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“howard mansfield”

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  • Invisible Monuments

    Tribute, Memory, and the Summoning of the Past

    by Howard Mansfield ...
    “Howard Mansfield has never written an uninteresting or dull sentence. All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishing. He is something like a cultural psychologist along with being a first-class cultural historian. He is humane, witty, bright-minded, and rigorously intelligent. His deep subject is Time: how we deal with it and how it deals with us.”—Guy Davenport, poet, translator, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • In the Memory House

    by Howard Mansfield ...
    "Mr. Mansfield gets beneath the patina of the tangible and intangible relics of our history to locate the emotional core of our past. Through the intensity of his language, his pace, and wit, the predisposed reader can take the leap into collective memory and even catch that damp, sweet scent of the past. [A] wise and beautiful book." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn the Memory House recalls ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dwelling in Possibility

    Searching for the Soul of Shelter

    by Howard Mansfield ...
    The mystery that attracts Howard Mansfield's attention is that some houses have life--are home, are dwellings, and others aren't. Dwelling, he says, is an old-fashioned word that we've misplaced.When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong to a place, we dwell. Possession, they say, is nine-tenths of the law, but it is also what too many houses and towns lack. We are not possessed by our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • I Will Tell No War Stories

    What Our Fathers Left Unsaid About World War II

    by Howard Mansfield ...
    When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his father’s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule not to talk about what he’d experienced in war. “You’re not getting any war stories from me,” he’d say.Cleaning up the old family house the year before his father's death, Mansfield was surprised to find a short diary of the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Turn and Jump

    How Time & Place Fell Apart

    by Howard Mansfield ...
    Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Cosmopolis

    Yesterday's Cities of the Future

    Edited by Howard Mansfield ...
    The twentieth century saw a grand procession of promises for the city. The great modern architect Le Corbusier dictated cities of glittering white towers planted in green parks, Frank Lloyd proposed cities with no downtown, cities spread across the countryside with each family on its homestead, and skyscraper utopians of the 1920s promised paradise on the one-hundredth floor with our airplane ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Read more

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  • The Walkable City: From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    From Haussman’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond

    by Mary Soderstrom ...
    Taking us on walks through Paris, New York, Toronto, North Vancouver and Singapore, Mary Soderstrom examines how cites have changed the lives of ordinary citizens—in positive and negative ways. Making the city walkable again is crucial. The author looks to the future and suggests ways in which we can reorganize our lives and our cities. The idea that a city might not be walkable would never occur ... Read more

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  • From Bauhaus to Our House

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth-century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius ... Read more

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  • The LEGO® Architect

    by Tom Alphin ...
    Travel through the history of architecture in The LEGO Architect. You’ll learn about styles like Art Deco, Modernism, and High-Tech, and find inspiration in galleries of LEGO models. Then take your turn building 12 models in a variety of styles. Snap together some bricks and learn architecture the fun way! ... Read more

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  • How Architecture Works

    A Humanist's Toolkit

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Read more

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