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The Taylorized Beauty of the MechanicalScientific Management and the Rise of …
The dream of scientific management was a rationalized machine world where life would approach the perfection of an assembly line. But since its early twentieth-century peak this dream has come to seem a dehumanizing nightmare. Henry Ford's assembly lines turned out a quarter of a million cars in 1914, but all of them were black. Forgotten has been the unparalleled new aesthetic beauty once seen…
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Das Bundesamt für Sport in Magglingen
Magglingen hoch über dem Bieler See im Kanton Bern hat sich vom Kurort zu einem schweizweit einzigartigen Ort des Sports entwickelt. Ein Spaziergang führt vom klassizistischen ehemaligen Kurhaus bis ans «End der Welt» und offenbart 150 Jahre Zeit-, Sport- und Architekturgeschichte. Er führt vorbei an den ab 1944 entstandenen Gründungsbauten der Sportschule im Landi-Stil und den bekannten …
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Follies in AmericaA History of Garden and Park Architecture
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape …
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Die Schlösser in Oberdiessbach
Die Schlösser von Oberdiessbach sind Denkmäler einer stolzen ehemaligen Gerichtsherrschaft des Alten Bern. Die Burg Diessenberg an der Flanke der Falkenfluh wurde als Sitz der Herrschaft im 15. Jahrhundert durch das Sässhaus am Dorfrand abgelöst, das die Aufsteigerfamilie von Diesbach in Etappen zum ummauerten und mit Tortürmen ausgezeichneten sog. Alten Schloss ausbaute. Eine neue Ära er…
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Estate Landscapes in northern Europe
Estate Landscapes in Northern Europe is the first study of the role of the landed estate as an agent in the shaping of landscapes and societies across northern Europe over the past five centuries. Leading us into the fascinating variations of manorial worlds, the present volume seeks to open the field to include a broader perspective on estate landscapes. Estate - or manorial - landscapes were …
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Il Museo Vincenzo Vela a Ligornetto
Il Museo Vincenzo Vela, la più importante casa d'artista ancora conservata in Svizzera, è una delle più interessanti d'Europa sotto il profilo storico-culturale. Ospita quasi l'integrità degli originali in gesso dello scultore ticinese Vincenzo Vela (1820–91) Nato a Ligornetto, fu un esponente di spicco del realismo in scultura e un convinto sostenitore delle cause del Risorgimento, il mo…
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The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre
In this volume the leading experts on ancient Greek theatre architecture present new excavation results and new analyses of individual monuments. Many well-known theatres such as the one of Dionysos in Athens and others at for instance Messene, Sikyon, Chaironeia in Greece and Aphrodisias in Turkey have been re-examined since their original publication with stunning results. New research also i…
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Die eidgenössischen Kasernen in Thun
Anfang der 1860er Jahre wurden die Weichen zur weiteren Entwicklung der Stadt Thun gestellt. Thun wurde zu einem der wichtigsten Waffenplätze der Schweiz und zu einem Zentrum der Rüstungsindustrie. Die imposanten eidgenössischen Kasernenbauten aus den Jahren 1868, 1901/02 und 1940 zeugen bis heute von der Entwicklung der militärischen Ausbildung.
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The Spolia Churches of RomeRecycling Antiquity in the Middle Ages
The church-builders of the Middle Ages treated the architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of prefabricated building materials. This resulted in some very eclectically and ingeniously constructed churches. In The Spolia Churches of Rome we learn of the principles for the distribution of these antique architectural elements and the significance of breaking down and building on the past. …
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Museo Vincenzo Vela in Ligornetto
Als eines der kulturhistorisch interessantesten Beispiele Europas ist das Museo Vincenzo Vela das bedeutendste noch erhaltene Künstlerhaus der Schweiz. Es beherbergt fast sämtliche Gipsoriginale des Tessiner Bildhauers Vincenzo Vela (1820–91). In Ligornetto geboren, war Vela ein hochrangiger Vertreter des Realismus in der Bildhauerei, überdies in Mailand und Turin ein aktiver Mitstreiter d…
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