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The book explains the aesthetics of house forms ranging from elaborately decorated Arts & Crafts architecture to the purity of modernist homes. How to Read Houses is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the buildings we live in and who desires a detailed field guide to the houses around us.
How to read houses: a crash course in domestic architecture
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The book explains the aesthetics of house forms ranging from elaborately decorated Arts & Crafts architecture to the purity of modernist homes. How to Read Houses is the perfect companion for anyone interested in the buildings we live in and who desires a detailed field guide to the houses around us.
Dictionaries
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This comprehensive reference offers gardens from many periods of history—Islamic, Renaissance, English Landscape, Arts & Crafts, and more—and geographically diverse environments—from a nighttime sculpture garden on the Oregon coast, to a sustainable water garden in the mountains of Vermont, and the Mughal garden at the Indian president’s palace in New Delhi.
Gardens in details: 100 contemporary designs
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This comprehensive reference offers gardens from many periods of history—Islamic, Renaissance, English Landscape, Arts & Crafts, and more—and geographically diverse environments—from a nighttime sculpture garden on the Oregon coast, to a sustainable water garden in the mountains of Vermont, and the Mughal garden at the Indian president’s palace in New Delhi.
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255 pages : some color illustrations ; 31 cm
New York, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2012]
Contemporary classical : the architecture of Andrew Skurman / Andrew Skurman.
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New York, New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2012]
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Cet ouvrage retrace 150 ans d'une fresque historique aux mouvement contrariés, animée d'une réflexion théorique sans cesse renouvelée : du mouvement anglais du XIXe siècle Arts and Crafts et du Bauhaus allemand, en passant par l'esthétique industrielle en France, au "tout-plasique des années pop et le design virtuel des années 2000...
Le design
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Cet ouvrage retrace 150 ans d'une fresque historique aux mouvement contrariés, animée d'une réflexion théorique sans cesse renouvelée : du mouvement anglais du XIXe siècle Arts and Crafts et du Bauhaus allemand, en passant par l'esthétique industrielle en France, au "tout-plasique des années pop et le design virtuel des années 2000...
History since 1900, Reference Books
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This two-volume work presents life and work of the English typographer Anthony Froshaug. "Typography & texts" concerns Froshaug's work. An introduction by Robin Kinross outlines the nature and achievement of Froshaug. Then a selection of his printed products is shown with extended critical captions, followed by layouts(...)
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October 2000, London
Anthony Froshaug : typography and texts / documents of a life
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This two-volume work presents life and work of the English typographer Anthony Froshaug. "Typography & texts" concerns Froshaug's work. An introduction by Robin Kinross outlines the nature and achievement of Froshaug. Then a selection of his printed products is shown with extended critical captions, followed by layouts that he made as instructions. At the centre of this book is the section of 'texts' all the writings that Froshaug published in his lifetime or which exist in manuscript in some adequately finished state. This volume concludes with a catalogue of work, bibliographies, index (to both volumes). The second volume, "Documents of a life" is not a biography, but rather a sequence of documents, mostly drawn from hitherto private sources, interspersed with explanation by the editor. Among these documents are autobiographical memories by Froshaug, as well as correspondence between him and a range of contemporaries. Notable correspondences represent his attempt in the 1940s to publish texts by Jan Tschichold, and his friendship with the writer Stefan Themerson. Memories by his friend Wolfgang Hildesheimer are preseted here for the first time in English. Froshaug’s periods as a one-man printer in Cornwall, adjacent to the artists at St Ives, are documented. The book also represents his seminal teaching work at the Central School of Arts & Crafts, the Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm, the Royal College of Art, and Watford School of Art.
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October 2000, London
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Invention of art
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In The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner argues that the category of fine art is a modern invention, and that the line drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the eighteenth century. He looks at works by Hogarth, Rousseau, Woolstonecraft, Emerson, Marx, Dewey and Benjamin to show how the modern system maintains its dominance(...)
Invention of art
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In The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner argues that the category of fine art is a modern invention, and that the line drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the eighteenth century. He looks at works by Hogarth, Rousseau, Woolstonecraft, Emerson, Marx, Dewey and Benjamin to show how the modern system maintains its dominance through the assimilation of artists and musicians who resist it, and the distinctions it draws between artists and artisans, and high art and the crafts.
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September 2001, Chicago
Art Theory
Gustav Stickley
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Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) is one of the most influential figures of the American Arts Crafts movement. A self-made man whose furniture company, Craftsman Workshops, and the magazine he founded in 1901, "The Craftsman," held wide-ranging influence over American interior design and decorative arts for decades. Although best-known as a designer of functional yet(...)
Gustav Stickley
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Gustav Stickley (1858-1942) is one of the most influential figures of the American Arts Crafts movement. A self-made man whose furniture company, Craftsman Workshops, and the magazine he founded in 1901, "The Craftsman," held wide-ranging influence over American interior design and decorative arts for decades. Although best-known as a designer of functional yet beautifully crafted wood furniture, Stickley was also an entrepreneur and brilliant manager who assembled a talented team of collaborators to produce lamps, metalwork, textiles, plans for houses, and interiors.
Design Monographs
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480 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm
New York : Museum of Modern Art, ©2005.
Friedlander / Peter Galassi ; with an essay by Richard Benson.
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New York : Museum of Modern Art, ©2005.
Greene & Greene
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Charles and Henry Greene created the definitive houses of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Raised to be architects, the Greene brothers were educated together at MIT, where their natural artistic skills blossomed in concert with an excellent practical education. While they practised architecture jointly in Southern California from 1906 to 1922 they achieved a(...)
Architecture Monographs
October 2003, London / New York
Greene & Greene
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Charles and Henry Greene created the definitive houses of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Raised to be architects, the Greene brothers were educated together at MIT, where their natural artistic skills blossomed in concert with an excellent practical education. While they practised architecture jointly in Southern California from 1906 to 1922 they achieved a powerful symbiosis, resulting in some of the most beautifully crafted houses in America. The elegant works of their peak period, such as the Gamble, Blacker and Thorsen houses, are masterful in their design and execution. No detail was overlooked: every element of the interior, including furniture, fittings and glasswork, as well as the building structure (down to pegs, air-vents and bracing) was conceived as an organic whole, and finished exquisitely. No hint of conflict was ever recorded between the gentlemanly brothers, yet their intertwined professional lives ultimately diverged into a physical separation and distinct design vocabularies. Even so, the automatic bond between the brothers was never completely severed, and they continued to consult each other on projects for the rest of their lives. This critical monograph, which charts the brothers’ careers (together and apart), is illustrated with superb new photography and draws on a wealth of previously unpublished archival material.
Architecture Monographs
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This volume takes the reader on a tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognize them in the buildings. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts through Bauhaus, the International Style, and Modernism to today’s environmental architecture and the rise and fall of(...)
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How to read modern buildings: a crash course in architecture of the modern era
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This volume takes the reader on a tour of modern architecture through its most iconic and significant buildings, showing how to read the hallmarks of each architectural style and how to recognize them in the buildings. From Art Deco and Arts and Crafts through Bauhaus, the International Style, and Modernism to today’s environmental architecture and the rise and fall of the “starchitect”, all the major architectural movements from the 1900s to the present day are traced through their classic buildings. Examining the key architectural elements and hidden details of each style, we learn what to look for and where to look for it.