The Architect S Brother

Author : Robert ParkeHarrison,William Stanley Merwin
Publisher : Twin Palms Pub
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0944092845

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The Architect's Brother by Robert ParkeHarrison,William Stanley Merwin Pdf

Robert ParkeHarrison creates constructed photographs which tell stories of loss, struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use. He attempts to metaphorically and poetically link his laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience. The mythic world he creates mirrors our world, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The scenes display futile attempts to save or rejuvenate nature. His 'everyman' character patches holes in the sky, creates rain machines, chases storms to create electricity, communicates with the earth to learn its needs. Within these scenes, he creates less refined, less scientific, more ritualistic and poetic possibilities to work with nature rather than destroying it. The nature of his images and the process of their construction are interdisciplinary, embodying aspects of theater, sculpture, and painting, photography and performance. None of the images are real in the factual sense, but they are treated as precious talismans of a lost moment, a documented super-reality, whose message, like that of a myth, transcends the small realities of the day to day world.

Author : John Kenneth Severn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806138106

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Architects of Empire by John Kenneth Severn Pdf

A soldier and statesman for the ages, the Duke of Wellington is a towering figure in world history. John Severn now offers a fresh look at the man born Arthur Wellesley to show that his career was very much a family affair, a lifelong series of interactions with his brothers and their common Anglo-Irish heritage. The untold story of a great family drama, Architects of Empire paints a new picture of the era through the collective biography of Wellesley and his siblings. Severn takes readers from the British Raj in India to the battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars to the halls of Parliament as he traces the rise of the five brothers from obscurity to prominence. Severn covers both the imperial Indian period before 1800 and the domestic political period after 1820, describing the wide range of experiences Arthur and his brothers lived through. Architects of Empire brings together in a single volume a grand story that before now was discernible only through political or military analysis. Weaving the personal history of the brothers into a captivating narrative, it tells of sibling rivalry among men who were by turns generous and supportive, then insensitive and cruel. Whereas other historians have minimized the importance of family ties, Severn provides an unusually nuanced understanding of the Duke of Wellington. Architects of Empire casts his career in a new light--one that will surprise those who believe they already know the man.

Author : Michael Winter
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143180371

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The Architects are Here by Michael Winter Pdf

When Gabriel English’s partner Nell doesn’t come home from work one day, he connects with longtime friend David Twombly for a trip back to their hometown in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where years back all their lives began to unravel with a tragic drowning. As the journey progresses, secrets are unveiled, a friendship is tested, and there is a run-in with the Hurley family, a family both men have feared since childhood. In The Architects Are Here, Winter’s fifth and most emotionally resonant novel to date, he explores the nature of grief and friendship in unwaveringly powerful prose, and sheds light on who we are and how we go on when the future seems uncertain.

Author : Lynn Pomeroy,Dean Koontz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982093926

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Pomeroy Brothers Architects by Lynn Pomeroy,Dean Koontz Pdf

Three brothers, all award winning architects, their roots firmly planted in moderism share some of their greatest architecture in this beautiful book. Dean Koontz, a client, writes in the forward, they "...strive to match their buildings to the sites on which the structures stand and reflect the infinite symmetries of matter, energy, and chemistry that exist in the design of nature."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OXFORD:555028320

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Sessional Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Gas
ISBN : NYPL:33433109955017

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Gas Appliance Merchandising by Anonim Pdf

Author : Berkeley Spiro Kostof Professor of Architectural History University of California
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1977-01-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780198020196

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The Architect : Chapters in the History of the Profession by Berkeley Spiro Kostof Professor of Architectural History University of California Pdf

How did architects get to be architects in any given period in history? How were they trained? How did they find their clients and communicate with them? What did society think of them?. Spiro Kostof's The Architect, a collection of essays by historians and architects, explores these and other intriguing questions about the profession of architecture. The first book in more than fifty years to survey the profession from its beginnings in ancient Egypt to the modern day, it is the most complete synthesis to date of our knowledge of how the architect's profession developed. Included are a major study of the Beaux-Arts, a vivid memoir by the distinguished architect Josephy Esherick, and an excellent chapter on women which demostrates how the ethic of professionalism has contributed to the exploitation of women in this as in many other professions. The Architect places the current dilemma about the architect's role in society in historical perspective and offers a good overview of the development of one of the world's oldest professions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PSU:000060018786

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The British Architect by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Architecture
ISBN : CUB:U183044349666

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The American Architect and Building News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462701434

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Life Inside the Cloister by Thomas Coomans Pdf

Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities and played a fundamental part in the reformation of different forms of religious life according to the changing needs of society. The cloister is the focal point of this book because it is both architecture, a physically built reality, and a metaphor for the religious life that takes place within it. Life Inside the Cloister also addresses the afterlife and heritagisation of monastic architecture in secularised Western society.

Author : Colin Thom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1848023596

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Robert Adam and His Brothers by Colin Thom Pdf

Robert Adam is perhaps the best known of all British architects, the only one whose name denotes both a style and an era. The new decorative language he introduced at Kedleston and Syon around 1760 put him at the forefront of dynamic changes taking place in 18th-century British architecture. His later claim that his practice with his brother James had effected 'a kind of revolution' in design was no idle boast. Their style dominated the later Georgian period and their influence was widespread, not only in Western Europe but in Russia and North America. But for such a well-known figure, much of Robert Adam's art still remains poorly understood. This new study, based on papers given at a Georgian Group symposium in 2015, looks afresh at many aspects of the Adam brothers' oeuvre, such as interior planning, their use of colour, the influence of classical sources, their involvement in the art market, town planning and building speculation, and Robert Adam's late picturesque drawings and castle designs - all within the context of the Adam family background and their personal and working relationships. The Scottish architecture of Robert and James's older brother, John, is also assessed. There are essays by established Adam experts as well as contributions from a younger generation of historians and postdoctoral scholars, one of the book's aims being to stimulate further research on the Adams' contribution to British architecture, art and design.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001788867

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American Architect and the Architectural Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Curtis Mead
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 027105087X

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Making Modern Paris by Christopher Curtis Mead Pdf

Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCAL:C2644906

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Architect by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graham Hollister-Short
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350018808

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History of Technology Volume 19 by Graham Hollister-Short Pdf

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.