When buildings speak: architecture as language in the Habsburg empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933
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In When Buildings Speak, Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language(...)
When buildings speak: architecture as language in the Habsburg empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933
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In When Buildings Speak, Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language and its particular means of expression.
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2009 marks the centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago. Designed by Daniel H. Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, by the(...)
Burnham of Chicago: architects & planner
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2009 marks the centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago. Designed by Daniel H. Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, by the time he died in 1912, Burnham was one of the most famous architects in America as well as an internationally renowned city planner. Thomas S. Hines’s book is at once both a biography of Burnham and a vivid portrait of the birth and growth of an American city. In commemoration of the historic anniversary of Burnham’s Plan, this edition of Burnham of Chicago includes a new introduction by American history scholar, Neil Harris.
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This pioneering study explains how one of America's important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens.
Baltimore's alley houses: homes for working people since the 1780s
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This pioneering study explains how one of America's important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens.
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During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. Together, these cultural innovators helped forge new roles for women as influential thinkers, writers, and artists, and their creative achievements were publicly celebrated. Richly illustrated(...)
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juin 2008, New Haven, London
Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings
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During the 18th century a remarkable group of women formed the Bluestocking Salon, where women and men met to debate contemporary ideas and promote the life of the mind. Together, these cultural innovators helped forge new roles for women as influential thinkers, writers, and artists, and their creative achievements were publicly celebrated. Richly illustrated with portraits, prints, and personal artifacts, "Brilliant women" tells the story of this fascinating group of women. The authors chart the changing fortunes of the female intellectual and explore how a number of bluestocking women, such as artist Angelica Kauffmann, historian Catharine Macaulay, and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, used portraiture to advance their work and their reputations in a period framed by the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. "Brilliant women" pays tribute to the friendships and achievements of these bluestocking women, presenting new information on the range of cultural activities in which they were engaged, as well as celebrating their legacy.
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The history of architecture in the palm of your hand. Lavishly illustrated and super-condensed, this book is the perfect gift for any architecture buff. In the handy, pocket-size volume bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to informative introductions to significant architectural movements, time lines, and capsule biographies of great architects(...)
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février 2008, New York
Architecture: a world history
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The history of architecture in the palm of your hand. Lavishly illustrated and super-condensed, this book is the perfect gift for any architecture buff. In the handy, pocket-size volume bursting with 600 illustrations, page after page is dedicated to informative introductions to significant architectural movements, time lines, and capsule biographies of great architects and explorations of the masterpieces they created. From the pyramids to cathedrals to skyscrapers, this title takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the most spectacular examples of architecture from around the world and throughout time.
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Nicolas Foucquet, le très célèbre surintendant de Louis XIV, entreprit la construction du château de Vaux-le-Vicomte en 1637. Pour mener à bien son projet., il fit appel aux plus grands: à Louis Le Vau et à André Le Nôtre pour dessiner les plans et les jardins, à Charles Le Brun pour réaliser les décors intérieurs. Lorsque ce chef-d'œuvre fut achevé en 1661, Louis XIV(...)
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janvier 1900, Paris
Le château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
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Nicolas Foucquet, le très célèbre surintendant de Louis XIV, entreprit la construction du château de Vaux-le-Vicomte en 1637. Pour mener à bien son projet., il fit appel aux plus grands: à Louis Le Vau et à André Le Nôtre pour dessiner les plans et les jardins, à Charles Le Brun pour réaliser les décors intérieurs. Lorsque ce chef-d'œuvre fut achevé en 1661, Louis XIV poussé par son ministre Colbert prit ombrage du succès de son surintendant et prononça sa disgrâce. Depuis trois siècles, le château de Vaux-le-Vicomte demeure un lieu privilégié car, fait exceptionnel, il ne subit que peu de transformations extérieures grâce à ses propriétaires successifs, le maréchal de Villars, le duc de Choiseul-Praslin, Alfred Sommier et le conte Patrice de Vogüe, qui eurent tous le même souci : préserver ce monument de l'architecture classique.
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Bruxelles, une ville où s'affiche à l'infini des façades d'habitations qui défient l'imagination, comme nulle part ailleurs. Où l'individualité de chacun et de chaque époque a imprimé sa marque. Où le savoir-faire, l'inventivité et la fantaisie ont créé des centaines de façades étonnantes qui méritent d'être rencontrées et, surtout, regardées. Deux historiennes de l'art(...)
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mars 2008, Bruxelles
400 façades étonnantes à Bruxelles
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Bruxelles, une ville où s'affiche à l'infini des façades d'habitations qui défient l'imagination, comme nulle part ailleurs. Où l'individualité de chacun et de chaque époque a imprimé sa marque. Où le savoir-faire, l'inventivité et la fantaisie ont créé des centaines de façades étonnantes qui méritent d'être rencontrées et, surtout, regardées. Deux historiennes de l'art sont parties à la découverte de ces façades le plus souvent méconnues. Cécile van Praet-Schaack et Isabelle de Pange multiplient ici les points de vue, se jouant des habituelles classifications pour mieux aborder ce précieux patrimoine dans toute sa richesse. Repères historiques, de styles, de vocabulaire architectural et des techniques utilisées. Index des architectes, artisans et entrepreneurs. Situation des façades avec carte de la région bruxelloise.
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Chinoiseries
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Chinoiserie is a European style and not, as is sometimes supposed by Sinologists, an incompetent to imitate the arts of China. This book reproduces 42 watercolors of Chinoiserie pavilions.
Chinoiseries
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Chinoiserie is a European style and not, as is sometimes supposed by Sinologists, an incompetent to imitate the arts of China. This book reproduces 42 watercolors of Chinoiserie pavilions.
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Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of the best of English building through the centuries. Matthew Rice's ''Oxford'' is a feast of delightful watercolour illustrations and an informed and witty text, explaining how the city came into being and what to look out for today. While the(...)
Oxford: a living history of English architecture
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Oxford is one of the jewels of European architecture, much loved and much visited. The city offers an unparallelled collection of the best of English building through the centuries. Matthew Rice's ''Oxford'' is a feast of delightful watercolour illustrations and an informed and witty text, explaining how the city came into being and what to look out for today. While the focus is on architectural detail, Rice also describes how the city has been shaped by its history, most of all by generations of patrons who had the education and the resources to commission work from the greatest architects and builders of their day, an astonishing range of which still stands. More than anywhere else in England, it is possible in Oxford to take in the history of English architecture simply by walking today's streets, lanes, parks and meadows.
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Alep, la maison Ghazalé
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À travers l’histoire de cet ancien lieu de vie domestique, vestige et témoin d’époques révolues, l’ouvrage aborde celle d’Alep, ville plurimillénaire, carrefour économique et culturel du Moyen-Orient, et donne une idée de la qualité de vie qui l’animait. Au-delà de l’analyse de l’architecture et du décor intérieur exceptionnel, ce sont des pratiques de l’espace qui sont(...)
Alep, la maison Ghazalé
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À travers l’histoire de cet ancien lieu de vie domestique, vestige et témoin d’époques révolues, l’ouvrage aborde celle d’Alep, ville plurimillénaire, carrefour économique et culturel du Moyen-Orient, et donne une idée de la qualité de vie qui l’animait. Au-delà de l’analyse de l’architecture et du décor intérieur exceptionnel, ce sont des pratiques de l’espace qui sont révélées : un patrimoine matériel et immatériel vivant qui, malgré les destructions successives, ne tombera pas complètement dans l’oubli.
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