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If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
Disfigured: On fairy tales, disability, and making space
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If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and behaviour and linking the quest for disability rights to new kinds of stories that celebrate difference.
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Part 1 of this three volume, comprehensive guide to contemporary American architecture focuses on the West and features 247 buildings along with 17 access maps for 69 different cities. Each building is dedicated one page, accompanied with colour photographs and a brief outline. Buildings featured include: Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas/Oma), San Francisco(...)
A guide to contemporary architecture in America, volume 1 : Western U.S.A.
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Part 1 of this three volume, comprehensive guide to contemporary American architecture focuses on the West and features 247 buildings along with 17 access maps for 69 different cities. Each building is dedicated one page, accompanied with colour photographs and a brief outline. Buildings featured include: Seattle Central Library (Rem Koolhaas/Oma), San Francisco International Airport (SOM), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank O. Gehry) and the Denver Central Library (Michael Graves).
City Guides
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Thisbook takes readers on a tour of American architectural treasures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides the practical information such as addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours, and maps. Among the new buildings included in this edition are Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry), Seattle Library (Rem Koolhaas), American Folk Art Museum (Tod(...)
The architecture traveler : a guide to 263 key American buildings, revised edition
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Thisbook takes readers on a tour of American architectural treasures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It provides the practical information such as addresses, phone numbers, visitor hours, and maps. Among the new buildings included in this edition are Walt Disney Concert Hall (Frank Gehry), Seattle Library (Rem Koolhaas), American Folk Art Museum (Tod Williams/Billie Tsien), Contemporary Arts Center (Zaha Hadid), Milwaukee Art Museum (Santiago Calatrava), and the 'Solar Umbrella' House (Larry Scarpa/Angela Brooks).
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One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product designs, including the world-famous Alessi whistling-bird teakettle, and controversial buildings, such as the Portland Building in Oregon, Humana Building in Kentucky, and Dolphin and Swan Hotels at Walt Disney World, Florida.(...)
Michael Graves: design for life
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One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product designs, including the world-famous Alessi whistling-bird teakettle, and controversial buildings, such as the Portland Building in Oregon, Humana Building in Kentucky, and Dolphin and Swan Hotels at Walt Disney World, Florida. Graves was widely seen as the leading voice of postmodernist architecture, which reintroduced human scale, color, and, sometimes, playful forms into the stark white vocabulary of modernism.
The ethics of sightseeing
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The ethics of sightseeing identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through a combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: "picturesque" rural and natural landscapes, "hip" urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and(...)
The ethics of sightseeing
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The ethics of sightseeing identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through a combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: "picturesque" rural and natural landscapes, "hip" urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.
Critical Theory
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Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollock chronicles the friendship between director Sydney Pollock and the famed architect every bit as much as it does Gehry and his work, and it makes for a delightful window into the world of creativity and genius. Gehry has made a big imprint on architecture at the turn of the 21st century; his molten-looking visions have graced(...)
Sketches of Frank Gehry (DVD)
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Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollock chronicles the friendship between director Sydney Pollock and the famed architect every bit as much as it does Gehry and his work, and it makes for a delightful window into the world of creativity and genius. Gehry has made a big imprint on architecture at the turn of the 21st century; his molten-looking visions have graced buildings small (actor Dennis Hopper's industrial-looking home in Venice, Calif.) to enormous (the sprawling Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain). He's the genius behind Los Angeles's sweeping Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Au siècle de l'urbanisation galopante, la mutation rapide des villes est au coeur de leurs interrogations. Des études de Robert Venturi consacrées au Las Vegas des années 1970 à l'ouvrage de Rem Koolhaas New York Délire, qui fait du Luna Park de Coney Island l'" incubateur " mythologique de Manhattan, des cités idéales rêvées par Watt Disney aux fantaisies architecturales(...)
Dreamlands: des parcs d'attractions aux cités du futur
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Au siècle de l'urbanisation galopante, la mutation rapide des villes est au coeur de leurs interrogations. Des études de Robert Venturi consacrées au Las Vegas des années 1970 à l'ouvrage de Rem Koolhaas New York Délire, qui fait du Luna Park de Coney Island l'" incubateur " mythologique de Manhattan, des cités idéales rêvées par Watt Disney aux fantaisies architecturales des urbanistes de Dubaï ou de Shanghai, cette punlication retrace les étapes d'une métamorphose ludique de la ville, qui est peut-être aussi celle de la culture, à l'heure du tourisme de masse.
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Frank Gehry in Pop-Up
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Experience five of Frank Gehry's most extaordinary creations in 3-D as they are bought to life through state-of-the-art paper engineering. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain Norton House, Venice Beach, California Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washinton The New Customhouse, Dusseldorf, Germany The architectural(...)
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Frank Gehry in Pop-Up
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Experience five of Frank Gehry's most extaordinary creations in 3-D as they are bought to life through state-of-the-art paper engineering. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain Norton House, Venice Beach, California Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washinton The New Customhouse, Dusseldorf, Germany The architectural marvels represented in each pop-up replica are complemented by commentary on the structure's history, design and construction. Unique details and structural features of Gehry's buildings are highlighted by colorful and extensive photographs that offer a fresh look at the groundbreaking work of this outstanding creative force.
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Long the most infamous street in America, in recent years Forty-second Street has been remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disapearance of peep shows and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a childreen's theater, and large, neon-lit cafés, Samuel R. Delany sees a disapearance, not only of the old Time Square, but of the complex social(...)
Times Square Red Times Square Blue
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Long the most infamous street in America, in recent years Forty-second Street has been remade into a sanitized tourist haven. In the forced disapearance of peep shows and street hustlers to make room for a Disney store, a childreen's theater, and large, neon-lit cafés, Samuel R. Delany sees a disapearance, not only of the old Time Square, but of the complex social relationships that developed there. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue paints a portrait of a society dismantling the institutions that promote communication between classes and disguising its fears of cross-class contact as 'family values'.
Urban Theory
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Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney's original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants' every need, and he regarded the home(...)
A small world: smart houses and the dream of the perfect day
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Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney's original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants' every need, and he regarded the home as a site of unending technological progress. This fixation on "space-age" technology, with its promise of domestic bliss, marked an important mid-twentieth-century shift in understandings of the American home. In A Small World, Davin Heckman considers how domestic technologies that free people to enjoy leisure time in the home have come to be understood as necessary parts of everyday life.
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