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From the ShadowsThe Architecture and Afterlife of Nicholas Hawksmoor
Nicholas Hawksmoor (16621736) is considered one of Britains 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 …
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Sex and BuildingsModern Architecture and the Sexual Revolution
Massive modern skyscrapers, obelisks, towers—all are structures that, thanks to their phallic shape, are often associated with sex. But other buildings are more subtly connected, as they provide the frameworks for our sexual lives and act as reminders of our sexual memories. This relationship between sex and buildings mattered more than ever in the United States and Europe during the turbulen…
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CanadaModern Architectures in History
'We shall demand of our architects a sensitive interpretation of society's needs as well as the eloquent architectural statement', appealed Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1972. Architecture in Canada has been fashioned by the nation's immense size, as well as its concentrated and diverse geography and demography. This richly informative history reveals how the country has contributed in no sm…
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FranceModern Architectures in History
Everyone knows Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, and the chateaux of the Loire Valley, but French architects have also produced some of the most iconic buildings of the twentieth century, playing a central role in the emergence and development of modernism. In France, Jean-Louis Cohen presents a complete narrative of the unfolding architectural modernity in the country, grappling not only with the …
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Lancelot Brown and the Capability MenLandscape Revolution in Eighteenth-centu…
Lancelot "Capability" Brown is often thought of as the innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, naturalistic style of landscape design, but he was in fact only one of many landscape designers in Georgian England. Published to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Brown's birth, this book casts important new light on his world-renowned work, his eventful life, and the wide…
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Ruins and FragmentsTales of Loss and Rediscovery
What is it about ruins that is so alluring, so puzzling, that they can hold us in endless wonder over the half-erased story they tell? This elegant book explores the captivating hold these remains and broken pieces from architecture to art and literature have on us. Why are we suspicious of things that are too smooth, too continuous? What makes us feel, when we look at a fragment, that its ve…
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Architecture 101From Frank Gehry to Ziggurats, an Essential Guide to Building…
A crash course in designing and constructing buildingsToo often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of architecture into tedious discourse that would put even Frank Gehry to sleep. Architecture 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you explore the world's greatest structures.Featuring only the most important facts, building sty…
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The Perfect HouseA Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
"Palladio is the Bible," Thomas Jefferson once said. "You should get it and stick to it." With his simple, gracious, perfectly proportioned villas, Andrea Palladio elevated the architecture of the private house into an art form during the late sixteenth century -- and his influence is still evident in the ample porches, columned porticoes, grand ceilings, and front-door pediments of America tod…
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Crossing the ThresholdArchitecture, Iconography and the Sacred Entrance
Every day millions of people enter public buildings of many forms and functions: Notre-Dame in Paris, Grand Central Station in New York, the British Museum in London, that are decorated with recessed doorways. None of them is likely to be aware that this style of decoration has been continuously employed for 6500 years in temples, royal palaces, tombs, churches, synagogues, and modern public bu…
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Designing the SeasideArchitecture, Society and Nature
In Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, a seaside resort was the setting for thievery and intrigue. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers tap-danced their way to fame at a Brighton resort in The Gay Divorcee. The seaside resort has always held a special fascination, a place of containment and leisure that has a unique form in the physical landscape: towering hotels, shop-lined boardwalks, and sprawlin…
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