The renowned architectural historian and critic, beloved Yale professor, and outspoken public activist Vincent Scully (1920–2017) emerged in the 1950s as a guiding voice in American architecture. This intellectual biography of Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years.Scully charted an unlikely course from postwar modernism to ...

Vincent Scully has shaped not only how we view the evolution of architecture in the twentieth century but also the course of that evolution itself. Combining the modes of historian and critic in unique and compelling ways--with an audience that reaches from students and scholars to professional architects and ardent amateurs--Scully has profoundly influenced the way architecture is thought about and made.This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Scully's i...

A classic book authored by the foremost architectural historian in America, this fully illustrated history of American architecture and city planning is based on Vincent Scully's conviction that architecture and city planning are inseparably linked and must therefore be treated together. He defines architecture as a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. This definitive survey extends beyond the cities themselves to the American scene as a whole, ...

When The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods first appeared in 1962, it was hailed by the critics for it erudition, historical imagination and boldness. Subsequently, this comprehensive study of Greek temples and site-planning has been widely accepted as a landmark of architectural history, for it offers an inspired and arresting insight into nature and function of Greek sacred architecture. Vincent Scully, one of America's most brilliant and articulate scholars, unde...

The object of the following unpretentious little volume is to give a simple and readable account in English of the life and writings of a remarkable Flemish Mystic of the fourteenth century, a contemporary of our own Walter Hilton. Though his memory and honour have never faded in his own native Belgium, and though France and Germany have vied with each other in spreading his teaching and singing his praises, the very name of Blessed John Ruysbroeck is practically unknown this side of the w...

Jan van Ruysbroek (1293-1381) foi um cônego agostiniano e um dos mais importantes místicos flamengos. Algumas de suas principais obras literárias incluem O Reino dos Amantes Divinos, As Doze Beguinas, Os Esponsais Espirituais, Um Espelho da Bem-Aventurança Eterna, O Pequeno Livro da Iluminação e A Pedra Cintilante. Algumas de suas cartas também sobreviveram, assim como vários ditos curtos (registrados por alguns de seus discípulos, como Jan van Leeuwen). Ele escreveu no vernáculo holandês,...

Meditations on the Incarnation of Christ is a spiritual religious book written by Thomas à Kempis, German-Dutch canon regular. It presents a religious treatise concerning life and passion of our Lord. The book contains sermons on the life and passion of Jesus Christ and of hearing and speaking words of God.

David Middleton was a towering figure of 20th Century engineering and science and one of the founders of statistical communication theory. During the second World War, the young David Middleton, working with Van Fleck, devised the notion of the matched filter, which is the most basic method used for detecting signals in noise. Over the intervening six decades, the contributions of Middleton have become classics. This collection of essays by leading scientists, engineers and colleagues of D...