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Greek Beauty
Goddess, nymph, muse, or merely mortal, women never ceased to inspire Greek sculptors and painters. Far from representing an ideal beauty of young athletes with exultant bodies, these sensuous feminine models recount to us the ambiguous notions the Greeks had toward women. Showing both the fascination and repulsion, eroticism and damnation, this small work in [...]
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Glass House
The Philip Johnson Glass House was built in 1949 and is considered one of America s iconic modernist structures. Over the course of nearly 50 years, Philip Johnson and David Whitney s 47 acre site in New Canaan, CT, became a canvas for their innovation in the fields of architecture, art and landscape design. In [...]
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Cinema Architecture
Movie theater architecture is an architecture of night. Evening screenings take place in buildings that seek out the attention of passersby using their form and light. The interiors of this less-than-a-century-old building type are also very manifold. The range of design is especially evident in the execution of foyers, which span everything from the strict, [...]
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Why Buildings Fall Down: Why Structures Fail
Although modern techniques and new materials have greatly decreased the number of structural failures in today’s world, buildings stil fall down- and whenever a building, a bridge, a tunnel, or a dam collapses, it is front-page news and often the beginning of a hunt for clues and culprits as facinating as any detective story.
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Johannesburg Transition: Architecture and Society From 1950
Johannesburg Transition: Architecture and Society From 1950 is a follow on to Clive Chipkin’s first, highly-successful and now out-of-print book, Johannesburg Style: Architecture and Society 1880s-1960s. Julian Cooke of the school of architecture (UCT) described the way the earlier volume “romps through politics, music, biography, industry and architecture – very consistent and Johannesburg’s mad romp [...]
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Alvar Aalto – Objects and Furniture Design – By Architects
Nature, biology, has rich and luxurious forms; with the same principles of cellular organisation, it can create billions of combinations, each of which represent a highly developed form. Man’s life belongs to the same category. The things that surround him are hardly fetishes or allegories with mystical eternal value: more than anything else, they are [...]
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Architecture Transformed: A History of the Photography of Buildings from 1839 to the Present
This magnificently illustrated book documents a history of style in the photography of buildings
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Art Deco Architecture
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Art Spaces – The architecture of the four Tates
Markedly different in location and appearance, the four Tate Galleries-Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St. Ives, and Tate Modern-nevertheless share certain features: their waterside settings, their distance from fashionable city centers, and their role in the regeneration of their neighborhoods. In this beautifully illustrated book, Helen Searing traces the architectural history of each site, focusing [...]
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