The struggle for modernism : architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard
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A history of modernism in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard. This book tells how modernism evolved in the celebrated design school in America. Tracing developments at Harvard, whose Graduate School of Design was home from 1937 to 1952 of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, it shows that America had initiated its own modern(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2001, New York / London
The struggle for modernism : architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard
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A history of modernism in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and city planning at Harvard. This book tells how modernism evolved in the celebrated design school in America. Tracing developments at Harvard, whose Graduate School of Design was home from 1937 to 1952 of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, it shows that America had initiated its own modern agenda before the arrival of the European modernist ideology. Anthony Alofsin is Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
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The rise of the sixties
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'The rise of the sixties' provides an overview of the major themes and figures of the 1960s art world. Presenting an international array of artists against the background of world culture, Crow portrays the ways in which the American art scene- including such key figures as Leo Castelli, Eva Hesse, Jeasper Johns, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Cy Twombly, and Andy(...)
The rise of the sixties
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'The rise of the sixties' provides an overview of the major themes and figures of the 1960s art world. Presenting an international array of artists against the background of world culture, Crow portrays the ways in which the American art scene- including such key figures as Leo Castelli, Eva Hesse, Jeasper Johns, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol- fit into the corresponding European and international movements of the time, among them Situationism, Conceptualism, Feminism, Environmentalism, and Op Art.
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March 2005, London
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A personal take on street typography in various European cities, including former Soviet countries and southern Europe, with photos of letters that epitomize a city's atmosphere. 'Reading the Streets' is the sequel to 'Brussels Type', in which Van Steendam travels abroad with the same mission. Stan Van Steendam (1985) studied graphic design at Sint-Lucas in Ghent. He is(...)
Reading the streets: fading city typography
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A personal take on street typography in various European cities, including former Soviet countries and southern Europe, with photos of letters that epitomize a city's atmosphere. 'Reading the Streets' is the sequel to 'Brussels Type', in which Van Steendam travels abroad with the same mission. Stan Van Steendam (1985) studied graphic design at Sint-Lucas in Ghent. He is passionate about typography, and works for various publishers in Belgium and abroad, as well as being a photographer and visual artist.
Graphic Design and Typography
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This book expands knowledge about the conservation of ancient monuments, works of art and historic buildings. It includes the origins of the interest in conservation within the European context, and the development of the concepts from Antiquity and the Renaissance to the present day. Jokilehto illustrates how this development has influenced international collaboration in(...)
A history of architectural conversation
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This book expands knowledge about the conservation of ancient monuments, works of art and historic buildings. It includes the origins of the interest in conservation within the European context, and the development of the concepts from Antiquity and the Renaissance to the present day. Jokilehto illustrates how this development has influenced international collaboration in the protection and conservation of cultural heritage, and how it has formed the principal concepts and approach to conservation and restoration in today's multi-cultural society.
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October 2002
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"A place in history" is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the role of memory and diaspora in the creation of a new national culture. Each chapter is devoted to a particular place in the city that has been(...)
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
April 2006, Stanford
A place in history : modernism, Tel Aviv, and the creation of Jewish urban space
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"A place in history" is a cultural study of Tel Aviv, Israel's population center, established in 1909. It describes how a largely European Jewish immigrant society attempted to forge a home in the Mediterranean, and explores the role of memory and diaspora in the creation of a new national culture. Each chapter is devoted to a particular place in the city that has been central to its history, and includes literary, artistic, journalistic, and photographic material relating to that site.
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April 2006, Stanford
Architecture since 1900, Middle-East
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In this volume, some of the most important figures in the field have come together to write on preservation movements across the country. "Giving Preservation a History" also touches on the European roots of the historic preservation movement; on how preservation movements have taken a leading role in shaping American urban space and urban development; how historic(...)
December 2003, New York
Giving preservation a history : histories of historic preservation in the United States
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In this volume, some of the most important figures in the field have come together to write on preservation movements across the country. "Giving Preservation a History" also touches on the European roots of the historic preservation movement; on how preservation movements have taken a leading role in shaping American urban space and urban development; how historic preservation battles have reflected broader social forces; and what the changing nature of historic preservation means for the effort to preserve the nation's past.
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The water garden : styles, designs, and visions / George Plumptre ; photographs by Hugh Palmer.
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208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1993.
The water garden : styles, designs, and visions / George Plumptre ; photographs by Hugh Palmer.
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New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1993.
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489 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, 2015., ©2015
Cities in transition : power, environment, society / editors, Wowo Ding, Arie Graafland and Andong Lu ; Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani [and others].
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489 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
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Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, 2015., ©2015
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175 pages : color illustration ; 26 cm
New York : The Monacelli Press, 2020., ©2020
Material transfers : metaphor, craft, and place in contemporary architecture / Françoise Astorg Bollack.
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New York : The Monacelli Press, 2020., ©2020
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Luxos-Papier-Fabrik [approximately 1890]
School for little builders : unterhaltendes, belehrendes Beschäftigungs-Mittel. [electronic resource].
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Luxos-Papier-Fabrik [approximately 1890]