EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Shadow Architect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Warn
  • Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 1556592779
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Shadow Architect written by Emily Warn and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret magic and divine mystery of the Hebrew alphabet is explored through poetry and illustration.

Book From the Shadows

    Book Details:
  • Author : Owen Hopkins
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2015-11-15
  • ISBN : 1780235364
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book From the Shadows written by Owen Hopkins and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Hawksmoor (1662–1736) is one of English history’s greatest architects, outshone only by Christopher Wren, under whom he served as an apprentice. A major figure in his own time, he was involved in nearly all the grandest architectural projects of his age, and he is best known for his London churches, six of which still stand today. Hawksmoor wasn’t always appreciated, however: for decades after his death, he was seen as at best a second-rate talent. From the Shadows tells the story of the resurrection of his reputation, showing how over the years his work was ignored, abused, and altered—and, finally, recovered and celebrated. It is a story of the triumph of talent and of the power of appreciative admirers like T. S. Eliot, James Stirling, Robert Venturi, and Peter Ackroyd, all of whom played a role in the twentieth-century recovery of Hawksmoor’s reputation.

Book Shadow Patterns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeff Shannon
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2017-04-15
  • ISBN : 1682260224
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Shadow Patterns written by Jeff Shannon and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2017 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation Publication from Preserve Arkansas Shadow Patterns: Reflections on Fay Jones and His Architecture is a collection of critical essays and personal accounts of the man the American Institute of Architects honored with its highest award, the Gold Medal, in 1990. The essays range from the academic, with appreciations and observations by Juhanni Palaasma and Robert McCarter and Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, to personal reflections by clients and friends. Two of Arkansas’s most accomplished writers, Roy Reed and Ellen Gilchrist, who each live in Fay Jones houses, have provided intimate portrayals of what it’s like to live in, and manage the quirks of, a “house built by a genius,” where “light is everywhere. . . . Everything is quiet, and everything is a surprise,” as Gilchrist says. Through this compendium of perspectives, readers will learn about Jones’s personal qualities, including his strong will, his ability to convince other people of the rightness of his ideas, and yet his willingness, at times, to change his mind. We also enter into the work: powerful architecture like Stoneflower and Thorncrown Chapel and Pinecote Pavilion, along with private residences ranging from the modest to the monumental. And we learn about his relationship with his mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Shadow Patterns broadens and enriches our understanding of this major figure in American architecture of the twentieth century.

Book The American Architect

Download or read book The American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon Unwin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2020-02-18
  • ISBN : 1000054098
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Shadow written by Simon Unwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Shadows may be insubstantial but they are, nevertheless, an important element in architecture. In prehistoric times we sought shade as a refuge from the hot sun and chilling rain. Through history architects have used shadows to draw, to mould form, to paint pictures, to orchestrate atmosphere, to indicate the passing of time ... as well as to identify place. Sometimes shadow can be the substance of architecture.

Book American Architect

Download or read book American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth Peltason
  • Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
  • Release : 2017-11-07
  • ISBN : 0316473693
  • Pages : 1209 pages

Download or read book Architect written by Ruth Peltason and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this completely revised and up-to-date edition, the world's most accomplished architects -- Gehry, Pei, Meier, Nouvel, Piano, and 37 more-express their views on creativity, inspiration, and legacy in this visually stunning, one-of-a-kind collection. The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Architect includes all 42 recipients of the Pritzker Prize, and captures in pictures and their own words their awe-inspiring achievements. Organized in reverse chronological order by laureate each chapter features four to six of the architect's major works, including museums, libraries, hotels, places of worship, and more. The text, culled from notebooks, interviews, articles, and speeches illuminates the architects' influences and inspirations, personal philosophy, and aspirations for his own work and the future of architecture. The book includes More than 1000 stunning photographs, blueprints, sketches, and CAD drawings.Architect offers an unprecedented view into the minds of some of the most creative thinkers, dreamers, and builders of the last three decades and reveals that buildings are political, emotional, and spiritual.

Book Architect

Download or read book Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Architect s Guide to Fame

Download or read book An Architect s Guide to Fame written by Paul Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the scenes look at how to become a star architect!

Book The Architect s Guide

Download or read book The Architect s Guide written by Frederick Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architecture and Shadow

Download or read book Architecture and Shadow written by David Murray and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architect and Engineer

Download or read book Architect and Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architect

Download or read book The Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architectural Drawing

Download or read book Architectural Drawing written by Wooster Bard Field and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Architect and Architecture

Download or read book American Architect and Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Architect and Building News

Download or read book The American Architect and Building News written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shadow Makers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Kite
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2017-10-19
  • ISBN : 1472588118
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Shadow Makers written by Stephen Kite and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history. Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture. It weaves together a rich narrative – combining close readings of significant buildings both ancient and modern with architectural theory and art history – to reveal the key places and moments where shadows shaped architecture in distinctive and dynamic ways. It shows how shadows are used as an architectural instrument of form, composition, and visual effect, while also exploring the deeper cultural context – tracing differing conceptions of their meaning and symbolism, whether as places of refuge, devotion, terror, occult practice, sublime experience or as metaphors of the unconscious. Within a chronological framework encompassing medieval, baroque, enlightenment, sublime, picturesque, and modernist movements, a wide range of topics are explored, from Hawksmoor's London churches, Japanese temple complexes and the shade-patterns of Islamic cities, to Ruskin in Venice and Aldo Rossi and Louis Kahn in the 20th century. This beautifully-illustrated study seeks to understand the work of these shadow-makers through their drawings, their writings, and through the masterpieces they built.