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  • On Architecture

    Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

    by Ada Louise Huxtable ...
    Known for her well-reasoned and passionately held beliefs about architecture, Ada Louise Huxtable has captivated readers across the country for decades, in the process becoming one of the best known critics in the United States. Her brilliance over so many years is unmatched, and her range has always been vast-from a plea to save a particular architectural treasure to an ongoing discussion about ... Read more

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  • La città per tutti

    Scritti scelti

    by Paulo Mendes da Rocha ...
    Series series Saggi | Architettura
    Paulo Mendes da Rocha è uno degli architetti contemporanei piú premiati al mondo. La sua opera è interessata a una pluralità di elementi che vanno dalle scienze umane a quelle strutturali, con l'obiettivo di rimettere al centro della riflessione sull'architettura – e della sua pratica – la questione dello spazio per l'uomo. Da questa selezione di testi del maestro brasiliano, tutti finora inediti ... Read more

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  • Michelangelo

    Das göttliche Genie

    by Eugène Müntz ...
    Michelangelo war, genau wie Leonardo, ein “universeller” Künstler: Maler, Baumeister, Bildhauer und Dichter. Er war der Hauptmeister der italienischen Hochrenaissance und Wegbereiter des Manierismus. Seine Vorliebe galt der als Ausdruck der Leidenschaft angesehenen Skulptur. Nach Landschaften sucht man bei ihm vergeblich. Alles, was den Menschen ausmacht, seine Gefühle, Leidenschaften, seinen ... Read more

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  • Chartres Cathedral, Gaudí and the Sagrada Família

    by Josep Maria Tarragona ...
    Chartres Cathedral and the Sagrada Familia are emanations of the same idea: celestial Jerusalem. There are deep similarities between the two temples, with intrinsic messages that are usually ignored. Gaudí was inspired by Chartres Cathedral to design and build the Sagrada Família. He and the Maitre de Chartes were two architects working in the same artistic and spiritual tradition, separated by ... Read more

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  • MA YANSONG

    From (Global) Modernity to (Local) Tradition / Entre la modernidad (global) y la tradicion (local)

    Edited by Casa Asia ...
    MAD works in forward-looking environmentsdeveloping futuristic architecture based on acontemporary interpretation of the eastern spiritof nature. All of MAD's projects - from residentialcomplexes or offices to cultural centres - desireto protect a sense of community and orientationtoward nature, offering people the freedom todevelop their own experience. Founded in 2004by Ma Yansong, the office ... Read more

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  • Frank's Home

    by Richard Nelson ...
    "A thoroughly invigorating, tightly focused piece of Chekhovian drama, wherein chatter about work and art . . . fail to mask deep vulnerability."-Chicago TribuneA play about Frank Lloyd Wright set in the summer of 1923, when the great architect has recently left Chicago for California, hoping to mend his relationship with his adult children. Richard Nelson brings to life two great architectural ... Read more

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  • Schön hier. Architektur auf dem Land

    by Torsten Köchlin, Joana Katte ...
    Wie innovative Architektur das Leben auf dem Land neu definiertLändliche Architektur hat enormes Potenzial – dieses hochwertige Architektur- und Fachbuch zeigt, wie sie modern interpretiert werden kann. Ob Wohnhäuser, Weingüter, Werkstätten oder öffentliche Gebäude: Schön hier. Architektur auf dem Land präsentiert 70 inspirierende Bauprojekte, die beweisen, wie gut durchdachte Architektur das ... Read more

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  • Spatial Memories and Preoccupations of an Architect

    by Turner Brooks ...
    How does an architect become an architect? In this intimate and playful work of autobiography and criticism, Turner Brooks explores this very question, mapping the way his childhood impressions and enthusiasms later influenced his award-winning architectural work.In Spatial Memories and Preoccupations, award-winning architect Turner Brooks describes how memories of spatial experiences—a small ... Read more

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  • Arquitectura de Ser

    by Alan Faena ...
    Alan Faena es un visionario creativo que ha dejado imborrables huellas en una amplia gama de industrias creativas, incluídas el arte, el entretenimiento, la hotelería, el diseño, la moda y el urbanismo.Situando a las prácticas culturales en el centro de todos sus esfuerzos, ha sido un gran impulsor del desarrollo cultural y el intercambio creativo.Escrito durante el apogeo de la pandemia, Faena ... Read more

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  • Sullivanesque

    Urban Architecture and Ornamentation

    by Ronald E. Schmitt ...
    Sullivanesque offers a visual and historical tour of a unique but often overlooked facet of modern American architecture derived from Louis Sullivan.Highly regarded in architecture for inspiring the Chicago School and the Prairie School, Sullivan was an unwilling instigator of the method of facade composition--later influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, William Gray Purcell, and George G. Elmslie- ... Read more

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  • Gordon Matta-Clark

    Contra viejas superficies

    by Ariel Florencia Richards ...
    A excepción del Museo de Bellas Artes de Santiago, ninguno de los edificios donde Gordon Matta-Clark realizó sus intervenciones radicales se conserva en la actualidad. ¿Cómo podemos acceder hoy al profundo material de su obra? La autora de este libro sostiene que esta conexión se logra a través de su archivo. Para demostrarlo, se encarna en Ella, una investigadora chilena que llega a Montreal para ... Read more

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  • Honey Bee Farming for Beginners & Experienced

    Complete Beekeeping Guide to Hive Management, Disease Control, Honey Production & Small-Scale Business Success

    by Andrew Holden ...
    Beekeeping is one of the most rewarding and sustainable forms of farming-but starting can feel overwhelming for beginners. The Beginner's Guide to Honey Bee Farming is a practical, step-by-step manual designed to help you confidently start and manage your own beehives, even with no prior experience.This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know, from understanding honey bee behavior ... Read more

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  • Réparer sa Toiture

    by Collection Plus Simple la Vie ...
    Des techniques pratiques et des conseils avisés vous guident à travers chaque étape, de l'identification des problèmes de pourriture à la consolidation structurelle, en passant par la prévention future des dommages. Avec ce guide, vous aurez les connaissances nécessaires pour protéger et prolonger la durée de vie de votre toiture, assurant ainsi la sécurité et la durabilité de votre maison. ... Read more

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  • Descriptio urbis Romae

    by Leon Battista Alberti, Mario Carpo, Martine Furno ...
    Series series Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
    La Descriptio Urbis Romæ de Leon Battista Alberti est un court texte rédigé vraisemblablement au milieu du XVe siècle, qui décrit une méthode mise au point par l’auteur pour exécuter un plan de Rome. Ce livre présente la première édition complète du texte appuyée sur l’ensemble des manuscrits connus, accompagnée d’une traduction française et d’un commentaire. Celui-ci fait d’abord le point sur la ... Read more

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  • Le epifanie di Proteo

    Marcello Fabbri per Controspazio 1983-2005

    by Maria Clara Ghia, Antonella Greco, Renato Nicolini, Giuseppe Gangemi, Silvia Massotti, Antonio Quistelli, Enrico Valeriani ...
    È ora di dedicarci a capire "come nasce l'immagine", la costruzione dello spazio, la formazione di uno spazio praticabile, vivibile, generatore di comunicazione e convivenza: uno spazio per una sia pur nuova, futura, inventata, possibile condizione umana. UN RICORDO SU MARCELLO FABBRI Dall'introduzione al volume di Antonio Quistelli Marcello Fabbri fu uno degli "outsider" che io volli in squadra ... Read more

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  • Urban Landscape Strategies

    by Giuseppe Marinoni ...
    Series Book 2 - EUROPEAN PRACTICE
    The projects illustrated here exemplify the way contemporary urban planning is moving in practice, and how it is precisely in the effective transformation of cities and landscapes that it is finding the theoretical and practical forms of its action. An urban planning that, as has recently been pointed out, having emancipated itself from the typo-morphological tradition focused on the built, is now ... Read more

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  • Lost Earth

    A Life of Cezanne

    by Philip Callow ...
    This first life of Cezanne in more than a quarter-century offers a vital reassessment of the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art. Fresh, boldly psychological, and energetically descriptive...an insightful portrait. -Booklist ... Read more

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  • Vincent Van Gogh

    A Life

    by Philip Callow ...
    Published on the hundredth anniversary of Van Gogh's death, this is the first full-length biography of this undying man in twenty years and surely the most comprehensive account to date. Mr. Callow treats more searchingly than any previous work the development of Van Gogh's genius and his emergence as an artist after early struggles to find a vocation, first in the world of art dealing and later ... Read more

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  • From the Shadows

    The Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor

    by Owen Hopkins ...
    Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662–1736) is considered one of Britain’s greatest architects. He was involved in the grandest architectural projects of his age and today is best known for his London churches – six idiosyncratic edifices of white Portland stone that remain standing today, proud and tall in the otherwise radically changed cityscape. Until comparatively recently, however, Hawksmoor was thought ... Read more

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  • The Threefold Logic of Advanced Architecture

    Conformative, Distributive and Expansive Protocols for an Informational Practice: 1990-2020

    by Manuel Gausa, Jordi Vivaldi ...
    During the last 30 years, Advanced Architecture has consolidated an interactive and informational logic that differs from that of Modernity and Postmodernity. This logic is threefold; it is modulated through three coexisting protocols -modes of action- whose peaks of intensity occur in three different decades: Conformative Protocols (1990-2000), Distributive Protocols (2000-2010) and Expansive ... Read more

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  • J. Irwin Miller

    The Shaping of an American Town

    by Nancy Kriplen ...
    J. Irwin Miller:The Shaping of An American Town tells the life story of this remarkable man who led Cummins Engine Company from its roots as a small, family business to an international Fortune 500 company and transformed Columbus, Indiana, into a gem of midcentury modern architecture. As president and then chairman of Cummins, Miller emphasized a corporation's responsibility to the community in ... Read more

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  • Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism

    by Adrian Carter, Marja Sarvimäki ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another, as articulated with reference to the work of Jørn Utzon. It introduces critical contemporary perspectives of the design thinking and career of this renowned Danish architect, internationally recognised for his competition-winning, iconic design for the Sydney Opera ... Read more

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  • Utopias and Architecture

    by Nathaniel Coleman ...
    Utopian thought, though commonly characterized as projecting a future without a past, depends on golden models for re-invention of what is. Through a detailed and innovative re-assessment of the work of three architects who sought to represent a utopian content in their work, and a consideration of the thoughts of a range of leading writers, Coleman offers the reader a unique perspective of ... Read more

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  • Routledge Revivals: The Design Professions and the Built Environment (1988)

    Edited by Paul L Knox ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1988, this book argues that discussions of urban development often neglect to consider that much of the urban environment is designed by architects and planners, and that the particular world-view of architects and planners is crucial for the way proposals are taken up, modified and carried out. The author explores the world-view of architects and planners, considering their ... Read more

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