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  • Place-making for the Imagination: Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill

    de Marion Harney ...
    Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ’Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste' created private resonances, pleasure and entertainment - a collusion of the historic, the visual and the sensory. Above all, it ... Leer más

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  • Gardens and Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation

    de Marion Harney ...
    Series series Historic Building Conservation
    This comprehensive guide on historic garden and landscape conservation will help landscape professionals familiarise themselves with what the conservation of historic gardens, garden structures and designed landscapes encompasses.The aim of the series is to introduce each aspect of conservation and to provide concise, basic and up-to-date knowledge within five volumes, sufficient for the ... Leer más

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  • Collected Works of J. M. W. Turner (Delphi Classics)

    Series Libro 3 - Delphi Masters of Art
    Renowned as ‘the painter of light’, the English Romanticist landscape painter J. M. W. Turner is now regarded as the artist that elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting, as well as raising the reputation of watercolour landscape painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great ... Leer más

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  • The Edwardian House Explained

    de Trevor Yorke ...
    The period from 1900 to 1914—the Edwardian Age—is often thought of as a golden time of country house parties and endless summers. In fact, it was a time of great social change. Wealthy industrialists were building houses for their workers at Port Sunlight (Lever), Bournville (Cadbury) and New Earswick (Rowntree). The garden suburb was also being developed and seen as a way of clearing slum housing ... Leer más

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  • Visual Shock

    A History of Art Controversies in American Culture

    In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The Gross Clinic, (considered “too big, bold, and gory” when ... Leer más

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  • Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture (Norton Pocket Guides)

    Series Libro 0 - Norton Pocket Guides
    “A handy guidebook that profiles a building per page, with a drawing and vital statistics on most of Chicago’s major historic and modern buildings.”—Chicago TribuneUpdated and expanded to chart the changing urban landscape of Chicago--as well as to incorporate a section on Chicago’s campus architecture, including works by Rem Koolhaas at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Frank Lloyd Wright ... Leer más

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  • The 1930s House Explained

    de Trevor Yorke ...
    The Art Deco exhibition in Paris in 1925 ushered in a new style of architecture based on the latest designs from Europe and American—flat roofs, plain facades, reinforced concrete and white paint inside and out. Streamlining was the watchword and houses, from bungalows to detached family homes, were planned around their internal use. Using his own drawings, diagrams and photographs, author Trevor ... Leer más

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  • Archispeak

    An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms

    de Tom Porter ...
    Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often ... Leer más

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  • Surrealism

    Surrealists appeared in the aftermath of World War I with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins.This refusal to integrate into the bourgeois society was also a leitmotiv of Dada artists, and André Breton asserted that Dada does not produce perspective. Surrealism emerged amidst such feeling. Surrealists and Dada artists ... Leer más

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  • All Over the Map

    Writing on Buildings and Cities

    Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.” ... Leer más

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  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Edición de Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... Leer más

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  • Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Mid-Century Modernism

    The phase of American architectural history we call 'mid-century modernism,' 1940-1980, saw the spread of Modern Movement tenets of functionalism, social service and anonymity into mainstream practice. It also saw the spread of their seeming opposites. Temples, arcades, domes, and other traditional types occur in both modernist and traditionalist forms from the 1950s to the 1970s. Hut Pavilion ... Leer más

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