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Book The Architecture of St  Paul s School and the Design of the Ohrstrom Library

Download or read book The Architecture of St Paul s School and the Design of the Ohrstrom Library written by Robert A. M. Stern and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between Memory and Invention

Download or read book Between Memory and Invention written by Robert A.M. Stern and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A capsule history of American architecture since 1960.”—Wall Street Journal Architect, historian, and educator Robert A. M. Stern presents a personal and candid assessment of contemporary architecture and his fifty years of practice. For more than fifty years, Robert A. M. Stern has designed extraordinary buildings around the world. Founding partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), Stern was once described as “the brightest young man I have ever met in my entire teaching career” by Philip Johnson and recently called “New York City’s most valuable architect” by Bloomberg. Encompassing autobiography, institutional history, and lively, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture surveys the world of architecture from the 1960s to the present and Robert A. M. Stern’s critical role in it. The book chronicles Stern’s formative years, architectural education, and half-century of architectural practice, touching on all the influences that shaped him. He details his Brooklyn upbringing, family excursions to look at key twentieth-century buildings, and relationships with prominent teachers—Paul Rudolph and the legendary Vincent Scully among them. Stern also recounts the origins of RAMSA and major projects in its history, including the new town of Celebration, Florida, the restoration of Times Square and 42nd Street, 15 Central Park West, Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray Colleges at Yale, and the George W. Bush Presidential Center, as well as references the many clients, fellow architects, and professional partners who have peopled his extraordinary career. By turns thoughtful, critical, and irreverent, this accessible, informative account of a life in architecture is replete with personal insights and humor. Stern’s voice comes through clearly in the text—he details his youthful efforts to redraw house plans in real estate ads, his relationship to Philip Johnson, which began at Yale and was sustained through countless lunches at the Four Seasons, his love of Cole Porter and movies from the 1930s and 1940s, his struggle to launch an architecture practice in the 1970s in the midst of a recession, and his complex association with Disney and Michael Eisner. Unsurprisingly, New York City plays a big role in Between Memory and Invention. Stern has a deep commitment to the city and recording its past—he is the lead author of the monumental New York book series, the definitive history of architecture and urbanism from the late nineteenth century to the present—and shaping its future. Though now a global practice, RAMSA residential towers rise throughout Manhattan to enrich the skyline in the tradition of the luxurious apartment buildings of the 1920s and 1930s. Supported by a lively mix of images drawn from Stern's personal archive and other resources, this much-anticipated memoir is interspersed with personal travel slides, images of architectural precedents and the colleagues that have shaped his thinking, and photographs of the many projects he discusses. With a thoughtful afterword by architectural historian Leopoldo Villardi that delves into Stern’s process of putting together this extraordinary autobiographical work, Between Memory and Invention is a personal candid assessment of a foremost practitioner, historian, instructor, and advocate of architecture today.

Book Robert A M  Stern

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert A. M. Stern
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Release : 2010-12-21
  • ISBN : 1580932835
  • Pages : 577 pages

Download or read book Robert A M Stern written by Robert A. M. Stern and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over thirty years of practice, Robert A. M. Stern has developed a distinctive architecture committed to the synthesis of tradition and innovation and, above all, to the creation and enhancement of a meaningful sense of place. This monograph, covering the years 1999–2002, is the fourth in a series on Stern's work. The volume includes more than one hundred projects, including houses and apartments, buildings for cultural institutions and universities, office and commercial structures, government facilities, and designs for products, including fabric and tableware. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Book Leadership by Design

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard N. Swett
  • Publisher : Greenway Communications
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780975565407
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Leadership by Design written by Richard N. Swett and published by Greenway Communications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambassador Richard Swett?s groundbreaking new book investigates the unique civic leadership strengths of the architecture profession. Drawing upon the compelling history of the profession, both past and present,as well as from his own singular experience as the only architect to serve in Congress during the 20th century, Swett has produced an insightful volume that is both inspiring and instructive. He shares Mark Twain?s viewthat ?if the only tool you have is a hammer, after a while every problem begins to look like a nail.? Leadership by Design is an eloquent plea to architects, leaders and citizens alike to expand the tool chest as we seeknew leadership to design new solutions for the complex challenges facing our nation and the world.

Book The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury

Download or read book The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury written by Peter Pennoyer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first close look at an innovative architect and inventor who held that traditional styles could be successfully adapted for modern times. In the final decade of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, the United States experienced exponential growth and a flourishing economy, and with it, a building boom. Grosvenor Atterbury (1869–1956) produced more than one hundred major projects, including an array of grand mansions, picturesque estates, informal summer cottages, and farm groups. However, it was his role as town planner and civic leader and his work to create model tenements, hospitals, workers’ housing, and town plans for which he is most celebrated. His Forest Hills Gardens, designed in association with the Olmsted Brothers, is lauded as one of the most highly significant community planning projects of its time. As an inventor, Atterbury was responsible for one of the country’s first low-cost, prefabricated concrete construction systems, introducing beauty and inexpensive good design into the lives of the working classes. The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury is the first book to showcase the rich and varied repertoire of this prolific architect whose career spanned six decades and whose work affected the course of American architecture, planning, and construction. Illustrated with Jonathan Wallen’s stunning color photographs and over 250 historic drawings, plans, and photographs, it also includes a catalogue raisonné and an employee roster. It is the definitive source on an architect who made an indelible imprint on the American landscape.

Book Robert A  M  Stern

Download or read book Robert A M Stern written by David Anger and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1996 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and work of the noted American architect whose creations include Disney's animation studio.

Book St  Paul s School Proposed New Library

Download or read book St Paul s School Proposed New Library written by St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century 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 622 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.

Book Robert and James Adam  Architects of the Age of Enlightenment

Download or read book Robert and James Adam Architects of the Age of Enlightenment written by Ariyuki Kondo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of eighteenth-century intellectual thought.

Book A Catalogue of the Library of St  Paul s School

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of St Paul s School written by St. Paul's School (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architectural Lighting

Download or read book Architectural Lighting written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of St  Paul s School   With MS  additions to July 1828 by H  Couchman

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of St Paul s School With MS additions to July 1828 by H Couchman written by St. Paul's School (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Preservation for Professionals

Download or read book Historic Preservation for Professionals written by Virginia O. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on complex economic, political, and social realities facing the historic preservation profession. It provides an in-depth historic analysis of the profession, a summary of legal issues, an architectural synopsis, and a discussion of career opportunities in the public and private sectors.

Book Twentieth century American Architecture

Download or read book Twentieth century American Architecture written by Carter Wiseman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes landmark buildings that shaped the American 20th century and brings to life architects of the period and the major architectural movements. Discusses the rise of modernism, the growth of historic preservation, the financial aspects of building, and the struggle in design between individualism and community. Includes bandw photos of buildings. Wiseman was architectural critic for New York magazine from 1980 to 1996. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals  2d Ed   Rev  and Enl

Download or read book Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 2d Ed Rev and Enl written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Art Building for St  Paul s School  Concord  N H

Download or read book An Art Building for St Paul s School Concord N H written by Peter W. Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architecture

Download or read book Architecture written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: