Download or read book Boris Velikovsky 1878 1937 written by Elena Ovsyannikova and published by Arnold'sche. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * For the first time ever, Russian avant-garde architect Boris Velikovsky's work is honored in a beautifully designed book* Unpublished technical plans and photos show Velikovsky's importance in modern architecture* An in-depth study of Russian architecture in the 20th centuryWith his residential buildings, office blocks, schools and factories, Boris Velikovsky (1878-1937) made a definitive contribution to Russian avant-garde architecture. His early constructions, such as the Gribov House in Moscow, are still very much bound to Russian Neoclassism, yet since the Revolution of 1917, he began designing in the style of Constructivist architecture. One example is his Gostorg Management Building, distinguished by glass facades, the functional division of space and use of state-of-the-art materials. Furthermore, in the garden city of Druzhba, for instance, Velikovsky intensively engaged with new ideas in town planning. With mostly hitherto unpublished technical plans as well as numerous historical and new color photographs of Boris Velikowsky's most famous projects, this book offers a chance to appreciate Russian avant-garde architecture.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture written by R. Stephen Sennott and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2004 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages and more, visit the Encyclope dia of 20th Century Architecture website. Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.
Download or read book Making Dystopia written by James Stevens Curl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Dystopia, distinguished 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. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.
Download or read book Bori Gu risseurs de l me Healers of the soul written by Caroline Alida and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2010 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of exquisite duotone photographs looks at the Bori, a West African shamanist cult centered on possession by the spirits of ancestors. Its followers, priests (also known as Bori), and assistants are clairvoyants or faith healers. They perform ecstatic ritual dances to conjure up djinns--spirits--to protect society and its individual members from evil. Faith healers (Boka) employ traditional plants to heal the sick. Caroline Alida's black-and-white portraits of the Bori and the objects used in their ritual practices were taken in dim natural light, imbuing the photos with a contemplative atmosphere.
Download or read book Russian Architecture of the Soviet Period written by Андрей Владимирович Иконников and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Avant garde written by Catherine Cooke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by St. Martin's, Auth: Open University, History with translated excerpts of documents.
Download or read book Pioneers of Soviet Architecture written by Selim Omarovich Khan-Magomedov and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1987 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moscow Art Nouveau written by Kathleen Berton Murrell and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated discussion of the architects and the buildings they designed, revealing Moscow Art Nouveau in all its diversity.
Download or read book Sir Banister Fletcher s a History of Architecture written by Sir Banister Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's major architecture is described, explained, and frequently illustrated. Scope is widened to include more architecture from non-European countries.
Download or read book Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant garde written by Catherine Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Chechens written by Amjad M. Jaimoukha and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a ready introduction and practical guide to the Chechen people, including chapters on history, religion, politics, economy, culture, literature and media.
Download or read book In the Beginning written by Immanuel Velikovsky and published by Paradigma Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sequel (or better: a prequel) to Immanuel Velikovsky's main work, the best-selling Worlds in Collision, in which he gave a detailed reconstruction of two global natural catastrophes based on information handed down by our ancestors. He mentioned there that, as part of his intensive research, he found numerous indications of even more catastrophes that took place earlier in the history of mankind. In the present book, the material collected by Velikovksy about this topic is presented to the public for the first time. His findings show just how turbulent the history of Earth and our planetary system was during the time of mankind and how little we actually know of all that today.
Download or read book Bibliography of Publications written by George Washington University. Human Resources Research Office and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El Lissitzky written by A. S. Kant︠s︡edikas and published by Unicorn Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Lissitzky (1880 - 1941) is unquestionably one of Russian Modernism's most well known artists. The subject of numerous monographs and exhibitions, his mature abstract paintings, drawings, photographs, and graphic work can be found in abundance in Western and Eastern public collections. In his early career, however, his work was more or less exclusively devoted to Jewish subjects, reflecting his religious education and family's heritage. While a handful of these works are well known and widely published, this fascinating book, El Lissitzky's Jewish Period: 1905 - 1923 by Alexander Kantsedikas, one of the world's leading scholars on the artist, is the first endeavor to look at this phase of his work. Amounting to a veritable catalogue raisonne of 500 plus works, the author has resurrected some of the more obscure but no less fascinating works by Lissitzky in Hebrew and Yiddish. Lavishly illustrated in color and black and white, the book tracks his evolution from an Expressionist style to one that is increasingly more abstract and non-objective. It also includes rare photographic material of the artist's family, as well as little-known correspondence from his father and his relationship with his first wife, who has heretofore been entirely obscured in the artist's biography.
Download or read book New History of the Jews written by Eustace Clarence Mullins and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of civilization, one particular problem of mankind has remained constant. In all of the vast records of peace and wars and rumors of wars, one great empire after another has had to come to grips with the same dilemma... the Jews. Despite the persistence of this problem, and despite the enormous amount of literature on this subject, not one writer, either pro or con, bas ever faced the dilemma at its source namely, who are the Jews and why are they here? This question can be answered only if man brings to bear upon it his full intelligence. This question must also be approached on the highest spiritual level, with the deepest motives of Christian charity, and above all, with the greatest respect for man himself, what he is, what his roots are, and what he is becoming. The history of man is the history of conflict, of wars between the haves and the have-nots, of exploitation of man by man, and of terrible massacres. In this blood-stained record, however, the scholar finds only one people who have aroused the most violent antagonisms, no matter where they have settled. Only one people bas irritated its host nations in every part of the civilized world to the point that the host has turned against them and killed them or driven them out. This people is called the Jews.
Download or read book Bibliography of the History of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
