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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Individual architects
Few artists have ever been so beloved—or so controversial among
art critics—as Andrew Wyeth. The groundbreaking
book Artists of Wyeth Country presents an unauthorized
and unbiased biographical portrait of Wyeth, based on interviews
with family, friends, neighbors—even actress Eva Marie
Saint. Journalist W. Barksdale Maynard shines new light on
the reclusive artist, emphasizing Wyeth’s artistic debt to Howard
Pyle as well as his surprising interest in surrealism. The
book is filled with brand-new information and fresh
interpretations. Â Artists of Wyeth
Country also comprises the first-ever guidebook
to the artistic world of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, center of the
Brandywine Tradition begun by Howard Pyle. Six in-depth tours
for walking or driving allow the reader to stand exactly where N.
C. and Andrew Wyeth stood, as has never been fully possible before.
 As Maynard explains, Andrew Wyeth’s artistic process was
influenced by Henry David Thoreau’s nature-worship and by his
habit of walking daily. Newly commissioned maps, rare aerial
photographs, as well as glorious full-color images and artworks of
the landscape (many never reproduced before) illustrate the text.
 A fascinating exploration of the world of Andrew
Wyeth, Artists of Wyeth Country is sure to become an
essential new source for those who love American art as well as for
admirers of the scenic landscapes of the Mid-Atlantic, of which the
Brandywine Valley is an exceptional example. As a rare,
unauthorized biography of Andrew Wyeth, it opens the door for an
entirely new understanding of the American master. Â Â
Showcases the bold, innovative, and colorful architectural designs
of Alexander Girard. During the midcentury period, Michigan
attracted visionary architects, designers, and theorists, including
Alexander Girard. While much has been written about Girard's
vibrantly colored and patterned textiles for Herman Miller, the
story of his Detroit period (1937-53)-encompassing interior and
industrial design, exhibition curation, and residential
architecture-has not been told. Alexander Girard, Architect:
Creating Midcentury Modern Masterpieces by Deborah Lubera Kawsky is
the first comprehensive study of Girard's exceptional architectural
projects, specifi ally those concentrated in the ultra-traditional
Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe. One exciting element of the book
is the rediscovery of another Girard masterpiece - the only
surviving house designed entirely by Girard, and former residence
to Mr. and Mrs. John McLucas. Restored in consultation with iconic
midcentury designer Ruth Adler Schnee, the McLucas house represents
the culmination of Girard's Detroit design work at midcentury.
Stunning color photographs capture the unique design
elements-including the boldly colored glazd brick walls of the
atrium-reminiscent of Girard's role as color consultant for the GM
Tech Center. Original Girard drawings for the building plan,
interior spaces, and custom-designed furniture document the mind of
a modernist master at work and are made available to the public for
the first time in this beautiful book. Alexander Girard, Architect
is a beautiful, informative book suited for enthusiasts of
Alexander Girard, the midcentury modern aesthetic, and Detroit
history, art, and architecture.
First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers'
"City Metaphors" juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps
throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images
from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title--a single
descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers'
vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into a handshake
and the 1809 plan of St Gallen becomes a womb. Ungers writes in his
foreword: "Without a comprehensive vision reality will appear as a
mass of unrelated phenomenon and meaningless facts, in other words,
totally chaotic. In such a world it would be like living in a
vacuum; everything would be of equal importance; nothing could
attract our attention; and there would be no possibility to utilize
the mind." A classic of creative cartography and visual thinking,
"City Metaphors" is also an experiment in conscious
vision-building.
Werner Sobek is one of the leading engineers and structural
designers of our time. His works have been awarded numerous
distinctions and enjoy the highest reputation worldwide. They all
excel through their high level of sophistication and innovation,
both with regard to materials and structural systems, thus
demonstrating impressively Werner Sobek's biggest asset: the
capacity to design filigree, nearly dematerialised structures with
perfect details, structures that are in true harmony with their
form and function. This book presents a sample of the most
important projects in the fields of design, materials, skins and
structures.
Sir Robert Lorimer, who practised in Edinburgh between 1893 and
1929 was an architect whose deep response to Scotland's landscape
and its crafts is expressed as vividly by his letters as by his
buildings. This is the study of Lorimer, one of Scotland's foremost
20th-century architects.
Kip was born 'Walton Danforth Stowell' from Massachusetts. He lived
a long life as an artist, architect, and politician; settling in
Harpers Ferry, WV. This biography spans 73 years of Kip's life,
from 1936-2009; and is a summary of people, places, and art related
to him. As an architect he worked for the National Park Service,
but also maintained private practice. Kip loved entertaining
people, and was loved for his enthusiasm for design. Among his most
famous designs are the Charles Town War Memorial, Turf Race Track
Hotel, Bolivar Community Center, and Harpers Ferry Town Hall. His
greatest contributions to Historic Preservation may have been to
protect the Town of Harpers Ferry and the Peter Burr House for all
time and for all people.
Digital Fabrications is a collection of essays and half-true
stories about design software and hardware. Written from the
perspective of architectural design, each piece expands on emerging
trends, devices, foibles, and phenomena engendered by an increased
reliance on interactions with interfaces in the discipline. The
essays ask: how do we characterise our post-digital design labour?
What are the politics of design software? How is architecture
adapting to a world largely dependent on platforms and scripts?
What are the spatial mechanisms of the internet and VR? Using
storytelling techniques, this book accepts that software is
everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of
our cultural products. From the perspective of architectural
design, a field traditionally associated with sketching and its own
myths of creativity, computers are an essential workplace tool.
Projects rely on a wide assortment of software packages and
standalone applications, but rarely do architects reflect on the
structure of those programs or how they have infiltrated our
disciplinary conventions. PDFs and JPGs are as much a part of our
vocabulary as plans, sections, and elevations. A drawing today
might refer to a rendering, a CAD document, a proprietary BIM file,
or anything that describes a project visually. While one way of
examining this disciplinary shift might be to re-imagine what
digital drawing can be, this collection of essays puts forth
another way: to look at the behaviours, phenomena, collective
trends, and oddities emerging as a result of global software
proliferation. In other words, this book accepts that software is
everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of
our cultural products.
The Unite in Marseille (1945-1952) was a pioneering achievement at
a time when social housing in the post WWII years posed an immense
problem. Freed from restrictive regulations for the first time Le
Corbusier was able to put into practice his concept of modern
social housing. A milestone of modern architecture and subject of
controversial debate, the Unite in Marseille continues to attract
numerous visitors and students of architecture. This volume is the
latest addition to Birkhauser's series of guides to Le Corbusier's
most acclaimed buildings, and includes an additional chapter on his
Unites in Reze-les-Nantes, Briey en Foret, Firminy and Berlin. The
author, a practising architect and well known le Corbusier
specialist, lives in Marseille and teaches at the Ecole
d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy.
Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since
the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture
Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical
Koolhaas projects, traces the discursive practice behind the design
methods used by Koolhaas and his office OMA. It uncovers recurring
key themes-such as wall, void, montage, trajectory, infrastructure,
and shape-that have structured this design discourse over the span
of Koolhaas's oeuvre. The book moves beyond the six core pieces, as
well: It explores how these identified thematic design principles
manifest in other works by Koolhaas as both practical
re-applications and further elaborations. In addition to Koolhaas's
individual genius, these textual and material layers are accounted
for shaping the very context of his work's relevance. By comparing
the design principles with relevant concepts from the architectural
Zeitgeist in which Koolhaas has operated, the study moves beyond
its specific subject-Rem Koolhaas-and provides novel insight into
the broader history of architectural ideas.
Charismatic architect Simon Duval's iconic designs brilliantly
express the dreams of his clients and his peers. His successes
bring international acclaim and publicity which place him in pole
position, but an envious self-appointed rival, Catherine Quaid,
casts a long shadow over his life and his professional career.
Stan Allen is an architect and educator who has won global acclaim,
primarily for his work in town planning and his influential 1996
essay Field Conditions. His new book Situated Objects shows a
unique facet of his creative process: a selection of small
buildings and projects on rural sites, most of them situated within
the landscape of the Hudson Valley, New York. They demonstrate an
approach to architecture that engages in a dialogue with this
partly wild and wholly non-urban environment that lies just outside
the gates of New York City. The projects are presented in drawings
and a rich array of images by celebrated photographer Scott
Benedict. They are arranged in three thematic categories:
Outbuildings, Material Histories, and New Natures, supplemented by
the architect's writings and essays contributed by Helen Thomas and
Jesus Vassallo. The first book on Stan Allen's buildings, Situated
Objects highlights Allen's personal engagement with American
material traditions, the conventions of architectural drawing, and
the challenge of building with nature.
2014 Reprint of 1926 Edition. Full facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The
Autobiography of an Idea" is an account of Sullivan's career and
his architectural theories. Sullivan was a spokesman for the reform
of architecture, an opponent of historical eclecticism, and did
much to remake the image of the architect as a creative
personality. His own designs are characterized by richness of
ornament. His importance lies in his writings as well as in his
architectural achievements. These writings, which are subjective
and metaphorical, suggest directions for architecture, rather than
explicit doctrines or programs. Sullivan himself warned of the
danger of mechanical theories of art.
Villa Vuoto, located in the north hills of Pittsburgh, is home to
Matthew Schlueb and his architectural studio, dedicated to the
design of private residences. His belief that a home is the most
intimate of all space is the foundation for his practice, which he
defends in this autobiographical collection of writings. Originally
intended to provide insight into the factors that shaped his own
family's house, this book ended up a search for the essence of a
home, an exploration of his own creative process, and ultimately
locating the source of creativity itself ...hidden in the
imagination of a child.
From 1926 to 1930 Heinz (1902-1996) and Bodo Rasch (1903-1995) was
a highly creative team of architects, furniture designers,
typographers and book designers. The brothers were early
"networkers", providing a visionary source of ideas which they
developed in a rash of projects as major protagonists of the New
Architecture. Their early suspended dwellings and bold ideas for
modular or air inflated house constructions are unique in 20th
century architectural history. This publication focuses on a
selection of their early work in the MoMA in New York and the CCA
in Montreal and yields insights into the brother's collaboration.
The selection is augmented by container, suspended and pneumatic
architecture by more than 20 famous architectural firms like
Archigram, Egon Eiermann, Foster + Partners, COOP HIMMELB(L)AU,
Bertrand Goldberg, Kengo Kuma et al, which in turn place the great
creative potential of the Rasch brothers in a new light. In
addition five contemporary artists discover their inspiring moments
in a current context and establish new relationships between ideas
from the past and visions for the future.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.
The Benefits and uses of a Photo Album for a Baby Boy. A Baby Boy's
First Moments Should Be Stock-piled. It is known that the act of
observing an event influences its outcome. The earliest events in
your boy's life won't last forever, so do more than observe. Baby
photos can have a profound impact on later life, and organizing
them in an album improves that effect. The most immediate use of
baby photos is for later embarrassment. As your baby boy rapidly
grows into a teenage boy, he gets smarter and more cunning. Baby
photos, in addition to being precious memories, are a potential
countermeasure against any of a teenage boy's potential
transgressions. Is his party getting to loud? Break out the album
and watch the tears.
The paintings in this book depict 'object-type' - general yet
specific, generic yet designed, familiar yet estranged. They are
'Purist' forms depicted in a still life landscape. The compositions
employ overlap, convergence and diminution to imply depth resulting
in the creation of the illusion of perspectival space. However,
through the use of juxtaposition, superimposition and ambiguity of
scale the perspectival effect is impaired. The result is a blurring
of distinction between foreground and background that encourages a
reading of pattern that reinforces the presence of the surface
plane. A conflict is encouraged between the deep space and the
shallow space - between the creation of implied space through
perspective and the reinforcement of the surface plane through
pattern. A multiple reading is fostered that rewards the careful
observer.
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