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Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in AntiquitiesAutor: Wayne Craven
Gebundene Ausgabe, 31.05.2005
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby ProblemAutor: Julie Phillips
Taschenbuch, 02.05.2023
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Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of ProtestAutor: Laura Raicovich
Taschenbuch, 26.09.2023
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Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver: His Art and His WorldAutor: Rebecca M. Valette
Gebundene Ausgabe, 01.12.2023
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A BiographyAutor: Meryle Secrest
Taschenbuch, 08.05.1998
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Something Like An AutobiographyAutor: Akira Kurosawa
Taschenbuch, 12.05.1983
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Art Rules: How great artists think, create and workAutor: Cassie Packard
Flexibler Einband, 12.09.2023
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About EdAutor: Robert Gluck
Taschenbuch, 14.11.2023
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Norman Foster: Works 5Gebundene Ausgabe |
William Kent: Architect, Designer, OpportunistTimothy MowlTaschenbuchWilliam Kent (1685-1748) was great without a hint of gravitas, a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age. He was a high camp Yorkshire bachelor, brought back by Lord Burlington from an artistic apprenticeship in Rome where he had painted for a cardinal and won prizes from a pope. In London he charmed the surly old Hanoverian King George I, redecorated Kensington Palace for him with a clumsy bravura, and survived the subsequent critical storm - just. England was in stylistic chaos after rejecting its lawful Stuart rulers and Burlington was imposing a chaste and dreary Palladianism on a philistine island people. Kent saw his chance and never looked back. Queen Caroline, the real ruler, used him to project in sensational garden buildings by the Thames at Richmond her vision of a new scientific Britain. Sir Robert Walpole paid him to turn Houghton Hall in Norfolk into an imperial palace, outshining anything the German monarchs could raise. Another prime minister, the virtuous Henry Pelham, built with Kent a revolutionary suburban bolt-hole in Surrey. Between them they invented the Gothic Revival out at Esher, but have never been given the credit. Late in life, while raising an alabaster temple to Jupiter at Holkham Hall, also in Norfolk, and the sexiest interiors in London on Berkeley Square, Kent was discovering his true genius, laying out casually at Esher, Stowe in Buckinghamshire and Rousham near Oxford, the Arcadian image of the ' English Garden' that would take the continent, even France, by storm as England's only original contribution to European culture. |
Leonardo Da VinciKenneth Clark, Martin KempTaschenbuchLeonardo Da Vinci A monograph of Leonardo Da Vinci's art and his development. It provides an introduction to Leonardo's genius. Full description |
Winsor McCay: His Life and ArtJohn CanemakerTaschenbuch |
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of ArtNoah Charney, Ingrid RowlandTaschenbuch |
Life and Shape: The Autobiography of Richard NeutraRichard NeutraTaschenbuchLife and Shape Since he followed it all of his life, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) must have relished the maxim of the Greek philosopher Socrates: " The unexamined life is not worth living. " In his books, articles, lectures, correspondence, and even casual conversations, Neutra constantly examined, not only his own life, but the lives of others - present and past - and the human and natural world they inhabited. Nowhere was this truer than in his autobiography " Life and Shape, " first published in 1962, which now, after years of being out of print, has again happily come back to life. As opposed to " Survival Through Design" (1954), his superb collection of densely philosophica. . . |
An Engineer ImaginesPeter RiceGebundene Ausgabe |
Curves of Time: Oscar Niemeyer Memoirs (Architecture Générale)Oscar NeimeyerGebundene AusgabeSome people live to work while others work to live, and based on this charmingly relaxed and meandering memoir, it would seem that Oscar Niemeyer definitely falls in the latter category. Not to say that he doesn't spend considerable time here musing on his crowning achievement, Brasilia. It's just that he does so the same way that he recounts everything else here, dispensing with details and strict linearity (much like in his built work), shifting casually between different points in time (including the very days he is working on what became this book), and focusing on the human relationships and friendships behind a project (such as with Lucia Costa, his mentor and the so-called "father of Brazilian modernism, " as well as Le Corbusier) than their technical, administrative, and budgetary minutiae. Niemeyer designed the vast majority of the municipal buildings for Brasilia, the city built "overnight" in the 1960s out of the desolate interior of his native Brazil to serve as the country's new capital, and the sensuously curvy modernism of its skyline has effectively become his stylistic signature, even if he didn't anticipate the vast and ugly exurban sprawl that has since come to ring the city's dazzling axial core. So much more than a professional memoir, this is really the unhurried, and endearingly nostalgic, reminiscences of a passionate man motivated not so much by professional or financial gain (in fact, he claims, he worked for years on Brasilia at the base rate of an average civil servant) as by a profound, even melancholic, love for his beautiful and troubled country; the ongoing struggle for relief from political and economic oppression around the world; and, above all, a vast web of lifelong friendships. To wit, there are far more photos here of Niemeyer with his Brazilian cronies (many long dead, he laments openly) than there are of his projects (one reason why those not already somewhat familiar with his output may want to start elsewhere), and far more recounted about their prank-filled road trips between Rio and Brasilia than about the work that actually went on there. Those tales, and all of Niemeyer's anecdotes and gentle, quirky musings here, possess a kind of melancholic glow, evocative of samba, wine, and the "uninhibited" women of his homeland. He reminisces lyrically about Paris, Italy, and Algiers, where he lived and designed projects for much of the period during which Brazil was under a repressive dictatorship. But even amid his delight in world travel, his homesickness is apparent. " I want to watch the stars / I want to feel life / And be back in Brazil / That's where I want to live, " goes a characteristically openhearted poem he wrote in those years of near-forced exile. It is the land and the people of his beloved Brazil, much more so than any or all of what he designed there or elsewhere, that make up the soul of this unconventional and thoroughly lovely memoir from one of the 20th century's most talented, and passionate, architects. < I>-Timothy Murphy |
A place for all people: Architecture, Society and MeRichard RogersGebundene AusgabeArchitecture, Society and Me Gebundenes Buch A stunningly designed memoir with pictures by one of the world's leading architects and urban thinkers - ' A towering genius' Telegraph |
Mario Botta (Architektur und Design)Philip JodidioGebundene AusgabeRare Book |