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“Heraldic Fantasies in Blue and Red and Silver”: Orientalism, Luxury and Social Corruption in the South Sea Directorial Houses

Eric Weichel

Eric Weichel

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Oriental Interiors : Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In 1721, at the height of the social crisis caused by one of the worst financial collapses the emerging stock-market system had yet seen in Britain, an inventory of the houses of leading figures associated with the beleaguered South Sea...

General Introduction

John H. Stubbs

John H. Stubbs is Christovich Senior Professor of Architectural Preservation Practice and Director of the Master of Preservation Studies program in the School of Architecture, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Formerly Vice President for Field Projects for the World Monuments Fund, he is an international architectural conservation consultant. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Robert G. Thomson

Robert G. Thomson is trained as a historical archaeologist and preservation planner. He is currently the Federal Preservation Officer for the Presidio Trust, San Francisco, California, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Architectural Conservation in Asia : National experiences and practice

Routledge, 2017

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... The Asian built environment Asia’s rich historic built environment reflects the region’s position as the origin of some of the world’s most ancient civilizations, cultures and religions.1 For more than two millennia Asian cultures...

Race to the Top: The New Asian Developmentalism

Miles Glendinning

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mass Housing : Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

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...During the early twenty-first century, the ‘developmental-state’ formula of mass housing, whose initial emergence we traced in chapter 16, began to spread outside its original redoubts, in a continuation and extension...

Socialist Eastern Asia: Mass Housing and the Sino-Soviet Split

Miles Glendinning

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Mass Housing : Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

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...Among the political and ideological confrontations of the Cold War, Eastern Asia was arguably an even fierier hot spot than Europe, as there was no single border between the blocs, and the region hosted the two principal proxy wars...

Places Of Care And Healing

Mohammad Gharipour

Mohammad Gharipour is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. His other publications include Social Housing in the Middle East (co-edited with Kivanc Kilinc), The Historiography of Persian Architecture and Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in In Poetry, Arts and History. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Health And Architecture : The History Of Spaces Of Healing And Care In The Pre-Modern Era

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

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...The word “heal” is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word “haelon,” which means wholeness. As this root indicates, healing involves a holistic process that requires attention to a patient’s physical, biological state as well as to his or her...