Entrée principale:

Lewis, Philippa, author.

Titre et auteur:

Stories from architecture : behind the lines at Drawing Matter / Philippa Lewis ; foreword by Adrian Forty.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

Description:

213 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Rex Savidge, Entrance to Commercial Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1957 -- 2. Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, View of the Piccadilly Entrance to Burlington Arcade, London, 1827 -- 3. George Marshall, Perspective View of the Interior of St. Stephen's Walbrook, London, Mid-eighteenth Century -- 4. Moos, Designs for Graveyard Memorials and Tombstones, 1811 -- 5. Richard Bentley, Gothick Fireplace, Possibly for Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Surrey, 1754 -- 6. A. Tod, Mr. Tassie's House, Leicester Square, London, 1806 -- 7. Cassius Goldsmith, Design for a Gate Lodge, ca. 1827 -- 8. Unattributed French Artist, House in Islamic Style, 1870s -- 9. Richard Neutra, Residence for Josef von Sternberg, 1935 -- 10. Peepshow of Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel, 1830s -- 11. Oliver Messel, Model of Bar for the Great Octagon, Bath Assembly Rooms, 1961 -- 12. George Coke, Topographical View of the Wall and Trees of London Smallpox Hospital, Coldbath Fields, Clerkenwell, London, 1796 -- 13. Frederick G. C. Weir, Proposed Plan for Artisans' Dwellings, 1875 -- 14. PC Harry Woodley, Plans of № 131 Cornwall Street, St. George's in the East, London, 1902 -- 15. Samuel Hardy, Competition Entry for an All-British £1,000 House, 1932 -- 16. Robert Bray, Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse, Featured in Playboy Magazine, January 1970 -- 17. William Beddoe Rees, Selsey-on-Sea Limited, Architect's Suggested Plan for Development, 1907 -- 18. Three Perspective Drawings for an Estate of Villas, Streatham, Surrey, Inscribed "Angelier," ca. 1825 -- 19. Henri Guerbois, Department Store in King Street, Kensington, for Barker's, 1921 -- 20. René-André Coulon, Jeux d'eau et de lumière, 1937 -- 21. P. O'Neil, Kitchen Design, ca. 1955 -- 22. Gordon M. Hills, Colgate Chapel, Sussex, Proposed Enlargement and Design for Ceiling, 1871 -- 23. John Nash, Designs for Langham House, Portland Place, London, ca. 1812-1816 -- 24. Frank Lloyd Wright, Ground Plan and Street Elevation of "Below Zero" House for Edith Carlson, 1939 -- 25. Antonio Asprucci, Ornamental Detail for the Stanza del Sole, Villa Borghese, Rome, 1775-1780.

Résumé:

"Blending fiction with fact, this book takes drawings, models and prints as starting points for stories about the human side of architecture, as told both by its makers and the people it was made for"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262543026 paperback
0262543028 paperback

Sujet:

Architecture Anecdotes.
Architecture Humor.
Architecture Humour.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Architecture

Classification/genre:

Creative nonfiction
Anecdotes
Humor
Essais fictionnels.

Vedettes secondaires:

Forty, Adrian, 1948- writer of foreword.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 322002
Cote: 322002
Exemplaire: 1
Statut: Disponible