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1) Decider
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Architect Lee Morris becomes involved with the Stratton Park racecource and becomes a major player in a dangerous game.
2) Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Master Painters and Sculptors
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With outraeous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo (alleged sodomist) to Caraviaggio (convicted murderer) to Edward Hopper (alleged wife beater), Secret Lives of Great Artists recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international art. You'll learn that Michelangelo's body odor was so bad, his assistants couldn't stand working for him; that Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paint directly from the tube; and Georgia...
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An enthralling and unforgettable story of a woman's search for her past, The Passions of Chelsea Kane is a beloved classic from New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky
After the death of her beloved adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old Chelsea Kane is consumed by the need to learn the truth about her birth parents. Taking a break from her successful architecture career, she arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, determined...
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For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by means of raw materials." The first major exposition...
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I want to introduce you to my third book of photographs, Farewell to Valparaiso, that describes my feelings at the time to say good-bye to a loved city where I lived in my adolescence and young adult life. This book is intended to reach an audience of people interested in knowing the suffering of those that were forced to leave their roots behind and not knowing if they will ever come back to them.
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When he was nine years old, Paul Polson lay on his bed in his family home, burning up with fever. He experienced a "vision" during that fever that repeated itself several times throughout his life. The message was clear during the vision, but Paul couldn't describe it when he woke. What it did do was give him confidence that he could do anything he wanted and succeed.
In The Vision, he shares his story: A lifelong passion for the arts and a quest...
7) Michelangelo
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Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He moulded his draughtsmanship, bent it, twisted it, and stretched it to the extreme limits of possibility. There are not any landscapes in Michelangelo's painting. All the emotions, all the passions, all the thoughts of humanity were personified in his eyes...
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Héctor Velarde no ha sido solo un personaje emblemático en la historia de la arquitectura peruana; también lo ha sido para la historia de la Carrera de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Lima. Hemos recibido de él un legado que se ha ido materializando y consolidando en corto tiempo, con el desarrollo de los cursos y con una serie de exposiciones y actos académicos a los que ahora se suma esta publicación.
En el recorrido por Lima en busca de...
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One of the famed architect's earliest published works, the Wasmuth drawings capture Wright's first great experiments in organic design and thought. These 100 plates were reproduced from a rare 1910 first edition. The full-page illustrations depict plans for homes, banks, cottages, offices, temples, and Wright's own studio. Introduction and annotations by Wright.
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Amongst many other buildings, Norman Foster is responsible for the design of Beijing's new airport, one of the world's largest, for the Rossiya tower in Moscow, in contention to be the tallest skyscraper in Europe until the credit crunch killed it, for one of the towers at Ground Zero in Manhattan, and for a crop of new towers in London. He designed the Reichstag, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banks headquarters in London and China, the new Wembley stadium...
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Este libro presenta dos ensayos que buscan ampliar el horizonte de qué significa la modernidad y la arquitectura moderna en Colombia, y a la vez precisar su sentido de cómo acotar el término arquitectura moderna y las categorías que han sido acogidas en la tradición de la teoría, la crítica y la historia de la arquitectura colombiana.
El ensayo sobre Gabriel Serrano Busca definir la ideología que definió su práctica arquitectónica desde...
14) Retribution
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Retribution takes place in Sacramento, California, in the late 1990s. The story details the crises the main character, Werner Manheim-the sixty-five-year-old owner of the largest structural engineering firm in the city-goes through personally and professionally after losing an arbitration proceeding to the architects GBA, who hired his firm on a new local high school project. His maneuverings to overcome the effects of he and his wife, Georgina, having...
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Enric Miralles (1955-2000) es considerado una de las figuras clave para entender la arquitectura española reciente y muchos de los temas recurrentes que hoy se manejan en la práctica y la teoría arquitectónicas contemporáneas. Este libro recoge una conversación, inédita hasta ahora, que el arquitecto barcelonés mantuvo con Enrique Walker en 1999 a raíz de un escrito del propio Miralles sobre James Lord y Alberto Giacometti, una de las últimas...
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In this personal and revealing book, Anthony Poon takes us on a creative journey that begins with his re-envisioning of a seaside public space as a very young architect. Poon has designed hundreds of buildings across the United States and internationally, from eco-friendly homes to public schools, from intimate retail venues and restaurants to sports arenas, from university housing to retreats and places of worship. Sticks & Stones / Steel & Glass...
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José Antonio Coderch es el gran olvidado de la arquitectura española, pese a que su obra, a la cabeza de la modernidad, dejó impronta en ciudades como Madrid o Barcelona.
Este libro es una aproximación a su figura a partir de las personas que lo conocieron, un relato coral que configura un archivo vivo de su legado y arroja luz sobre su compleja personalidad mediante entrevistas con personajes clave del mundo de la política, la cultura y la arquitectura...
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Alvar Aalto was remarkably inventive in architecture and industrial design. Moreover, his command of technology was integrated with a humanistic style of building, and like Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright he sought an organic synthesis of his structures with their surroundings. Aalto's success in approaching these ideals may account for the extraordinary spread of his influence on an international scale.
In this broad study of Aalto's work, Malcolm...
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AOT no es solo una sigla para la arquitectura peruana contemporánea; durante más de cuarenta años probablemente fue la más organizada oficina de arquitectos que tuvo el Perú. Sus obras tuvieron una singular importancia, como en el caso del Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez, el edificio de Química Suiza o la sede de la IBM, entre otras edificaciones de las que el presente libro da cuenta.
Formado por los arquitectos Carlos Arana Holder,...
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