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Created as an aid to architects, carpenters, and builders, this Radford Architectural Company of Chicago catalog was also welcomed by future home owners. Included are such houses as the Bixby, a two-bedroom bungalow, the Coventry, a charming Dutch Colonial with three bedrooms and other accommodations, and more. 189 black-and-white illustrations.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I was getting married, but I didn't feel like I was getting married. I was panicking, and I don't think I was alone. My heart was beating fast in my chest, and I was sure everyone could hear it.
#2 Jack's wedding was cold and calculating, and I felt like I was about to skydive. I wasn't in a garden surrounded by greenery and flowers, and the only piece of furniture...
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Before Abbey Road there was Teme Street is about a day in the life of The Beatles.
-A band on the precipice of unprecedented global success
-who had released their first LP the previous month
-who had released their third hit single, From Me To You on the previous Thursday
-who had met the Rolling Stones for the first time the previous evening and partied at their Chelsea flat
-who would be playing the Royal Albert Hall in London the following...
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A wave of authorarinism is sweepling the planet in which the future for many peoples has become dark. It would be in our interest to know the traits of budding empire/authoritarianism, so we can be alert to its dangers and prevent its rise. Yet we are not taught these basic traits, nor to even name the reality, for the power of empire is such that it suppresses this awareness. Along with the ten traits of empire, this work wrestles with questions...
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This luxurious volume-the fourth in a series by Louis K. Meisel-is a comprehensive documentation of 21st-century Photorealism, one of the most popular art movements since the late 1960s. Photorealists work painstakingly from photographs to create startlingly realistic paintings, and where they once used film for gathering information, they now rely on digital technology, which has vastly expanded the amount of detail that can be captured. In these...
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The Way Forward, a sequel to The Way Back. Jody Mitchell, her brother Don, and friend Elliot Treggor have moved to a heavily-wooded area in the northeastern corner of Minnesota. Together they have ventured into purchasing and running the Pinewood Motel. As each leaves a troubled past behind them and are looking forward to a new beginning, some new and unexpected challenges hit by way of a bartender named Nora and a seven-year old girl named Mad. Frenzy...
7) Edvard Munch
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Edvard Munch's career is effectively divided into two periods: those before and after his mental breakdown in 1908. Prior to his psychiatric treatment and recuperation, the underlying themes of his work bounced between dark sorrow and an overt, aggressive sexuality. But after his breakdown, when he had returned to his homeland of Norway after two decades in France and Germany, his work took a decidedly positive turn in theme and subject. Munch's body...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture documents a series of conversations with some of contemporary architecture's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners. The conversations took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne, with the hope of complementing lectures by visitors to the school. Where lectures gave insight into projects, these conversations dive deeper into the ideas and...
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“The Beginner's Guide to Abstract Art” is an inspirational but practical book that will help artists to paint in a less figurative way. Laura Reiter demonstrates different ways to approach an abstract painting from 'just a little bit abstract' to 'completely abstract'. She does this by focussing on ideas and themes as starting points, looking at the creative processes involved and more unusual techniques.
Laura Reiter also covers how to use materials...
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A fascinating tour of the last five decades of contemporary art in New York City, showing how artists are catalysts of gentrification and how neighborhoods in turn shape their art-with special insights into the work of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Koons
Stories of New York City's fabled art scene conjure up artists' lofts in SoHo, studios in Brooklyn, and block after block of galleries in Chelsea. But today, no artist...
11) Lateness
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"Peter Eisenman, Winner of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design" Peter Eisenman is founder and principal of Eisenman Architects and visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture. His many books include Written into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990–2004 and Tracing Eisenman. Elisa Iturbe is cofounder of the firm Outside Development and...
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The sixth book of "Latin America: Thoughts" collection, with foreword by Abilio Guerra and afterword by Paulo Bruna, brings André Marques' research on the work of architect João Filgueiras Lima, Lelé, in its aspects of technology and interaction with the environment. The author also establishes relationships between Lelé's design strategies with those of the French builder Jean Prouvé and the Austrian architect Richard Neutra.
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyday lives and public art form- but it remains mysterious to most of us.
In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, one of our best, most stylish critics and...
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The first comprehensive account of the history of media arts in Britain.
Based on four years of research and numerous interviews with artists and practitioners, this book uncovers the little known history of early British computer art and has been hailed by Roy Ascott: "You have done us all proud! Wonderful book, superbly researched, written, designed and produced." Roy Ascott, Emeritus Professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University...
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Taking us into the minds of artists-from contemporary stars to old masters-See What You're Missing shows us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.
Artists are expert lookers: they have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case.
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In this famous work by a pioneer in the movement to free art from the bonds of tradition - a work long considered essential to understanding the evolution of 20th-century art - Kandinsky explores the role of the line, point, and other key elements of non-objective painting. 127 illustrations.
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Abstract Expressionism was the defining movement in American art during the years following World War II, making New York City the center of the international art scene. But what the heck did it mean! The drips, the spills, the splashes, the blotches of color, the wild spontaneous energy-signifying what?Abstract Expressionism For Beginners will not only help you understand, but also appreciate the art of some of the most iconic figures in modern art-Jackson...
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Considering the constant transformation and destruction of cultural heritage buildings in our cities and the effort to preserve what has survived, this book, proposes a methodology that helps the professional integrate contemporary architecture in cultural heritage contexts.
20) A-Frame
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The heyday of the national A-frame craze saw tens of thousands of these easy and affordable structures built as vacation homes, roadside restaurants, churches, and even pet stores. A-frame chronicles America's love affair with the A-frame, from postwar getaway to its recent revival among designers and DIYers. In a fascinating look at this architectural phenomenon, Chad Randl tells the story of the triangle house, from prehistoric Japan to its lifestyle-changing...
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