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184 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Chicago : Joseph Regenstein Library, 2008.
The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome : printing and collecting the Speculum romanae magnificentiae / Rebecca Zorach with contributions by Nina Dubin [and others].
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184 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Chicago : Joseph Regenstein Library, 2008.
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These are the fragments Francis Upritchard has shored against her ruins. Thrift store pots have been remade as canopic urns, ancient Egyptian repositories for the organs of the dead. A gift from a relative, an unwanted wedding present or a memory of a day out, even the tackiest ornament once played a small symbolic function in someone’s life. Now they have been detourned(...)
Francis Upritchard: human problems
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These are the fragments Francis Upritchard has shored against her ruins. Thrift store pots have been remade as canopic urns, ancient Egyptian repositories for the organs of the dead. A gift from a relative, an unwanted wedding present or a memory of a day out, even the tackiest ornament once played a small symbolic function in someone’s life. Now they have been detourned to reveal the underlying purpose of all that frantic personalising and decorating of domestic space, the fabrication of memories to set against death.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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xxii, 326 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 30 cm
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
New directions and paradigms for the study of Greek architecture : interdisciplinary dialogues in the field / edited by Philip Sapirstein PhD, University of Toronto; David Scahill PhD, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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The revival of ornament has seen a resurgence of interest in wallpaper design. Wallpaper is back, but this time it is different. No longer used 360 degrees to cover cracks and imperfections in crumbling plasterwork, wallcoverings are now a means of expressing individuality. The new wallpaper is blurring the division between art and interior decoration. Graphic designers(...)
Wallpaper
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The revival of ornament has seen a resurgence of interest in wallpaper design. Wallpaper is back, but this time it is different. No longer used 360 degrees to cover cracks and imperfections in crumbling plasterwork, wallcoverings are now a means of expressing individuality. The new wallpaper is blurring the division between art and interior decoration. Graphic designers and illustrators are playing with scale and using walls as their canvases while fashion and textile designers are transferring their fabric prints to paper. This book is a showcase of fresh and innovative wallpaper designs from 50 artists.
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Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to(...)
The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance
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Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism. Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central issue around which much of this debate focused.
Treatises
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Sauerbruch and Hutton are among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex(...)
Sauerbruch Hutton: colour in architecture
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Sauerbruch and Hutton are among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex technical reality of a building to disappear behind a powerful aesthetic experience. Beside Sauerbruch Hutton's renowned buildings such as the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, the Federal Environmental Agency Dessau or Munich's Brandhorst Museum, this book also shows their more recent work.
Architecture Monographs
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In ''Making Dystopia,'' architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive(...)
Making dystopia: the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism
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In ''Making Dystopia,'' architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice.
Architectural Theory
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An essay by Jean-François Chevrier and a conversation with Jacques Herzog on ornament, structure and space set the context for this comprehensive survey of the last five years of output from this important Swiss architectural office. Among the 23 both well-known and yet to be discovered projects featured include: the Laban Dance Centre, London; IKMZ BTU in Cottbus, De(...)
El Croquis
May 2006, Madrid
El croquis 129/130 : Herzog & de Meuron, 2002-2006
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An essay by Jean-François Chevrier and a conversation with Jacques Herzog on ornament, structure and space set the context for this comprehensive survey of the last five years of output from this important Swiss architectural office. Among the 23 both well-known and yet to be discovered projects featured include: the Laban Dance Centre, London; IKMZ BTU in Cottbus, De Young Museum, San Francisco; Elsässertor II, Basel; Plaza de España, Canary Islands; Jindong New District, Jinhua and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. All projects are accompanied by full page colour photographs along with plans, details and models.
El Croquis
Stanford White in detail
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Once proposed as the ''Commissioner of Beauty'' for New York City, Stanford White was a master of architecture, interior design, and ornament, fearlessly juxtaposing materials and objects from myriad cultures and times. Drawing on precedents from antiquity and the Renaissance, from Asia, the Middle East, and Europe as well as Colonial America, White created complex(...)
Stanford White in detail
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Once proposed as the ''Commissioner of Beauty'' for New York City, Stanford White was a master of architecture, interior design, and ornament, fearlessly juxtaposing materials and objects from myriad cultures and times. Drawing on precedents from antiquity and the Renaissance, from Asia, the Middle East, and Europe as well as Colonial America, White created complex surfaces inside and out. ''Stanford White in Detail'' examines this innovative and intricate web through lush, tightly framed vignettes of carved wood and marble, metalwork, mosaic, and tile as well as generous overall room views to demonstrate how these are woven together for a unique effect.
Architecture Monographs
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The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings. Sandra Alfoldy explains the challenges facing the development of the field of public craft and documents the largely ignored public craft commissions of the post-war era in Canada. The book(...)
The allied arts: architecture and craft in postwar Canada
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The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings. Sandra Alfoldy explains the challenges facing the development of the field of public craft and documents the largely ignored public craft commissions of the post-war era in Canada. The book highlights the global concerns of material, scale, form, ornament, and identity shared by architects and craftspeople. It also examines the ways in which the allied arts are mediated by institutions and the fragility of craft commissions once considered an integral part of the built environment.
Architecture in Canada