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Book The Master Builder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas Olsberg
  • Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
  • Release : 2024-08-22
  • ISBN : 9781848223714
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Master Builder written by Nicholas Olsberg and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Butterfield was the most daring, rigorous, and brilliant architect of his age, whose 60-year practice spanned the entire Victorian era, and whose major works are found from the Firth of Clyde and shores of Belfast to the hills of Dublin and the cliffs of Cardiff and Devon. This book addresses the emergence of a modern society, its expansive institutions, and its changing moral code, exploring how Butterfield responded to and advanced that transformation in the national life. It reflects the changing emphasis of Butterfield's work: first, the revival, rebuilding, and reform of the country parish; then the place of the church and the agents of social health in the burgeoning town and city; third, the quiet revolution in secondary education and college life; and finally, sites of refuge, sanctuary, repose, and remembrance. Drawing extensively on the literature and discourse of the time, each chapter discusses a societal shift and surveys Butterfield's most important architectural contributions. The chapters are followed by portfolios of photographs and extraordinary sets of coloured contract drawings of projects selected to show the originality, conviction, and variety of Butterfield's designs. Woven through the book are characterisations of the often colourful men and women who were Butterfield's patrons and associates, including Gladstone, Pusey, Nightingale, and such lesser known but equally crucial figures as Frederick Temple, 'Mother' Matilda Blanche Gibbs, the writer Charlotte Yonge, and a score of reforming vicars, from the pious William Butler to the radical eccentric Edward Monro.

Book Robert Moses

Download or read book Robert Moses written by Pierre Christin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievements of one man changed the face of an entire city. Robert Moses: the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's Financial District to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the story of this controversial urban planner's mind. In paperback for the first time, Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's comic book takes on the infamous "Power Broker" and unlocks the historical battles that created the modern metropolis.

Book Jesus the Master Builder

Download or read book Jesus the Master Builder written by Gordon Strachan and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus the Master Builder kept me up all night. Few books have that power.' -- Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian Did Jesus visit Britain? The activities of Jesus before the start of his ministry at the age of thirty have been the subject of much speculation. Did he travel beyond the bounds of Palestine in his search for wisdom knowledge? Where did he acquire the great learning which amazed those who heard him preaching and enabled him to cross swords in debate with Scribes and Pharisees? A number of legends suggest that Jesus travelled to the British Isles with Joseph of Arimathea, who worked in the tin trade. With these legends as his starting point, Gordon Strachan uncovers a fascinating network of connections between the Celtic world and Mediterranean culture and philosophy. Taking the biblical image of Wisdom as the 'master craftsman', Strachan explores the deep layers of Mystery knowledge shared between the Judaic-Hellenic world and the northern Druids -- from the secret geometry of masons and builders, which Jesus would have encountered in his work as a craftsman in Palestine, to the Gematria or number coding of the Old and New Testaments. This book is the basis of the film documentary 'And Did Those Feet'.

Book Leon Battista Alberti

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Grafton
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780674008687
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Leon Battista Alberti written by Anthony Grafton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary text. Ayala Amir examines Carver's use of the eye-of-the-camera technique. Amir uncovers the tensions that structure his visual aesthetics and examines assumptions that govern scholarly discussions of his work, relating these matters to the complex nature of photography and to the current "visual turn"of cultural studies. The research uses visual approaches to reflect upon traditional issues of narrative study-duration, dialogue, narration, description, frame, character, and meaning. Amir shows how Carver's visual aesthetics shapes the meaning of his stories, while also challenging accepted notions of the boundaries of "the literary."

Book Impossible Heights

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  • Author : Adnan Morshed
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2015-01-15
  • ISBN : 145294296X
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Impossible Heights written by Adnan Morshed and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent of the airplane and skyscraper in 1920s and ‘30s America offered the population an entirely new way to look at the world: from above. The captivating image of an airplane flying over the rising metropolis led many Americans to believe a new civilization had dawned. In Impossible Heights, Adnan Morshed examines the aesthetics that emerged from this valorization of heights and their impact on the built environment. The lofty vantage point from the sky ushered in a modernist impulse to cleanse crowded twentieth-century cities in anticipation of an ideal world of tomorrow. Inspired by great new heights, American architects became central to this endeavor and were regarded as heroic aviators. Combining close readings of a broad range of archival sources, Morshed offers new interpretations of works such as Hugh Ferriss’s Metropolis drawings, Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion houses, and Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Transformed by the populist imagination into “master builders,” these designers helped produce a new form of visuality: the aesthetics of ascension. By demonstrating how aerial movement and height intersect with popular “superman” discourses of the time, Morshed reveals the relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture. Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, this richly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America’s propulsion into a new cultural consciousness.

Book A Master Builder

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  • Author : Henrik Ibsen
  • Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
  • Release : 2014-06-16
  • ISBN : 1559367563
  • Pages : 74 pages

Download or read book A Master Builder written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wallace Shawn is one of the most complex and uncompromising moralists of the American theater." - Ben Brantley, New York Times "At once the U.S.'s most profound and overlooked playwright." - David Hare This translation and adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Master Builder Solness by Wallace Shawn, a writer known for his own bleakly hilarious and provocative plays, was used by legendary director André Gregory during fifteen years of work on a theatrical production which, instead of being produced as a play, was made into a film by Jonathan Demme—a film that is an utterly contemporary vision of Ibsen's classic play.

Book Little Eyolf

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henrik Ibsen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1894
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Little Eyolf written by Henrik Ibsen and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guilt is the prevailing theme as Rita and Alfred Allmers try to repair a marriage already haunted by the accident that happened to their boy, Eyolf, when they were preoccupied in making love.

Book Trammell Crow  Master Builder

Download or read book Trammell Crow Master Builder written by Robert Sobel and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1990-10-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings alive the story of Trammell Crow--the visionary real estate developer whose brilliant career served to shape the future of the field. Follows Crow from his origins as a small-time real estate dealer to his transformation into a corporate symbol. Discusses the bold methods that Crow used to build the most influential real estate company in America. Includes an examination of how Crow's risky strategy of making all principals partners in his firm and offering equity interest to deal managers paid off with spectacular profits. A lively account of Crow's mission to break all the rules and become the greatest builder of our age.

Book Master Builder Roblox

    Book Details:
  • Author : Triumph Books
  • Publisher : Triumph Books
  • Release : 2017-07-15
  • ISBN : 1633199592
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Master Builder Roblox written by Triumph Books and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by smart leadership and the constant evolution of computing hardware and software, Roblox has seen a surge in users over the past year. The company has shrewdly positioned itself as a powerful and flexible sandbox game, one which allows users to not only create their own structures, environments, and games, but also encourages them to come together socially and interact collectively. Roblox even gives kids a way to make real money on their creations!Master Builder Roblox: The Essential Guide provides users an exciting jumpstart into the fascinating, dynamic world of Roblox, and helps guide kids towards a fun and fulfilling experience. Main topics include an introduction to the world, a tour of the coolest and most popular games within the game, a quick-start guide on how to build, and an overview of the Roblox Studio Tabs--the toolbox for developing content in the game. Along with the essential content to help beginners dive into Roblox like pros, dozens of full-color gameplay photos will help readers navigate the grand world of Roblox and get them mastering and creating their own Roblox games in no time!

Book Donald Trump

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  • Author : Ron Galella
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-10
  • ISBN : 9780985751968
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book Donald Trump written by Ron Galella and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christus Faber

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben F. Meyer
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 1992-01-01
  • ISBN : 1556350147
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Christus Faber written by Ben F. Meyer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-standing series provides the guild of religion scholars a venue for publishing aimed primarily at colleagues. It includes scholarly monographs, revised dissertations, Festschriften, conference papers, and translations of ancient and medieval documents. Works cover the sub-disciplines of biblical studies, history of Christianity, history of religion, theology, and ethics. Festschriften for Karl Barth, Donald W. Dayton, James Luther Mays, Margaret R. Miles, and Walter Wink are among the seventy-five volumes that have been published. Contributors include: C. K. Barrett, Francois Bovon, Paul S. Chung, Marie-Helene Davies, Frederick Herzog, Ben F. Meyer, Pamela Ann Moeller, Rudolf Pesch, D. Z. Phillips, Rudolf Schnackenburgm Eduard Schweizer, John Vissers

Book Four Major Plays

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henrik Ibsen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780192833877
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Four Major Plays written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four plays by Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler and the Master Builder.

Book Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande

Download or read book Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande written by W. Eugene George and published by Sara and John Lindsey the Arts. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1865, Heinrich Portscheller immigrated to Mexico from his native Germany, perhaps motivated by a desire to avoid compulsory military service in the Austro-Prussian War. The scion of a well-known family of masons and master builders, he had the misfortune to disembark at Veracruz during the Franco-Mexican War. Portscheller and his traveling companion were impressed into the imperialist forces and sent to northern Mexico. Sometime following the Battle of Santa Gertrudis in1866, Portscheller deserted the army and eventually made a place for himself in Roma, a small town in Starr County, Texas. Over the next decades, Portscheller acquired a reputation as a master builder and architect. He brought to the lower Rio Grande Valley his long heritage of Old World building knowledge and skills and integrated them with the practices of local Mexican construction and vernacular architecture. However, despite his many contributions to the distinctive architecture of Roma and surrounding places, by the mid-twentieth century he was largely forgotten. During nearly fifty years of historical sleuthing in South Texas and Germany, W. Eugene George reconstructed many of the details of the life and career of this important South Texas craftsman. Containing editorial contributions by Mary Carolyn Hollers George and featuring a foreword by Maria Eugenia Guerra and a concluding assessment by noted architectural historian Stephen Fox, Master Builder of the Lower Rio Grande: Heinrich Portscheller at last permits a long-overdue appreciation of the legacy of this influential architect and builder of the Texas-Mexico borderlands."--Provided by publisher.

Book Thomas Cubitt  Master Builder

Download or read book Thomas Cubitt Master Builder written by Hermione Hobhouse and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Dinner with Andr

Download or read book My Dinner with Andr written by Wallace Shawn and published by Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two friends, an intense, experimental theater director and a down-to-earth actor, meet over dinner in a New York restaurant and discuss their innermost feelings.

Book Master Builder Fortnite  Creative Mode

Download or read book Master Builder Fortnite Creative Mode written by Triumph Books and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guide for building playable worlds with Fortnite Creative, covering such topics as construction materials, building mechanics, and game modes like racing and obstacle courses.

Book The Master Builders

Download or read book The Master Builders written by Peter Blake and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: