...

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The son of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent and started to assemble the remarkable art collection that he later installed in his Duchess Street house in central London. Hope's remodeling and interior decoration of that house fostered what became known as the Regency. This book is the most compreh...