Architecture, Cultural History, Autobiography
Author | : G. J. Mallinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture, Modern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : G. J. Mallinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paige Rense |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : House & Home |
ISBN | : 0847862755 |
The first and authoritative story of the rise of interior design from an intimate trade industry to celebrity decorators of today, as seen through the eyes of Architectural Digest and intimately told by Paige Rense--the magazine's iconic former editor-in-chief for over four decades. Respected as the international authority on architecture and design, Architectural Digest magazine gives readers an exclusive look into the most spectacular properties and private homes of celebrities and cultural figures, highlighting the work of the world's top architects, designers, and interior decorators. This volume celebrates the evolution of the revered magazine as told through the voice of its legendary editor for four decades, Paige Rense. An epic visual history of the magazine's meteoric rise penned by Rense, this volume documents exclusively and intimately the renowned magazine's history and cultural significance, and celebration of the ever evolving homes and lifestyles. This volume is full of candid recollections, commentary, archival covers, and interior shots of the magazine and also features the work of the world's top architects and interior designers such as Mario Buatta, Philip Johnson, Tony Duquette, and Sally Sirkin Lewis, as well as the homes of celebrities like Truman Capote, Sonny & Cher, Elton John, Diane Keaton and Ralph Lauren. Each chapter, written in the first person--is followed by lavishly illustrated anecdotes from Rense's memories of past issues. As the editor who gave readers a glimpse into the most enviable homes around the world, Rense is uniquely qualified to tell the story of Architectural Digest, a tale that her nearly one million loyal fans and readers of the magazine will be eager to read.
Author | : Louis Henri Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258428280 |
Author | : Mark Gelernter |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780719047275 |
Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Author | : Jonathan Mallinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781786949974 |
Author | : Mrs. Louisa Caroline Tuthill |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780484026895 |
Excerpt from History of Architecture: From the Earliest Times, Its Present Condition in Europe and the United States; With a Biography of Eminent Architects, and a Glossary of Architectural Terms The perception of the beautiful, is among the noblest of God's gifts to man. When improved by culture, it diffuses over the poor wants of human nature a glory, like sunlight upon the dark and frozen earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : G. J. Mallinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Includes articles on architecture, cultural history, the 'Luxury debate' in the eighteenth century, Rousseau, and the manuscript of The Life of John Wilkes with commentary and contextualisation.
Author | : Ada Louise Huxtable |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008-04-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780143114291 |
Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography of America?s greatest architect Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable's biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the way she introduces Wright's masterpieces, from the tranquil Fallingwater to Taliesin, rebuilt after tragedy and murder-not only exploring the mind of the man who drew the blueprints but also delving into the very heart of the medium, which he changed forever.
Author | : Justin Beal |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262367181 |
An account of the life and work of the architect Minoru Yamasaki that leads the author to consider how (and for whom) architectural history is written. Sandfuture is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki’s most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture’s role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki’s life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story.
Author | : Eberhard Zeidler |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 1232 |
Release | : 2013-08-26 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1459704142 |
Renowned architect Eberhard Zeidler tells his story in a two-volume book that explores his early life in Germany and his years in Canada after he moved there in 1951. Architect of Toronto's Eaton Centre and Trump International Hotel and Tower, Zeidler has left his stamp on the urban landscape of Canada, the United States, and the rest of the world.